![]() ![]() However, it's much too long and wordy for families to use together. ![]() It grounds me for the day.įirst, Common Worship Daily Prayer may be excellent for clergy and also for those who are retired, couples without children or people who live on their own. Free form intercessions, the Our Father and a free form collect finish it off.Īll of this, I should add, with a cup of coffee near to hand, sitting out of doors in gentle weather, and in a rather chill room in the winter before the central heating kicks on. A canticle after the Gospel, almost always one from Isaiah. It also completely throws me off when using the psalms in community during Eucharist, since my mind translates “him” for “you” all too easily! I read the assigned OT and Gospel lessons: no canticle between them just silence. In the psalms I change third person references to God into second person: (e.g in Ps 95 “the sea is Yours, for You made it, and Your hands have molded the dry land”.) I find that for individual recitation it maintains prayer as a dialog with God. I tend to start the day with 10 or 15 minutes of mindfulness meditation followed by MP, using the TEC Book of Common Prayer. Now in retirement, spouse more of an informal Buddhist, and currently seeking some sort of daily discipline. This went on for about 10 years until work schedules impacted it. Once a quarter we’d have a day in silence, praying all four offices. My spouse and I were once Associates of the Order of the Holy Cross, and said MP and EP daily using their breviary. It is a bit more out of sync World Clock-wise than Britain but I am sure that praying yesterday's Office is better than not praying any Daily Office at all. So I have returned to the Lauds and Vespers podcasts of the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Clyde, Missouri. Since the Community of S.Mary the Virgin (Wantage) split and some moved to form the Sisters of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Kingstanding (near Birmingham) under the Ordinariate, the live-streaming of their Offices has ceased. The Grail does however tend to lack musicality, and the restoration of some longer lines certainly seems to help that from the ones I have looked at so far. It is generally serviceable, with a pleasing simplicity of manner. ![]() and to add that yes, Benedictine Daily Prayer uses an adapted and mostly inclusive form of the Grail Psalter, so I know it well. I think it's an improvement on the previous inclusive-language Grail if we're using Grail I'd want to use the new EGP or the original 1963 one (if inclusivity were not an issue).Īnd I think we need a return of our previously popular (and some might say endless) Divine Office thread I'm trying to think of an angle. I was wondering whether others are familiar with the EGP and what they think of it. I like it a lot, and the abbot of our Benedictine community adopted the EGP for our revised breviary along with a new psalter distribution. It's called the Ecumenical Grail Psalter. This was OK'd by Conception Abbey (although is specifically not approved for Roman Catholic liturgy) and published similarly by GIA in Chicago. It also added back the inclusive-language aspect to some degree. We've all probably heard of the Revised Grail Psalter published by the monks of Conception Abbey and being revised again for use in Roman Catholic liturgical books in the USA.Ī group of non-Roman-Catholics approached Conception Abbey with a proposed further revision to fit the Revised Grail better to the original Hebrew and to be better suited for reciting and chanting (so adding syllables to some of the too-short lines, etc.). It has been a couple of years since the last thread on and divine offices and other traditional cycles of daily prayer, perhaps it is time for a new one?Īny question or discussion point related to this topic is welcome - I am going to begin by copying over Oblatus' notification about the new Ecumenical Grail Psalter. Thread: Divine Offices and Daily Prayer Board: Ecclesiantics / Ship of Fools. Ship of Fools: Divine Offices and Daily Prayer ![]()
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