Many of the Collects and some Post Communions in Common Worship are based on Collects in The Book of Common Prayer. This table indicates the Book of Common Prayer originals of the Common Worship Collects and Post Communions.
The Book of Common Prayer original listed in italics after C or PC may be used in place of the corresponding Common Worship Collect or Post Communion indicated.
C = Collect
PC = Post Communion
First Sunday of Advent: C Advent 1
Second Sunday of Advent: C Advent 4
Third Sunday of Advent: C Advent 3
Christmas Day: C Christmas Day
Epiphany: C Epiphany
Presentation of Christ in the Temple: C Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Fourth Sunday before Lent: C Epiphany 4; PC Holy Communion
Third Sunday before Lent: C Easter 4
Ash Wednesday: C Ash Wednesday; PC Easter 2
Second Sunday of Lent: C Easter 3; PC Lent 2
Third Sunday of Lent: PC Trinity 18
Fourth Sunday of Lent: C Trinity 24
Palm Sunday: C Sunday next before Easter
Good Friday: C Good Friday (1)
Easter Eve: C Easter Even
Second Sunday of Easter: C Easter 1
Fifth Sunday of Easter: C Easter Day
Ascension Day: C Ascension Day
Seventh Sunday of Easter: C Sunday after Ascension Day
Day of Pentecost: C Whit-Sunday
Weekdays after the Day of Pentecost: C Easter 5
Trinity Sunday: C Trinity Sunday
First Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 1
Second Sunday after Trinity: C Quinquagesima
Fourth Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 4
Fifth Sunday after Trinity: C Good Friday (2); PC Trinity 5
Sixth Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 6
Seventh Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 7
Eighth Sunday after Trinity: C Holy Communion
Tenth Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 10
Eleventh Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 11
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 12
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity: PC Trinity 15
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity: C Epiphany 1
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity: PC Trinity 17
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 19
Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity: C Trinity 21
Last Sunday after Trinity: C Advent 2
All Saints' Day: C All Saints' Day
Second Sunday before Advent: C Epiphany 6
Christ the King: PC Trinity 25
Conversion of Paul: C Conversion of St Paul
Annunciation of Our Lord: C Annunciation
Philip and James: C St Philip and St James
Matthias: C St Matthias
Birth of John the Baptist: C St John Baptist
James: C St James
Bartholomew: C St Bartholomew
Matthew: C St Matthew
Michael and All Angels: C St Michael and All Angels
Luke: C St Luke
Simon and Jude: C St Simon and St Jude
Andrew: C St Andrew
John: C St John the Evangelist
Common Worship: Services and Prayers for the Church of England, material from which is included here,
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