Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The offertory sentences of the communion service are a sustained instruction on giving to the poor, and the alms are collected at that point in the rite.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Prayer Book provides for the visitation and the anointing of the sick, and the Articles decline to number it among the two sacraments of the gospel.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Baptism is ordinarily by pouring, and the Articles call it a sign of regeneration by which the promises of forgiveness are visibly signed and sealed.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The baptismal covenant is the framework of the catechism and of the renewal of vows at Easter.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Religious orders were dissolved in the sixteenth century and refounded from 1841 onward, so that this church now has communities of monks and nuns under vows.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Thanksgiving of Women after Child-birth, commonly called the Churching of Women, is a service of the Prayer Book.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Compline was not in the sixteenth-century books and was restored in the twentieth, and it is now in general use.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Anglicanism keeps auricular confession available but not required, summarised in the maxim that all may, none must, some should; a general confession said by the whole congregation is the ordinary form.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Confirmation is conferred by a bishop at an age of discretion, and the Prayer Book requires the candidate to renew the promises made at baptism in person.
Episcopal Relief and Development is the official humanitarian and development agency of The Episcopal Church, so linked to it directly.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Prayer Book sets out a table of the fasts of the church: Ash Wednesday, the forty days of Lent, the ember days, the rogation days and the Fridays of the year.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The threefold order of bishops, priests and deacons was retained, and since the twentieth century women have been ordained to all three orders in most provinces, which is the sharpest present difference from Rome and the Orthodox churches.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Articles direct that the baptism of young children is in any wise to be retained as most agreeable with the institution of Christ.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Intinction is widely used, and the church has argued about it, since the Prayer Book directs that the cup be given to each communicant.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Roman sequence of colours was retained in use and was made explicit again in the modern service books.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The marriage service of the Prayer Book, with its vow to have and to hold, is the ancestor of the wedding words used across the English-speaking world, including by people of no religion.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Morning Prayer is the surviving daily office, and it is Matins and Lauds combined into one service. The reduction of eight hours to two was deliberate and is the plainest liturgical difference between this church and Rome.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Vows of poverty, chastity and obedience are made in the refounded religious communities of this church.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Sunday is kept as the Lord's Day with the duty of public worship, without the sabbatarian rigour the Reformed churches attached to it.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Pilgrimage was suppressed at the Reformation and revived from the nineteenth century onward, most visibly at Walsingham.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Prayer is shaped by a single authorised book rather than by a devotional culture, so that a congregation anywhere says the same words on the same day.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Prayer of Consecration is the Anglican anaphora, and the arrangement of its parts differs between the English, Scottish and American books.
William Reed Huntington's four points were adopted by the Episcopal Church's General Convention at Chicago in 1886 and, in the form that carries both names, by the Lambeth Conference of 1888 as the Anglican terms of reunion.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The invocation of the Spirit was in the 1549 book, removed in 1552, and restored in the Scottish and American books, from which it came back into the modern English ones.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The breaking of the bread is a distinct action of the rite and in the modern books has its own words.
The Episcopal Church ended its own moratorium on ordaining partnered gay and lesbian clergy by Resolution 2009-D025 in 2009, revised its marriage canon in 2015 to remove the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, and in 2018 guaranteed every couple access to the marriage rite even in a diocese whose own bishop objects.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. Anglicans call it Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass according to churchmanship, and the Thirty-Nine Articles reject transubstantiation while leaving the manner of Christ's presence deliberately undefined.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The words of institution stand in the Prayer of Consecration, and the Articles deny that the sacrament was ordained to be gazed upon or carried about.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The book is Anglicanism's common thread in place of a magisterium, holding morning and evening prayer, communion, baptism, marriage and burial in one volume in the people's hands. Each province has its own version and modern-language rites are now more used, but the 1662 book remains legall
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line.