When the newly Consecrated Sixth Bishop of Quincy, the Rt. Rev.
Donald J. Parsons, wrote the book, The Holy Eucharist Rite Two A
Devotional Commentary, his audience consisted primarily of two
groups of people: those who were enthusiastic about the “new proposed
Prayer Book” and those who could not even imagine why anyone
would want to change the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Indeed,
much has happened in the ecclesiastical world since this excellent book
was first published, but what led to the republication of this book forty