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lar languages for the first time roman catholic and episcopal laity could compare the liturgies of their co religionists and discover their similarities however with these publications the episcopal church had not yet turned the corner to full revision that would not come until the 1967 general convention thus these two studies are the last words of academically inclined theoretical study from the publication of pbs i xv that is from 1950 to 1961 the membership of the standing liturgical commission consisted of 20 people 4 of whom remained in key roles the entire time the time from 1961 to 1966 added 7 new people to that number in other words the first series was governed by disciplined academic and ecclesiastical control that emphasized a cautious and reverent approach to the materials what will come next will be a radical expansion of voices and authors at the same time that tight deadlines and turnarounds will be demanded from those crafting the new liturgies pbs xvi this first study on the calendar draws together the calendrical contents of pbs ix and xii into a usable form the initial portion describes changes that have occurred within other anglican calendars as well as sanctoral changes wrought at vatican ii and their impact on the developing episcopal calendar the proposed material presents the 12 month calendar of observances then the collects epistles and gospels for the fasts starting with the ember days of advent and all wednesdays and fridays in lent the rogation days and the summer and fall ember days after the fasts come the lesser feasts starting with channing more williams on december 2nd through the church year until clement on november 23rd from there it takes on the common of saints followed by the propers for special occasions this proposed material would be accepted for trial use at the 1963 general convention and would be published in 1964 as the first lesser feasts fasts this also brings us to our new shape of the church year with a dropping of the pre lent section but without the triduum liturgies pbs xvii where there was not much change in the sanctoral material from the previous studies quite a bit was needed for this second study on the eucharist indeed this volume is explicitly framed as a report on pbs iv over 150 responses from groups large and small had been received by the time the drafting of this new study began in 1960 six years before its eventual publication by that point it had become clear that a mere revision of the rite of pbs iv would not be acceptable and that work would need to begin again from the ground up in addition to offering critiques of pbs iv the study also discusses changes due to vatican ii and includes a selection of consecration prayers from worldwide liturgical efforts through the 1950 s and 60 s further changes in later studies would demonstrate that this proposed prayer too would be found lacking in several important respects conclusion i hope this has been helpful if so i ll do a similar post on the second series pbs 18 30 this entry was posted in anglican church history liturgy prayer book uncategorized and tagged prayer book studies on january 20 2026 by derek a olsen prayer book studies series it s here at long last the full prayer book studies series is finished and available this has been a very long time in coming for those unfamiliar with this material here s the blurb i wrote to describe them the creation of the landmark 1979 american book of common prayer was the fruit of nearly four decades of discussion within the episcopal church prayer book studies is a series of official reports by the church s standing liturgical commission that were published irregularly over the course of that period representing the work of the committees deliberating over and drafting the materials that would eventually become the 1979 revision these reports provide an extraordinary window into the work of leading liturgical scholars during an age characterized by huge transformation in the fields of liturgy long out of print and unavailable these reports collected in nine volumes are an invaluable resource for liturgical scholars and clergy i originally conceived of this project in early 2018 after some initial discussions and wrangling an editor i knew at church publishing and i hashed out a plan for me to digitize the 29 soft cover pamphlets that constitute the publications leading up to the publication of the draft proposed book of common prayer in 1976 before its final ratification as the new american 1979 book of common prayer she insisted i add in the two later volumes from the late 80 s i had not been aware of and so we did the fundamental concept was a diplomatic edition of the primary source documents in this context diplomatic means an edition that replicates the format and contents of the original as closely as possible in its new form thus typos in the original changes in formatting between volumes and such would all be preserved the idea is that whomever is looking at the new edition will essentially receive the same visual information from the page as an original viewer this meant after scanning in all of the volumes doing the ocr work to convert images to text proofreading it all and applying html code to structure the result i also added styling markup to reflect the original as closely as possible we put out the first series volumes i xvii that contained the background academic work before prayer book revision was formally engaged by general convention as an e book in january 2020 i d hoped to get the second series volumes 18 30 finished fairly soon after but then covid hit that completely stalled my progress for a whole variety of reasons including four different job changes in just a few years once things stablized i got back to it albeit slowly and finally got everything finished last year i reached out to the editors i d worked with before with the finished draft no response turns out they d both moved on after a bit of emailing around i was hooked up with some new editors i had to explain the whole project again what it is what i had done why it was important etc i received a heart stopping reponse that began well we ve looked things over and we ve decided to go in a different direction to my shock they d decided not just to do an e book but also softback and hardback editions as great as this was it did cause a few issues mostly relating to the original goal of a diplomatic edition all of the formatting was standardized which caused issues around headings and levels of headings across the 40 year spread of the series the restoration of footnotes also changed things as i had marked editorial notes differently based on the original formatting of each volume this didn t get fully worked out so you ll notice a shift in how these appear as you go through the volumes all in all we ended up dividing the full series into 9 separate volumes with new and brief introductions for each when they initally told me the projected pricing i flipped out the paperback and digital prices were the same the whole point of this project was to get these works back into the hands of anyone who wanted them so i pushed back and we were able to get the digital price dropped now at long last i m happy to present the new complete edition of the prayer book studies they re all listed separately on amazon so here s a link to the first one i ve also advocated for topical collections that would