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PDF files of Common Worship

For the conditions under which local editions of Common Worship services may be produced without application to the Archbishops' Council for copyright permission, see A Brief Guide to Liturgical Copyright, which can be downloaded from this web site. Please note that the Common Worship cross motif is the distinguishing mark of official editions of Common Worship texts. Its use on local editions is not permitted.

Which format should I use?

This web site now carries the Common Worship texts in three different formats - rtf, pdf or html. Confused? Need advice on which format you need? Follow this link to find out more.

Tips for copying and pasting

PDF files are not always as easy to copy and paste from as you might hope. The nature of their presentation, sometimes with two facing pages on each 'page' of the PDF file, means that if you highlight text by just clicking and dragging from top to bottom, you will get words from both pages of the spread, and not just the page that you want. In addition, when you paste it into another application, the order of the two pages may swap around! This is a limitation of older versions of the PDF format when used for purposes other than simply displaying and printing the texts.

In order to get around the problems, follow these instructions. If using a PC, hold down CTRL and ALT while using the text select tool. This will allow you to draw a box around the text and get exactly the material you need. If you are using a Mac, hold down Option and Command to achieve the same effect. However, you may still not be able to copy from more than one double page spread at a time.

Using PDF files

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To get the best quality when using these PDF files, save them to your hard disk. In order to save the files to your hard drive (on a PC), right-click on the download link and choose 'save target as' (if using Internet Explorer) or 'save link as' (if using Netscape).

Even the largest of the downloads should take less than five minutes to complete on an average 56kbps modem. Please note that the exception to this rule is the file containing the music from the Presidents Edition. This is a very large file that will take some time to download (30 minutes or more).

Download the Common Worship texts

The Main Volume

Calendar (.pdf file, 68kb)
The frontmatter of the book including the preface and the Calendar.
A Service of the Word, Morning and Evening Prayer, Night Prayer (.pdf file, 206kb)
(This section also includes the Litany and other resources.)
Holy Communion (.pdf file, 243kb)
All four Holy Communion services, together with Supplementary Texts and Seasonal Provisions.
Initiation material (.pdf file, 73kb)
Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child and Holy Baptism.
Collects and Post Communions (.pdf file, 182kb)
For Sundays, Principal Holy Days and Festivals, in both Contemporary and Traditional Language.
Rules and Lectionary (.pdf file, 139kb)
The Rules and the Lectionary tables for Sundays, Holy Days and Festivals.
The Psalter (.pdf file, 294kb)
The Common Worship Psalter.
Canticles (.pdf file, 221kb)
The Canticles and endmatter, including authorization details, acknowledgements and indexes.
Additional Collects (.pdf file, 70kb)
The Additional Collects, approved by the General Synod in 2004, commissioned in response to a request for 'additional collects in a worthy contemporary idiom'.

Daily Prayer

Calendar (.pdf file, 221kb)
The frontmatter of the book including the preface and the Calendar.
Prayer During the Day (.pdf file, 288kb)
Prayer During the Day.
Morning and Evening Prayer (.pdf file, 804kb)
Forms of Penitence, The Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed, and Morning and Evening Prayer for Ordinary Time, Seasonal Time and additional material.
Night Prayer (.pdf file, 196kb)
Night Prayer, Daily, Seasonal and other variations, Notes.
Collects (.pdf file, 576kb)
Prayers, Collects and Refrains.
Canticles (.pdf file, 376kb)
Psalm Canticles, Old Testament and Apocrypha Canticles, New Testament Canticles and Other Canticles.
The Psalter (.pdf file, 816kb)
The Common Worship Psalter including Refrains.
Endmatter (.pdf file, 196kb)
Copyright Information, Acknowledgements and Sources.

