This page collects articles from this blog on the Daily Offices, Family Prayer liturgies, and Great Litany.
In General:
- Learn how to pray the Daily Office
- How not to pray the Daily Office? (Weird Rubric series)
- Opening Sentences of Scripture
- Brief history of the Opening Sentences
- Brief history of the Daily Office Psalms
- Praying the Psalms in the Office
- Daily Lectionary: Gospels & Epistles
- On the Lessons (Readings)
- Some history of the Daily Office Lectionary
- Spacing out the Lessons
- The Apostles’ Creed liturgical history
- Apostles’ Creed: didactic and devotional
- The Kyrie (“Lord have mercy upon us…”)
- the Lord’s Prayer
- Why the Collect of the Day?
- The Suffrages
- the Suffrages in brief
- The Collects for Peace
- Prayer of St. John Chrysostom
- The Ending of Morning & Evening Prayer
- About the Additional Directions
Morning Prayer:
- An exegesis of the Invitatory
- History of the Invitatory
- The Pascha Nostrum
- Te Deum: a brief history
- Te Deum: a devotion
- Benedictus es
- Benedictus: a brief history
- Benedictus: why it’s there
- The Athanasian Creed
- Collect for Strength to Await Christ’s Return
- Collect for Renewal of Life
- The Collect for Grace (Morning Prayer)
- Collect for Grace (more)
- Collect for Peace
- Collect for Guidance
- Collect for Guidance (more)
- Collect for Endurance (Friday)
- Collect for Sabbath Rest (Saturday)
Evening Prayer:
- On the Phos Hilaron
- Collect for Resurrection Hope (Sunday)
- Collect for Peace (Monday)
- Collect for Aid Against Perils (Tuesday)
- Collect for Protection
- Collect for the Presence of Christ (Thursday)
- Collect for Faith (Friday Evening)
- Collect for Faith (Friday, again)
- Collect for the Eve of Worship (Saturday)
- the Prayers for Mission
Midday Prayer:
Compline:
- A different Confession
- The Psalms at Compline
- The Readings at Compline
- The Lessons at Compline (closer look)
- Bedtime prayers, old & new
- Four versions of the Lord’s Prayer (Weird Rubric series)
- Closing Prayers
Family Prayer:
- Family Prayer for monastic spirituality (Weird Rubric series)
The Great Litany:
- The Great Litany
- Three ways to end the Litany (Weird Rubric series)
