{"id":3776,"date":"2010-11-16T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2010-11-16T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T14:47:28","slug":"praying-the-daily-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/praying-the-daily-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Praying the "Daily Office"?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marine of the Korean War in prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Anglican<\/a> (Protestant) tradition uses the ancient Christian\u00a0spiritual practice<\/a> of praying the daily office. The daily office (aka Conical hours, divine hours, Liturgy of the Hours, or fixed hours of prayer) are fixed times of prayer set throughout the day. Millions of Christians the world over are in prayer at these times, and this routine allows space for communion with God, and the potential for continual spirit of God<\/a>-awareness in regular life.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It encourages followers of Christ<\/a> to accomplish that which the Apostle Paul<\/a> admonished, to “pray without ceasing.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are the “divine hours”:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The daily offices of prayer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This practice is particularly powerful when done in community. A retreat, or trip with others could include the teaching and experience of the daily office. And, one does not need a priest or clergy to “do it right”. If a group is devoted to celebrating the offices, all that is needed is the cooperation of others to commitment to it in heart and mind; and reverence and regularity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To learn more, I offer these good resources: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Basic Helpful and \u00a0Informative\u00a0article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daily Office<\/a>, which one can follow online.<\/p>\n

Praying<\/a> the Daily Office I: \u00a0(Anglo-Catholic Style Daily\u00a0Office<\/a>) Traditional Anglo-Catholic Offices in the American PDF<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Book of Common Prayer (England, 1559)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Praying the Office II. (Quick\u00a0Reference<\/a> Guide To the Prayer Book Offices)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you ever prayed the offices\/divine hours? Would you consider praying the ones that wouldn’t interfere with your sleep?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To be continued…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is “praying the Daily Office”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[216,217,219,463,562,649,897,19,1472,45,2047,2645,60,2749,74,3199,3203,6539,91],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-anglican","tag-anglicanism","tag-anglo-catholicism","tag-book-of-common-prayer","tag-canonical-hours","tag-christian","tag-daily-office","tag-devotions","tag-god","tag-life-as-prayer","tag-lisa-colon-delay","tag-pray","tag-prayer","tag-quiet-time","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-spiritual-life","tag-spiritual-practice","tag-spirituality","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}