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In this episode, Father Jonathan and Dr Matthew get back to basics after the soaring heights of how the doctrine of God affects our everyday piety. Where does our whole tradition of Christian prayer go back to? Why, Jesus himself, and the prayer he taught his disciples: The Lord's Prayer. We look a little at its importance and its journey through liturgical history.

OUR Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them that trespass against us; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, For ever and ever. Amen.

In this episode, Father Jonathan and Dr Matthew discuss the benefits of common prayer, looking at the importance not only of truly walking the road of the Christian life but also of not going it alone, considering not only the blessings of others in real life but also the path of travel laid out by the Book of Common Prayer.

Besides the BCP, the only bibliographical reference in this episode was to one of Dr Matthew’s Twitter friends, Nate, @oblatenate.

In this episode, we jump off from the coronation of HM Charles III to explore the idea of broad sacramentality, of those moments and places God chooses to make himself manifest.

Things referenced:

Hans Boersma, Scripture As Real Presence.

S. T. Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834

Iron Maiden’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSDZj_jh5cE

In this episode, Fr Jonathan and Dr Matthew discuss the Easter Anthem from the Book of Common Prayer (text below). This anthem is an arrangement of three scriptural passages to be used in place of the Venite at Morning Prayer on Easter. We hope that our meditations may bless your celebration of the Resurrection this Eastertide.

The text:

CHRIST our passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast;
Not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness; / but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
1 Corinthians 5. 7.

Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; / death hath no more dominion over him.
For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, / but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6. 9.

Christ is risen from the dead, / and become the first-fruits of them that slept.
For since by man came death, / by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, / even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15. 20.

GLORY be to the Father, and to the Son, / and to the Holy Ghost;
As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, / world without end. Amen.

This week, we finish off our tour of the canticles for Morning and Evening Prayer with “The Venite”, Psalm 95. This is the first canticle of the day, and it is meant to open not just a specific moment of prayer but to bless the whole day as prayer. We talk about in its ancient, medieval (especially “Sarum Use”, which is the medieval liturgical practice of Britain), and monastic contexts besides what all this means for our own lives.

Books Mentioned

John Henry Blunt, The Annotated Book of Common Prayer. https://archive.org/details/04243456.emory.edu

Scot McKnight, Praying with the Church.