Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. This edition will take you through Morning and Evening Prayer with the lectionary readings from May through August 2025. As always, we’ve rendered PDFs for you to print in both booklet and full-page form. Click the links below to download! Booklet Form (TAKE…
Behold This Thy Family: Cranmer’s Good Friday Collects
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, who led the development of the Book of Common Prayer, crafted collects for Good Friday with a special emphasis on the church as the family of God. There are three collects for the day, the only occasion for which Cranmer appointed more than one. The first asks God to “behold this thy…
Daily Office Booklet 2025: January–April
Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. This edition will take you through Morning and Evening Prayer with the lectionary readings from January through April 2025. As always, we’ve rendered PDFs for you to print in both booklet and full-page form. Click the links below to download! Booklet Form (TAKE…
The History of the Christmas Collects
We expect the Christmas Collects to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and they do. But they also surprise us by repeatedly applying the birth of Christ to the life of the Christian believer. Because he is light, we can know light. Because he was born, we can be born again. Because he shared the life…
Illumine the World: Reflections on the Midday Collects
The ordering for Midday Prayer can serve as a great way to refocus on something other than our own problems and to work on bending ourselves back out instead of staying bent in.
Daily Office Booklet 2024: September–December
Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. We even cleaned up the design to make it more readable. This edition will take you through Morning and Evening Prayer with the lectionary readings from September through December 2024. As always, we’ve rendered PDFs for you to print in both booklet and…
Daily Office Booklet 2024: May–August
Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. This volume will take you from May through August 2024. Click the links below to download! TAKE NOTE! For the booklet form, you must print double-sided and along on the short edge.
The History of the Lent Collects
The theme of the Lent collects is human sinfulness and our need for God. We “acknowledge our wretchedness.” We are “tempted,” and our resistance is “weak.” We have “no power in ourselves to help ourselves.” We have “disordered affections” and “unruly wills.” And so, what we need above all is “new and contrite hearts,” for…
The Collect For Purity: A Rookie Anglican Guide
The Collect for Purity is one of the gems of Anglican liturgy. It is a prayer both appealing at first glance and also one that invites a depth of reflection: on preparing the heart for worship, on the Trinity, and on the Catholic and Reformed aspects of Anglicanism. It is good we have so much…
Daily Office Booklet 2024, Volume 1: January–April
Good news! We’ve completed the latest edition of the Daily Office Booklet. This volume will take you from January through April 2024. Click the links below to download! TAKE NOTE! For the booklet form, you must print double-sided and along on the short edge.
