SOME PRINCIPLES OF LITURGICAL REFORM.................................. 4
PREFACE.............................................................................................. 6
Chapter 1: The Need and Method of Revision......................................... 9
Conservative Character of Worship but Change is Needed to Avoid the
Obsolete and to Provide Variety 9
Conditions for Revision and How Far at Present Fulfilled..................... 9
Two Contrasted Perils: Insularity and Incongruity............................... 15
Chapter 2: The Kalendar....................................................................... 19
The Dating of Easter.......................................................................... 19
The Basis of the Kalendar................................................................. 21
Two Qualifications for a Place in it..................................................... 23
Saints Popular in English Dedications................................................. 23
Provision Needed for Black Letter Festivals...................................... 25
Saints Popular in English Kalendars................................................... 26
Inquiry into the Present Black Letter Days and the Test of Historicity.. 27
The Two Tests Applied..................................................................... 28
Innovations for Red Letter Days and for Black Letter Days................ 35
TABLE OF SUGGESTIONS FOR THE KALENDAR................... 51
Chapter 3: The Use of Holy Scriptures.................................................. 59
Two Principles of Selection and Continuity......................................... 59
The Former Anciently Predominated in the Popular Service and the Latter in
the Monastic and Clerical Services........................................................................................................ 60
Unexpected Inversion in the Services at the Reformation and Its
Consequences 63
Remedy for Sundays and Holy Days.................................................. 67
A Revised Psalter.............................................................................. 71
Remedy for Week-Days in Psalter and Lectionary............................. 72
COURSE OF PSALMODY............................................................ 77
Chapter 4: Fast, Festival, and Rubric Generally...................................... 80
The Table of Fasts............................................................................ 80
First Evensong.................................................................................. 80
Fewer Vigils...................................................................................... 82
Nature of Rubrics.............................................................................. 83
Rubrics altered by the Policy of Acts of Uniformity............................. 86
Consequent Disasters, How to be Remedied..................................... 87
Alternative Methods of Procedure..................................................... 91
Ornaments’ Rubric............................................................................ 93
Chapter 5: The Lord’s Prayer and Collects.......................................... 103
Use of the Lord’s Prayer Singly and in Complex Formulas in the Prayer Book 103
Its Form.......................................................................................... 106
Liturgical Methods of Intercession................................................... 108
Two Types of Prayer...................................................................... 110
Memorials....................................................................................... 111
Collect Endings............................................................................... 112
The Eucharistic Type of Prayer........................................................ 112
Chapter 6: The Sunday Morning Service.............................................. 114
The Ideal of the Prayer Book.......................................................... 114
To be Recovered by Compression of Morning Services: Schemes for this by
Permission and Experimentally................................................................................................................... 116
Effect on the Quicungue................................................................. 120
Chapter 7: Morning Prayer and Litany................................................. 122
The Sentences and Penitential Introduction....................................... 122
Canticales....................................................................................... 123
Collect, Etc..................................................................................... 124
Intercessions................................................................................... 126
Litany............................................................................................. 127
Quicunque..................................................................................... 127
Chapter 8: The Evening Service........................................................... 129
A Non-Liturgical Alternative............................................................ 129
Two Liturgical Services as Equivalent for Evensong.......................... 130
EVENSONG................................................................................. 131
COMPLINE.................................................................................. 132
Hymns............................................................................................ 133
Chapter 9: The Holy Communion Service............................................ 135
Need of Psalmody.......................................................................... 135
The English Canon: Its Reconstruction not yet Possible but a Possible Step
Towards That End 137
Two Classes of People Need Such a Step....................................... 142
Minor Changes............................................................................... 144
Variants for Black Letter Days........................................................ 145
Chapter 10: The Occasional Offices.................................................... 147
Adult Baptism................................................................................. 147
Confirmation................................................................................... 149
Services for the Sick....................................................................... 150
Burial Services................................................................................ 152
Enrichment and Additional Services................................................. 153