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Four Thoughts on Lang and Lent
“Throughout the season of Lent, the following traditional customs may be observed: the Collect for Ash Wednesday is said after the Collect for the Day in every service of the season.” (Paul Lang, Ceremony and Celebration. CPH, 1965)
First: who knew besides the liturgically-minded from Tridentine Rite practice?
Second: This book is out of print.
Third: This book being out of print is both a symptom and cause of the liturgical disorder among us.
Fourth: CPH–republish this book!
That is all….For now.
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“who knew besides the liturgically-minded from Tridentine Rite practice?”
Well, cradle Episcopalians old enough to have been confirmed before the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The 1928 Prayer Book (“the real Prayer Book” as we call it) has this rubric at the collect for Ash Wednesday:
This Collect is to be said every day in Lent, after the Collect appointed for the day, until Palm Sunday.
The same rubric appears in editions of the BCP going back to the 1662 Prayer Book.
Touche!