ETF invites you to download the 1928 Book of Common Prayer for your church services or personal devotions. Simply click on the red Prayer Book image on the top left of this page and print out the pages you want; or read and worship with it directly on your laptop or desktop computer.
Use your digital 1928 Book of Common Prayer by itself or as a companion to your hardcover edition. Email services and passages to your family, friends, vestry, and clergy, asking them to use them in their parish churches and campus chapels. It’s a new, versatile way to spread the good news of our scripture-based, traditional liturgy.
See for yourself how the revisionists changed the religion by changing the wording. Open another window on your laptop. Google an online copy of the 1979 Prayer Book and download it. Compare passages from the 1928 BCP, Rite I, and Rite II side by side. You’ll notice there’s quite a difference.
But it doesn’t stop there. Now we’re offered the Book of Occasional Services, the Enriching Our Worship Series, Changes: Prayers amd Services Honoring Rites of Passage, and, yes, The Hip Hop Prayer Book, to mention a few volumes in an increasingly fragmented liturgy. The 1979 book was only the beginning. The Episcopal Church has created a monstrous industry, turning out “prayer book” after “prayer book” in a publishing frenzy that makes Stephen King look like a piker.
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is one book, complete in itself, containing the entire liturgy based on holy scripture, unlike the later radically-altered spin-offs. It’s orderly, constant, and excellent in message and language. It’s all right there. Let it be the standard for your worship.
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