Cathedral Shop
main books gifts cds tickets

1979 Book of Common Prayer & Supplemental Materials Return to Book Categories

These are some of the titles we have available in our store. To order these or other titles, please contact us at gtreusch@saintmarks.org or (206) 323-1040.

Book of Common Prayer 1979
Personal Gift Edition - Black
$29.99 Imitation Leather (Vivella)

This luxuriously bound Personal Gift Edition from Oxford is just right for Confirmation or other special occasions. Includes a Family Record section with certificates for the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, and Marriage. Black deluxe imitation leather (Vivella), cross blind-stamped on front, colored page edges, 1 ribbon marker.

Oxford also offers a Wine Red edition for $29.99 while Morehouse Publishing versions, priced at $28.00, come in Forest Green or Red.

Book of Common Prayer 1979
Pew Edition - Red or Black
$20.00 Cloth

This is the standard pew edition of the Book of Common Prayer, authorized for use in the Episcopal Church in the United States in 1979. It contains the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church together with The Psalter or Psalms of David. Measuring 5” x 7”, this edition is printed in a 9 pt. font and is available in red or black.

The Book of Occasional Services: 2003
Red ~ 6 x 8
$25.00 Cloth

This edition includes new material (in English, Spanish and French) authorized by the 2003 General Convention: the liturgies for Discernment for a New Church Mission; A Liturgy for Commissioning a Church Planter, Missioner or Mission Team; A Liturgy for the Opening of a New Congregation; Setting Apart Secular Space for Sacred Use; a new Litany for the Mission of the Church; and a variety of Church Planting collects, blessings and other prayers, and hymn suggestions.

Changes:
Prayers and Services Honoring Rites of Passage

$13.00 Paperback

These long-awaited rites have been under discussion by the church for more than six years. Included are public rites, together with prayers for individual and family use, for all of the major stages of human development, from early childhood to retirement. Contents include: Introductory Materials / Planning for a Rite of Passage / Prayers for the Transitions of Childhood / Prayers and Rites for the Transitions of Young Adulthood (including a rite of passage for young people and their parents; celebrating a significant birthday; the blessing of a betrothal) / Prayers and a Rite for the Transitions of Midlife / Prayers and Rites for the Transitions of Elders / Prayers and a Rite for Remembering the Departed / Appendix containing suggested hymns and spiritual songs.

El Libro de Oracion Comun Personal
The Book of Common Prayer ~ Spanish Edition

$36.00 Bonded Leather

The Spanish language Personal Edition of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer, this version features gold edges, ribbon markers, and a gift box. It measures 5 x 7 and is only available in red.

Enriching Our Worship 1:
Morning and Evening Prayer, The Great Litany, and The Holy Eucharist

$18.00 Paperback

This is the new edition of Supplemental Liturgical Materialw including seventeen additional canticles taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the New Testament, Anselm of Canterbury, and Julian of Norwich. There are also additions and changes to the previously published supplemental materials including a third Eucharistic Prayer.

Enriching Our Worship 2: Ministry with the Sick or Dying: Burial of a Child
$18.00 Paperback

Prepared by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music and adopted by the 73rd General Convention, this new set of materials was adapted from sources in scripture; a variety of contemporary prayer books throughout the Anglican Communion; traditional materials from Orthodox and medieval western sources; and hymnody of various American cultures. Newly written texts and some texts from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer which have been revised are also included.

Enriching Our Worship 3: Burial Rites for Adults
$16.00 Paperback

These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the Prayer Book rites are addressed – from the reception of the body to the consecration of the grave and the interment – but with a freshness of language in new texts that the speak to contemporary sensibilities.

A New Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Mihinare O Aotearoa
Compiled by the Church of the Province of New Zealand
$36.95 Hardcover

"Though new in language and content, A New Zealand Prayer Book (is) faithful to the earliest liturgical traditions of the Church. More importantly, the New Zealand Prayer Book has been created in our own Pacific cultural setting, shaped by our own scholarship. It belongs to our environment and our people. The result is a lively book, inclusive in language, comprehensive in purpose and rich in content."

Excerpt from the Preface written by the Most Reverend Brian Davis, Primate and Archbishop of New Zealand

Selections From The Book of Common Prayer:
(Common Prayer / Oracion Comun) English - Spanish

$24.00 Burgundy Cloth 5 x 8

Prepared by the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, this bilingual edition of parts of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) in Spanish with English on facing pages offers the following:

Daily Morning Prayer: Rite II
Daily Evening Prayer: Rite II
Compline
Holy Baptism
Celebration of a Marriage
Holy Eucharist: Rite II
Prayers of the People
Reconciliation of a Penitent
Ministration to the Sick
Burial of the Dead: Rite II

This edition contains an appendix of selected psalms, prayers and thanksgivings with bilingual indices for easy reference; a presentation page; and a ribbon marker. Reference page numbers that correspond to the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) allow the use of this book in multi-cultural settings.


Top of Page