Loving God - Creating Hope - Changing Lives
The Season after Pentecost, also called Ordinary Time, begins the day after Pentecost and ends the day before the First Sunday of Advent. It may include twenty–three to twenty–eight Sundays, depending on the date of Easter, but the first Sunday is always Trinity Sunday, and the last Sunday is always the Sunday of the Reign of Christ or Christ the King. The season also includes All Saints and Thanksgiving.
First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given to us Your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see You in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Almighty and everlasting God, You have given to us Your servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Your divine Majesty to worship the Unity: Keep us steadfast in this faith and worship, and bring us at last to see You in your one and eternal glory, O Father; who with the Son and the Holy Spirit live and reign, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Reformation Day (October 31)
O God of mercy, we lament that even good actions of reform and renewal had often unintended negative consequences. Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy)
We bring before You the burdens of the guilt of the past when our forbears did not follow Your will that all be one in the truth of the Gospel. Christe eleison (Christ have mercy)
We confess our own ways of thinking and acting that perpetuate the divisions of the past. As communities and as individuals, we build many walls around us: mental, spiritual, physical, political walls that result in discrimination and violence. Forgive us, Lord. Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy)
Christ is the way, the truth and the life. He is our peace, Who breaks down the walls that divide, Who gives us, through the Holy Spirit, ever-new beginnings. In Christ, we receive forgiveness and reconciliation and we are strengthened for a faithful and common witness in our time. Amen.
~ from Common Prayer: From Conflict to Communion. Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. Written by the Liturgical Task Force of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity.
O God of mercy, we lament that even good actions of reform and renewal had often unintended negative consequences. Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy)
We bring before You the burdens of the guilt of the past when our forbears did not follow Your will that all be one in the truth of the Gospel. Christe eleison (Christ have mercy)
We confess our own ways of thinking and acting that perpetuate the divisions of the past. As communities and as individuals, we build many walls around us: mental, spiritual, physical, political walls that result in discrimination and violence. Forgive us, Lord. Kyrie eleison (Lord have mercy)
Christ is the way, the truth and the life. He is our peace, Who breaks down the walls that divide, Who gives us, through the Holy Spirit, ever-new beginnings. In Christ, we receive forgiveness and reconciliation and we are strengthened for a faithful and common witness in our time. Amen.
~ from Common Prayer: From Conflict to Communion. Lutheran-Catholic Common Commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. Written by the Liturgical Task Force of the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Commission on Unity.
All Hallows Eve (October 31)
Christ our Lord, You suffered and were tempted. You are powerful to come to the aid
of those who are assailed by the devil, For you are the support of Christian people.
O Lord, protect with Your Right Hand those who trust in Your Name. Deliver them from the Evil One, and grant them everlasting joy. Amen
St. Gregory of Khandzta (759-861)
(November 1)
Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of Your Son, Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow Your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that Thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love Thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen
Book of Common Prayer, 1979
Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship in the mystical body of Your Son, Christ our Lord: Give us grace so to follow Your blessed saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we may come to those ineffable joys that Thou hast prepared for those who unfeignedly love Thee; through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who with Thee and the Holy Spirit liveth and reigneth, one God, in glory everlasting. Amen
Book of Common Prayer, 1979
Christ the King Sunday (Sunday before the start of Advent)
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in Your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under His most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer, 1979
Almighty and everlasting God, whose will it is to restore all things in Your well-beloved Son, the King of kings and Lord of lords: Mercifully grant that the peoples of the earth, divided and enslaved by sin, may be freed and brought together under His most gracious rule; who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer, 1979