(Mailed in the week of the First Sunday in Advent, 2010)Donald Philip Veitch
125 Kemberly Court
Jacksonville, North Carolina
United States of America 28540
5 December 2010
Second Sunday in Advent
Her Majesty, the Queen
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
Madam:
I write as an Anglican in a distressful, confused, and American Babylonian Exile. I forego elaboration.
I viewed your brief presentation to the General Synod of the Church of England of date 23 November 2010, including the reference to the King James Bible. As such, I was encouraged to write.
Your Majesty, I most respectfully request consideration of the following:
1. A public call by Your Majesty in 2011 to all primates, bishops, dioceses and parishes throughout the worldwide Anglican communion to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, so long a governing force for the Protestant and Reformed faith in the English world.
2. A public call by Your Majesty in 2012 to all primates, bishops, dioceses and parishes throughout the worldwide Anglican communion to commemorate the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the legal book of worship for the Church of England. This would be the 350th anniversary. Notwithstanding modern currents against its use, a word from Your Majesty, suggesting one Lord’s Day--just one Lord's Day--in 2012 for use of "The Morning Prayer, the Litany and the Holy Communion" would be welcomed, recalibrative, and respectful of our common doctrine, worship and piety.
3. Upon the good news of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s marriage-to-be at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, it is hoped that the service for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will be used.
4. Your Majesty, the coronation oath of 1953 and 1701 brings hope and consolation for the future. “Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England?” Your Majesty’s support would resound worldwide—as it ought.
I fully realize that Your Majesty is busy and that a form letter will be issued. Nonetheless, I pray that a staff member will present these matters to Your Majesty for your consideration.
Additionally, although an American, I use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer daily and throughout the year, including the singing and use of Psalter-lections as aided by that stellar CD-set from St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Yes, I also pray for Your Majesty, Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, and Charles Prince of Wales—by day and night, at 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.—along with the President of the United States of America. As such, you may understand that this scribe is an American Anglican in a dry, arid, and forlorn Babylonian Exile. There is no interest in that old, goodly and godly Book in my country. We so desperately need that old doctrine, worship and piety.
I have copied Your Majesty’s two Archbishops and five Professor-Scholar-Pastors with constituencies of concern, if not fear, for the success and maintenance of the revered, lawful, biblical, Protestant and Reformed faith of the Church of England.
I have the honor to remain, Madam,
Your Majesty's most humble and obedient servant by way of prayer and support,
125 Kemberly Court
Jacksonville, North Carolina
United States of America 28540
5 December 2010
Second Sunday in Advent
Her Majesty, the Queen
Buckingham Palace
London SW1A 1AA
Madam:
I write as an Anglican in a distressful, confused, and American Babylonian Exile. I forego elaboration.
I viewed your brief presentation to the General Synod of the Church of England of date 23 November 2010, including the reference to the King James Bible. As such, I was encouraged to write.
Your Majesty, I most respectfully request consideration of the following:
1. A public call by Your Majesty in 2011 to all primates, bishops, dioceses and parishes throughout the worldwide Anglican communion to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, so long a governing force for the Protestant and Reformed faith in the English world.
2. A public call by Your Majesty in 2012 to all primates, bishops, dioceses and parishes throughout the worldwide Anglican communion to commemorate the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, the legal book of worship for the Church of England. This would be the 350th anniversary. Notwithstanding modern currents against its use, a word from Your Majesty, suggesting one Lord’s Day--just one Lord's Day--in 2012 for use of "The Morning Prayer, the Litany and the Holy Communion" would be welcomed, recalibrative, and respectful of our common doctrine, worship and piety.
3. Upon the good news of Prince William’s and Kate Middleton’s marriage-to-be at Westminster Abbey on 29 April 2011, it is hoped that the service for the 1662 Book of Common Prayer will be used.
4. Your Majesty, the coronation oath of 1953 and 1701 brings hope and consolation for the future. “Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England?” Your Majesty’s support would resound worldwide—as it ought.
I fully realize that Your Majesty is busy and that a form letter will be issued. Nonetheless, I pray that a staff member will present these matters to Your Majesty for your consideration.
Additionally, although an American, I use the 1662 Book of Common Prayer daily and throughout the year, including the singing and use of Psalter-lections as aided by that stellar CD-set from St. Paul’s Cathedral, London. Yes, I also pray for Your Majesty, Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, and Charles Prince of Wales—by day and night, at 10 A.M. and 4 P.M.—along with the President of the United States of America. As such, you may understand that this scribe is an American Anglican in a dry, arid, and forlorn Babylonian Exile. There is no interest in that old, goodly and godly Book in my country. We so desperately need that old doctrine, worship and piety.
I have copied Your Majesty’s two Archbishops and five Professor-Scholar-Pastors with constituencies of concern, if not fear, for the success and maintenance of the revered, lawful, biblical, Protestant and Reformed faith of the Church of England.
I have the honor to remain, Madam,
Your Majesty's most humble and obedient servant by way of prayer and support,
(Signed)
Donald Philip Veitch
Cc:
The Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, UK
The Office of the Archbishop of York, UK
The Rev. Dr. R. Scott Clark (Professor, Westminster Theological Seminary, California)
The Rev. Mr. Richard Ingalls, Jr. (Rector, Mariners’ Anglican Church, Detroit, MI)
The Rev. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo (Professor, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA)
The Rev. Dr. R.C. Sproul (Ligonier Ministries, Lake Mary, FL)
The Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull (Principal, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, UK)
Donald Philip Veitch
Cc:
The Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, UK
The Office of the Archbishop of York, UK
The Rev. Dr. R. Scott Clark (Professor, Westminster Theological Seminary, California)
The Rev. Mr. Richard Ingalls, Jr. (Rector, Mariners’ Anglican Church, Detroit, MI)
The Rev. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo (Professor, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA)
The Rev. Dr. R.C. Sproul (Ligonier Ministries, Lake Mary, FL)
The Rev. Dr. Richard Turnbull (Principal, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, UK)
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