The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95755   Message #1971640
Posted By: wysiwyg
18-Feb-07 - 11:54 AM
Thread Name: My Musical Inheritance
Subject: RE: My Musical Inheritance
Personal hymnal for use at home, alone or with friends gathered for home worship/prayer? Leading the family?

Possible parallel: In the Episcopal Church we use a Book of Common Prayer, in church. For all services, all seasons, and all occasions-- it has the liturgy and individual prayers you can choose from. But it also has sections for personal devotions, and people often purchase a small edition (same page layout, just smaller type throughout, has ALL the contents of the big one on superstrong and superthin rice paper.)

As a way of giving people a tool to use to sanctify the whole day... Such as, Need a lullaby? Use a sacred one instead of a worldly one. Need a lament, same thing.

~S~