HUMAN BINGO FOR THE CATECHUMENAL PROCESS
The Book of Common Prayer
..Has seen a movie using
the opening words of the
BCP’s Marriage service
(an extra free square if
person can name the
movie)
Can tell how many
sacraments there are (in
the Anglican/Episcopal
tradition)
Can direct you to the
traditional “23rd Psalm”
in the BCP 1979
Has never worshipped in
an Episcopal Church
using a Prayer Book
other than the BCP 1979
could get through a
worship service without
a bulletin
Can tell the difference
between Rite I and Rite
II
Has worshipped using a
Book of Common
Prayer other than the
BCP 1979
(the one in our pews)
…has used the form for
“Reconciliation of a
Penitent” from our
current Prayer Book
Can name all of the
sacraments “counted” in
the box at left
Has worshipped using
the “new” Our Father
Can tell you what
“evensong” is
…can recite the 1st
words of the rite for
Burial of the Dead
(preferably before
looking it up in the
book)
has participated in
Evensong
knows how to find out
next Sunday’s scripture
readings
can explain what is
meant by the slang
name, “Rite III”
Can name the creeds
noted at left
Can give one example of
“when we use” a
particular creed
Born since the Current
Prayer Book was put
into use
Can tell you another
denomination who has
printed “our translation”
of the Psalter in their
book of worship
Has led worship from
one of the forms in the
BCP 1979
Can give the
“date/name” of another
edition of the Book of
Common Prayer
can find the date of St.
Thomas’ Day
Can tell you how many
creeds we use in our
worship services (we’ll
accept 2 different
answers)
can name one item
included in the Prayer
Book in addition to
prayers and worship
services
FREE
Find a person who “fits” each cell. Ask the person to initial the cell (& learn his/her name). When you’ve completed a row—vertically,
horizontally or diagonally, cry out “AMEN!” and await further instructions.
BIBLE REFLECTION: What Did You Hear? What Did It
Mean? What Does It Cost You To Live This Message?
WHAT DID YOU HEAR? Write three thoughts, ideas, phrases, images
that struck you in today’s readings and homily.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN? Why did these words/phrases strike you today?
What do they mean for your life?
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Can you recall a time in your life (past or present) when you experienced
something similar to the event expressed in today’s reading? How does this
reading enlighten or challenge that experience?
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Write three questions that today’s reading raise for you about your life,
about your faith, about church . . .
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WHAT DOES IT COST YOU? List one concrete way you feel called to
live this message this week.
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What will help you live this message? What will be the obstacles?
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Share your reflections with your group.
Prayer Book Treasure Hunt
List the page where you found the answer.
1.
What are the seven principal feasts of the church year?
2.
When is the Great Vigil of Easter celebrated?
3.
May a confessor tell something told him or her in a confession?
4.
Is there a prayer for church musicians? If so, where?
5.
What Psalm is scheduled for Eucharist on Monday in Holy Week in Year B?
6.
What are the three main parts of Ministration to the Sick?
7.
What special day falls on March 19?
8.
How many forms for Holy Eucharist are there?
9.
List the four ways the Psalms may be said or sung.
10.
When will Easter Day be in the year 2031.
11.
On what pages do you find the Historical Documents of the Church?
12.
List the first six words of the Contemporary Collect for the Last Sunday after the
Epiphany.
13.
What are the first words of the service for the Burial of the Dead: Rite Two?
14.
How does the church answer the question, “Who are the ministers of the
Church”?
15.
What service is provided for persons who wish a liturgy in the church after a
secular marriage?
16.
Where would you find a short morning devotion for a family or individual?
17.
When was the First Book of Common Prayer written?
18.
Where do you find a prayer for sleep?
19.
List at least three gifts given to a new rector or vicar in Celebration of a New
Ministry.
20.
What has the fool said in Psalm 53?
21.
What three things do persons being baptized renounce?
22.
Choose three lessons for the Ordination of a Deacon.
23.
What three lessons are scheduled for Friday of the week of 4 Epiphany of Year
Two?
24.
What is to be spread on the Holy Table at a celebration of Holy Eucharist?
