Common Good

Common Good

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Explore weekly themes across the liturgical year and open any week directly.

Advent

Weeks 1 - 4
Nov 30 - Dec 6

Praying for those displaced by conflict, persecution, and disaster; for just asylum systems, safe welcome, and the church’s vocation as a place of refuge.

Dec 14 - Dec 20

Anticipating the renewal of creation while praying for moral seriousness about climate change, carbon reduction, stewardship, and justice for vulnerable peoples and future generations.

Dec 21 - Dec 27

Praying for emergency shelter, homelessness services, dignified temporary accommodation, and compassionate response to those without a secure home.

Christmas and Epiphany

Weeks 5 - 6

Celebrating Christ revealed to the nations and exploring how worship forms gratitude, hospitality, witness, and public vocation.

Ordinary Time (First Section)

Weeks 7 - 14
Jan 11 - Jan 17

Praying for children, teachers, early intervention, inspection, play, and strong foundations for learning and life.

Feb 8 - Feb 14

Remembering the sick, the NHS, public health, healthcare staff, funding, stewardship, and the vocation of care.

Lent

Weeks 15 - 20
Feb 15 - Feb 21

Praying for compassionate mental health systems, social care, carers, CAMHS, adult support, and lives held with dignity.

Praying for social security, anti-poverty policy, child poverty reduction, council services, and practical support for vulnerable households.

Praying for children in care, foster families, adoptive families, social workers, and the church’s responsibility toward children needing safety and permanence.

Reflecting on border policy, detention, lawful control, welcome, integration, and the dignity of migrants under the power of the state.

Mar 29 - Apr 4

Praying for food security, ethical farming, resilient supply chains, land stewardship, agricultural labour, and hunger relief.

Easter

Weeks 21 - 26

Encouraging local leadership, councils, SMEs, civic participation, neighbourhood stewardship, and economic life rooted in place.

Praying for scientific work, discovery, bioethics, research governance, and innovation ordered toward neighbour-love and the common good.

Pentecost

Weeks 27 - 33

Praying for integrity in journalism, truthful speech, media literacy, resistance to misinformation, and wise Christian witness in public discourse.

Celebrating generosity while praying for wise service, safeguarding, volunteer support, and partnership between civil society and public institutions.

Ordinary Time (Second Section)

Weeks 34 - 42

Praying for equal dignity, safety, belonging, and just responses to the many ways people are ranked, excluded, or diminished by sex, race, class, disability, or social status.

Christ the King

Weeks 43 - 47
Sep 20 - Sep 26

Praying for creativity, cultural life, beauty, preservation, imagination, and the public value of culture.

Praying for the Church’s public witness, for Christians serving in institutions, and for civil servants and public administrators who devote themselves to governing and serving the common good.

Kingdom Dedication and Reflection

Weeks 48 - 52
Nov 15 - Nov 21

Returning to Advent hope, repentance, longing, renewal, and readiness for Christ’s reign in every sphere of life.

A final week of prayer that God’s kingdom would shape all of life and governance: justice, peace, service, truth, unity, and hope.