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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... priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas , the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness . He went into all the region around the Jordan , proclaiming a baptism of re- pentance for the forgiveness of sins , as it is written in ...
... priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him , " Who are you ? " He confessed and did not deny it , but confessed , " I am not the Messiah . " And they asked him , " What then ? Are you Elijah ? " He said , " I am not . " " Are you the ...
... priests and scribes of the people , he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born . They told him , " In Bethle- hem of Judea ; for so it has been written by the prophet : ' And you , Bethlehem , in the land of Judah , are by no ...
... , brothers and sisters , holy partners in a heavenly calling , consider that Jesus , the apostle and high priest of our confession , was faithful to the one who appointed him 114 Sunday and Weekday Readings for Vigils.
... priest Since , then , we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens , Jesus , the Son of God , let us hold fast to our confession . For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses , but ...
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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 |