This page collects articles from the blog about the service of Holy Communion.

Entrance Rite:

• The Trinitytide Acclamation
• The Advent Acclamation
• The Acclamation can be anything appropriate (Weird Rubric series)
• The Collect for Purity
• The Penitential Rite (Decalogue or Summary of the Law)
• The Gloria in Excelsis
• The Gloria may be omitted (Weird Rubric series)

Liturgy of the Word:

• The Number of Collects and Lessons
• The Nicene Creed (translation)
• The Athanasian Creed
• The Order of the Sermon & Creed
• When to the skip the Nicene Creed? (Weird Rubrics series)

The Prayers & Offertory:

• The Prayers of the People
• Create your own Prayers of the people (Weird Rubric series)
• The Exhortation
• The Confession
• The Comfortable Words
• The Offertory Sentences

Liturgy of the Table:

• Sursum Corda
• The Proper Preface
• The Prayer of Consecration (in two rites)
• Anglicanism’s only manual ritual in the Communion service (or, why “Virtual Communion” is impossible)
• The Epiclesis
• The Fraction (breaking of the bread)
• The Prayer of Humble Access
• The Agnus Dei or other Anthem
• The Invitation
• Post-Communion Prayers

Closing Rite:

• The Blessing
• Dimissals

Additional Directions and Notes:

• Transform Antecommunion into a generic prayer service (Weird Rubric series)