PRAYER BOOK CATHOLICISM WEEK ONE: USING THE DAILY OFFICES
OBJECTIVES To provide some background on the Offices To explain why we would want to use them To teach the basics of using them
BACKGROUND What are the Offices? The Daily Moring and Evening Prayer Services Also called Mattins and Evensong From the monastic prayer services (eight daily) and the Synagogue prayer services (2-3 Daily) Adapted for regular folks’ use by Reformers
WHY USE THE OFFICES? To Pray in Community With church/family/friends Generations of Anglicans have done this In the ancient Christian pattern If not physically, than “in spirit”
WHY USE THE OFFICES? To proclaim the Scriptures in Prayer Means for systematic reading Not just reading, but Proclaiming Psalms and Canticles as praise
WHY USE THE OFFICES? As the foundation for a Rule of Life We grow through the disciplines, especially Scriptures and Prayer Opening and closing the day “right” Benedictine ethos: prayer, study, work Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: Prayer Belief
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Essential Sections Psalms and Lessons – pp. x-xliii Moring Prayer – pp Evening Prayer – pp Collects – pp Psalms – pp
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Optional Sections Litany – pp Family Prayer Morning – pp Evening – pp Short – pp. 592, 593 Misc. – pp
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES (P. 3)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer Opening Sentences, p3 (Note: Seasonal, p4) Confession/Absolution, p5 Note: 2 Calls Trinity 21 for layfolk, p218 Evening Prayer Opening Sentences, p21 (Note: Seasonal, p21) Confession/Absolution, 23 Note: 2 Calls Trinity 21 for layfolk, p218
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Collect for the 21 st Sunday after Trinity (p. 218) Grant, we beseech thee, merciful Lord, to thy faithful people pardon and peace, that they may be cleansed from all their sins, and serve thee with a quiet mind; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer Lord’s Prayer, p7 Opening Sentences, p7 Venite w/ Gloria Patri, p9 Psalm(s) w/ Gloria Patri Evening Prayer Lord’s Prayer, p24 Opening Sentences, p25 Psalm(s) w/ Gloria Patri Optional: Gloria in excelsis
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer 1 st Lesson Canticle, pp *Te Deum Benedictus es, Domine Benedicite, omnia opera Evening Prayer 1 st Lesson Canticle, pp *Magnificat (Lk 1:46) Cantate Domino (Ps 97) Bonum est confirteri (Ps 92)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer 2 nd Lesson Canticle, pp *Benedictus (Lk 1:68) Jubilate Deo (Ps 100) Evening Prayer 2 nd Lesson Canticle, pp *Nunc Dimittis (Lk 2:29) Deus misercreatur (Ps 67) Benedic, anima mea (Ps 103)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES (PP X- XI)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES (PP XXIV-XXXV)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES (PP. 345, 348)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES (PP. 351, 355)
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer Creed, p15 *Apostles’ Nicene Versicles (short), p16 Evening Prayer Creed, p29 *Apostles’ Nicene Versicles (long), p30
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer Collects Day (after Communion) Peace, p17 Grace, p17 Evening Prayer Collects Day (after Communion) Peace, p31 Aid against Perils, p31
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer Additional Prayers State (one), p17 Clergy & People, p18 All Conditions, p18 Thanksgiving, p19 Evening Prayer Additional Prayers State, p32 Clergy & People, p32 All Conditions, p32 Thanksgiving, p33
HOW TO USE THE OFFICES Morning Prayer St. Chrysostom, p20 Grace (2 Cor 13:14), p20 Note: Collects are Technically the conclusion of the Office Evening Prayer St. Chrysostom, p34 Grace (2 Cor 13:14), p34 Note: Collects are Technically the conclusion of the Office
THE LITANY (PP ) Thorough Penance & Supplication After Morning Prayer Collects Traditionally on Sundays, Wednesdays, Fridays Omit “Additionals” I typically conclude with the Grace
SOME TIPS: GROWING “You don’t eat the whole elephant at once.” Discipline, not obligation Family Prayer Options (pp. 587ff) Short Very Short
SOME TIPS: GROWING After Dinner or Breakfast Works Well Evening Prayer is usually easier for family prayer Start once a week and build (Sunday or Propers) Start with one lesson and build (NT, especially)
SOME TIPS: MIXIN’ IT UP Psalms by themselves Litany by itself Offices of Instruction! First Office: pp Second Office: pp
SOME TIPS: MIXIN’ IT UP Penitential Office by itself, p60 Other Prayers Prayers: p35 Collects: p49 Thanksgivings: p50 Additional Family Prayers: p594
SOME TIPS: MIXIN’ IT UP Don’t forget the Bookmarks! Singing the Service Mattins, Evensong, & Compline at ASAC St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter, etc. BBC Evensong Broadcasts Cradle of Prayer (