How was the protestant prayer book different to the catholic prayer book?

Answer 1

It was in English and not Latin!

The Book of Common Prayer is the common title of a number of prayer books of the Church of England and of other Anglican churches, used throughout the Anglican Communion. The first book, published in 1549 in the reign of Edward VI, was a product of the English Reformation following his father, Henry VIII's break with Rome. Prayer books, unlike books of prayers, contain the words of structured (or liturgical) services of worship. The work of 1549 was the first prayer book to contain the forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English and to do so within a single volume; it included morning prayer, evening prayer, the Litany, and Holy Communion. The book included the other occasional services in full: the orders for baptism, confirmation, marriage, 'prayers to be said with the sick' and a funeral service. It set out in full the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sunday Communion Service. It also set Old and New Testament readings for daily prayer, along with psalms and canticles

Answer 2

Protestantism and Catholicism differ in four main areas.

1: Whereas most Protestant churches preach that faith in Jesus is the source of salvation, Catholicism preaches that leading a good life is more important than faith.

Sorry, this is totally mistaken, Catholics believe, following the New Testament teachings that both faith and works are important "Faith without works is dead" St. James 2:20b "Do you see that by works a man is justified; and NOT BY FAITH ONLY?" St. James 2:24

2: Catholics and Protestants have slightly different Bibles. Catholics use the Old Testament that Jesus used, the protestants use the Old Testament that the Jews made up 100 years AFTER Christ to eliminate Christian beliefs.

3: Catholics have a central leader, the Pope, who is considered the heir of Peter and the Vicar or representative of Christ. Protestants vary on leadership and the importance of the leader.

4: Catholics "venerate" saints, especially Mary. This practice is of honoring and asking for the prayers of people who have the ear, so to say, of God. Protestants disagree with this practice because they believe that such treatment should be exclusively give to God.

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Catholic AnswerEvery single difference can be boiled down to one: Catholics believe that God gave us a choice: either to believe in Him and follow Him, or to reject Him. If they believe in Him, they are baptized and they [are supposed to] follow all of His commands - they have no other decisions, no free will after that in religion, however, they have to make that choice for God or against Him in every decision they make throughout their lives. Protestants reject God's revelation, they have taken the Sacred Scriptures, removed the books they don't agree with, and said that they have the right not only to choose or reject God, but to tell Him how they are going to worship Him and how they are going to follow Him. This is why there are now (in 2012) over 30,000 different protestant sects, each believing something slightly different. As all of this totally rejects God's revelation, they are telling God how they are going to worship Him, and how they are going to follow Him. As this totally ignores what He has asked of them, well, it makes no sense, but all the other differences stem from these two different viewpoints.

Catholics like their churches decorated.

Protestants like them plain.

AnswerCatholics wanted the Bible in Latin.

protestants wanted them in the local language.

Catholics put the Bible in Latin because it was in Greek and people in the Western Church that could read could no longer read Greek, they all read Latin.

Catholics wanted Church services in Latin.

protestants wanted them in the local language.

Again, in the Western Church (only - there are other Rites of the Church, the language of their services is in their historical native language) Latin was the only language understood by all the people in the empire.

Catholics wanted the Pope to be head of Church. (No, Jesus appointed St. Peter and his successors to be the visible head of the Church, Catholics just accept the way that Our Blessed Lord set it up.)

protestants wanted the king to be head of church.

Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church was founded by Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in the first century to bring God to the people and the people to God. The Protestant "churches" were founded by individuals sixteenth centuries after Christ according to their own personal beliefs.

Catholics believe that God the Son became incarnate in a human body through the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary to save mankind from their sins. He established His Church and appointed Apostles (Bishops) and Peter (Pope) to guide that Church on earth and He guaranteed to be with It until the end of time. Catholics believe that you only have one choice in life: to love and serve the Lord, or to reject Him and be separated from Him forever in Hell. Every other choice you have in life comes down to that, is this following Jesus or rejecting Him.

Protestants reject Christ because they reject His Body: the Church. They believe that they are their own little Pope and that they can decide how to follow Jesus themselves. Thus they fragment into many "denominations" as they decide how they want to follow God, ignoring what He, Himself has said, and interpreting for themselves what is right or wrong. Thus they believe that they have more choices than following God or not, they believe that they have the choice to decide HOW they are going to follow God.

Answer

Catholicism recognizes the Pope as the leader of the church and has many and complex traditions and beliefs. Protestantism is very varied so it is hard to characterize but emphasizes the individual relationship to God without a mandatory intercessor.

Well....Catholics believe that Jesus Christ created a religion and St. Peter gave it the name Catholic (which means universal). Then Martin Luther started the Reformation (15 centuries AFTER Christ left the eart) so the Lutherans were created (followed by I believe the Methodists...ect). Another reason is Confession...Catholics confess to a prirest that is In Persona Christi (in the person of Christ), while Protestants don't. I'll wrap this up with a MAJOR difference, Catholics believe that the bread and wine actually become the real body and blood of Christ (there are many Bible verses to support this...check out the last supper stories). I'll leave it at that...although I could go on forever (11 page research paper) :D .

Answer 3

They believe in a different bible (significant changes in the content and the underling teachings of Jesus). The protestants and the Catholics define salvation (why it is needed and what one does to get it) completely opposite. Protestants and Catholics define the divinity of the Christ differently. The belief in prayer is again another different point. The place of the church is polar opposites in each faith.

In fact there exists such a wide schism between the two that the official church position from the Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Asian Orthodox is that protestantism and Catholicism are distinct and different religions and not denominations within a single religion.

Answer 4

The main difference between the two are protestants do not pray to Mary ,in any way, they do not have any saints at all. And they do not pray for the soul of the departed person.

Roman Catholic AnswerThe basic difference between them boils down to:

In the Catholic religion you only have one decision to make: to love God, or to reject God. If you love God, then everything else is a given, God has revealed through His Son, Jesus Christ, how you are going to love God, you just make the decision, and you have to keep making that one decision every moment of your life for the rest of your life. How you live it out is something that God has given us.

In the protestant religion, men have set themselves up as arbitrators as to HOW they are going to love God. They have made various decisions as to what they think is right, consequently, there is no "protestant" religion, at last count there were tens of thousands of different protestant sects as each of them works out, individually, how they are going to love God. But the basic difference is each individual decides how he or she is going to love God. This started at the very first with Martin Luther when he decided which books of The Bible he thought were God's word, instead of accepting what God had given, so he threw books out of the Old Testament, and ignored some in the New Testament.