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    Daily Prayer for All Seasons
    Daily Prayer for All Seasons
    Daily Prayer for All Seasons
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    Daily Prayer for All Seasons

    By John Pritchard

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    This book contains a realistic pattern of prayer for anyone who feels too busy to pray - a modern reworking of the ancient monastic practice of prayer, beginning with a simple call to praise on waking and finishing with quiet listening at the end of the day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCanterbury Press
    Release dateDec 5, 2016
    ISBN9781848259003
    Daily Prayer for All Seasons
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    John Pritchard

    John Pritchard was born in Wales in 1964. His NHS career began with a summer job as a Casualty receptionist in his local hospital, after which eye-opening introduction he worked in administration and patient services. He currently helps to manage the medical unit in a large hospital in the south of England. ‘Dark Ages’ is his fourth novel.

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      Daily Prayer for All Seasons - John Pritchard

      © The Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, 2014, 2016

      First published by Church Publishing Incorporated

      This Edition published in 2016 by Canterbury Press

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      British Library Cataloguing in Publication data

      Scripture from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright ©1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America

      Scripture quotations from THE MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene H. Peterson 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2001.

      Used by permission of Tynedale House Publishers, Inc.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      978 1 84825 898 3

      Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd

      Contents

      Introduction by the Rt Revd John Pritchard

      About Daily Prayer for All Seasons

      How to Use This Book

      Format for the Hours

      Advent

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Christmas

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Epiphany

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Lent

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Holy Week

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Easter

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Ordinary Time: Creation

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Ordinary Time: Rest

      Praise

      Discernment

      Wisdom

      Perseverance and Renewal

      Love

      Forgiveness

      Trust

      Watch

      Appendix: The Lord’s Prayer

      Introduction

      Introduction

      The Church has a deep, rich tradition of daily prayer, born in the desert, shaped in religious communities, developed in historic churches and lived out in countless Christian lives. It has been the bedrock upon which the Church has built its mission of worship, witness, pastoral care and commitment to social justice. Every revival in the history of the Church has been rooted in prayer. Every life transformed by the gospel has been fed by prayer.

      Every major faith tradition has at its heart a daily rhythm of prayer. In the twenty-first century the Christian Church needs to own its treasures afresh so that we can enjoy the privilege of a prayerful day, punctuated by short but significant acts of graceful memory that put us back on track, returning the life-giving gaze of God.

      This isn’t about being unduly pious. It’s simply re-orientating our lives to their Source, giving them a framework that holds them steady and true, whatever the external narrative of the day. What we find eventually is not so much that we are sustaining a life of prayer, as that God is sustaining us through a life of prayer. The great river of prayer and praise is forever rolling to the Ocean; we just, every so often, hop into a canoe.

      If the Church of God has a problem it is that the practice of daily prayer has become unduly casual and perfunctory for many church-goers. Without prayer we cease to breathe as disciples of Christ; we develop ‘heart failure’. And yet the treasure awaits. The diverse traditions of our spiritual pathways are prodigiously filled with inspiration and imagination. ‘The one thing truly worthwhile,’ said Gregory of Nyssa, ‘is becoming God’s friend.’ And key to that aspiration is daily prayer.

      All we have to do is to slow down and walk at the pace of Love.

      Background

      To greet the new millennium, the Church of England produced new material for worship in its Common Worship Services and Prayers (2000) and Common Worship Daily Prayer (2005). In the latter there lies abundant material for seasonal services of Morning and Evening Prayer and some material for Prayer During the Day and for Compline. What is not provided – because it was not requested – is a comprehensive sourcebook of brief services modelled on the monastic ‘hours’, services helpfully outlined on two or three pages and containing images, language, poetry, meditations and prayers from across the whole community of faith. This is the offer made by the present volume, put together over a period of four years by a diverse team of people from all over the United States, united in the hope that their project would serve those both new to the practice of prayer and those soaked in it yet wanting more.

      In the life of prayer there is always ‘more’.

