Daily Prayer Guide

This guide will give you a framework for your practice of daily prayer, also called the “Daily Office” throughout church history. The word “office” comes from the Latin “opus,” which means “work.” Meeting with God throughout the day is the most important work that human beings are to do. Here are frameworks for prayers in the morning, at noon, and in the evening.

These formats are adapted from Peter Scazzero’s book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

·        Note the silence at the beginning and the ending of each Office. Also consider being silent for 30 seconds in between the readings or prayers. When you are silent, seek to sit still and straight, and breathe slowly, naturally and deeply.

·        During your silence, remain present, open and awake. Be alert to the presence of God.

·        When reading Scripture, if God leads you to pause at a certain phrase or thought, do so. He often opens His treasures as we wait.

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Click here for noon prayers

Click here for evening prayers

Click here for daily scripture readings (Common Lectionary)