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Common Worship: Daily Prayer is best-selling liturgical book after the Bible

9 March 2006

 

Daily Prayer, part of the Common Worship series, was the top liturgical book in the UK in 2005 and came within the year’s top fifteen biggest selling religious books.

Two versions of the Good News Bible head up the section for Bibles and liturgical books, in figures just released by industry-standard book trade information supplier BookScan. The Bibles were closely followed by the definitive edition of Daily Prayer, published last year by Church House Publishing.

Daily Prayer offers orders of service for Prayer During the Day, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer for each day of the week and each season of the Church’s year, whilst Night Prayer (Compline) has variants for each day and season. The volume, produced in the award-winning Common Worship design format, also offers a wealth of seasonal and other devotional material, including collects and refrains, forms of penitence, canticles and the complete Psalter.

Head of Publishing, Thomas Allain-Chapman, says: “The popularity of the edition has been beyond our expectations and is a tribute to the strength of the worshipping Church today as well as the team behind the publication. Clearly, people are hungry for a quality diet of prayer, praise and Bible reading.”

The latest addition to the Common Worship series was Christian Initiation, launched in January, a volume of services designed to support the entire Christian journey leading to and beyond baptism.