Praying the Hours?

[No Swansong]

How many of us here pray the hours, and what version do we use?

I pray morning and evening prayer using the new "REC Prayerbook," (almost exactly the 1662) and night prayer using "Christian Prayer"

 

[ebia]

I try to pray Morning and Evening Prayer from Common Worship Daily Prayer.

Night prayer I'm not very successful at all, but from the same when I do.

 

[chrisnu]

I've been praying Evening Prayer (Rite I) from the 1979 BCP...

 

[Stan53]

Interesting. I have never heard of it. I guess this is what happens when one joins the Anglican Communion later on. I was saved and born again for 30 years before I joined the communion. To me, the concept of using a prayer book for my prayers is some how foreign to my experience.
Oh, yes, I do prayer. All the time. In fact I couldn't imagine life without conversation with Christ.
Interesting. Must read up on this "Praying The Hours".

 

[RestoreTheRiver]

I also use Common Worship for Morning and Evening Prayer. We use the Compline from the same source at our bible study/body life meetings at Christ The King.

My wife, Linda, and I often say Evening Prayer together. This practice has greatly enriched our walk with the Lord, and our marriage. For a time, we used Celtic Daily Prayer for this purpose. It's good, especially for people just coming to the Daily Office. At this point, however, Common Worship, and other sources that more fully reflect the timeless prayer of the Church, suit us better.

Friend Stan, I urge you to try this ancient pattern of prayer. The prayers of the church both enable us, and teach us, to pray. There is a depth and wonder in joining in the prayer of the church through the ages. And, there is nothing in this practice to discourage our own prayers. In fact, such are encouraged, and enriched.

Michael

 

[JasonV]

I use the Liturgy of the Liberal Catholic Church 3rd Edition. I do Prime and Compline.

 

[Stan53]

Thank you Michael. I might just try this. I do so like Lectio Divina which I discovered just a couple of years ago. Also there is Speak the Word.
It just amazes me what Christ has provided to enrich our walk with Him.

 

[AngCath]

Ideally, I pray the Office from the '79.

 

[MKJ]

When I was a student, I did the Daily Offices (Morning and Evening Prayer and Compline) from the Canadian BCP with a group. I am not as regular now, but I still use the same ones slightly modified to use alone, or I use a version of the prayers for use in families if my children are involved.

 

[Healed_IHS]

I do a variation of the hours. In the morning I go through the prayer of self dedication from the BCP, affirm my baptismal committment (I renounce Satan...), Apostle's Creed, the Pater Noster, the remaining part (I will, with God's help...), and end with a period of intercessional prayers.

 

[Grigorii]

How many of us here pray the hours, and what version do we use?

I pray morning and evening prayer using the new "REC Prayerbook," (almost exactly the 1662) and night prayer using "Christian Prayer"

Anglican Breviary - Matins to Compline.

Fr. Gregory +

 

[Abiel]

I always feel a bit daft saying both parts.

I have set my phone to 'beep' at rising, 9,12,3,6,9 and bed. I don't always pray a formal prayer- but I do turn my otherwise fickle mind to God in gratitude for current blessings

 

[Secundulus]

Anglican Breviary - Matins to Compline.

Fr. Gregory +

Fr. Gregory,

I second that as an excellent resource, although I am guilty of not getting it all done every day.

The Anglican Breviary continues the language from the KJV Bible and Coverdale Psalms within the larger tradition of the Daily Office of the Western Church.

Its scriptural readings are also synched with the readings from the 1928 BCP.

 

[Wildcat48]

What's the feel of the Mariology in the Anglican Breviary? Is it more prominent and similar to the RC?

 

[Secundulus]

What's the feel of the Mariology in the Anglican Breviary? Is it more prominent and similar to the RC?

You might say it is identical to the RC. The Anglican Breviary itself is based on a translation of the 1911 Reform of the Latin Secular Breviary.

What is different is that the Coverdale Psalms and KJV scriptures are used rather than Latin. Also, the collects and readings for Sunday, and other Holy days, are synched with those from the 1928 BCP.

From the Breviary website: The Anglican Breviary

Nevertheless, the Anglican Breviary is in substance identical with its Latin original except where obvious changes were necessary to conform it to Prayer-Book usages; that is to say, the substance of the Latin Breviary (or its devotional content) is expressed in the accidents of Latin liturgy (Latin Scripture, Hymns, and the like), and in the Anglican Breviary this substance is expressed in the accidents of Anglican liturgy (English versions of Scripture, Hymns, and so forth). Thus, while the Anglican Breviary is not a mere translation from the Latin, it has been kept faithful to the spirit, meaning and purpose of its Latin original.
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[JasonV]

Anglican Breviary - Matins to Compline.

Fr. Gregory +

This is a nice breviary. I bought a copy a couple years ago.

 

[Wildcat48]

You might say it is identical to the RC. The Anglican Breviary itself is based on a translation of the 1911 Reform of the Latin Secular Breviary.

What is different is that the Coverdale Psalms and KJV scriptures are used rather than Latin. Also, the collects and readings for Sunday, and other Holy days, are synched with those from the 1928 BCP.

From the Breviary website:

Nevertheless, the Anglican Breviary is in substance identical with its Latin original except where obvious changes were necessary to conform it to Prayer-Book usages; that is to say, the substance of the Latin Breviary (or its devotional content) is expressed in the accidents of Latin liturgy (Latin Scripture, Hymns, and the like), and in the Anglican Breviary this substance is expressed in the accidents of Anglican liturgy (English versions of Scripture, Hymns, and so forth). Thus, while the Anglican Breviary is not a mere translation from the Latin, it has been kept faithful to the spirit, meaning and purpose of its Latin original.
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Interesting. I just wondered if they were references to dogmas such as the Assumption or the Immaculate Conception that are not a part of traditional/historic Anglicanism (not insinuating they are incompatible, just not traditional).

 

[AngCath]

Interesting. I just wondered if they were references to dogmas such as the Assumption or the Immaculate Conception that are not a part of traditional/historic Anglicanism (not insinuating they are incompatible, just not traditional).

Yes, there are. Some of the content has been changed so that it does not mirror the Roman counterpart exactly, but it is thoroughly Catholic.

 

[Wildcat48]

Yes, there are. Some of the content has been changed so that it does not mirror the Roman counterpart exactly, but it is thoroughly Catholic.

Nice to see another Episcopalian/Anglican from TN! We are few and far between I'm afraid. We got lost in the sea of Southern Baptists...

That's interesting. I suppose it reflects the Anglo-Catholic/Anglo-Papal movement. Not to be ornery, but I might rephrase it and say it's thoroughly Roman Catholic, but not necessarily Catholic as in the tradition of the universal church. Though I'm sure we're bound to disagree...

 

[AngCath]

Hey look - another Southern Episcopalian!
To be clear - I intended 'Catholic' in the Roman sense. Sorry about any confusion.