Restoration of the first Book of Common Prayer for Anglicans today

The Rev'd Keith Acker will be speaking at Holy Spirit Anglican Church in Broomfield, Colorado, August 30, 2011. As the editor-in-chief of the Book of Common Prayer 2011, he will be talking about the core place of the Book of Common Prayer in Anglicanism as it embodies not only the liturgy of Christians who came to the British Isles in the first centuries of Christendom and eventually arriving in the Americas, our Book of Common Prayer communicates the theology of the ancient Church. As in the days of the first Book of Common Prayer (1549) the liturgy was restored to the language of the people, not in being pedestrian, but the formal language of the current century. The Book of Common Prayer 2011 is not a revision, but a restoration in modern formal language reflecting the worship of the ancient Church as it has been recieved in this country.

Father Acker has spoken in a number of congregations for whom a "modern language" prayer books is a necessary tool for mission, planting and growing churches where the good news of Christ is hindered by Elizabethan style language. He points out that older versions of the Book of Common Prayer don't pose a language problem for many Anglicans in North America and was not intended as a replacement for those finding no difficulty in effective outreach with the classic language.

Holy Spirit Anglican Church is part of the Anglican Mission in the Americas who are looking to reach a new generation with the Gospel message and the ancient liturgy of the Church.

More details about the time and location can be found at AlpineAnglican.com.