- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Church House Publishing; 2nd Revised edition edition (15 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0715120913
- ISBN-13: 978-0715120910
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 16 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 208,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Common Worship: Pastoral Services" contains the Marriage, Funeral and Wholeness and Healing services for the Church of England plus the Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child. The 2nd edition has been updated to also include the full texts of the funeral psalms, the traditional language marriage service and the traditional language funeral service. The book is finished in a green hardback cover with gold blocking and has four ribbons.
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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
If you're ordained in the C of E, you already own this book. If you're about to get ordained into the C of E, you're about to own this book.
What's in it?
Well, the bits you will use the most are the Marriage service and the Funeral service.
The versions are given in full here including the alternatives: traditional language vs modern language (e.g. key difference in preface to marriage: "sexual union" vs "bodily union" in traditional language, and all that kind of thing)
They also print out likely scripture passages for funerals and weddings, which is useful.
As for the rest of the book, well, what you might not expect are quite a lot on healing services. This is useful, and practical and there's an interesting little theological introduction.
Other oddments; an order for prayer and dedication after a civil marriage and also "thanksgiving for the gift of a child" (whilst baptism is in the "Christian Initiation" book).
I wonder how many people use "order of prayer at the home for before the funeral". But it's good that it's there, I suppose.
This volume, then, is the part of the authorised book of prayer for the Church of England today, now extended over several volumes.
No doubt it was painstakingly argued over and debated at General Synod.
Whatever one thinks about it, it's indispensible to any ordained minister in the Church of England.
What's in it?
Well, the bits you will use the most are the Marriage service and the Funeral service.
The versions are given in full here including the alternatives: traditional language vs modern language (e.g. key difference in preface to marriage: "sexual union" vs "bodily union" in traditional language, and all that kind of thing)
They also print out likely scripture passages for funerals and weddings, which is useful.
As for the rest of the book, well, what you might not expect are quite a lot on healing services. This is useful, and practical and there's an interesting little theological introduction.
Other oddments; an order for prayer and dedication after a civil marriage and also "thanksgiving for the gift of a child" (whilst baptism is in the "Christian Initiation" book).
I wonder how many people use "order of prayer at the home for before the funeral". But it's good that it's there, I suppose.
This volume, then, is the part of the authorised book of prayer for the Church of England today, now extended over several volumes.
No doubt it was painstakingly argued over and debated at General Synod.
Whatever one thinks about it, it's indispensible to any ordained minister in the Church of England.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
If you want this for visiting the sick, then you'll find it has plenty of resources. Except for one thing: sacramental confession, which you won't find here. For that, you'll have to look in another volume: Initiation Services. Add to that the A5 formatting, and you'd need both volumes for visiting the sick and dying. This is impractical. What is needed is a shirt-pocket volume specially for ministry to the sick and dying that contains rites for emergency baptism, sacramental confession, communion of the sick/viaticum and sacramental anointing. The RC "Pocket Ritual" does this: the C of E needs its own.
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