Supplementing the Prayer Book Daily Office

[benedictine]

What are some ways I can do this? Besides Lesser Feasts and Fasts.

[pmcleanj]

What are some ways I can do this? Besides Lesser Feasts and Fasts.
What do you do for Daily Office? I don't find -- and perhaps it's just my morning schedule here -- that it needs much supplementing. But I'm using the 1662 prayerbook, so perhaps it's different.

The 1662 sets out the weekday readings(2) and psalms(1,2 or 3!) for the Daily Offices. The Rubric allow for starting the service at "Oh Lord open thou our lips". So Morning Prayer comprises:

"Oh Lord open thou our lips" (Sarum chant)
Venite (Anglican chant)
~1 chapter Old Testament
1,2, or 3 Psalms (Anglican Chant)
Te Deum Laudamus (Anglican Chant)
~ 1 chapter New Testament
Benedictus (Anglican Chant)
Credo (Sarum chant)
Lord's Prayer (Sarum chant)
Intercessions
Collect of the Day, Collect for Peace, Collect for Grace
Prayer for Clergy and all people
Prayer of Saint Chrysostom
The Grace

According to the rubrics, that's the minimum; everything else can be left out on ordinary weekdays.

Now, I have to have two children up and fed, ballet stretch routine done, ballet bags checked and packed, me ready for the office, a load of laundry done and the dishwasher emptied, and out the door by 7:30 a.m. I'm not finding I need to supplement at all. I can't get through the minimum!

[benedictine]

the 1979 office is simpler, less variations.

I have another question, are the collects in Lesser feasts and Fasts copyright? The book says that the book itself is copyright, but what about the collects themselves.

[TomUK]

I've said it before, but Common Worship: Daily Prayer offers the most varied and fulfilling way of saying the daily offices.

[AveMaria]

The Order for Evening Prayer from the NZ Prayerbook is quite lovely, although a bit different than what I'm used to. I use it, occasionally - for a change.

[chalice_thunder]

I recommend Sam Portaro's book, "Brightest and Best" (a Cowley Publication...ISBN 1-56101-148-7)

I will use the words of Frank Griswold in his description of the book: "His [Portaro's] spirited and sometimes unsettling reflections upon the lives of men and women commemorated in the calendar of the Book of Common Prayer give us food for thought while at the same time dislodge us from our bland pieties and oblife us to think again what it means to be living limbs of the risen body of Christ."

Each Saint gets about a page of information...not all the same stuff you find in LFF.

Happy reading! :wave:

[Paula C. Mann]

In addition to Morning and Evening prayer from the ECUSA BCP, I also like to supliment my prayers with prayers from a book entitled Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotions for Members of the Episcopal Church.

It has a lot of neat prayers not found elsewhere (special prayers for support of priest and parish, Litanies of all sorts, Novena, stations of the Cross, etc.) It may be too Anglo-Catholic for some but I like it. :crossrc:

Peace and Love,

Paula - a newcomer to these forums

[benedictine]

Do you know the ISBN number?

[fdrennen]

I sat down with the priest in charge for Morning prayer for February 24 for the Episcopal Urban Caucus to be held in Newark between february 23-26 here is an outline of the proposed service. the psalms and canticles to be sung from metrical settings to familiar hymns. I planed on using a jazz trio but will be using piano- electric keyboard and bass!



St. Matthias February 24 Morning Prayer



Entrance Hymn: "Near The Cross"

* Preparation



O Lord, open our lips

All : and our mouth shall proclaim your praise.



Enter not into judgement with your servants;

All: in your sight shall no one living be justified.



Blessed are you, God of compassion and mercy,

to you be praise and glory for ever.

In the darkness of our sin,

your light breaks forth like the dawn

and your healing springs up for deliverance.

As we rejoice in the gift of your saving help,

sustain us with your bountiful Spirit

and open our lips to sing your praise.

Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit:

All Blessed be God for ever.



A Song of Penitence: PSALM 51:1-17 METER: LM (88 88)

TUNE: MARYTON ("O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee")

Psalmody The appointed psalmody is said or sung.

PSALM 80:1-2, 8-19

METER: 76 76 D

TUNE: AURELIA

Old Testament Canticle LAMENTATIONS 3:19-26

METER: 76 76 D

TUNES: PASSION CHORALE

Scripture Reading



The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Feast of Saint Matthias February 24



1 Samuel 16:1-13

The Office Hymn: Praise to the heavenly Wisdom

7.6.7.6 D.

“Lan­ca­shire,” (Lead on, O King eternal)

Second Reading

1 John 2: 18-25

Gospel Canticle Song of Zechariah/Benedictus (Luke 1:68-79)

METER: CM SUGGESTED TUNE:ST. ANNE

("O God, Our Help in Ages Past")

THE APOSTLES' CREED

METER: CM

SUGGESTED TUNE: “New Bri­tain,” in Vir­gin­ia Har­mo­ny, by James P. Car­rell and Da­vid S. Clay­ton

(Win­ches­ter, Vir­gin­ia: 1831)

This is the meter to such hymns as "Amazing Grace"

Prayers

Suffrages A

The Collect of the day (contemporary language)

A Collect for the Renewal of Life

A Collect for Peace

A Collect for Grace

The Lord's Prayer

words from the King James bible
music by Albert Hay Malotte

The Conclusion

A Prayer of St. Chrysostom

* May God our Redeemer show us compassion and love.

All Amen.



Let us bless the Lord.

All Thanks be to God.

Recessional Hymn: "Where cross the crowded ways of life"



* Adapted from Common Worship (c) The Archbishops' Council of the Church of England, 2000-2004

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