Common Worship: Daily Prayer (Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England) [Hardcover]

Church House Publishing (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | Series: Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England

Common Worship: Daily Prayer is the Daily Office of the Church of England. It offers a rich collection of devotional material including collects, psalms, seasonal variants and services of Morning and Evening Prayer.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 924 pages
• Publisher: Church House Publishing (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0715120735
• ISBN-13: 978-0715120736
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #914,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A good resource, October 12, 2009

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Dr. G. S. Mueller "Presbyter" (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Common Worship: Daily Prayer (Hardcover)

An excellent resource for parish clergy, or lay persons looking for a daily prayer "breviary." Beyond daily prayer, this book contains an amazing number of canticles from theusual and some unusual sources, antiphons for most occasions, and collects for more days than most of us will use. It also gives a wide choice of available daily prayer patterns, from the age-old morning, evening and compline pattern, to combinations of these, or only one daily prayer that combines elements from all the usual offices.

One less than satisfactory (but not unusual) limitation is that only "little chapter" readings are included in the book; longer readings require the use of the included lectionary and a Bible, ok for those at home or with their community, but less convenient for travellers as one needs to carry (or find) one more book. But that is a common problem with books of this kind, as to include the lectionary readings either requires printing in a point size that approaces unlegibility, or greatly increased volume and mass. [The only traveller's "breviary" that I have found that is complete in itself is the (Anglican) Franciscan "Celebrating Common Prayer" small travellers' edition, which includes daily scripture readings that are perhaps slighly more than "little chapters", but is otherwise fairly complex to use, given the Franciscan spirituality does not like repetition of much of anything from day to day.]

One very small caveat; the description of the book claims leather cover; the cover is a rubberized plastic, which feels very comfortable to the hand, seems to not stain easily, probably is easily cleaned, and is quite attractive; but not leather!

Recommended to anyone looking for a daily prayer resource for personal use, or a resource for worship planning; I would also recommend it for consideration to communities that pray together, but since I do not belong to such a community, I suggest independent evaluation.