Episcanglipalican

The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts. We lift them unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God. It is meet and right so to do. It is meet, right, and our bounden duty, always and everywhere to give thanks to thee, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. [Insert Proper Preface] Therefore we praise thee, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and all the company of heaven, who forever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of thy Name: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. We give thanks to thee, O God, for the goodness and love which thou hast made known to us in creation; in the calling of Israel to be thy people; in thy Word spoken through the prophets; and above all in the Word made flesh, Jesus, thy Son. For in these last days thou didst send him to be incarnate from t...

The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. Lift up your hearts. We lift them unto the Lord. Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God. It is meet and right so to do. It is meet, right, and our bounden duty, always and everywhere to give thanks to thee, Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. [Insert Proper Preface] Therefore we praise thee, joining our voices with Angels and Archangels and all the company of heaven, who forever sing this hymn to proclaim the glory of thy Name: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. O Holy and gracious Father: In thine infinite love thou madest us for thyself, and, when we had fallen into sin and become subject to evil and death, thou, in thy mercy, didst send Jesus Christ, thine only and eternal Son, to share our human nature, to live and die as one of us, to reconcile us to thee, t...

Maybe you've heard of the Anglican Service Book. Published by an Anglo-Catholic church in Pennsylvania, it's essentially Rite II of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer rendered into Elizabethan idiom. I once had a look at it through interlibrary loan, but it's way too expensive to want to own a copy. Most of it is available on Google Books, but the eucharistic canons are omitted (because why would you buy the cow if you can get the PDF for free?). And the one canon from Rite II that the authors of the ASB didn't even bother to include in the print version was the so-called 'Star Trek prayer,' Eucharistic Prayer C. I'm here to rectify that glaring omission. I think the language of Cranmer and Shakespeare and King James (or his translators, at any rate) are perfect for prayer in the Final Frontier. So for your liturgizing pleasure, I have re-written Eucharist Prayer C in Elizabethan idiom. Enjoyest thyself. The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. L...