I just spent a week at our Diocesan Shrinemont conference. I had a unique experience when the liturgy team asked me to celebrate the Eucharist that evening. Without a second thought I said, "Of course." A little later in the day, I was having some fun with them and asked, "This will be Rite 1 completely chanted correct?" Then I was told that we were actually using another Eucharistic Prayer, one that was composed by a female priest in South Africa. As I looked over the prayer, I found several things I wasn't all that comfortable with. The proper preface had nothing to do with the person and work of Jesus Christ. Nowhere did the prayer ask for the Holy Spirit to come down and sanctify the gifts. It hit me at that moment that I really am becoming a stickler for the book. As Anglicans, we have spent the last 500 years resisting a comprehensive confession of our beliefs. Instead we have operated under the premise that how we pray shapes how we believe. If that is th