ANGLICAN LITURGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Our Lord’s Institution ~ Jerusalem
(Biblical)
Apostolic Development ~ Didichae and Antioch
Liturgy of Sts. John & Paul ~ Ephesus
Liturgy of Lyon ~ Gaul (France)
Liturgy of Britain ~ Sister to that at Tours
Augustine’s Revised Liturgy of Brittan
(A.D. 600 c.)
Missals of the English Church ~
Salisbury, York, & others
Nonjuror’s Renewal of the
British Liturgy (A.D. 1688 c.)
Adoption by the Scottish
Episcopal Church (A.D. 1716)
Protestant Episcopal
Church of America (A.D. 1789)
1928 Book of
Common Prayer (with minor revisions)
The Most
Reverend Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, believed that worship should
be in the vernacular of the people.
His genius can be seen in the economy of the prayer book (A.D. 1549),
the standardization of conventions, his use and preservation of the condensed
Benedictine Office of the Hours for Morning and Evening Prayer, as adapted by
Spanish Cardinal Francisco de Quinones in A.D. 1535.
The Roman Church
received their liturgy from Antioch with the missionary visit of St. Peter in
the first century. Holy Orthodoxy
received their liturgy from yet other Sees, as did other sacramental Christian
churches. Yet, all these
communions believe in the “Real Presence” of Christ in the Mass, and follow His
Eucharistic command:
“And he took bread, and
gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is
given for you: this do in
remembrance of me. Likewise also the
cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is
shed for you.”
The Gospel of
Saint Luke, 22:19 & 20
In Christ's love, Fr. Robert Pax
