The Book of Common Prayer Table of
contents
The Order for
Morning and Evening Prayer
Daily to be said and used throughout
the year
THE Morning and Evening Prayer shall be used in
the accustomed Place of the Church, Chapel, or Chancel; except it
shall be otherwise determined by the Ordinary of the Place. And the
Chancels shall remain as they have done in times past.
And here is to be noted, that such Ornaments of
the Church, and of the Ministers thereof at all times of their
Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this
Church of England by the Authority of Parliament, in the
Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Readers and such other lay persons as may be
authorised by the Bishop of the diocese may, at the invitation of
the Minister of the parish, or, where the Cure is vacant, or the
Minister is incapacitated, at the invitation of the Churchwardens,
say or sing Morning or Evening Prayer (save for the Absolution);
and in case of need, where no clerk in Holy Orders or Reader or lay
person authorised as aforesaid is available, the Minister or
(failing him) the Churchwardens shall arrange for some suitable lay
person to say or sing Morning or Evening Prayer (save for the
Absolution).
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