About this site

This edition of Rite & Rubric presents the Daily Office — Morning and Evening Prayer — according to the Book of Common Prayer of the Reformed Episcopal Church in North America (2003), with the Psalms and Lessons of the Christian Year appointed in that book, for every day of the church year. The Psalter is the one printed in the book; the lessons are given in the full text of the King James Version. Alongside the office of the day, the site offers the complete orders for Morning and Evening Prayer with every alternative printed in full, Holy Communion with the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels of the Christian year, the Prayers and Thanksgivings, the Litany, and the whole Psalter, by psalm or in the thirty-day course.

How the day is reckoned

Visit in the morning and the site opens Morning Prayer for the day; visit in the evening and it opens Evening Prayer. The liturgical day is computed from the civil date according to the Calendar, Tables, and Rules of the book: the date of Easter, the seasons and Sundays of the church year, the fixed holy days and their eves, the Ember days at the four seasons, the Rogation days, Thanksgiving Day, and the Sundays before Advent. Where the tables appoint more than one set of Psalms and Lessons, the sets may be selected; the starred lessons are those the book notes as particularly appropriate when Morning Prayer with one lesson precedes the Holy Communion.

Sources

The text of the offices, the Psalter, and the propers follows the Book of Common Prayer of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Fourth Edition (2005), as published by the church at rechurch.org; the Prayer Book is © 2003, 2005 by the Standing Liturgical Commission of the Reformed Episcopal Church, and its texts are presented here for use in worship. The scripture lessons are quoted from the King James Version as distributed by eBible.org (public domain).

This site is an independent devotional resource and is not affiliated with the Reformed Episcopal Church or any ecclesiastical body. The sibling sites present the Daily Office of the 1928 American Prayer Book and the 2019 Prayer Book of the Anglican Church in North America.