An Introduction to the Book of Common Prayer

At 28 days into our Caldecote Lent Challenge email series, we’ve compiled an index of the Challenges by subject, Word of the Day and Music of the Day.

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Lent Challenges by Subject:

  1. Te Deum Laudamus
  2. The Apostles’ Creed
  3. The Benedictus
  4. The Grace
  5. The Gloria
  6. The Preces
  7. The Venite
  8. The Collects
  9. The Jubilate Deo
  10. The Lord’s Prayer
  11. The Benedicite (Part 1)
  12. The Benedicite (Part 2)
  13. The Introduction to Morning Prayer
  14. The Penitential Sentences
  15. The Penitential Introduction
  16. The Confession and Absolution
  17. The Prayers: Overview
  18. The Prayers: The Salutation
  19. The Prayers: The Lesser Litany
  20. The Prayers: The Lord’s Prayer (revisited)
  21. The Prayers: The Suffrages
  22. The Prayer of St Chrysostom
  23. The Psalter
  24. The Bible
  25. Cranmer’s Lectionary
  26. The Lessons
  27. The Bible through Liturgy
  28. Psalm 51 – The Miserere

Lent Challenges by Word of the Day:

  1. Sabaoth
  2. catholic
  3. dayspring
  4. Ghost
  5. remission
  6. shew forth
  7. sundry
  8. the same
  9. quick
  10. temptation
  11. magnify
  12. miserable
  13. brethren
  14. iniquity
  15. the provocation
  16. err
  17. inheritance
  18. concord
  19. beseech
  20. trespass
  21. endue
  22. vouchsafe
  23. very
  24. visited
  25. comfort
  26. communion (of saints)
  27. contrite
  28. sober

Lent Challenges by Music of the Day:

  1. Purcell’s Te Deum
  2. The Apostles’ Creed (Tongan youth)
  3. The Benedictus (Herbert Oakeley)
  4. May the Grace of Christ our Saviour (Benjaminn M. Culli)
  5. Bach’s Gloria Patri
  6. Adonai Seftai Tiftach (O Lord open my lips)
  7. The Venite (Taize style)
  8. The Venite (William Byrd)
  9. The Jubilato Deo Peter Anglea)
  10. The Lord’s Prayer (Charlotte Church)
  11. The Benedicite (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  12. Benedicite in B flat (Herbert Sumsion)
  13. The Apostles’ Creed (Ryan Cayabyab)
  14. Psalm 2 (Genevan Psalter)
  15. The Venite (Ancient Hebrew reconstruction)
  16. Allegri’s Miserere (King’s College Choir)
  17. The Prayers (New College Oxford Evensong)
  18. Dominus Vobiscum (The Lord be with you; Sydney Guillaume)
  19. The Kyrie (Muungano National Choir)
  20. The Lord’s Prayer (Rachmaninov)
  21. O Lord, open my lips (David von Kampen)
  22. Te Deum (Stanford)
  23. Psalm 62 (Owen Alstott)
  24. Benedictus (traditional chant)
  25. Te Deum (Polish setting)
  26. The Creed (Tony Umeh, Nigeria)
  27. Jubilate Deo (William Walton)
  28. The Miserere (Aramaic chant)