Praying Together: The Anglican Cycle of Prayer
Episcopal News Service. October 13, 1988 [88218]
NEW YORK (DPS, Oct. 13) -- For the 14th year Anglicans around the world are getting ready to begin a new Anglican Cycle of Prayer. From all indications, even more congregations and individuals will participate, will join hands symbolically with brothers and sisters around the world, than ever have before. Surely the experience of the Lambeth Conference of 1988 will have something to do with the increased participation.
Lambeth 1988 was marked, in the words of the Rev. Canon Samuel Van Culin, Secretary General of the Anglican Consultative Council, "by the great amount of time spent by the bishops and other participants in worship, Bible Study Groups, and at prayer." It was also marked by a strong feeling of unity among the bishops and others participating, despite strong divergences of opinion about a number of specific issues. The Communion, almost to its own amazement, emerged from Lambeth with many strong bonds and linkages. The 1989 Anglican Cycle of Prayer should continue those relationships in the special way that prayer can offer.
Presiding Bishop Edmond L. Browning, in his introduction to the 1989 Anglican Cycle of Prayer, remembered clearly the special experience of Lambeth: "As we began the procession for the opening service of the Lambeth Conference, I recognized friends from throughout the Anglican Communion gathering together for worship. I could not help but recollect the times when these sisters and brothers in Christ were held up in my prayers during the past year."
The 1989 Anglican Cycle of Prayer is, as the previous volumes have been, an intelligent and attractively produced book with a readable format, and an unusually handy, compact size. It includes maps of the provinces of the Anglican Communion, giving reality to many of the faraway places we remember in our prayers. The maps also serve to make the book a useful tool for Christian educators seekingto expand horizons and open new doors of awareness. It is published jointly for the Anglican Consultative Council by Forward Movement Publications in the United States and by Church House Press in England.
Groups and individuals wishing to order copies will find that the price has remained reasonable -- the same as it has been for the last three years. To order, write: Forward Movement Publications, 412 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202. The price is $2.75, postage included.