Divine Worship: The Blog

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Preamble  · Part I  · Part II  · Part IV  ·  Part V With a Bible and this prayer book, you’ve got yourself an Ordinariate Evensong. Praying the daily offices from Divine Worship: Daily Office (North American Edition) (DW:DO:NAE) has not at all been an unpleasant experience, aside from the overly stiff binding, missing collects and frequent typos. That being said, there have been quite a few somewhat jarring moments thanks to what seems like a very scattered selection of source material—in one place something’s been taken from the American 1928 Book of Common Prayer (BCP), in another place it’s lifted directly from the 1979 BCP, and in yet another spot the stillborn 1928 English prayer book revision is blatantly (and, I believe, unnecessarily) pirated. It rather feels as though every well-known Anglican source was included in an attempt to please as many people as possible. However, after comparing DW:DO:NAE’s offices with a number of common BCP offices to figure out from whence came