A Prayer Book Catholic Starter Pack
A service booklet, Missal insert, and service cards for Holy Communion
A Prayer Book Catholic Starter Pack!
Unserious title aside, the following resources have been the product of much thought, research, energy, and practical trial.
For ideological background on all of this, please see A Case for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and A Prayer Book Catholic Sensibility.
Included in this notice:
Annotated Devotional Guide to the Prayer Book Service (2019TLE/1662IE). (Pew Booklet)
Missal Supplement for the Prayer Book Society One-Year Lectionary Book. (2019TLE 1662 Order Missal, with 2019 & 1662 Canon, with RAT appendix)
Altar Service Cards for the celebration of the Eucharist. (Ad Orientem crib notes)
More resources can be found on the Resources Page.
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Annotated Devotional Guide to the Prayer Book Service (2019TLE/1662IE).
This service book is a 24-page half-sheet booklet. In it there are instructive comments and quotes about the liturgy, as well as devotional prayers to aid in praying with the liturgy. It matches the use of the other resources given here, namely a 2019TLE service that can be followed from a 2019TLE or 1662 book, as much as with this booklet. There is another single-sheet for 1662IE forthcoming.
Pew Booklet Download:
Missal Supplement for the Prayer Book Society One-Year Lectionary Book
Below is a substantial revision of the former Altar Book liturgy. Its first iteration preceded the ACNA Altar Book (both Modern and Traditional), the publication of the then-trial 2019TLE, and also preceded the 1662:International Edition Service Book.
Most recently, the Prayer Book Society Canada issued a One-year Lectionary book, with Historic (1962) collects and lections. Some changes would need to be made to the collect text but they are generally minor. I have noted the scriptural differences here. But in this publication is 30-pages of blank pages in the center for pasting a liturgy to use.
My chief complaint about the 2019 Book of Common Prayer is that the historic lectionary—collects and lessons—is not anywhere included. The philosophy, according to Arnold Klukas, was that those who wanted that would just use the 1928 or 1662, books which few in the College at the time had used.1 However, since 1662 is the standard for worship in the ACNA, there is canonical precedent to using 1662 lections (for which the 1662IE has much support), and constitutional support for the 1928 and 1662 books as pre-authorized books of the province.2
But what if one wants to, for various reasons, technically use the 2019TLE, but follow the other half of the value of the traditional book: the Scripture and Collects?
For this use case I produced all these various things: the niche-case of those who are using 1662IE or 2019TLE (1662 service order). Secondly, I decided to set this insert in a dyslexic-accessible serif font. This may not be for everyone, but it fits a use case, and is something that few altar books do, if any.3
Some ceremonial notes have been added in harmony with Readiness and Decency (1946).
About this digital edition
The following pages can be used on their own, printed in for use in binder, supplementing with the appropriate collect (or additional preface); however, they are intended to be affixed to the Prayer Book Society Canada’s One Year Lectionary Supplement, available very affordably in traditional (ecclesiastical) English and KJV (also ESV w/1979 Psalter). Some minor modifications are necessary to conform 1962 Collects to either 1928 or 1662.
To affix, print this document (pages 2 - 30) on standard letter paper, trim paper to about 7.5” x 10”, and tape / paste pages in the 30-page section provided in the PBS book. Pages are set so that the page number is on the outer edge of the page. Pasting in the center with pages trimmed this way means that the gutter is not crowded with 3x more page thickness, and the outer margin is still one page (not thumbing through three-pages-per-turn).
Double-stick document tape is recommended, with Book Darts for marking important sections or page turns. Pages that are not desired can, of course, be omitted for convenience. The Rubrics rendered as a guide and should not be considered authoritative; one’s celebration should follow the use of the BCP used (2019TLE, 1662IE, etc), alongside devotional additions.
Sylexiad Serif font, a research-based dyslexia-accessible font, was chosen for the main Prayer Book text. For altar use, attempts have been made to set according to page turns, as well as increased font size for sections where the celebrant would be kneeling.
PBS Missal Insert Download:
See also these inserts for the 1662IE Service Book:
Altar Service Cards
Previously these were professionally printed on thick, premium cotton cardstock, available at a low-enough price. (These hardcopies are still available, contact me for info):
The plan was always to release a PDF version, once costs from the print run was recouped, now accomplished. The cards are for use as a ‘crib sheet’ of prayers and addresses said when facing the people during an ad orientem celebration: which is also normative for the ante-communion in versus populum. These were designed to aid a priest or deacon towards the memorization of these portions of the liturgy as well as reduce the need for picking up the Altar Missal, which can be either clumsy or unwieldy. Or in the case of some, if the altar book is spiral bound, or three-ring binder, it is not convenient to pick up just to say a few words, much less hold it for a while (as in the Exhortation).
(A separate set of cards to go with the 1662IE Service Book Missal Insert is finished and forthcoming.)
The Prayer Book Service (2019TLE & 1928)
Decalogue & Summary of the Law
Invitation to Confession
Absolution
Comfortable Words
Sursum Corda
Benediction
The Exhortation
1662/1928
2019TLE
“There was some support among the ACNA bishops for continuing the traditional Eucharistic pericopes, but the College ofBishops concluded that the three-year cycle of the original Common Lectionary was a positive ecumenical achievement. This, coupled with the fact that most of the bishops were already familiar with it, helps explain why the ‘modern’ lectionary was retained.” — Arnold Klukas in A Response To "A Curate's Egg" or What is the 'Yolk' of the Anglican Church in North America's Book Of Common Prayer 2019
The 1662: International Edition Service Book deliberately set non-justified type in order to enhance readability for the celebrant.