Description
Office for worship and doctrine
£24.99 • 720pp • Hardback
This is an attractive, hardback book of public worship. It can be used by all churches.
It has over 700 pages of useful services, prayers and liturgy (listed below). It comes in a beautiful, durable red cover, with four colour ribbons to help you mark the place. Common Order is a valuable addition to your personal book collection, or it can be used as a gift or a presentation.
Common Order is a common book, because it belongs to all the people of God. It includes services where congregational participation is encouraged, and a Daily Office for use by individuals or small groups wherever they may gather for prayer.
It is also a book of order, because it is important for the whole congregation to sense a purpose and direction in their representation before God.
Common Order contains the following:
- Preparation for Worship
- The Order of Public Worship (Morning Services and Evening Services)
- The Sacraments and Ordinances of the Church (including Holy Baptism, Holy Communion, Marriage and Funerals)
- Prayers for the Seasons of the Christian Year
- Prayers for Occasional Use
- Prayers for Specific Graces
- Specific Intercessions
- Additional Prayers for Public Worship
- A Daily Service
- An Order for Daily Devotion
- Ascriptions of Glory
- Benedictions
- Readings for Pastoral Visitation
- Lectionary
- Scripture Sentences and Collects of the Day
- The Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed
Sample prayer from Common Order
for harvest
God of faithfulness,
your generous love supplies us
with the fruits of the earth in their seasons.
Give us grace to be thankful for your gifts,
to use them wisely,
and to share our plenty with others;
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen
See also other Common Order titles: Christian Baptism, Christian Marriage, The Funeral Services and The Lectionary.