Book of Common Prayer · Holy Communion (1662)

Versions of the Communion Office

The base text is the 1662 Communion office (plain text, source). Earlier and later rites are listed below, beginning with the early Irish and medieval English orders (translated into English by AnglicanGuide from the Latin editions, which are linked; Ælfric’s Old English homilies in Benjamin Thorpe’s translation). Public-domain texts are given in full; copyrighted modern rites, and texts not separately transcribed, have a short note and a link. Use the Compare tab on the Baptism page to read any of them beside 1662.

• Bobbio Missal: Roman Mass for Daily Use (Gallican) (c. 700) · English translation · Latin · Source: E. A. Lowe (ed.), The Bobbio Missal, Henry Bradshaw Society 58 (1920), pp. 9–17, nos. 4–26 (Latin; Internet Archive)
• Stowe Missal: Order of the Mass (Irish) (c. 800) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren, The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Oxford, 1881), pp. 226–244 (Latin; Internet Archive)
• Leofric Missal: Canon of the Mass (Anglo-Saxon) (10th century) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (ed.), The Leofric Missal (Oxford, 1883), pp. 60–62 (Latin; Internet Archive)
• Missal of Robert of Jumièges: Canon of the Mass (c. 1020) · English translation · Latin · Source: H. A. Wilson (ed.), The Missal of Robert of Jumièges, Henry Bradshaw Society 11 (1896), pp. 45–48 (Latin; Internet Archive)
• Sarum Missal: Ordinary and Canon of the Mass (late medieval (1526 printing)) · English translation · Latin · Source: F. E. Warren (trans.), The Sarum Missal in English, part 1, Alcuin Club Collections 11 (1911) (Internet Archive)
• York and Hereford Missals (1500)
  Not separately imported. Maskell prints the York and Hereford ordinaries beside Sarum: the canon is the same Roman text, but the preparation, offertory prayers, the priest's communion devotions and the ending differ in detail (Hereford, for example, has its own offertory and communion prayers, and York ends without the Last Gospel in some books). W. Maskell, The Ancient Liturgy of the Church of England (3rd ed., 1882), Sarum, Bangor, York and Hereford in parallel (Internet Archive).
• The Order of the Communion (1548) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, The Order of the Communion, 1548 (justus.anglican.org)
• First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1549 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Second Prayer Book of Edward VI (1552) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1552 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Elizabethan Prayer Book (1559) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Jacobean Prayer Book (1604)
  Not separately imported. After the Hampton Court Conference the 1604 book reprinted the 1559 communion order essentially unchanged; the changes of 1604 fell on private baptism, confirmation and the catechism. Wohlers, the 1559 Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org).
• Scottish Prayer Book ("Laud's Liturgy") (1637) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1637 Scottish Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Scottish Communion Office (1764) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1764 Scottish Communion Office (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Prayer Book (1789) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1789 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Proposed Prayer Book (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 Proposed Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Prayer Book (1928) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1928 U.S. Book of Common Prayer (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer, Rite One (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Holy Eucharist Rite One (justus.anglican.org)
• Episcopal Church (USA) Book of Common Prayer, Rite Two (1979) · full text · Source: Charles Wohlers, the 1979 U.S. Book of Common Prayer, Holy Eucharist Rite Two (justus.anglican.org)
• Church of England, Alternative Service Book: Rite A and Rite B (1980)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. Rite A (modern language) and Rite B (traditional) followed the Series 2 and 3 pattern: Gloria near the beginning, the Peace, four eucharistic prayers with anamnesis and a petition for the Spirit, the fraction before communion, and the 1662 order available as an option. Church of England, Common Worship Holy Communion (official text).
• Church of England, Common Worship: Holy Communion (2000)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. Order One (in modern and traditional language) offers eight eucharistic prayers (A–H); Order Two follows the 1662 sequence, in 1662 wording or lightly revised. 1662 itself remains authorised. Church of England, Common Worship Holy Communion (official text).
• Anglican Church in North America, Book of Common Prayer (2019)
  Text under copyright and not reproduced. The Anglican Standard Text keeps the 1662/1928 shape and wording with the Decalogue or Summary, Comfortable Words, Prayer of Humble Access and an epiclesis in the 1928/1789 position; a Renewed Ancient Text offers a modern-language prayer. ACNA, The Book of Common Prayer (2019), Holy Communion (official site).