[Magdalen] Here We Go Again.

[Roger Stokes]

On 04/07/2015 17:37, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
> The elves putting the thing together should include a proposed date of
> revision as a matter of course.  Ten years seems reasonable, don't you
> think?
>
> Also, let's put together one book in which are all the possible services,
> no exceptions at all whatsoever. The "Exhaustive Book of Common Prayer"
> [EBCP]
>
> Then people wanting copies specify what they want and it gets published for
> them that way.

Learn from others is my advice.  When the C/E published "Common Worship" 
in 2000 the main volume was just short of 800 pages long including Order 
One (modern sequence of elements) and Order Two (1662 sequence of 
elements) each in contemporary and traditional language together with 
various options for non-eucharistic services including morning and 
evening prayer, baptismal rite and psalter. The various services were 
also published in booklet form in normal and large print. Some seasonal 
material and music was published in the President's Edition, basically 
an altar missal.

Before publication parishes were asked how many copies of what they were 
likely to order so that print-runs could be established.  I believe that 
in the end two parishes ordered copies of the main volume for the entire 
congregation.  Others ordered mainly the individual booklets while still 
more produced (and cointinue to produce) local editions of the bits they 
actually ise.  This facilitates congregations being able to follow the 
service easily without too much page-flicking.  (Incidentally I noticed 
a preference during my recent trip for Eucharistic Prayer B while A is 
the one that does not require flipping forward and back.)

Roger