Book of Common Prayer Basic Pew Edition: Red Hardcover

This is a great- quality book. Pages are substantial and have a nice feel, print is a great size. I feel like this will last a long time even with regular use.

Can the Book of Common Prayer be reviewed on Amazon? From what perspective would one review it? It is kinda' like writing a review of cave paintings from 15000 BCE. With such matters, we can't review from a "good" or "bad" point of view.The cave paintings reference a place in human history that speaks to us. The cave paintings tell us: they hunted, they had families, they lived in community, they had domestic animals :-), etc., etc. And the cave paintings inspire us. They tell us about our humanity and how we behaved and still behave today. The cave folks are us. What they did back then, matters, as it speaks to us, inspires us, and helps us move forward. (I'm still drawing things on the wall of my cave that I want to hunt - my wall is my tasks list on my smart phone and the animals I'm hunting are my professional goals I seek to accomplish each day.)So, what does all this have to do with the Book of Common Prayer? Well, it is a writing in a book that sets out human prayer toward God throughout the centuries. At its heart is the Psalms...Hebrew prayers of pain, hurt, anger, love, violence, raw aspiration, nationalism, racism, faith, belief, goodness, grief, lament, etc., etc. I can go to the Psalms in the BCP (great translation for prayer!) and see how Israel lived, prayed, breathed, and had faith. How they prayed back then maters, as it speaks to us, inspires us, and helps us move forward. I am an Israelite praying my anger, hate, love, grief, and all of my humanity to God.And the rest of the BCP, gathering up prayers from the 3rd century onward into modern day liturgies in English. It does the same thing as the Psalms - picks up human response prayers through ages. The BCP picks up and offers a collection of human prayer going from the Hebrew People all the way down to today (well, 1979). It offers us these prayers and says, "pick these up...you are Hebrew, Christian, English Speaking ...come, pray with all humanity through this tradition!"Buy one today...pick up and pray, and even if you pray with it alone, you are with a community larger than you can imagine...pray with the BCP, it might just change (and keep changing) your life!

Has Large page numbers. Good content page of sections. Opens to insert the ribbons-not included. This needs larger print, I have to wear readers that's why I gave it 3 stars.

The various editions of the Book of Common Prayer may be bewildering to online shoppers; for those looking for a good, readable, reasonably-priced current edition this is a good choice. It is the 1979 version. One reviewer seemed confused about this, but the only 2016 "update" that it includes is the Revised Common Lectionary amended by action of the 2015 General Convention. In other words, this is the same book that is in the pew when you attend services at an Episcopal Church. Same size, same normal size font, same paper.There is no ribbon - I use a small bookmark. There is a label on the back cover with an ISBN number, which I believe Amazon requires. If the label really bothers you, it can be safely removed with a product called Goo Gone. (I was once an antiquarian bookseller and can vouch for the product's efficacy.)The copy that I received was not red, but closer to maroon. That was, for me, no issue. All in all I am very happy with my purchase.

I love everything about the prayer book!!!

I have two Kindle versions of the BCP, both the one by Episcopal Church and Christian Miracle Foundation Press (EC for short) as well as the one by Church Publishing (CP). I feel like they each have pros and cons, and I'm happy to have both. I'm placing this same review in both locations.I prefer the formatting in the CP; it's a bit cleaner. However, the EC includes the page numbers which, while it can be disruptive while reading, certainly helps me to find a particular page quickly.The Table of Contents in the CP is short and easy to navigate while the one in the EC is very long and takes forever to get through. So the CP TOC will get you to a general area of the book, while the EC TOC will get you to exactly the spot that you want. I don't use the TOC often because I just bookmark all the main spots that I want to get to quickly.One thing that I love about the EC is that in the Daily Office Lectionary, the Psalms readings are hyperlinked to the Psalter, making it very easy to move back and forth between the two sections of the book.Both books occasionally crash the Kindle app, but it does seem like the CP version does it more often.If I had to choose only one (which, realistically, I should have), it would be the EC version. I find that its pros outweigh its cons, and it's less than a third of the price of the CP version.

When I recently became a member of the Episcopal Church, I decided to purchase a personal copy of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). I like everything about this wonderful book. It contains all of the Church’s liturgical prayers, including two rites of the Holy Eucharist, the Daily Office, and prayers for many special occasions. It also contains the complete Book of Psalms, and a list of Bible readings for every day of the year. I use my BCP primarily for my morning and evening prayers.My BCP measures about 7¾” x 5½ “x 1¾,” so it is a perfect size for me. It has a durable cloth-over-board hard cover that feels very solid in my hands. The binding appears to be sewn rather than glued, which makes it more durable and allows me to lay it flat when opened. The paper is smooth but not glossy, and of sufficient weight to make it reasonably wrinkle- and tear-resistant. The text is set in a font that’s very crisp, clear, and easy to read. The book’s page edges are not gilded, and there are no marker ribbons.I am very pleased with my new Book of Common Prayer. Although it is not a substitute for the Bible, which is the cornerstone of my Christian faith, it is a very useful guide for me in my daily prayer and meditation. Highly recommended.

I love the B.C.P. and I use mine every day. That said, I have been unable to download the Kindle edition, and I know not why. I have been able to download a sample of the B.C.P. and also samples of other books since I made my first order of this book. I have tried many times to get to the bottom of this mystery but I have been, and I am still FRUSTRATED!!! Please can I have some help to solve this problem?

OK search facility seems poor

Not bad, navigates ok, but, it's the American church's book of common prayer.A lot of the material is common, just special days change I think.

Very good but I have not been able to find the articles of religion in it. Good Compline. I use it often for my prayer time.

The table of contents doesn't work. It shows' psalter' but a clck there goes nowhere. I want my money back, but can't a tab for thar.