25.
What is the other name for “An Outline of the Faith?”
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p. 15
p. 284
p. 446
p. 819 #17
p. 903
p. 453-457
p. 21
Table of Contents p. 2
P. 582
P. 880
Pp. 864ff.
P. 217
P. 491
P. 855
P. 433
P. 137
P. 866
Pp. 131, 134 and 461
P. 561
P. 658
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P. 540
P. 947
P. 406
P. 845
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Contents of the BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Daily Office
Morning Prayer (2)
Noonday Prayer
Evening Prayer (2)
An Order for Evening Worship Compline
Daily Devotionals for Individuals & Families
Chapel
Episcopal Services
Ordination of a Bishop
Ordination of a Priest
Ordination of a Deacon
Celebration of New Ministry
Consecration of a Church or
The Psalter
The Great Litany
Prayers and Thanksgivings
Collects (Traditional & Contemporary)
For seasons, Holy Days, saints &
(Catechism)
various occasions
Outline of the Faith
Historical Documents
Liturgies for Special Days
Ash Wednesday
Palm Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter
The Great Vigil of Easter
Holy Baptism
Calendar of the Church Year
Tables for Finding the Date of
and other Holy Days
Lectionary
Sunday Eucharist & Special
Days
Holy Eucharist (2)
Pastoral Offices
Confirmation
Commitment for Christian Service
Marriage (including Blessing of a Civil Marriage)
Thanksgiving for Birth or Adoption of a Child
Reconciliation of a Penitent (Confession)
Ministration to the Sick
Ministration at the Time of Death (Unction)
Burial of the Dead (2)
(Year A, B, and C)
Holy Days
Saints
Various Occasions
Daily Office Lectionary
The Seasons of the Year
Holy Days
Special Occasions
GUIDE TO THE DAILY OFFICE
Morning Prayer
Rite I
p. 61
Rite II
p. 115
Daily Devotions
p. 139
Close of Day
Compline
Daily Devotions
BCP, p. 37
Evening Prayer
Rite I
BCP,
BCP, p. 75
Rite II
BCP,
BCP, p. 137
Daily Devotions
BCP,
BCP, p. 127
BCP, p. 140
Model for following the Daily Office, for morning or evening, Rite II
Morning
Evening
Opening Versicle
P. 80
P. 117
“Glory to the Father. . .”
P. 90
P. 117
Canticle
Venite, P. 82
O Gracious Light,
P. 118
Psalm appointed for the Day
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Scripture reading
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The Apostles Creed
P. 96
P. 120
The Lord’s Prayer
P. 97
P. 121
The suffrages, A or B
P. 97-8
P. 121-122
Collect for the Day
P. 98-100
P. 123
Collect for Mission
P. 100-101
P. 124
“Let us Bless the Lord. . .”
P. 102
P. 126
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For Psalms and lessons appointed for the day, see the Daily Office Lectionary, p. 936.
Year One begins on Advent I of even numbered years; Year Two on Advent I of odd
numbered years. (Also, Forward Day by Day lists readings and psalms for each day.
Published quarterly and available in the Church Tract Rack.)
Psalms before the asterisk are for morning; after for evening. All or one of the readings may
be used.
Resources:
Book of Common Prayer, Church Hymnal Corporation, Hard Cover $7.95, Paper $5.95
A Time to Pray, Prayers, Psalms and Readings for Personal Devotions, Church Hymnal
Corporation, $6.95
The Daily Lectionary, A Weekly Guide for Daily Bible Readings, by Joseph P. Russell,
Forward Movement, $0.55
Forward Day by Day, Forward Movement, $0.45. Published Quarterly.
The Daily Office: A Guide for Individual & Group Recitation, Associated Parishes, Inc. $1.75
The Book of Common Prayer – Quotation Hunt
Find page numbers of the following quotes. Some will be repeated more than once—one reference will do.
1.
“The Book of Consecration of Archbishops and Bishops, and Ordering of Priests and Deacons, lately
set forth in the time of Edward the Sixth…?
2.
