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Common Prayer Pocket Edition helps individuals and today’s diverse church pray together across traditions and denominations. With an ear to the particulars of various liturgical prayer traditions, and using an advisory team of liturgy experts, the authors have created a tapestry of prayer that celebrates the best of each tradition. This convenient and portable book also includes tools for prayer scattered throughout to aid those unfamiliar with liturgy and deepen the prayer life of those already familiar with liturgical prayer. Common Prayer Pocket Edition adds new prayers for compline (late evening) and for individual use, such as prayers for travel, protection, and various blessings. It includes a table of days and readings for the morning prayers as well as an annotated list of saints and days to remember. Churches and individuals who desire a deeper prayer life–and those familiar with Shane Claiborne and New Monasticism–will enjoy the tools offered in this book as a fresh take on liturgy.

From the Publisher

If you love liturgy, this book is for you.

If you don’t know what liturgy is, this book is also for you.

Whether you are over-churched or under-churched, a proud evangelical, a recovering evangelical, or not an evangelical at all; whether you are high church, low church, or no church, a skeptic or a Pentecostal; whether you have found a community or have burned out on community; this book is for you.

This is a different kind of book. It’s not a book you pick up and read straight through. In fact, this book is not designed to be read alone. It is a book filled with songs, prayers, ideas, and memories that are meant to be spoken aloud and shared together in some form of community. That community may be your biological family or a small group of friends. It could be a gathering of folks in your public housing unit or dorm room, in your village or cul-desac. The early church met in homes and as congregations in local assemblies. Whatever form your community takes, this is a book about “we,” not “me.”

— Shane Claiborne, et al.

Morning Prayer

There are morning prayers for each morning of the year, and eight special morning prayers to be used during Holy Week, the week leading up to Easter. Morning prayers are designed to help us wake up and greet the day.

Midday Prayer

Midday prayer is meant to be a way of carving out space in the busyness of our days to center us on Christ. It is a simple office of prayer put together from various ancient sources and monastic traditions, and can be prayed in about ten minutes.

Evening Prayer

There are seven evening prayers, one for each evening of the week, to be repeated each week throughout the year. We created these evening prayers in the hope that, just as the morning prayers allow us to greet the morning together, the evening prayers will allow us to retire from the day together.

Occasional Prayers and Songbook

There are prayers for house blessings, for healing, for births and for deaths, for sending people out on adventures, and for gathering folks for meals.

We asked folks from many different traditions to give us their list of “greatest hits,” the songs they sing in the shower and have written on their hearts. We’ve collected those classics and compiled them into a songbook with words, melodies, and chords — everything from African- American spirituals and freedom songs to Taize chants and old hymns.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Zondervan; Reprint edition (February 11, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 031033506X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0310335061
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.5 x 0.49 x 7.13 inches