Simple Chant Daily Office
A wonderful YouTube channel with simple chanting of the Daily Office.
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Goodbye Daily Office?
On some recent occasions when I was present, clergy were leading the Daily Office from A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. In each of these cases, when they got to the appointed psalm, however, rather than using it as a prayer that we, the gathered community, prayed together, the psalm in
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NZPB Daily Office variant
I have been asked by some people how they might vary what is provided in A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa so that in the Daily Office they pray one canticle and the Benedictus (The Song of Zechariah, page 85) each morning, and one canticle and the Magnificat (The Song of
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New Daily Office online
There is a wonderful new Daily Prayer resource, the St Bede’s Breviary online. I will be adding this as a link to increase the usefulness of this site’s online chapel. I do not know anything about who is putting this online – if anyone knows please add that in the comment – it would be
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Tuia Daily Prayer App
A daily prayer app based on A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa, Tuia is finally here. I hope that people will use the app, fall in love with the liturgical discipline of praying the scriptures, and when they find this resource doesn’t support their long-term spiritual walking, including through rough terrain, they don’t abandon the discipline, but rather discover the strong shoes of a good Daily Office that we can comfortably wear for a lifetime.
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New Zealand Prayer Book Daily Prayer
Instructions on how to pray the daily office, called “Daily Services”, using A New Zealand Prayer Book He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa
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Daily Prayer in Martha’s House
I hope my pointing to Martha’s House encourages many of you who, like its co-founder, Catherine, “are more Martha than Mary” to check out this new “community for those of who are busy, feisty… because someone’s got to do the cooking.” Central to this Benedictish community is the Daily Office. I’ve previously reflected critically/appreciatively on
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Simplify Daily Prayer
I am passionate about Daily Prayer – using the Bible, particularly the Psalms, as a disciplined way of praying. If the Eucharist is the jewel in the crown – then Daily Prayer is its setting. From a scholarly point of view, there is the ‘cathedral’ tradition – a people’s office (another name for Daily Prayer),
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Daily Prayer
I pray Daily Prayer. It is also called the Divine Office, the Breviary, the Liturgy of the Hours, Morning and Evening Prayer, Matins and Evensong, and Compline, Lauds, Vespers, and so on and so on… This discipline of praying psalms, reading a passage(s) from the scriptures, and interceding and giving thanks… this discipline that is