[Magdalen] Samuel Seabury and Church of Scotland

[Scott Knitter]

The 1662 eucharistic prayer basically ends after the prayers over the bread
and wine (words of institution). The Scottish prayer was and is the fuller
one we're familiar with, similar to the 1928 USA BCP or our 1979 Rite I.

On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:56 AM Chad Wohlers <chad at satucket.com> wrote:

> Yes, it is the case that the US Episcopal Church (more or less) adopted
> the Scottish Eucharist and used it through the 1928 BCP. The differences
> between that and the English 1662 BCP had to do with Invocation of the
> Holy Spirit and other points which seem rather arcane to my admittedly
> non-theological mind. The current US 1979 BCP, along with the CofE
> Common Worship, Canadian BAS, RC Mass, etc., owe more to the liturgical
> revival of the mid 20th century.
>
> I have them all online so you can compare them yourself:
> Scottish 1637 BCP:
> http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/BCP_1637.htm
> Scottish Eucharist used at Seabury's Consecration:
> http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/Scot1764_Communion.htm
> The first US BCP  (1789):
> http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1789/BCP_1789.htm
> US 1928 BCP: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/1928/BCP_1928.htm
>
> --
> Chad Wohlers
> chad at satucket.com
> Woodbury, VT   USA
>
>
> On 7/11/2020 8:35 AM, Romain Kang wrote:
> > One of my Lutheran friends watched "Hamilton" and started musing on the
> > historical Seabury:
> >
> > I read that the only condition imposed by the Church of Scotland was that
> > Seabury learn and promote the Scottish rite of the Eucharist, which is
> > considerably longer than that of the Book Of Common Prayer. Is that
> liturgy
> > still used in the U.S.? I've only taken communion twice in an Episcopal
> > Church, and both times the liturgy was the same one I knew from the Roman
> > Catholic Mass and Lutheran Order of Worship for Communion.
> >
> > I don't remember hearing about the condition regarding the Scottish rite,
> > but I'm not aware of any specifically Scottish elements in the TEC's 21st
> > century eucharistic liturgies.  Anyone know more about this history?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Romain
>
>

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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA