Common Worship: Collects and Post Communions (Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England)

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The Prayer over the Water may be followed by a suitable chant or acclamation. The Renewal of the Covenant One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 29 September Michael and All Angels White Collect

Prayers may be offered here for the ministry and mission of the Church, and for the world which the Church is called to serve. For Lesser Festivals, the Commons of Saints and special occasions, see the complete Common Worship Lectionary published separately. Evening One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 24 June The Birth of John the Baptist White Collect for you are alive and reign, now and for ever. Good Friday Principal Holy Day Hangings removed: red for the liturgy Collect Many of the Collects and some Post Communions in Common Worship are based on Collects in The Book of Common Prayer. This table indicates the Book of Common Prayer originals of the Common Worship Collects and Post Communions.

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If it is desired to combine this service with a celebration of Holy Communion, the Lord’s Prayer, the final hymn and the blessing are omitted, and the Liturgy of the Sacrament begins after the Renewal of the Covenant, with the Peace. In this case, ‘The New Creation is Revealed in the Water made Wine’ may be more appropriately used after the Renewal of the Covenant. 4 Movement

The arrangement of the Sundays of Epiphany in the Revised Common Lectionary deliberately draws out these aspects. This Collect may be used as the Post Communion on any day from the Second Sunday of Advent until Christmas Eve instead of the Post Communion provided. The president uses one of the authorized Eucharistic Prayers with a Proper Preface of the incarnation or one of the following The procession, with the water, moves to the font as a hymn is sung or music is played. The congregation may follow. A bidding may precede the Opening Prayer, or appropriate biddings may be introduced before the Gospel Collects. Alternatively, provision is made for intercessory prayer later in the service. A Service for

This service is most appropriately used on the Festival of the Baptism of Christ. It may also be used on the Feast of the Epiphany, or on the evening before the Epiphany, or at any suitable time within the Epiphany season. 2 Procession or Carol Service In years when Remembrance Sunday is observed on the Second Sunday before Advent, the Collect and Post Communion for the Third Sunday before Advent may be used on Remembrance Sunday and the Collect and Post Communion for the Second Sunday before Advent may be used on the Third Sunday before Advent. The Second Sunday before Advent Red or One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 14 May Matthias Red Collect In the Western churches, the Epiphany (‘manifestation’) became an occasion to celebrate one element in the story of Christ’s birth, the visit of the far-travelled magi, understood as the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Matthew’s account speaks simply of ‘wise men from the east’; later tradition fixed their number at three, made them kings and recalled their resonant names – Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In this perspective, Epiphanytide is an apt season to pray for the worldwide mission of the Church. The feast of the Conversion of St Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, appropriately falls in the Epiphany season, as does the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In the Eastern churches, the Epiphany is, rather, the celebration of Christ’s baptism at the hands of John, when the heavens were opened and a voice from heaven declared Jesus to be God’s beloved Son. The miracle of Cana in Galilee, where Jesus ‘first manifested his glory’, follows immediately: To him be glory both now and for ever. 25 December Christmas Day Principal Feast Gold or White Collect

This Collect may be used as the Post Communion on any day from the First Sunday of Lent until the Saturday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent instead of the Post Communion provided. Post Communion Jesus said,] ‘As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may be completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.’ to share in the eternal banquet of Jesus Christ our Lord. The Tenth Sunday after Trinity Green CollectIn years when Remembrance Sunday is observed on the Second Sunday before Advent, the Collect and Post Communion for the Third Sunday before Advent may be used on Remembrance Sunday and the Collect and Post Communion for the Second Sunday before Advent may be used on the Third Sunday before Advent. The Second Sunday before Advent Red or Green Collect The procession, with the chalice or flagon of wine, moves to the holy table as a hymn is sung or music is played. The congregation may follow. The Book of Common Prayer original listed in italics after C or PC may be used in place of the corresponding Common Worship Collect or Post Communion indicated.

One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 26 December Stephen Red CollectThe season of joyful celebration that begins at Christmas now continues through the successive Sundays of Epiphany, and the festal cycle ends only with the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas). The child who has been manifested to the magi at his birth is now recognized by Simeon and Anna, when he comes to be presented in the Temple according to the Law of Israel. He is both ‘a light to lighten the Gentiles’ and ‘the glory of God’s people Israel’. But the redemption he will bring must be won through suffering; the Incarnation is directed to the Passion; and Simeon’s final words move our attention away from the celebration of Christmas and towards the mysteries of Easter. Seasonal Material Invitations to Confession The gifts presented may be any one or all three of the traditional gifts. The Christmas collections may appropriately be offered at this point. The wine presented may appropriately be the wine for use in celebrations of Holy Communion during the year. 7 Canticles One of the Post Communions of Apostles and Evangelists is used ( here). 30 November Andrew Red Collect Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed; and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God, who worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. The Gospel Margaret of Scotland (16 November): also Proverbs 31.10-12,20,26-end; 1 Corinthians 12.13–13.3; Matthew 25.34-end