that having used the Treasury in a variety of ways over the last couple years, I have definitely decided that I am truly most at home using it the way I did at first. Here’s how: Matins/Lauds: Opening Versicles, Monthly Psalter (see chart on pages 1436-1437 – easiest is to write the divisions into the [...]
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Pr. Weedon Confesses
Posted by ScotK on August 29, 2010
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THE DAILY OFFICE
Christian prayer is rooted in the revelatory Word of God. We hear the voice of God addressed to us and to the Church through the Holy Scriptures. As we receive this Word from God, the heart of faith desires to respond. It is out of this receiving of God’s Word and the desire to respond, that the conversation with God, which is prayer, happens.
The ancient form of structured prayer through the day, often called the Daily Office and the Liturgy of the Hours, is not simply a vehicle by which Christians are brought to prayer, rather it is a tool developed by the Church to instruct us in prayer and faith, and a means to keep our conversation with God rooted in His Word.
Posted by ScotK on January 31, 2009
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