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Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England
This book is available to read until 23rd December, 2025
- 678 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
Provides all the essential seasonal liturgy for the Christian year, including material for using from Advent to Candlemas, and from Lent to Easter, as well as many other festivals and seasons throughout the year.
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The Easter Liturgy
Contents
Introduction
The Easter Liturgy: Pattern A
Structure
Notes
The Easter Liturgy: Pattern A
The Easter Liturgy: Pattern B
Structure
Notes
The Easter Liturgy: Pattern B
The Vigil
Notes
The Vigil Readings
The Vigil Readings, Psalms and Prayers
The Dawn Service
Notes
The Dawn Service: an Outline Shape
A Mid-morning Eucharist on Easter Day using Elements from the Easter Liturgy
Notes
A Mid-morning Eucharist: an Outline Order
An Outline Service of the Word for Easter Day
Note
Instructions for Marking the Easter Candle
The Exsultet
Welcoming the Easter Candle into the Church, with Prayers at the Easter Garden
Thanksgiving for the Resurrection
The Easter Anthems
Introduction
According to ancient custom there is no celebration of the Eucharist on Easter Eve. The orders of Morning and Evening Prayer offer adequate liturgical provision for the day. It is particularly important that Evening Prayer should be treated, by the style of its celebration, as belonging to the Eve, and not as the first service of Easter, anticipating the Easter Liturgy itself.
From earliest times Christians have gathered through the night of Easter to recall the story of God’s saving work, from creation through to the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. However, the Easter Liturgy is not merely a presentation of God’s work. It is meant to be a real experience of new life for the worshipper, a passing from darkness to light which offers hope to all the faithful. It is therefore important that the preparation is prayerful and thorough.
The Easter Vigil marks the end of the emptiness of Holy Saturday, and leads into the celebration of Christ’s resurrection. The singing of the Exsultet, the ancient hymn of triumph and rejoicing, links this night of our Christian redemption to the Passover night of Israel’s redemption out of Egypt. Christian baptism is a participation in the death and resurrection of Christ, a dying to sin in order to be reborn in him, and the Easter Vigil was from early Christian times a preferred occasion for baptism. It is fittingly a time when those who are already Christians may repeat with renewed commitment the promises of their own baptism, and strengthen their sense of incorporation into the royal and priestly ministry of the whole people of God. The Easter Gospel is proclaimed with all the joy and splendour that the church can find.
The Easter Eucharist may follow immediately on the Vigil, or be deferred until Easter Day. All the resources of the church – music, flowers, bells, colours – are used to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. The ‘Alleluia’, which has been silent throughout Lent, returns.
Now the queen of seasons, bright
with the day of splendour,
with t...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A note on using this Common Worship EPUB edition
- Introduction
- Codes for Seasonal Material
- Authorization
- The Calendar
- Rules to Order the Christian Year
- Advent
- Christmas
- Epiphany
- Lent
- Passiontide and Holy Week
- The Easter Liturgy
- Easter
- Trinity to All Saints
- All Saints to Advent
- The Agricultural Year
- Embertide
- Acknowledgements
- Sources and Copyright Holders of Seasonal Material
- Index of Biblical References
- General Index
- Copyright Information