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Old 22nd March 2002, 02:56 PM
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Liturgy of the Hours

One of the biggest helps to prayer, and resources for prayer that I have found is the Liturgy of the Hours.

This is a collection of hymns, psalms and prayers arranged according to the hour of the day, the days of the week and the liturgical seasons of the year (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter).

For example, typically on Friday you would be praying the psalms relating to our Lord's passion and death together with psalms of repentance. Sunday's psalms focus on the resurrection, etc.

You'll recall it says in scripture things such as, "As Peter and John were going up for the sixth hour of prayer..." The Jews went up to the temple about every three hours to pray.

In this modern version,typically, people who follow this do Morning and Evening prayer, roughly at wake up time and supper time. It gives a great variety to your prayer life, but a structured variety, and definitely keeps you in the Word, esp if you do the office of readings, which typically has a long passage from Scripture followed by a commentary from one of the Fathers of the Church.

Worth looking into, IMHO
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