Evening prayers

[Andres88]

Hey guys. I was lookin up for the Orthodox Morning and Evening Prayers. I found this website which has the Evening Prayers.

Is the same prayer used independently of the day in the liturgical year?
Who in the Orthodox Church are obliged, so to say, to recite this prayer?
Are there any other "obligatory" prayer as a daily devotion?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Knee V]

For both morning and evening prayers a pretty standard portion is the Trisagion prayers, Psalm 50 (51 in the Masoretic), and the Creed.

Compline is a fairly common evening routine.

 

[rusmeister]

We don't have a concept of specific prayers being "obligatory" in private prayer, though there are certain prayers you can pretty much count on.

 

[Joseph Hazen]

The evening prayer of laity stays the same, generally, no matter the liturgical day. Some people might add a Festal Troparion or something for important feasts, and during Bright Week Evening prayer is replaced with the Paschal Hours, so I can't say they always stay the same. They often do.

There are different rules of Evening Prayer. This is just one example. They generally start the same in my experience: the trisagion and the trioparion that you have in this one.

There's no obligation to say this rule or that rule, it's usually expected that you'll discuss it with your priest. If you don't have a priest, you can pick one and work with it until you do. It's also usually expected, however, that the laity will say a morning and evening prayer, though whether that's always done is debatable.

Very little is ever obligated in Orthodoxy.

 

[ArmyMatt]

I think the only real obligatory prayer is the Lord's prayer, just because that is the one Christ commanded us to pray. with the others, there is a history of what works, and that is what folks are encouraged to use.

 

[Pathetic ascetic]

In my experience a rule of prayer is usually individually tailored between a person and their priest/spiritual father.

 

[Andres88]

Nice. Thank you, guys, for your answers!