Benedictine Daily Prayer: A Short BreviaryMaxwell E. Johnson Liturgical Press, 2005 - 2266 pages For those who want to grow spiritually, Benedictine Daily Prayer provides an everyday edition of the Divine Office. People who desire to pray with the church can do so in a simple manner by following this Benedictine daily prayer model. Based on solid and traditional prayer patterns of more than fifteen hundred years of liturgical prayer within the Benedictine monastic tradition, Benedictine Daily Prayer helps readers celebrate and appreciate God's presence that is found everywhere, especially within the Divine Office. It offers a richer diet of classic office hymnody, psalmody, and Scripture than shorter resources are able to provide. Benedictine Daily Prayer is designed for Benedictine Oblates, Benedictine monastics, and men and women everywhere. It's small enough to fit in a briefcase for travel. Scripture readings are from the NRSV. Click here for an easy reference guide on how to use Benedictine Daily Prayer. Benedictine Daily Prayer includes "Introduction," "An Aid to Praying Benedictine Daily Prayer," "Monastic Calendar," "Sunday and Weekday Readings," "The Ordinary of the Liturgy of the Hours," "The Weekly Psalter," "Supplemental Psalms and Canticles for Vigils and Lauds," "Festival Psalter," "Common for Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary," "Common for Feasts of Apostles," "Common for Feasts of Martyrs," "Common for Feasts of Holy Men and Women," "Office for the Dead," "Proper of the Season (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Triduum, Easter, Pentecost)," "Proper of the Saints," and "Appendix: A Selection of Benedictine Prayers." Maxwell E. Johnson, PhD, is an oblate of Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, and an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He is professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame. His articles have appeared frequently in Worship. He is the author of Living Water, Sealing Spirit, The Rites of Christian Initiation, and Between Memory and Hope, published by Liturgical Press. " |
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... become very dear to us . You remember our labor and toil , brothers and sisters ; we worked night and day , so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God . You are wit- nesses , and God also , how ...
... become my salvation . With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation . And you will say in that day : Give thanks to the LORD , call on his name ; make known his deeds among the nations ; proclaim that his name is exalted ...
... become a temple of the Holy Spirit . Do not cast away this great Guest by evil living and become again a servant of the devil . For your freedom was bought by Christ's own blood . READING II From the Holy Gospel according to John John 1 ...
... become children of God , who were born , not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man , but of God . And the Word became flesh and lived among us , and we have seen his glory , the glory as of a father's only son ...
... becomes a new person in him who became Son of Man that we might become children of God . So great a gift demands our adoring gratitude . We have re- ceived God's Spirit and are able to understand how much he has bestowed upon us . For ...
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The Ordinary of the Liturgy of the Hours | 903 |
The Weekly Psalter | 935 |
Supplemental Psalms and Canticles for Vigils and Lauds | 1142 |
Festival Psalter | 1192 |
Common for Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 1213 |
Common for Feasts of Martyrs | 1250 |
Common for Feasts of Holy Men and Women | 1272 |
Office for the Dead | 1299 |
Proper of Seasons | 1336 |
Proper of the Saints | 1676 |
A Selection of Benedictine Prayers | 2243 |
Index | 2254 |
Common for Feasts of Apostles | 1236 |