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daily prayer
For a while some of us have been dipping to one degree or another into the fuller liturgical prayer life found in the liturgy of the hours. We use it as a basic structure in our meetings. It gives us a rhythm of Scripture and meditation. One of the huge things about being a community in the process of transformation like this is that rhythm I think. That's what I want to lead us into more. We talked about this not long ago again. I've ordered 5 copies of the Shorter Christian Prayer book you see there. It has the Morning and Evening and Night prayer, with special content for Christmas, Easter, etc. I believe there will be something deeply formational that will happen in us if we enter into this common prayer and reading discipline together as a community. We'll be feeding off the same Scriptures daily, praying the same basic prayers. I think we'll hear common things and be able to build each other up through it as well. I'll let you know when they come in. Some of us have them already. OK, that's enough for now. Peace.
| posted by + Alan | 11:02 AM |
3 comments
Alan, It's the heart that matters when you do things like liturgical prayers and worship. If you are just saying the words, God does not care. But if your are actually meaning what you say, he does indeed care. Mike, I guess that could be said of "spontaneous prayer" as well, huh? 3 Comments:
Coming from a "non-liturgical" (whatever that means...it's a bit of a misnomer) tradition, I tend to feel lost when I read of the liturgy of the hours, books of prayer, etc. Help. I don't know what could be done...perhaps record a video and encode it for the net? You know, just of what you do at a gathering. I realize it's informal and all...but I'd really like to join you sometime...unfortunately a trip to KY isn't in the offing in the near future. Think about it...email me at tory[dot]larson[at]pobox[dot]com. (Write this time, ok) ;)
God bless.
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