This book is an indispensable resource for those who prepare worship for formal and informal settings, as well as for private meditation. Preface vii COLLECTS Collects 3(40) Scripture Index 43(3) Common Worship Lectionary Index 46(7) FORMAL PRAYERS Canticles, Confessions, Eucharistic Prayers 53(21) Te Deum 53(1) Gloria 54(1) Hymn to Wisdom 55(1) Benedicite omnia opera 56(2) Statement of faith 58(1) Confession and mutual absolution 59(1) Confession 59(2) Good Friday reproaches 61(2) Eucharistic and thanksgiving prayers Ordinary use 63(2) Christmas Eve 65(1) Maundy Thursday (footwashing liturgy) 66(2) Good Friday 68(2) Easter 70(2) Pentecost 72(2) Litanies 74(12) For the darkness of waiting 74(1) Litany of penitence for the denial of women's authority 75(1) Litany of blessing for women taking authority 76(1) Christ our beloved (Ruth and Naomi) 77(1) God of power and joy (Visitation) 78(1) Holy and incarnate one (Incarnation) 79(1) God, intimate and fearful (Woman with haemorrhage) 80(2) O God our deliverer (Woman bent double) 82(1) God our beloved (Simon the Pharisee and the woman who loved much) 83(1) God of justice (Persistent widow) 84(1) O God our desire (Mary Magdalene) 85(1) Short Prayers 86(11) May the power of God 86(1) Christ in my mind 86(1) Blessed be God 87(1) O thou sudden God 87(1) Sing out my soul 88(1) Tender God 88(1) You took my extravagance 89(1) God of my integrity 89(1) My heart was wilderness 89(1) You are home to the exile 90(1) From fear of staying still 90(1) God of the weary 90(1) O God my dark my silence 91(1) Spirit of comfort and longing 91(1) Prayers at times of ending 92(1) Blessings 93(4) PSALMS AND POEMS Psalms 97(11) I will praise God 97(1) God my God 98(1) God is my strong rock 99(2) As a woman in labour 101(1) O my God, turn to me (Woman with haemorrhage) 102(1) I waited patiently for you (Martha and Lazarus) 103(1) In the midst of the company (Jesus and the woman who anointed his head) 104(1) O God hear my cry (Mary Magdalene) 105(3) Poems 108(11) That night we gathered 108(1) They have taken away my Lord (Mary Magdalene) 108(1) I never meant you to roll back the stone (Women at the tomb) 109(1) In darkness and anxiety (after John of the Cross) 110(1) My ghostly friend (after The Cloud of Unknowing) 111(1) Ruth had the straightforward part (Ruth and Naomi) 112(1) I want so much this freedom 113(1) I want to wrestle with you now 113(1) I too was made by touching 113(1) You are the touch of the sea 114(1) To find myself exposed 114(1) With your warm hands 114(1) Curiously safe 115(1) and you held me 115(1) The bodies of grownups 116(3) THY KINGDOM COME Reflections on the Lord's Prayer 119(6) Harvest Prayers 125(4) Reflections on the Beatitudes 129(2) Eucharist 131(10) Approach 131(3) Confession 134(1) Intercession 135(1) Offertory 136(2) Commitment 138(2) Blessing 140(1) Short Prayers and Reflections 141(8) At home with you 141(1) Child labourers 141(1) Children of conflict 141(1) Christmas prayer 142(1) Do you want to be healed? 142(1) Fair trade 143(1) Honour and respect 143(1) Living with loss or calamity 144(1) Loss and hope 144(1) Nothing is wasted 144(1) The invisible ones 145(1) The power to wait 145(1) To name what is evil 146(1) Truth and reconciliation 146(1) Via dolorosa 147(1) When I come to die 147(1) Women and war 148(1) All saints 148(1) Notes on Copyright 149