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  A Table of Collects                    
    and Post Communions taken from
    The Book of Common Prayer
                
    Many of the Collects and some Post Communions in Common Worship are based on  Collects in The Book of Common Prayer. This table indicates The Book of Common Prayer originals of the Common Worship Collects and Post Communions.
    The Book of Common Prayer original listed in the right hand column may be used in place of the corresponding Common Worship Collect or Post Communion in the first column.
     
    C = Collect
    PC= Post Communion
         
    Common Worship Collect/PostCommunion     BCP original
    First Sunday of Advent                        C   Advent 1
    Second Sunday of Advent                      C    Advent 4
    Third Sunday of Advent                  C        Advent 3
    Christmas Day                      C     Christmas Day
    Epiphany                        C   Epiphany
    Presentation of Christ in the Temple                 C    Presentation of Christ in the Temple
    Fourth Sunday before Lent                    C       Epiphany 4
                            PC  Holy Communion
    Third Sunday before Lent                   C      Easter 4
    Ash Wednesday                         Ash Wednesday
                         PC    Easter 2
    Second Sunday of Lent                        Easter 3
                        PC      Lent 2
    Third Sunday of Lent                          PC Trinity 18
    Fourth Sunday of Lent                     C      Trinity 24
    Palm Sunday                     C      Sunday next before Easter
    Good Friday                                 C    Good Friday (1)
    Easter Eve                      C   Easter Even
    Second Sunday of Easter                   C     Easter 1
    Fifth Sunday of Easter                        C   Easter Day
    Ascension Day                C           Ascension Day
    Seventh Sunday of Easter                   C       Sunday after Ascension Day
    Day of Pentecost                         Whit-Sunday
    Weekdays after the Day of Pentecost                   C       Easter 5
    Trinity Sunday                      C     Trinity Sunday
    First Sunday after Trinity                     C   Trinity 1
    Second Sunday after Trinity                      C   Quinquagesima
    Fourth Sunday after Trinity                    C     Trinity 4
    Fifth Sunday after Trinity                      Good Friday (2)
                           PC    Trinity 5
    Sixth Sunday after Trinity                C        Trinity 6
    Seventh Sunday after Trinity                 C         Trinity 7
    Eighth Sunday after Trinity                 C        Holy Communion
    Tenth Sunday after Trinity                  C       Trinity 10
    Eleventh Sunday after Trinity                 C        Trinity 11
    Twelfth Sunday after Trinity                 C        Trinity 12
    Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity                 PC        Trinity 15
    Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity             C             Epiphany 1
    Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity            PC             Trinity 17
    Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity                    C     Trinity 19
    Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity                     C     Trinity 21
    Last Sunday after Trinity              C            Advent 2
    All Saints' Day                      C     All Saints' Day
    Second Sunday before Advent            C          Epiphany 6
    Christ the King                       PC    Trinity 25
    Conversion of Paul                     C      Conversion of St Paul
    Annunciation of Our Lord                  C      Annunciation
    Philip and James C   St Philip and St James
    Matthias                       C   St Matthias
    Birth of John the Baptist                    C       St John Baptist
    James                   C   St James
    Bartholomew                 C     St Bartholomew
    Matthew                   C    St Matthew
    Michael and All Angels                   C        St Michael and All Angels
    Luke               C       St Luke
    Simon and Jude                                C      St Simon and St Jude
    Andrew                   C      St Andrew
    John                  C       St John the Evangelist
         
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