Check this out. It’s High Church ceremonial for the Offices from the 1850’s and it’s quite interesting to compare to current practice. (Things don’t seem to have changed much from what I’ve read so far…)

As most of you know, I spend about half my waking hours on a train and am quite reliant on my mobile technology. So, when M asked me to outfit her Palm for her I did… Here’s the core tech suite that any Anglican running the Palm OS needs:

• Gonna need a Bible. This one’s my favorite. It’s intuitive (once you figure out the screen-tapping-scroll thing), free, and has a huge number of texts. The essentials are, of course,
• In English
• The King James 1611 with Apocrypha [A lot of us folk–especially in the South–cut on the KJV becuse of other types who use it. BUT, don’t forget that it’s *ours*! I mean, Lancelot Andrewes was head of the the Genesis – 2 Kings committee…]
• The Douay-Rheims with Apocrypha [This is the English translation of the Vulgate. If you’re working with medieval stuff, look to this.]
• The Revised Standard Version [Permission slip required for use]
• In other languages
• The Greek Bible [LXX and UBS version of the NT]
• The Hebrew OT
• The Vulgate
• Optional: Textus Receptus [I think it’s important to see what the church transmitted and it’s often very useful to compare this with the eclectic text to get a quick view of where exegetical complications may be that editors have attempted to smooth out over the years…

• Grab a reader because you’ll need…
• a BCP…
• then go and get the Daily Office for the month.

• Lastly, get the Church Pension Group’s liturgical calendar and news reader. If you synch with an active internet connection, it’ll pull the lastest stories from the ENS onto your Palm for you.