As I was approaching Lent in 2026, I was contemplating how special so many of the Church’s liturgical prayers are to me. And so I thought it would be a valuable Lenten series to reflect on many of them with greater intention.
Lenten Prayers
- A Kingdom of Dust and Ashes: A Reflection for Ash Wednesday 2026
- A Faith That Works: The Lenten Prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian
- Personal Accountability, Universal Responsibility: The Rite of Forgiveness
General Prayers
- Give Rest, O Lord: Prayers for the Dead
- Resetting the Narrative: The ‘Normal Beginning’
- Everywhere Present and Filling All Things: ‘O Heavenly King’
- In Every Season and Every Hour: The Prayer of the Hours
Evening Prayers
- Setting the Tone: Come Let Us Worship
- The Lord’s Wisdom: Psalm 104
- Walking in Wisdom: Blessed is the One
- Prayer like Incense: Lord I Call
- Leave a Light On: Gladsome Light
- Sweet Release: The Song of Simeon
- Keeping the Night Without Sin: Our Evening Prayer
- Protection and Promise: The Night Prayer
Morning Prayers
Prayers for Holy Communion
- Blessed is the Kingdom!
- Cleanse the Thoughts of Our Hearts: The Collect for Purity
- Singing our Story: The Gloria
- Blessing and Blessed: The Antiphons
- Thought, Word, and Deed: General Confession, Holy Eucharist
- Hearts Lifted High: The Sursum Corda
- How We Tell Our Story: Anaphorae
- Playing Our Part: The Cherubic Hymn
- Angelic Worship: Sanctus and Benedictus
- Communion in Christ’s Body Once Broken: The Breaking of the Bread
- Worthy is the Lamb: Agnus Dei
- Not in Our Own Righteousness: The Prayer of Humble Access
- More Honourable than the Cherubim: Axion Estin
- Of Your Mystical Supper…: Pre-Communion Prayers
- More Perfectly Partaking of Christ: O Christ, Great Most Holy Pascha
- Whose Power Working in Us: The Doxology
Prayers for the Sundays in Lent
- Facing Temptation: A Reflection on Matthew 4.1-11
- Fear Is the Beginning, Not the End: A Reflection on John 3.1-17
- What Satisfies: A Reflection on John 4:5-42
- God’s Sabbath Will: A Reflection on John 9
- A Foretaste of the Resurrection: A Reflection on John 11.1-45
Prayers for the Annunciation, Holy Week, and Easter
- Blessed and Highly Favoured: A Reflection for the Annunciation 2026
- Hosanna! A Reflection on the Benedictus and Palm Sunday
- Be Ready: Behold, the Bridegroom Comes at Midnight
- The Wedding Garment: Your Bridal Chamber
- Turn Not Away from Your Handmaiden: The Hymn of Kassiani
- By Such Lowly Service: Footwashing and Maundy Thursday
- Pierced, Crushed, Wounded: Prayers for Good Friday
- The Most Blessed Sabbath: Prayers for Holy Saturday
- Let God Arise! A Reflection for Easter 2026
Matthew Root 