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Anglican / Episcopal

Devout for Anglicans and Episcopalians

The via media — the Book of Common Prayer, the Daily Office, a reformed catholicity.

Anglicanism already has a daily form, and it is a very good one. The Book of Common Prayer has ordered English Christian mornings since 1549, and anything that proposes to sit beside it should be modest about what it is for.

The Office is here, whole

Devout carries Morning and Evening Prayer from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer — the opening sentences, the psalms appointed for today on the thirty-day cycle, the Apostles' Creed, the Lord's Prayer, this week's collect, the dismissal. Not a summary of the Office or a modern paraphrase of it: the thing itself, prayable as it stands, free to read whether you have an account or not.

The collects and the historic prayers are in the Library beside it.

And a page beside it

The devotional page is the other half: a passage of Scripture, a reflection, a voice from the Christian past, and a question waiting in a private journal. Where the Office gives you the Church's words, this gives you a little room to answer in your own.

The reflection is written in the via media — reformed and catholic at once, unwilling to collapse into either — and it draws on the tradition's own: Cranmer, Hooker, Andrewes, Donne, Lewis, all held in the Library with their lives and their words.

What it does not do

It will not read the Office aloud to you, and it makes no attempt to be a parish. If your habit is already Morning Prayer said properly, Devout is not trying to displace it — it is trying to be the ten minutes of reading and writing that so often falls away when everything else is going on.

What you are given

Writers of this tradition in the Library

Held in full, with their lives and their words. Read them whenever you like.

Devout also keeps a directory of 3,708 Anglican / Episcopal churches, searchable by town.

Seeing whether it suits you

The whole of Devout is open for seven days — the readings, the Library, the journal, all of it — with no card taken and nothing to cancel if you decide against it.

Begin your 7-day preview

No credit card required. You choose your tradition on the first screen, and can change it later.