If you have found your way to this site and are not sure what you are looking at, you are in the right place. This is the home of New Every Morning, a small Anglican fellowship that worships from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, and a growing library built around it.
What You'll Find Here
The Prayer Book, Made Usable
A Standard Book project working towards a canonical text, with an unchanged facsimile and clearly marked working transcriptions; an Ordo Calendar that works out the propers for any day of the church year; the complete 1945 Lectionary with Morning and Evening Prayer readings laid in for every day; and a site-wide search that reaches the whole library at once, not just page titles.
Education & Formation — 24 pages
Not survey articles — primary texts, verified against independent sources and cited as such. All 39 Articles of Religion, with the five places the American Church altered the English text marked and explained. The story of the Ordinal — an 1866 introduction to it recovered from a scan so badly garbled that sentences from two columns had been spliced together, alongside a companion study of how the ordination rites were framed, stripped down, and re-defined from 1550 to 1792. A study of the three historic formularies — what Anglicans hold instead of a confession of faith. Twenty-six Trinitytide collects set beside their Sarum Latin originals.
Homilies — 21 sermons
Preached at New Every Morning and the Church of Our Saviour, posted as delivered.
Saints & the Calendar — 68 pages
Short lives and meditations for the saints and holy days of the calendar, with the historical record kept honestly separate from the legend where the two have drifted apart.
The Wider Library
The American Prayer Book study traces the American Book's own textual descent — what it kept, changed, and added against its English and Scottish antecedents. The Lay Folks' History of the Liturgy is a full, public-domain scholarly history of Christian worship from the early Church through the Reformation, available both as one continuous text and split into searchable chapters.
Why the 1928 Book
We did not choose it for nostalgia. It says, in careful and beautiful English, exactly what the Church has always believed: that we are sinners in need of grace, that Christ has provided it, and that worship is the fitting response. It stands in a direct line from the Reformation and the ancient Church, carried forward largely unchanged by congregations who did not follow when it was set aside elsewhere in the mid-twentieth century. For us it is not an antique curiosity — it is simply how we pray, and we think it rewards anyone curious enough to look closely.
What to Expect
Pray with Us Daily
The Daily Office of the 1928 Prayer Book — Morning and Evening Prayer with the day's psalms and lessons already laid in — is free to carry on your phone. Scan the code with your phone's camera, open the link, and choose Add to Home Screen; once installed it works even without an internet connection.
1928commonprayer.org/daily-office
All are welcome, regardless of where you are in your own journey of faith.