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Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England
This book is available to read until 23rd December, 2025
- 425 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England
About this book
Offers liturgical material for the journey of each individual through life. For each key element of this journey (birth, marriage, healing, death), it provides both material for key 'public' events and resources for 'private' pastoral care.
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Funeral
Contents
Ministry at the Time of Death
Ministry at the Time of Death
Notes to Ministry at the Time of Death
Before the Funeral
At Home before the Funeral
For those Unable to be Present at the Funeral
Receiving the Coffin at Church before the Funeral
A Funeral Vigil
On the Morning of the Funeral
The Funeral
Pastoral Introduction
The Outline Order for Funerals
The Funeral Service
The Funeral Service within a Celebration of Holy Communion
Notes to the Funeral Service
Supplementary Texts
Sentences
Some Texts which may be used by the Minister
The Blessing of a Grave
The Outline Order for the Funeral of a Child
The Outline Order for the Funeral of a Child within a Celebration of Holy Communion
Notes
Resources for the Funeral of a Child
Theological Note on the Funeral of a Child Dying near the Time of Birth
After the Funeral
At Home after the Funeral
The Burial of Ashes
An Outline Order for a Memorial Service
An Outline Order for a Memorial Service within a Celebration of Holy Communion
Notes
Memorial Service: A Sample Service
Resources
Prayers for Use with the Dying and at Funeral and Memorial Services
Bible Readings and Psalms for Use at Funeral and Memorial Services
Psalms for Use at Funeral and Memorial Services
Canticles for Use at Funeral and Memorial Services
For General Rules, see here.
Ministry at the Time of Death
Structure
The minister and the dying person are alone for
¶ Preparation
¶ Reconciliation
Others may join the minister and the dying person for
¶ Opening Prayer
¶ The Word of God
¶ Prayers
¶ Laying on of Hands and Anointing
¶ Holy Communion
¶ Commendation
¶ Prayer when someone has just died
For Notes, see here and here.
Ministry at the Time of Death
Note
Where possible the minister prepares the dying person in private, using the Preparation and Reconciliation sections. The person should be helped to be aware that the time of death is approaching. Family and friends should join the minister and the dying person at the Opening Prayer if they can be present, and it is appropriate that they should receive Holy Communion with the dying person. The different sections of the service may happen at different times, and the last communion may be received on another occasion, and more than once, as pastoral necessity dictates.
See further Notes here.
¶ Preparation
One or more of the following short texts may be said with the dying person. They may be softly repeated two or three times.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Romans 8.35
Whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.
Romans 14.8
Christ died and lived again, so that he might be Lord
of both the dead and the living.
Romans 14.9
We know that we have a building from God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
2 Corinthians 5.1
We will be with t...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A note on using this Common Worship EPUB edition
- Authorization
- Introduction
- Wholeness and Healing
- Marriage
- Emergency Baptism
- Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child
- Funeral
- Alternative Services: Series One
- General Rules
- Authorization Details
- Copyright Information
- Acknowledgements and Sources
- Index