Lectionaries and Collects: Official Products
The Lectionary
A lectionary is a list of Bible readings assigned to each day of
the Christian year. The Common Worship Lectionary
is the Bible reading plan for the Church of England, dictating
which readings are read during services.
The Common Worship Lectionary consists of two main parts - the
Sunday readings, which operate on a three-year cycle, and the
Weekday readings, which operate on a two-year cycle. There are also
special readings for feasts and festivals, many of which fall on
different days each year (such as Easter). These 'moveable feasts'
alter the usual pattern of readings, meaning that no year has the
exact same lectionary readings as any other.
For this reason, each year the recommended Bible readings
(references only) are published in a booklet to enable churches to
find the correct daily readings with ease. The dates of feasts and
festivals are also worked out and clearly presented.
The lectionary follows the church year, beginning on the first
Sunday of Advent. This falls in late November or early December.
Each annual lectionary is published in the April before it
begins.
Lectionary Advent 2012 to the eve of Advent 2012
Standard format
ISBN - 9780 7151 2201 3
Format - 202mm high x 125mm wide
RRP - £4.99
Large format
ISBN - 9780 7151 2202 0
Format - 250mm high x 155mm wide
RRP - £6.99
Collects
A Collect is a 'collecting prayer', one that gathers together the
prayers of the congregation. It may be said at various points
during a service. In the Church of England a Collect may also be
used as the 'prayer of the week', prayed daily to link one's
personal prayers to the Sunday liturgy.
Although a selection of Collects were included in the main
volume in 2000, further Collects in contemporary language were
requested and subsequently published as the Additional
Collects in 2004. Each Collect incorporates metaphors and
ideas from Scripture and reflects on the experience of being a
Christian. Seasonal Collects reflect something of their season's
theme and flavour.
Collects and Post Communions
This hardback volume contains all the contemporary language
Collects and the prayers to be said after Communion, for every
Sunday and every major lesser festival in the year.
It provides both the original collects from the main volume and
the Additional Collects on the same page for convenience and ease
of use.
ISBN - 9780 7151 2088 0
Format - 256mm high x 158mm wide
RRP - £25.00
Additional
Collects booklet
A collection of 58 contemporary collects written to provide
modern prayers for worship in the Church of England. They offer an
alternative to, and complement, the original Collects and Post
Communions found in the main volume.
The prayers are presented in a large format paperback and
provide material for Sundays, Principal Feasts that fall on
Sundays and Principal Holy Days.
ISBN - 9780 7151 2087 3
Format - 250mm high x 155mm wide
RRP - £3.95
Collects and Post Communions in
Traditional Language
Contains the traditional language collects for Lesser Festivals,
Common of the Saints and Special Occasions. It includes
collects previously found only in the President's Edition of
the main volume and will be especially useful for churches who hold
services daily.
ISBN - 9780 7151 2089 7
Format - 250mm high x 155mm wide
RRP - £5.95
Common
Worship Lectionary App for
iPad
The new Lectionary app provides the
Common Worship lectionary readings in full
with live links to Bible passages in the New Revised Standard
Version.
• Read the full text of all Bible
readings set for every day in the Church's calendar
• Access the Collect and Post-Communion Prayers for the week
at the touch
• Mark and annotate records - ideal for sermon-writing and
service planning
• Browse the Lectionary by Date, Season, Event - or all
three
• Find full details of when seasons, Principal Feasts and
Festivals (Saints' days) occur and which liturgical colours are
appropriate for the day.