Editing Common Worship (section)

==Series==
The main ''Common Worship'' book is called '''''Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England'''''. It was published in 2000 alongside '''''Common Worship: President's Edition'''''. These volumes contain the material for Sunday services, but unlike the ASB, contain no readings.

The third book to be published (also in 2000), '''''Common Worship: Pastoral Services''''', provides for the first time a range of healing services, as well as revised provision for weddings and funerals. The former has a completely rewritten preface that no longer describes the threefold purposes of marriage and is much more secular in tone. It includes, for the first time, a congregational response to the declarations by the couple and a long nuptial blessing. The funeral provisions includes material for before and after the service, all completely rewritten. The funeral now includes an optional penitential section, no longer has a required psalm and includes set intercessions. It also allows for a eulogy by one of the mourners, a new departure, at the beginning of the service.

[[File:Temporary authorised liturgy.jpg|thumb|left|The Church of England's Common Worship series]]

In 2005 the fourth book, '''''Common Worship: Daily Prayer''''', was published. The form and style of daily morning and evening prayer no longer shows the influence of the ''BCP,'' but the work of the English Franciscan community and its book ''[[Celebrating Common Prayer]]''. The offices are not dissimilar to those of the Roman Catholic Church. Penitence becomes optional, as does the Creed; the ''[[Te Deum]]'' disappears almost completely, and a Gospel canticle—the ''[[Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)|Benedictus]]'' in the morning and the ''[[Magnificat]]'' in the evening—follows the reading(s); there is a wide range of intercessions; collects are provided for lesser festivals (unlike in the main book); and there is a [[psalter]]. Both the book and the new daily lectionary were tried out in parishes before final publication.

In 2006, three more volumes, '''''Common Worship: Christian Initiation''''', '''''Common Worship: Ordination Services''''' and '''''Common Worship: Times and Seasons''''', were published. In the first, there is provision for Baptism, Confirmation, and related rites (including Reconciliation). In the second, there are rites for the ordination of deacons, priests and bishops. In the third, there is provision for all the seasons of the church's year, including sections on the Agricultural Year and [[Ember days|Embertide]].<ref>Church of England, [https://www.churchofengland.org/media/41162/tsembertide.pdf Embertide]</ref>

The final book, '''''Common Worship: Festivals''''', was published in 2008 and provides [[Proper (liturgy)|propers]] for all the [[Festival (Church of England)|Festivals]] and [[Lesser Festival]]s of the Church of England's [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|calendar]].