gather the eucharist stuff in one volume the initiation stuff the daily office stuff etc let me know if that would be something you d like to see so i can report back interest in that option too this entry was posted in anglican church history prayer book and tagged prayer book studies on january 6 2026 by derek a olsen apology prayer book studies update well i have to start by apologizing for the state of the breviary recently since i moved it here to the wordpress platform i ve been relying on periodic updates to the date table to tell it what day it is rather than calculating it programmatically from the date of easter as on the old site what that means is when i get bogged down and behind sometimes that table doesn t get updated and as a result there are no readings collects etc so that s why the start of advent has been a little rough not bugs it s me but at least i do have a reason as some of you know one of my passion projects for quite a while has been a digital edition of the prayer book studies series these are the thick blue pamphlets where the standing liturgical commission began presenting their research and ideas for what would eventually become the 1979 american book of common prayer if you truly want to understand this prayer book what scholarship and sources went into creating it the logic behind it the paths not taken all of these things can be found in these little blue books if you can find the little blue books and that s the challenge if you re persistent and lucky in trawling the secondhand book sites you can accumulate quite a number of them until you might be able to acquire a full set and even then you may well be the only person in your diocese who has a full set with all the discussion of prayer book revision with all the discussion of writing new liturgies i wanted to give these resources a wider circulation so that people interested in both appreciating and creating episcopal liturgy would have a deeper understanding of it it s quite humbling to look at the pedigree of some of the collects of our prayer book the direct sources the additional sources consulted for tweaking the deliberation over placement of clauses it s a whole different ballgame from jotting down a prayer on your way into the sanctuary following the acclamation petition result doxology model there s nothing wrong with that of course but there s a gravity a weight of experience and years behind so many of our prayers it s good for those who wish to create replacements or supplements to have a full understanding of that pedigree of prayer and access to the sources that nourished and nurtured the liturgists of former days in any case i released the first series of prayer book studies as a digital resource through church publishing before covid hit it took me a little longer to get the second series together but i finally did on submitting the second part i found a whole new editorial team at church publishing who decided to go a different way with it yes it ll be a digital resources as i originally intended but they ve also decided to release it in both paperback and hardback so i m on an extremely tight deadline to get the page proofs back in order for everything to get to the printer on time it turns out that in printed form the whole collection together first series and second series will span nine volumes and i m currently editing volume 6 and they re due back before the end of the week and that s why the breviary has been glitching the last few days it ought to be good up until christmas but i do need to go back and remind it about the ember days so the glitches should stop now for the rest of advent and i need to get back to proofing this entry was posted in anglican breviary and tagged prayer book studies on december 2 2025 by derek a olsen the papacy sigh i have great challenges whenever i consume some of my favorite types of visual media movies shows youtube depicting historical or fantastic medieval societies m will tell you how often i work myself into a state of apoplexy concerning the armor and weapon sets portrayed in such shows studded leather was not is not and never will be a thing another great challenge to me is the portrayal of the western church in these medievalish times including the depiction of the papacy apparently hollywood screenwriters are taught that from the fall of rome until the french revolution the pope was a mastermind crouching like a giant masculine shelob at the center of a highly effecient bureacratic web whose tendrils extended through every portion of europe and likely beyond a parish priest in furthest scandanavia whispered a heretical thought and suddenly the papal assasins were on him particuarly as an early medievalist i find these assumptions truly bizarre do people really not know that the roman popes were under the thumb of and often picked by the roman emperor in constantinople until some point in the 8th century sure when boniface wanted a final word on what degree of consanguinity was acceptable for saxon marriages he d send a letter asking the pope but that s a missive from the periphery in most certainly not the other way around and as for political power and control in latin speaking europe you don t get the first inkling of that until leo iii s turn toward charlemagne and away from the eastern emperor and yes leo s crowning of charlemagne as holy roman emperor was fully intended to be a middle finger to constantinople and it isn t actually realized until gregory vii from frankia was brought into rome and who conceived of himself as above all other earthly authority but even then you don t begin to get an actual extension of the papal arm until the legate system got up and going around the 13th century or so and even then it was sort of iffy at best sometimes i almost feel like we need adult forum materials entitled bs people believe about the church and why it s bs including popes galileo and science the lost gospels and all sorts of silly things people are taught in modern media this entry was posted in church history medieval stuff rant on november 7 2025 by derek a olsen the winding stair i ve been reading a fair amount of novels recently i just finished susanna clark s piranesi i really enjoyed it and definitely recommend it i was warned to go into it knowing as little about it as possible which is a good idea and i m not going to spoil anything here either having said that i m coming to it having recently finished mark lawrence s library trilogy and am noticing some interesting and complementary things in particular i m feeling the influence of borges collection labyrinths selected stories other writings on both clark and lawrence s works and don t want to comment further without going back to garden of forking paths and library of babel and maybe a few others too i m wanting to reread piranesi again before saying more about these works and their interconnections and themes but need to reread the magician s nephew again before i do so as clark deliberately references that classic several times so thoughts to come about selves and searching this entry was posted in random on october 28 2025 by derek a olsen confirmation what s it for a comment on the last post reminded me of the great episcopal confirmation debate this is most certainly not a new one and i was reminded of that recently when re reading prayer book studies 18 holy baptism with laying on of hands no separate confirmation here vs prayer book studies 26 holy baptism toget...