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Preface to the Enlarged Edition

This edition contains twenty-six additional sets of intercessions for the saints’ days and other festivals which have special collects and readings in the Revised Common Lectionary. It is hoped that they will be helpful in encouraging the full observance of these occasions, and particularly for the celebration of a patronal festival. Prayers are also included for the occasional services of baptism, confirmation, matrimony and funerals, and for the institution of a new incumbent or minister. These services are now often placed in a eucharistic context, where intercessions may link them with the work and worship of the wider Church.

The prayers are equally suitable for a period of intercession in non-eucharistic services such as family services and ecumenical worship.

As with the previous revision, I am grateful to many who have used the prayers and made helpful suggestions, and again to Christine Smith of the Canterbury Press for suggesting this augmented edition.