UPDATE: You can download the March 2025 (much expanded)version of the Book of Prayers in Common by clicking the link: Book of Prayers in Common. ***** I am absolutely delighted to launch the first edition of my Book of Prayers in Common. If you are a regular at this Liturgy website you will have seen this
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Here is another reworking of a collect shared by Roman Catholics and Episcopalians/Anglicans. I am very happy to receive comments and also suggestions for improvement. The process of producing such a reworking is always a wonderful mulling over and over and over. The mulling over is a form of lectio (prayer), just as the collect
Let us pray (in silence) [that we may manifest God’s love for all] pause God, by the leading of a star, on this day you revealed your only begotten one to the gentiles, lead us, who have already come to know you by faith, all the way to the contemplation of the beauty of your
Let us pray (in silence) [with joy and hope as we await the dawning of God’s brightness] pause God, you have made this most holy night radiant with the splendour of the true light, may we who even now obscurely share the mystery of your light come to enjoy your light in fullness, who is
Let us pray (in silence) [that through celebrating the Incarnation we will deepen our relationship with Christ] pause God, year by year you make us glad with the hope of our redemption, grant that we who joyfully receive your only begotten Son as our Redeemer may with sure confidence behold him when he comes as
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Let us pray (in silence) [that we long for the advent of Christ] pause Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and to put on the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
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On Pinterest, the Society of Saint John the Evangelist has just created an Advent Calendar. Brilliant! And simple! What online resources have you or your community got for Advent? Any other resources that you know about that you can also share with us in the comments area below… Amongst many other Advent resources, this site
Let us pray (in silence) [that the reign of Christ may live in our hearts and come to our world] pause Almighty ever-living God, it is your will to gather up all things in your beloved one, reigning in the universe in the power that is love, mercifully grant that the whole of creation, freed
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