Stir Up Sunday

Christ the King Sunday has also been called “Stir Up Sunday” because the collect for the day in the Anglican church began, “Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people…” (The collect is still used in the Church of England, but was not included in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church.)

At some point after 1714 (when “the Pudding…