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Prayer Cycle

Our diocesan cycle of prayer begins in Advent, and with the first founded parish, Christ Church (now Cathedral) in 1819. We pray for the life and mission of each congregation as well as other ministries within the diocese each week.

We also add prayers each week for clergy and congregations in our Companion Diocese of Puerto Rico and the Anglican Communion.

In an effort to keep our list as current as possible, we release the prayer cycle by quarters (January - March; April - June; July - September; October - December).

Click these links to download a printable copy of the prayers.

*Please note: If you see any errors on the prayer list, please contact  the diocesan director of communications.

Our liturgy

Liturgy is the term for the church's sacramental rites and texts used in public worship. In An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church (Church Publishing, 2000), Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum explain that "liturgy expresses the church's identity and mission, including the church's calling to invite others and to serve with concern for the needs of the world." Although many liturgies of The Episcopal Church are included in the Book of Common Prayer, newer liturgies, such as same-sex blessings and rites for departed pets, are developed and reviewed by The Episcopal Church's Standing Commission for Music and Liturgy on an ongoing basis.

Special Liturgies from Bishop Deon Johnson

The Rt. Rev. Deon Johnson offers special liturgies to mark specific occasions, anniversaries, or events.

All are invited to use these liturgies at appropriate times in your worshiping communities. Click on the links below to download the documents.

Advent

Lent, Holy Week, Easter

Pentecost

Renewals

Worship Resources: Special Events

Revised Common Lectionary

A lectionary is a table of readings from Scripture appointed to be read at public worship. The Lectionary (1969, revised 1981) developed by the Roman Catholic Church after Vatican II provided for a three-year cycle of Sunday readings. This Roman lectionary provided the basis for the lectionary in 1979 edition of The Book of Common Prayer, as well as for lectionaries developed by many other denominations.

The Common Lectionary, published in 1983, was an ecumenical project of several American and Canadian denominations, developed out of a concern for the unity of the church and a desire for a common experience of Scripture. It was intended as a harmonization of the many different denominational approaches to the three-year lectionary.

The Revised Common Lectionary, published in 1992 and officially adopted by The Episcopal Church in 2006, takes into account constructive criticism of the Common Lectionary based on the evaluation of its trial use, and like the current prayer-book lectionary, is a three-year cycle of Sunday Eucharistic readings in which Matthew, Mark, and Luke are read in successive years with some material from John read in each year.

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