The Book that Keeps on Giving: the 1789 Book of Common Prayer

The Prayer Book of 1789 was the first for the U. S. Episcopal Church and served the Church for over 100 years, until the revision of 1892. This book owed much to its predecessor, the English 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and, at least for the major services, is very similar to it. 

We will be using the 1789 Book of Common Prayer as introduced in the above paragraph by justus.anglican.org in celebration of the 250th anniversary of America at the 10:30 a.m. service on Sunday, July 5.

It is good to remember that the oldest continuously operating Episcopal Church is St. John's Episcopal Church, Hampton, Virginia, dating back to 1610, one hundred seventy nine year before the founding of America.  St. Benedict is young in comparison and carries a long tradition into the future.

I hope that you will join us as we gather together to glorify God and be grateful for the great cloud of witnesses that we are a part of.

St. John’s church, hampton, virginia