Common prayer
Sir: In your issue of 16 August, Mr J. W. M. Thompson voices for me all the frustration people like me feel at the 'modernisation' of the Book of Common Prayer.
No doubt, Mr Day-Lewis is a fine modern poet but he is a declared agnostic, so why was he chosen to interpret our belief in God? Might I, too, put in a plea that we revert to the old order of the Communion Service? Most of the present formula is as arid as a boardroom agenda. With countless others, I have had my share of sorrow and ill-health, and if the Liturgical Commission starts rewriting St Matthew's beautiful passage (xi 28) 'Come unto me all that travail and are heavy laden and I will refresh you,' I am afraid I shall cease to :ake Communion altogether.
Sonia Cubitt Ifall Place, West Meon, Hampshire
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