William Edwin Orchard
Autor de The temple; a book of prayers
Sobre El Autor
Obras de William Edwin Orchard
From faith to faith 7 copias
Foundations of faith 4 copias
The necessity of Christ 3 copias
The outlook for religion 3 copias
The present crisis in religion 3 copias
Foundations of faith eschatological. 2 copias
The outlook for religion. 2 copias
The Temple (A Book of Prayers) 1 copia
From Faith to Faith 1 copia
Service Book: St Paul's Enfield 1 copia
Presbyterianism 1 copia
Stations of the Cross 1 copia
Humanity: What? Whence? Whither? 1 copia
The Finality of Christ 1 copia
The Theology of Jesus 1 copia
The True Patriotism 1 copia
The New Catholicism 1 copia
Christianity and World Problems 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 39
- Miembros
- 88
- Popularidad
- #209,356
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 4
A Congregational Minister's unique Missal, Breviary and Ritual all in one!
Dr William Orchard, former Minister of the King's Weigh House Chapel and later Catholic priest, was the author of this unique little work. Amongst its distinguishing features are not less than ten orders in total for morning and evening prayer (one of which includes the Divine Praises, two orders for Holy Communion - one of which interpolates Roman and Orthodox material with classic forms (such as the Prayer of Humble Access) from the Book of Common Prayer Holy Communion alongside extempore prayer - abbreviated forms of Vespers, Compline and Prime, Tenebrae, numerous litanies, baptism, marriage and burial services and his own revised version of the BCP psalter.
Of particular interest is the second, main, eucharistic order in the book, which appears to be based on a Western framework owing debts to both the BCP and the Missal framework, with extensive interpolations from a huge range of liturgical sources ranging from the liturgy of S. James, through the Roman Missal (via the Gelasian and Gregorian Sacramentaries) to the work of Vagante Bishop Ulric Vernon Herford, including such gems cum quirks of arrangement as the use of the Te Deum before the communion as an alternative to the Creed and the Nunc Dimittis after!
From this it will be clear that The Order of Divine Service is effectively a combined breviary, missal and psalter of a distinctively "Catholic" kind - though drawing heavily on the Book of Common Prayer for material and structure - produced for free church use. It is open to question whether he used it himself in his King's Weigh House chapel, or whether - as sources apparently suggest - something more "extreme" and Missal-esque was favoured, with this book then being a more moderate version designed to find favour with its target audience, who might be more receptive to the structure of the Book of Common Prayer.
It undoubtedly did have some use in Non-conformist circles - I recently came into possession of a copy previously belonging to a Congregational Minister, the amount of wear on which shews that he at least must have used it fairly extensively (although principally for marriages and burials, it appears!) How widespread its use was other than that is open to question and I would welcome any elucidations on this point.
A typical selling price for copies in good condition appears to be around £30 at the moment, but diligent searching should unearth copies for significantly less. It is certainly worth adding to any liturgical library.
M.M.'s comments re this copy:
This copy belonged to a Congregational Minister who spent some time minstering very close to where I live, although the place I got it from was somewhat far away. From the wear pattern it is pretty clear that he used it mainly for weddings and funerals, but the ticks against the various orders of morning and evening prayer are also interesting as an indicator of what he might have used!… (más)