The Book of Common Prayer - The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

The Book of Common Prayer is the name given to a number of related prayer books in the Anglican and Episcopalian churches. The first edition, published in 1549 under the reign of King Edward VI, was meant as a way to codify the prayers and practices of the Church of England in the after the break with the Roman Catholic Church. It was the first prayer book to include the complete forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English. In addition to the daily prayers and services, The Book of Common Prayer contained the orders for baptism, marriage, confirmation, anointing of the sick, and funerary services among various readings and biblical excerpts. This particular copy of The Book of Common Prayer is an edition made for the Episcopalian Church of the United States of America. While printed in 1893, it is based on the most recent ratified edition at that time from 1789. As the English monarch is the head of the Church of England (aka the Anglican Church), those who practiced Angli