Book of Prayers in Common Standard Version
The current “standard version” of the free book collecting a year’s worth of prayers that are shared across the majority of Christians.
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Catholics Changed the 10 Commandments?
Biblical texts are often complex, difficult to systematise. We can disagree with each other – even vigorously, including with other Christians. But don’t spread falsities.
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Lent 4 2025
Forgive, O God, the offences of your people,
that through your goodness we may be freed from the bonds of the sins
which in our frailty
we have committed;
through Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
How Do Ordinary Weeks Work?
Year by year, we seem to skip about three Ordinary Sundays between before Lent and after Easter. In our system there are 34 Ordinary Weeks; could we have managed with fewer?
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Lent 3 2025
God,
the source of all our strength;
watch over us within and without,
that in body we may be protected from all adversity,
and in mind cleansed from all destructive thoughts;
through our Saviour Jesus Christ,
who is alive with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God now and for ever.
Amen.
Confessing Murder?
A popular online priest says if a murderer confesses and an innocent person is imprisoned or to be executed for the murder, he would still absolve and not report the actual murderer. I suggest a different approach. What do you think?
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Lent 2 2025
Transfiguring God,
before the passion of your beloved Son
you revealed his glory on the holy mountain;
grant that we who by faith behold the light of his face
may be strengthened to bear the cross,
and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory;
through the same Jesus Christ
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
A Common Easter
I am hoping, as part of marking the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the vast majority of Christians will (again) from now on celebrate a common date of Easter.