Formulary Friday: Taking to heart

We can tend to have a low view of memorisation – perhaps it conjures up those dreary school lessons spent reciting the kings and queens of England, or, still worse, we associate it with a dead spirituality, all outward forms and vain repetition. But, just as we might want to commit particular Scriptural verses or passages to memory, I’d like to suggest that we might find it helpful to do the same for parts of the liturgy – that liturgical familiarity is more often a friend than it is a foe. Keep reading

The Book of Common Prayer (1662) is online at churchofengland.org. Contemporary versions of the collects, occasional prayers, and thanksgivings from the 1662 Prayer Book may be found at Exploring the Book of Common Prayer and Common Prayer: Resources for Gospel-Shaped Gatherings.