The Heart of the Prayer Book........................................................................ 3

Author’s Preface....................................................................................... 5

Foreword.................................................................................................. 6

ANNIVERSARY PRAYER..................................................................... 8

Part 1: Foundation Facts............................................................................ 9

A: The Prayer Book and Life................................................................. 9

B: The Prayer Book and the Church...................................................... 9

C: The Prayer Book and the Bible....................................................... 10

D: The Prayer Book and Religion......................................................... 19

Part 2: The Title Page and the Introductory Pages Following..................... 22

A: The Title Page................................................................................. 22

B: The Certificate................................................................................ 25

C: The Table of Contents..................................................................... 26

D: The Ratification............................................................................... 26

E: The Preface..................................................................................... 27

F: Concerning the Service of the Church.............................................. 27

G: How the Psalter is Appointed to be Read........................................ 28

H: The Order How the Rest of the Holy Scripture is Appointed to be Read 28

I: Hymns and Anthems......................................................................... 29

J: Tables of Lessons of Holy Scripture................................................. 30

K: Table of Feasts and Fasts............................................................... 33

L: Tables of Precedence, and the Table Following................................ 35

M: To Find the Date of Easter Day...................................................... 35

N: A Table to Find Easter Day............................................................ 35

O: A Table of the Movable Feasts....................................................... 36

P: General Tables................................................................................ 36

Part 3: The Regular Offices...................................................................... 37

A: General Principles Worth Remembering........................................... 37

B: The Order for Daily Morning Prayer................................................ 38

5: Some Additional Points About the Service for Morning Prayer......... 70

C: The Order for Daily Evening Prayer................................................. 78

D: Prayers and Thanksgivings (pages 35–53)....................................... 81

E: The Litany or General Supplication.................................................. 82

F: A Penitential Office for Ash Wednesday.......................................... 86

G: The Order for the Administration of the Lord’s Supper or Holy Communion 87

H: The Collects, Epistles, and Gospels............................................... 111

Part 4: The Occasional Offices: Also the Psalter and Family Prayer: The Occasional Offices 126

A: The Ministration of Holy Baptism.................................................. 126

B The Offices of Instruction............................................................... 132

C: The Order of Confirmation or Laying on of Hands Upon Those that are Baptized, and Come to Years of Discretion...................................................................................................... 134

D: The Form of Solemnization of Matrimony...................................... 136

E: The Thanksgiving After Childbirth.................................................. 141

F: The Visitation of the Sick............................................................... 141

G: The Communion of the Sick.......................................................... 142

H: The Burial of the Dead.................................................................. 143

I: The Psalter..................................................................................... 144

J: Family Prayer................................................................................. 147

Part 5: The Ordinal and What Comes After It........................................ 149

A: What Comes After the Ordinal...................................................... 149

B: The Ordinal................................................................................... 151

APPENDIX.......................................................................................... 158

A:. The Succession of Bishops........................................................... 158

B: The Theory of Apostolic Succession.............................................. 162

C: High Church and Low Church....................................................... 163