Common Prayer (2nd Edition): A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

Experience a deeper prayer life through this fresh take on ancient liturgy.

Designed to help individuals, families, and congregations come together across denominations and traditions, this newly updated book of common prayer will help you and your community join together each day with the same songs, scriptures, and prayers. Originally composed under an advisory team of liturgy experts, Common Prayer has helped hundreds of thousands of Christians around the world pray together since its 2010 release.

This universal prayer book allows readers to greet each day together, remembering significant dates and Christian heroes in church history, as well as important historic dates in the struggle for freedom and justice. There are morning prayers for each day of the year, evening prayers for each of the seven days of the week, a midday prayer to be repeated throughout the year, and prayers for special occasions. In addition, there are morning prayers for Holy Week.

Common Prayer includes a unique songbook of music and lyrics to more than fifty songs from various traditions, including African spirituals, traditional hymns, Mennonite gathering songs, and Taize chants. Tools for prayer are scattered throughout to aid those who are unfamiliar with liturgy and to deepen the prayer life of those who are familiar.

Ultimately, this updated edition of Common Prayer takes the best of the old and brings new life to it for the renewal of the church today.Read less