Morning Prayer
Join Andrea Mueller and friends in Room 208, 9:15-9:45 a.m. as we pray The Divine Hours together. This ancient form of prayer incorporates psalms, readings, and prayers derived from Hebrew and early Christian traditions. The Divine Hours (also known as "fixed-hour prayer" or "saying the offices" or "The Liturgy of the Hours") is a practice that give order and consistency to our prayer life.
Click here for sample Morning Prayer handout.
The Divine Hours are prayers of praise offered as a sacrifice of thanksgiving and faith to God and as a sweet-smelling incense of the human soul before the throne of God. To offer them is to serve before that throne as part of the priesthood of all believers. It is to assume the "office" of attendant upon the Divine.
Other prayers may be petitionary or intercessory or valedictory or any number of other things, but the Liturgy of the Hours remains an act of offering... offering by the creature to the Creator.
(Phyllis Tickle, The Divine Hours for Autumn and Winter, xii).