The Daily Office A Personal Discipline The Book of Common Prayer Why Daily Prayer? • Activity as old as human beings • Practiced by all religions from primitive times • Foundational to a human being’s relationship to their deity • Sunrise, Noon, Sunset, Sleep Why Daily Prayer? • Sunrise • Thanksgiving for waking up and a new day • Noon • Thanksgiving for survival / food / shelter Why Daily Prayer? • Sunset • Thanksgiving for the day – prayers for safety through the night • Before sleep • prayers for safety through the night Jesus’ example • Worshipped in the Temple • Taught his disciples how to pray • “Our Father in heaven…” • Taught in the Synagogue • Habit of personal prayer Christian Tradition • Origins in Hebrew / Jewish traditions • Daily Temple worship • Daily cycle of prayer and sacrifice • Synagogue worship • Daily cycle of prayer and study Christian Tradition • Monastic tradition of daily work and prayer • Daily expectation for parish clergy • Extended to the people • Printed Prayer books made the prayers of the Church available to all people Historical Prayer Books * • 1549 Church of England • 1662 Church of England and Ireland • 1928 Episcopal Church USA * There are many more historical Prayer Books of the Anglican and Episcopal Church, these are the ones I selected for examples 1549 Common Prayer Mattyns (Morning Prayer) 1549 Common Prayer Evensong (Evening Prayer) 1662 Common Prayer Morning Prayer 1662 Common Prayer Evening Prayer 1928 Common Prayer Morning Prayer 1928 Common Prayer Evening Prayer 2008 Prayer Book for the Armed Forces Daily Devotions 1979 Book of Common Prayer • Rite I • Morning Prayer – BCP Pg 37 Review Rubrics • Evening Prayer – BCP Pg 61 Review Rubrics • Rite II • Morning Prayer – BCP Pg 75 Review Rubrics • Evening Prayer – BCP Pg 115 Review Rubrics 1979 Book of Common Prayer • Rite II • An Order of Service for Noonday – BCP Pg 103 • An Order of Worship for the Evening – BCP Pg 108 • Review the Rubrics • An Order for Compline – BCP Pg 127 1979 Book of Common Prayer • Rite II • Daily Devotions for individuals and Families • In the Morning – BCP Pg 137 • At Noon – BCP 138 • In the Early Evening – BCP 139 • At the Close of Day – BCP 140 Morning and Evening Prayer • Additional Directions – BCP Pg 141 • Suggested Canticles for Morning Prayer – BCP 144 • Suggested Canticles for Evening Prayer – BCP 145 • Psalm 95: Traditional Venite exultemus – BCP 146 • Compare to the Venite on Pgs 44 & 82 Daily Office Lectionary • Concerning the Daily Office Lectionary – BCP Pg 934 • Review the rubrics • Year One – BCP 936 • 1st Sunday of Advent preceding odd-number years • Year Two – BCP 937 • 1st Sunday of Advent preceding even-numbered years Daily Office Lectionary • Old Testament/Apocrypha – New Testament – Gospel - Psalm • Read lessons each day and read the entire Bible in a year • Read Psalms each day and read the entire Psalter in 7 weeks How to find the lectionary Sunday • Year One – Advent 2016 • Sunday, Oct 8 – 18th Sunday after Pentecost / Proper 22 • Season of Pentecost begins with Pentecost Sunday (Jun 4th) and ends the Sunday before the 1st Sunday of Advent (Nov 26th) • Since Pentecost is 50 days after Easter and Easter is a “moveable feast” – there are different number of Sundays in Pentecost season each year. So we use “Proper” numbers (1-29) How to find the lectionary Sunday • The First Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday • The Second Sunday after Pentecost was Jun 18th • The Proper was Proper 6 – meaning that we have 23 Sundays in this Pentecost Season this year • Easiest way to find the Sunday is to have a liturgical calendar On-line resources • Liturgical Calendar: www.lectionarypage.net • Calendar with links to the Collect and Readings • Daily Office Lectionary: www.dailylectio.net • Link to daily Readings On-line resources • Sunday Lectionary: www.lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu • Readings for Sunday, Daily Office, and other resources • Daily Office: www.missionstclare.com/english • Links to daily readings and other great resources • An App is available for Android and Apple Let’s Take a look Digital version Let’s Take a look Printed version BCP Pg 75 Daily Morning Prayer Rite Two - Check the Daily Office Lectionary for the Lessons and Psalms (Pg 916 ff) - Check the Suggested Canticles (Pg 144) - Begin.