Over the years, laudable Practice has regularly critiqued many aspects of late 20th and early 21st century liturgical revision. Frequently, the Church of Ireland's Book of Common Prayer 2004 and The Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer 1979 have been the targets of such criticism. This post seeks to provide some balance to those criticisms. As previously stated, counter-revolution is not conservative , and that includes liturgical counter-revolution . 1979 and 2004 are now settled parts of the Episcopal/Anglican experience in the United States and Ireland: a counter-revolutionary rejection of 1979 and 2004 would not be authentically conservative or traditional. What is more, in the same way that my personal experience of officiating and participating according to 2004 has shaped my critiques of it, so too that experience has also provided a basis for valuing aspects of 2004. Likewise, those times when I have worshipped in TEC have been accordin...
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