Ordinary where the eucharistic vestments are worn and absent where they are not, so its use marks the churchmanship of a parish rather than the doctrine of the church.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
The Prayer Book says holy table and the catholic revival said altar, and Anglican practice has carried both words for the same furniture ever since.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Written by John Newton, curate of Olney, for a parish sermon at the new year.
Source A Dictionary of HymnologyJohn Julian (editor)
Prose psalms in English sung to a short harmonised formula. It is the form the cathedral tradition made its own, and the reason the Anglican psalter is sung rather than said.
The Church of England kept the threefold ministry of bishops, priests and deacons through the Reformation, and its ordinal states that these orders have existed from the apostles time.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
One book holds the offices, the eucharist and the occasional services, and the doctrine of the church is read out of it as much as out of the Articles.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Worn with the surplice for the daily offices, and with the scarf or the stole according to the use of the parish.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
The cup is given to the laity by rubric, and the Articles name the withholding of it as an abuse.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Use divides by churchmanship rather than by the formularies: ordinary in Anglo-Catholic parishes, absent in the evangelical tradition, and never required of the communion as a whole.
The organ and the choral tradition built on it are among the most distinctive things the Anglican churches have made.
Ordinary street dress for Anglican clergy of every churchmanship, and one of the few points of vesture on which the parties do not divide.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
Kept for cathedral and pontifical occasions in most provinces, and used more widely in Anglo-Catholic parishes.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
The third of the three orders of the Anglican ordinal, ordinarily served for a year before priesting.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
Frankincense, Incense Incense divides by churchmanship rather than by the formularies. It is ordinary in Anglo-Catholic parishes, unknown in evangelical ones, and the Prayer Book neither commands nor forbids it.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
Gabriel is kept with Michael in the Anglican observance of 29 September and is named in the Annunciation collect.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The black preaching gown belongs to the evangelical end of the church, where it says that the minister stands in the pulpit as a preacher of the word rather than at an altar.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
The Institutes shaped the English reformers and left its mark on the Articles of Religion, without the Church of England ever adopting it as a standard.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Sung at Evensong every day where a choir keeps the office, and set by English composers more often than any other text.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Michael and All Angels on 29 September is one of the few holy days the English reformers kept in the Book of Common Prayer, with a collect that asks God to order the ministries of angels and men.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Anglican bishops kept the mitre in the western two peaked form, though it fell out of use for two centuries after the Reformation and returned in the nineteenth.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
The English religious houses were dissolved at the Reformation, and Anglican religious life was refounded in the nineteenth century. It exists and is honoured, and it is required of no one.
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Anglican sisterhoods date from the nineteenth century revival rather than from an unbroken inheritance, and they stand outside the canonical framework of the Roman orders.
Source Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle AgesC. H. Lawrence
Kept with the chalice among the vessels of the holy table.
The word is kept in the Anglican ordinal for the second order, though the Articles deny that the eucharist is a sacrifice offered for the living and the dead.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
Chanted as prose to Anglican chant rather than versified, which is the point at which Anglican and Presbyterian singing of the same psalm parts.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Anglican religious communities founded from the nineteenth century onward took the Rule, and the condensation of the monastic hours into morning and evening prayer carried its shape into the Book of Common Prayer.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Worn by the ordained in the colour of the season. Its return in the nineteenth century was contested and is now general.
Source The Study of AnglicanismStephen Sykes, John Booty and Jonathan Knight (eds.)
Anglican divinity has read Aquinas since Hooker without binding itself to him, so the work is a resource of the tradition rather than a standard within it.
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
The vestment the Prayer Book rubrics name for the minister at morning and evening prayer, and the garment the Vestiarian Controversy was fought over.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
Appointed at Morning Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer.
Source The Book of Common PrayerChurch of England; ed. Brian Cummings
The royal supremacy is the legal foundation of the Church of England and of the Anglican Communion that grew from it.
Source The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580Eamon Duffy
The Chalcedonian definition of two natures in one person is the Christology the Church of England receives and teaches.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
Received in the Church of England for its Christology, on the principle that a general council is to be believed so far as its decrees may be shown to be taken out of holy scripture.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
The creed of this council is one of the three the Articles of Religion require the Church of England to receive and believe.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account
The Articles of Religion require that nothing be taught contrary to the ancient creeds, and the Nicene Creed is one of the three the Church of England holds to be proved by most certain warrants of holy scripture.
Source The Thirty-Nine Articles of ReligionChurch of Englandthe holders' own account