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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... judge the living and the dead , and of his kingdom there will be no end . " READING II , YEAR A From the Holy Gospel according to Matthew Stay awake and be prepared ! Matt 24 : 37-44 [ Jesus said to his disciples : ] " For as the days ...
... judge between me and my vineyard . What more was there to do for my vineyard that I have not done in it ? When I expected it to yield grapes , why did it yield wild grapes ? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard . I will ...
... judge the poor , and decide with equity for the meek of the earth . Righteousness shall be the belt around his waist , and faithfulness the belt around his loins . The wolf shall live with the lamb , the leopard 50 Sunday and Weekday ...
... judge the thoughts and inten- tions of the heart . And before him no creature is hidden , but all are naked and laid bare to the eyes of the one to whom we must render an account . Resp . This is God's name forever . * This 120 Sunday ...
... judge fornicators and adulterers . Keep your lives free from the love of money , and be content with what you have ; for he has said , " I will never leave you or forsake you . " So we can say with confidence , " The Lord is my helper ...
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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 |