      + John Pritchard

      About Daily Prayer for All Seasons

      People in all kinds of religious traditions, including Judaism and Christianity, have been marking time with prayer for almost as long as we’ve had hours. Praying the hours, as it’s called, has always reminded us that God walks with us throughout each day; praying the hours is also a way that the community of faith comes together, whether we’re all in one place or scattered like raindrops. Praying at set hours links us, both to God and to all God’s people. We know this, and we are comforted.

      Daily Prayer for All Seasons was compiled and written by a diverse team of people from all over the United States. We came together periodically over four years to create a set of prayers that acknowledge in their brevity both the need to pray and the short time we have to pray. The Daily Prayer for All Seasons team comprised people like you: we have jobs and families, groceries and gardens and ironing; subways to catch, doctors to see, and reports to write. We put these demands on the table. We never lost sight of those pressures on our time and energy as we plowed through wonderful resources for meditation and song, assembling the richest ones into a prayer book for all of us, clergy and laity, who think we’re too busy to pray.

      The consultants who compiled this book did so in prayer and with the hope that anyone — newcomer, stalwart, or someone in between — who wants to pray within the Christian tradition will be enriched by Daily Prayer for All Seasons. They are: Devon Anderson, Mark Bozutti-Jones, Rebecca Clark, Joseph Farnes, Paul Fromberg, Paul Joo, Lizette Larson-Miller, Julia McCray-Goldsmith, Sam Dessórdi Leite, Ernesto Medina, Clay Morris, Elizabeth Muñoz, Ruth Meyers, Dan Prechtel, Cristina Rose Smith, Carol Wade, Julia Wakelee-Lynch, Louis Weil.

      How to Use This Book

      The church divides its calendar into periods called seasons, which track the events of Jesus’ birth, death and resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the Church. The seasons are Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week (the final week of Lent), and Easter, followed by what the church calls Ordinary Time; because Ordinary Time is the longest season in the church year, we crafted two sets of services for the summertime: Creation (spiritual growth) and Rest. The eight sets of seasonal prayers provide the outer structure of Daily Prayer for All Seasons.

      For the inner structure, each set of seasonal prayers falls into eight hours, which follows the pattern of Benedictine monks, who divided the day into a cycle of eight intervals, called hours, that effected a rhythm between work (labora) and prayer (ora). As a contemporary complement, the committee crafting Daily Prayer for All Seasons assigned a specific labour to each prayer hour: We named dawn as the time for praise; we designated starting the day as the time for discernment; later morning, wisdom; midday, perseverance and renewal; afternoon, love; evening, forgiveness; bedtime, trust; and midnight we named as the time to watch. Each hour has a name, which also dates back to Christian monastic history and which we printed in italics after the hour’s work name, for example, Praise (Lauds).

      Don’t be inhibited by the hours as we’ve labelled them. Maybe your day starts at the crack of noon or your bedtime comes after the night shift; maybe the end of your workday marks only the beginning of meetings for another part of your life. It’s all right to adjust the prayers to the day as you live it, no matter how topsy-turvy it seems.

      Adaptations for the prayers, lessons, meditations, and hymns may be made to suit the occasion. The questions that are provided for the meditations are only suggestions. They may be freely adapted, other questions may be used, or a period of silence may be kept.

      Format for the Hours

      Basic form (Praise, Watch): Written in first person and generally anticipated for private use.

      Entering and Going out (or Closing): the same simple, short call-and-response, which emphasizes the spiritual work of the hour

      Scripture: a short, easily memorized passage, related to both the time and the season

      Meditation: a question or a prompt for spiritual reflection

      Prayer: a closing collect related to the hour and season

      Shorter hours during the day (Wisdom, Perseverance and Renewal, Love, Trust): Intended for group use, may be adapted for individual use. These add the following to the basic form:

      Prayer: an opening collect, suited to time and season

      Praise: hymn, psalm, or canticle

      Meditation: an inspirational quote precedes the prompt for reflection

      Prayers: responsive prayers of the people, with space for personal

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