1. The Prayer Book And Devotional Life
Part 1: An Overview

2. Review from Prologue Week

3. Review from Prologue History of the Offices
OT Daily Offerings  Devotion  Synagogue
NT and Early Practice
Daily Corporate Prayer
Sunday Eucharist
Monastic Practice – 8 Offices, not public

4. Review from Prologue Reformation – Cranmer’s Preface Corruptions
Not systematic
Not Scripture
Not vernacular
Over-Complex

5. Review from Prologue Reformation Solution
Systematic reading via “Kalendar”
More Patristic in method
Plain English
Simplified order
Unified – “Common Prayer”

6. Review from Prologue Lectionaries: 1945 – in our BCP
Church Year, seasonal
Less Scripture
The North American Anglican Proposed – our new use
Civil Year (like Cranmer’s)
All of Scripture
Some Apocrypha
One- or Two-Year Options

7. Review from Prologue ACNA Proposed Lectionary Civil Year
Most (but not all) of Scripture
Some Apocrypha
Monthly Psalter
One- or two-year Option

8. Review from Prologue The Psalter Monastic Rationale for the Offices
Cranmer, TNAA, ACNA – Monthly Cycle
1945 – More thematic, cuts some

9. The Three-Fold Regula

10. Three-Fold Regula Regula – “Rule of Life” Three-Fold
Communion
Offices
Devotions
Martin Thornton ( ) in English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology According to the English Pastoral Tradition, 1963, 1986

11. Three-Fold Regula Communion Weekly/Sundays Holy Days
Essentially Public
Rome does private
Anglicans do not

12. Three-Fold Regula Daily Offices Morning Prayer – Matins
Evening Prayer – Evensong/Vespers
Essentially Public, though can be private
Expected in BCP
Litany in may be added

13. Three-Fold Regula Devotions - BCP “Family Prayer” section in BCP
Offices of Instruction
Essentially private, though can be done in public

14. Three-Fold Regula Devotions - Other Compline & Other Monastic Offices
Rosary/Benediction
Extemporaneous/Intercessory Prayer
Essentially private, though can be done in public