Letter to the editor: A blessing in disguise

Notes: "The writer of 'Leave the BCP alone' (Letters, Nov. 2016, p. 5) must have been put out to pasture a long time ago, just as I have been. I looked up the former third collect for Good Friday (which asks God to 'have mercy upon the Jews, thine ancient people'). I am grateful that you published what the Rev. Paul Jennings calls the 'theological equivalent of hate speech' (Letters, Jan. 2017, p. 4)". "Alan Perry sets the record straight when he says that the above-mentioned collect was declared 'inappropriate for use in public liturgy in the mid-1960s by the House of Bishops and formally deauthorized by the General Synod and omitted from further printings of the BCP in 1989' ('Repudiate toxic ideas', Letters, Jan. 2017, p. 4)". "Thank you for publishing those letters. It has been a teaching and a blessing in disguise".)

Subjects: Third Collect for Good Friday; Anglican Church of Canada. Book of Common Prayer 1959; Antisemitism - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada