The Book of Common Prayer Revised

Since the sixteenth century when Protestantism began to develop in England, the Prayer Book or the Book of Common Prayer has been the central agent to control the liturgy, the usages, and the worship in the Episcopal or Anglican Church. G.K. Chesterton said concerning the Book of Common Prayer that it is ‘‘the masterpiece of Protestant­ism, the one magnet and talisman for people even outside the Anglican Church, as are the great Gothic cathedrals for people outside the Catholic Church.”...