Times and Seasons

Introductory material (.pdf file, 59kb)
The frontmatter of the book including the introduction, codes for seasonal material and authorization.
Calendar (.pdf file, 104kb)
The Calendar and Rules to Order the Christian Year.
Advent material (.pdf file, 109kb)
Including service templates and supplementary seasonal material.
Christmas material (.pdf file, 177kb)
Including service templates, supplementary seasonal material and resource material for the beginning of New Year.
Epiphany material (.pdf file, 252kb)
Including service templates and supplementary seasonal material.
Lent material (.pdf file, 157kb)
Lent seasonal material, including The Liturgy of Ash Wednesday and The Way of The Cross.
Passiontide material (.pdf file, 200kb)
Supplementary seasonal material and service templates including The Liturgies of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
The Easter Liturgy material (.pdf file, 313kb)
Liturgies and outline services for Easter.
Easter seasonal material, including Ascension and Pentecost (.pdf file, 239kb)
Liturgies and outline services for Eastertide, Ascension and Pentecost.
Trinity to All Saints material (.pdf file, 146kb)
Material for Trinity Sunday, Corpus Christi, Dedication Festival, and Bible Sunday.
All Saints to Advent material (.pdf file, 214kb)
Seasonal material, plus material for Remembrance Sunday, Christ the King, All Saints, All Souls, and Commemoration of the Faithful Departed.
The Agricultural Year (.pdf file, 172kb)
Seasons and Festivals of the Agricultural Year, including Creation, Plough Sunday, Rogationtide, Lammastide, Harvest Thanksgiving, and Prayer in Times of Agricultural Crisis.
Embertide (.pdf file, 87kb)
Seasonal material for use in Embertide, and when vocation and ministry are in view.
Endmatter from the book (.pdf file, 255kb)
Copyright information, acknowledgements, sources, and indices.

Festivals

Introduction, Calendar, and Rules (.pdf file, 137kb)
The frontmatter of the book, including the Introduction, Calendar, and Rules for ordering the Christian Year and the Lectionary Rules.
Festivals (.pdf file, 301kb)
Resources for the commemoration of Festivals.
Lesser Festivals (.pdf file, 348kb)
Resources for the celebration of Lesser Festivals.
Common of The Saints (.pdf file, 286kb)
Worship resources for celebrating those festivals which have not been assigned their own proper texts.
Music (.pdf file, 2.4Mb)
Music for the Eucharistic Prayers.
Endmatter (.pdf file, 254kb)
Endmatter from the book, including copyright information, acknowledgements, indices, and codes.

Christian Initiation

Introductory material (.pdf file, 56kb)
The frontmatter of the book including the introduction and an outline of the contents.
Rites on the Way (.pdf file, 100kb)
Rites on the way include Thanksgiving for the Gift of a Child, and Rites Supporting Disciples on The Way of Christ.
Baptism and Confirmation (.pdf file, 214kb)
Material for baptism and confirmation.
Rites of Affirmation (.pdf file, 90kb)
Rites for appropriating baptism, including Admission of the Baptized to Communion, Reception into the Communion of the Church of England, and Corporate Renewal of Baptismal Vows.
Reconciliation and Restoration (.pdf file, 153kb)
Material including The Reconciliation of a Penitent, and A Celebration of Wholeness and Healing.
Rules and Authorization Details (.pdf file, 36kb)
Commentary (.pdf file, 123kb)
End matter (.pdf file, 78kb)
The endmatter of the book including the indices.

Pastoral Services

Wholeness and Healing and Marriage (.pdf file, 272kb)
The frontmatter of the book, all of the Wholeness and Healing material and the Marriage service material.
Funeral (.pdf file, 421kb)
All of the funeral material and endmatter, including authorization details, acknowledgements and index.

The President's Edition

Calendar and Holy Baptism (.pdf file, 108kb)
The frontmatter of the book, the Calendar and the Baptism material.
Collects and Post Communions (.pdf file, 358kb)
The Collects and Post Communions in both contemporary and traditional language.
Holy Communion (.pdf file, 145kb)
All four Holy Communion services.
Supplementary Texts (.pdf file, 148kb)
Supplementary Texts and Seasonal Provisions
Provisions for Pastoral Services (.pdf file, 26kb)
Communion resources for use with marriage, funeral and wholeness and healing services.
Music
Follow the link for more information and separate downloads of the music.
Endmatter (.pdf file, 36kb)
Notes to Holy Communion and endmatter, including authorization details, acknowledgements and index.

Download the New Patterns for Worship texts

Planning Worship (.pdf file, 167kb)
The frontmatter of the book and all of the Planning Worship commentary material.
Resource material (.pdf file, 520kb)
The resource sections of liturgical material - A to J.
Sample services (.pdf file, 352kb)
The sample services and the endmatter of the book, including authorization details, acknowledgements and indexes.

Download other authorized liturgical texts

The Admission and Licensing of Readers (.pdf file, 195kb)
Public Worship with Communion by Extension (.pdf file, 146kb)
This is the authorized provision for Communion by Extension. Following permission from the Bishop, worshippers may receive communion 'by extension' from a church where Holy Communion has been celebrated earlier.