Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England

The last official revision of the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer was in 1662. It's interesting how they are updating and augmenting their liturgical choices.

I love this version, the contemporary language draws to me. I'm glad that I was able to order it and get it here. :)

Excellent content with more features than I expected.

Came fairly promptly given I'm in the United States and it came from the UK. Minimal shelf wear and no markings. It will be a great help in using the Lectionary. Glad to have the Psalter as well. My NRSVue with Apocrypha doesn't include the Hebrew letter subheadings in Psalm119 and this does. Good purchase overall.

For those of us brought up on a strict diet of 1662 British Common Prayer book services, this new edition helps us through the maze of modern services while still referring back to what is familiar to us. While much of the Common Worship lacks the pure majesty of the Cranmer language and Biblical scholarship it has much to recommend it. It is accessible to younger folk and has the potential to be very meaningful as an experience of worship to God.Of course no book of prayers and rites would have any life without te total conviction of the Christian way of life as taught throughout the Bible. But this volume is a welcome addition although I note due to the complexity of each rite with all its variants most churches print out service sheets based upon this text but simplifying it so you are not for ever going backwards and forwards in the bigger book. As an aid to private devotion and following the offices of the churche's life it is a great help and a welcome book.

The Common Worship book is well done and what one would expect from a book with 500 years of faith, tradition and development. The first thing that is apparent is the form factor of the book which is more narrow than the US (Episcopal) or the Australian prayer books. The type face is smaller than the Australian book but the Common Worship is a thinner, more compact volume.The leafs of the Common Worship book are of an ivory stock that gives the book a quite different look than the stark bright white paper of the American and Australian books. Contrasting the paper color, the rubrics are of a bright red font and there is hardly a page that does not have a some heading or direction in red print. Despite the bright color, the font is a humble sans serif throughout. Blank bright red pages clearly separate the book sections. Matching the fonts, the book has two ribbons, one black, one red which are enough.If there is anything missing, it would be a more robust collection of occasional prayers, thanksgivings and blessings. There are 81 each in the US and Australian prayer books but 23 in the Common Worship as I count them.

This book is a hardback version. Available for only £10 direct from publisher. I brought it as I assumed it was as the picture. Leather bound. Sadly it wasn't - it was just the £10 hardback version sold for nearly three times the cost!

What came was what I expected. Prompt delivery.

This is a great book, it has helped me no end in preparing Collects and Prayer for a service, it is highly recommended if you lead any part of the CofE service, and the book is still in wide use today.