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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... blood for Christ . And to the ends of the earth , the holy Church proclaims her faith in you : Father , whose majesty is boundless ; Your only Son , who is true God who is to be adored ; The Holy Spirit , sent to be our Advocate . O ...
... BLOOD OF CHRIST ( CORPUS CHRISTI ) Solemnity Friday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost : THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS Solemnity Saturday following the Second Sunday after Pentecost : The Immaculate xxvi Monastic Calendar.
... blood , and the fish in the river died . The river stank so that the Egyptians could not drink its water , and there was blood throughout the whole land of Egypt . But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts ; so Phar ...
... blood that he offers for himself and for the sins committed uninten- tionally by the people . But when Christ came as a high priest of the good things that have come , then through the greater and perfect tent ( not made with hands ...
... blood of goats and calves , but with his own blood , thus obtaining eternal redemption . Resp . Let us amend the sins we have committed . * Let us turn to the Lord our God . V. Let us change our raiment for sack- cloth and ashes . Let ...
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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 |