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:

• Midday Prayer extended (Weird Rubric series)
• Midday Psalms
• Midday Collects

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)