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Anglican book of common prayer

The Episcopal Church separated itself from the Church of England in , with the first church in the USA having been founded in Its prayer book, published in , had as its sources the English book and the Scottish Liturgy see above which Bishop Seabury of Connecticut had brought over following his consecration in Aberdeen in The compilers used materials derived from ancient liturgies especially Eastern Orthodox ones such as the Liturgy of St.

Overall, the book was modeled on the English Prayer Book, the Convention having resisted attempts at deletion and revision. The American BCP reintroduced explicit sacrificial language in the Prayer of Consecration by adding the words "which we now offer unto Thee", after "with these thy holy gifts" from the BCP. Further revisions occurred in and , in which minor changes were made, removing, for instance, some of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer 's Exhortations and introducing such innovations as prayers for the dead.

In , a more substantial revision was made and it is this version that is used at Calvary. There were now two rites for the most common services, the first that kept most of the language of , and the second using only contemporary language some of it newly composed, and some adapted from the older language. Many changes were made in the rubrics and the shapes of the services, which were generally made for both the traditional and contemporary language versions.