tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703933675593092725.post5801856908334688695..comments2023-05-22T08:55:16.160-04:00Comments on subversive orthodoxy: BCP and BASGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00324636915206892169noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7703933675593092725.post-36783523404858764772010-02-27T12:03:01.210-05:002010-02-27T12:03:01.210-05:00My primary complaint with the BAS is not so much c...My primary complaint with the BAS is not so much content as layout. It was clearly designed for the photocopier age, when everyone prints the entire liturgy in the bulletin. The physical BAS, the book itself, is essentially unusable in a congregation (seminaries, convents, priestly gatherings, etc. assume a degree of facility). Giving a page number for the fraction,, for instance, is inane since by the time the congregation finds it it's over. So we print it all in the bulletin.<br /><br />The trouble I see with this is the ease with which all manner of frippery can be inserted into a fully printed bulletin. "Why not just slip in this prayer from a magazine I found in a hedge?" The book in the hands of the laity kept the clergy on the rails, as it were. The rails may have needed re-laying, but at least with a book in hand it's harder for the clergy to start praying from the Bhagavad Gita, or writing Eucharist prayers of dubious orthodoxy and wretched taste, as was happening in one of our congregations.<br /><br />Whatever else EUCSA did with their BCP, they made it usable as a book.Fr. Aaron Orearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307413808613069253noreply@blogger.com