I wonder if any members of this list who are members of ECUSA would care to
comment on the current usage and popularity of the eucharistic prayers of
Rite 2 of the 1979 BCP, which I wish to discuss for comparative purposes in
a study of new eucharistic prayers in the Church of England. Rite 2 is
sometimes used in England, though the only prayer which is heard at all
regularly is C. Personally I think this a very fine prayer, not least
because of its successful integration of penitential material into praise
for creation and God's dealings with human beings (the 1985 Canadian
adaptation seems to me less good precisely because it changes the responses
and eliminates the penitential element, but I have never heard this in
use); I would be interested to know, however, what more regular users now
think of C and the other prayers (and to receive any information about
their revision).
Dr. Graham Gould,
King's College London
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