Book of Common Prayer — Daily Office

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Language: English

Minister: Layman

Region: America

Weekday Canticle: Benedicite/Te Deum

Time Zone: Automatic

Used only for the "Pray [Hour] now" link on the Home page, so it can suggest the right Hour for the actual time where you are.

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Pray the Daily Office

An interactive edition of the 2025 Proposed Book of Common Prayer, for the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate. Choose an Hour to pray it for any date — psalms, lessons, and season are assembled automatically.

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The Daily Office

Holy Mass & Devotions

Votive Masses

Pastoral Rites

Family Prayers & the Office of the Dead

About this edition

The 2025 Proposed Book of Common Prayer is a revision of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, edited for Orthodox use within the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate.

It starts with the 1928 BCP and revises only when necessary, drawing first on the wider Prayer Book tradition, then the Sarum Rite, before anything original is considered. The Mass follows the English Missal (1933 lay edition); the Daily Office follows the Breviarium Monasticum.

This site is a prototype interactive edition built from that book's LaTeX source: it resolves the liturgical calendar for any date (on the Orthodox/Julian Paschal cycle this Vicariate uses) and assembles the day's Office automatically. See ROADMAP.md in the project folder for what's implemented so far and what's still to come.

Scripture texts. The King James Version (1611) is the standard translation for all Scripture on this site — the Lessons at Mattins and Evensong, and the Old Testament Canticles. The Psalms follow the older Coverdale Psalter of the Book of Common Prayer (from the Great Bible, 1535/1539) rather than the King James Version, per the historic and continuing custom of every Prayer Book edition since 1549: Coverdale's rendering is the one written for singing and chanting, and its wording (e.g. Psalm 23's “therefore can I lack nothing” rather than the King James “I shall not want”) will differ from the King James Bible accordingly. This applies everywhere the Psalter appears — the Daily Office Psalms, the Venite (Psalm 95), and the Little Hours — without a separate note at each occurrence. The Gospel Canticles (Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc Dimittis) and the Old Testament Canticles are Scripture proper and follow the King James Version. One canticle, the Prayer of Azariah (an Old Testament Canticle from the Apocryphal additions to Daniel), does not appear in this project's own source materials and was sourced from the King James Apocrypha externally; see the Nine Biblical Odes entry in ROADMAP.md for that citation.

What is Apologia Anglicana?

Apologia Anglicana is committed to the defence of the Fides Anglicana: the authentic English expression of the Catholic Faith in the Orthodox Church.

Apologia Anglicana is an Orthodox, formerly Protestant, independent publication, committed to explaining and defending Holy Orthodoxy, specifically in its Western Rite.

We invite those who seek catholicity—but are committed to being Western—to inquire into Orthodoxy.

Editors at Apologia Anglicana

Prototype build — a vertical slice of a much larger project. See ROADMAP.md in this folder for what's implemented, what's approximated, and what's still to do.