A Penitential Service for Use on the First Day of Lent and Other Occasions
This Penitential Service is a contemporary language version of the Penitential Service printed in the 1956 Free Church of England Prayer Book. It replaces a Commination in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. It was one of the revisions of the Prayer Book that had been long felt by Evangelical churchmen at the time of the adoption of the 1956 FCE Prayer Book. A PENITENTIAL SERVICE TO BE USED ON THE FIRST DAY OF LENT, AND AT OTHER TIMES AS THE BISHOP SHALL APPOINT After Morning or Evening Prayer, the minister says Brothers and sisters, let us draw near to our Lord God, with all contrition and meekness of heart mourning and lamenting our sinful life, acknowledging and confessing our offences, and seeking to bear fruit worthy of repentance. Although we have sinned, yet we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins. He was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities. Let us therefore return to him, who...