“…fill, we pray, the heart of this your servant whom you have chosen to be a bishop in your Church,
with such love of you and of all the people, that he may feed and tend the flock of Christ…”
3.
“for you are the source of light and life, you made us in your image, and called us to new life in Jesus
Christ our Lord.”
4.
“Let us hear the record of God’s saving deeds in history.”
5.
“O God, who wonderfully created, and yet more wonderfully restored, the dignity of human nature.”
6.
“O Lord, arise, help us;
And deliver us for thy Names’ sake”
7.
“Keep us, O Lord, as the apple of your eye;
Hide us under the shadow of your wings.”
8.
That this evening may be holy, good and peaceful.
We entreat you, O Lord.”
9. “Lord, you now have set your servant free
to go in peace as you have promised;”
10. “Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work or watch, or weep this night,…”
11. “By this shall the world know that you are my disciples: That you love one another”
12. “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.”
13. “O Lord, open thou our lips.
And our mouth shall show forth thy praise.”
14. “Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel
out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise…”
15. “It is a most invaluable part of that blessed ‘liberty wherewith Christ hat made us free,’ that in his
worship different forms and usages may without offence be allowed…”
16. Bless the Lord who forgives all our sins.
His mercy endures forever.
17. “…and this fragile earth, our island home.”
18. “Because in the mystery of the Word made flesh, you have caused a new light to shine in our hearts…”
19. “Give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation, that we may use its resources rightly in the
service of others and to your honor and glory.”
20. Do you reaffirm your renunciation of evil?
21. Those whom God has joined together let no one put asunder.
22. May God the Father, who by Baptism adopts us as his children, grant you grace. Amen.
23. …and by his authority committed to me, I absolve you from all your sins…
24. If I am to stand up, help me to stand bravely. If I am to sit still, help me to sit quietly. If I am to lie
low, help me to do it patiently. And if I am to do nothing, let me do it gallantly.
25. I lay my hands upon you in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ…
26. I am the resurrection and the Life, saith the Lord
27. I solemnly declare that I do believe the Holy Scripture of the Old and New Testaments to be the Word
of God, and to contain all things necessary to salvation…
28. Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to thee, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so
control our wills that we may be wholly thine…
29. We give thanks to you, O Lord our God, for all your servants and witnesses of time past: for
Abraham, the father of believers, and Sarah his wife; for Moses, the lawgiver, and Aaron, the priest;
for Miriam and Joshua…
30. The inward and spiritual grace in Baptism is union with Christ in his death and resurrection, birth into
God’s family the Church, forgiveness of sins, and new life in the Holy Spirit.
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p. 875, Article XXXVL
p. 581, from the prayer of consecration of a new bishop
p. 377, proper preface #1 Of God the Father
p. 288, Great Vigil o f Easter
p. 214, Collect for 2nd Sunday after Christmas
p. 154, The supplication following the Great Litany
p. 132, Compline and/or Psalm 17
p. 122, Suffrages B, Evening Prayer
p. 120, Song of Simeon, Evening Prayer; p. 135, Compline
p. 134, Compline
p. 275, Maundy Thursday liturgy
p. 364, The Our Father, 2nd form (found in many locations)
p. 42, Invitatory at Morning Prayer, Rite I
p. 306, Prayer over the water in Baptism rite
p. 9, Preface to the 1789 Book of Common Prayer
p. 355, Opening Acclamation for Lent, etc.
p. 370, Eucharistic Prayer C
p. 378, Proper Preface for Epiphany
p. 388, Prayers of the People IV
p. 303, Reaffirmation of Baptismal Vows for those to be confirmed, etc.
p. 428, Marriage rite
p. 445, Thanksgiving at the Adoption of a Child
p. 448, Rite of Reconciliation—prayer of absolution
p. 461, prayers following Ministration to the Sick
p. 456, Ministration of the Sick/Unction
p. 469, Burial of the Dead, Rite I
p. 513, Ordination of a Bishop; p. 526, Ordination of a Priest; p. 538, Ordination of a Deacon
p. 832, Prayer 61
p. 838, Prayer #4
p. 858, Catechism, “What is Baptism?”