{"id":2198,"date":"2019-11-05T17:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.episcopalchurch.org\/?page_id=2198"},"modified":"2023-10-10T10:40:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:40:09","slug":"book-common-prayer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/what-we-believe\/book-common-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Common Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div\n      class=\"wp-block-episcopal-hero-banner alignfull\"\n            style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/10\/ourbeliefs.jpg)\"\n          >\n      <div\n        class=\"hero-banner\"\n      >\n        <div class=\"hero-banner-wrapper\">\n          <h1 class=\"episcopal-hero-title\">\n                        What We Believe                      <\/h1>\n                    <div class=\"episcopal-hero-description\">\n                      <\/div>\n                    <ul class=\"social-nav\">\n                                              <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n  \n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Book of Common Prayer<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"wp-image-2221\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/11\/book_of_common_prayer_episcopal.png\" alt=\"\">The Book of Common Prayer is a treasure chest full of devotional and teaching resources for individuals and congregations, but it is also the primary symbol of our unity.&nbsp;As Armentrout and Slocum note in their&nbsp;<em>Episcopal Dictionary of the Church<\/em>, that \u201cAnglican liturgical piety has been rooted in the Prayer Book tradition since the publication of the first English Prayer Book in 1549.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, who are many and diverse, come together in Christ through our worship, our common prayer. The prayer book, most recently revised in 1979, contains our liturgies, our prayers, our theological documents, and much, much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-65502b2b-b0d6-43a7-ba06-482c60db756b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/book_of_common_prayer.pdf\"><strong>The Book of Common Prayer<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/book_of_common_prayer.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-65502b2b-b0d6-43a7-ba06-482c60db756b\">PDF Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-7d0d2ea1-c32d-46ce-a9ee-ed7c54c898a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/el-Libro-de-Oracion-Comun_PEW_final.pdf\"><strong>El Libro de Oraci\u00f3n Com\u00fan<\/strong><\/a><a 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