Finding time for prayer can be really difficult. I’m an Anglican priest (which means I pray for a living, right?), and I know that as well as anybody. It feels like, as our culture of work takes over our lives more and more, we have to fight tooth and nail to spend time with the Lord in Scripture and prayer.
But […]
(Read our Rookie Anglican Guide to the ACNA’s 2019 BCP here.)
The Daily Office Lectionary (DoL) went through several layers of development during the five years of its existence in trial form. The final form as it appears in the Book of Common Prayer (2019) will look quite different to those who are accustomed to the 1979 DoL.
Prayer is paramount to our lives as Christians. As the 19th-century philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote:
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Saint John of Damascus defines prayer as:
The raising of one’s heart and mind to God.
Raising our hearts and minds to God, however, is no easy task.
We’re often taught or given particular models of prayer which teach […]
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The new Daily Office Booklet uses the latest version of the ACNA’s Daily Office Lectionary. It follows the civil calendar, incorporates the major liturgical feast days, and can be used on a one or two year cycle! I think it’s pretty great.
Please let me know […]
Because it’s election season here in the United States, I thought I’d share the following prayer I composed for the election:
Lord God, Almighty Father: Watch over our nation in these times. Casting a ballot is a privilege given to us by our Constitution and secured for us by citizens and patriots, past and present. May we exercise this […]
I’m in the process of creating the next Daily Office Booklet for December 2018. It will be released in the next few weeks, and you’ll have to subscribe to our email list to receive it.
However, I’d like to share a beta/draft version of the booklet that I’ve created for November 2018. It incorporates the latest version of the […]
Anglican prayer beads, AKA the Anglican Rosary, are often controversial. But, as we dive into this topic, we need to remember that, throughout the history of the Church, the faithful have put various implements to use in guiding prayer, study, and devotion.
Examples of these include:
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After my last post about making the St. Mary’s Day (2018-08-15) edition of the ACNA Daily Office Lectionary into a booklet, I reached out to the Liturgy and Common Worship Task Force to ask about obtaining a spreadsheet version of the latest lectionary, instead of the PDFs currently available.
In case you haven’t noticed, the ACNA has been revising its Daily Office Lectionary over the past year.
(You can access the latest versions of the ACNA liturgies here. If you want to learn more about what a Daily Office Lectionary is, read my introduction/guide here.)
In the next version of our Daily Office Booklet, I plan to adopt the […]
Here at Anglican Compass, we’ve got a series of reflections on the weekly Collects of the Christian Year. It’s called “Collect Reflections,” and you can read those posts here.
If you’d like to dive even deeper into the rich content and history of the Anglican Collects, then I suggest you start with my introductory post,
Our Creator gave us physical senses to experience the world around us. In His mercy and wisdom, He inspired His people to create various aids to worship that engage those senses.
One category of such an aid is that of Christian imagery – images and artwork specifically intended to help in the act of worshiping God by providing a focus […]
Great news! I’ve finished work on the latest version(s) of the Daily Office Booklet.
Based on user feedback, I’ve created 3 different versions of the booklet.
This guest post was provided by Kentucky teacher Heather M. Morgan, who is a member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, Frankfort, Kentucky. Many Kentucky teachers have been protesting low wages and inadequate funding. St. Peter’s sits adjacent to the Kentucky state Capitol.
St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Frankfort, KY has always been keenly aware of our location, just […]
LeaderWorks was the power engine behind The Gift of Lent program that has made its way around the ACNA. We conceived the idea and, by God’s grace, were able to build the website and get the links set up. Many thanks (almost ALL thanks) to Kolby Kerr for his work.
One of the cornerstones of the project was the daily […]
Pray Daily is an excellent Daily Office resource (a small book, as pictured in the featured image above) produced by Christ Church in Plano, TX.
As stated in the Introduction to Pray Daily, it is “a devotional aid to help you build a habit of more regular and purposeful prayer. It is arranged in the […]
As I explain in my guide to the Daily Office lectionary, a lectionary simply tells you what passages to read during a prayer/worship service. So, if you’re doing Morning or Evening Prayer, you use the Daily Office Lectionary to figure out what passages of Scripture you should read.
The Anglican Church in North […]
None of us has “arrived.”
There’s always more to learn about who God is, what God has done, and how we can join God’s mission to set the world right […]
I recently wrote a Rookie Anglican guide to the Daily Office Lectionary. This was partially prompted by a reader’s request for such an article.
However, another reason the Daily Office Lectionary has been on my mind is that the Anglican […]
This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here.
The season of Epiphany is directed outward; […]
This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here.
Almighty God, whose […]
This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here.
Sadly, the time for saying “Merry Christmas” […]
This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here.
Have you ever had a hard “Christmas […]
This post, in addition to being a part of Rookie Anglican, is part of a series on the Collects of the Christian Year (ACNA), called “Collect Reflections.” If you’re just jumping in, make sure to check out the introductory post, “Announcing Collect Reflections.” All Collect Reflection posts can be found here.
In the interests of making the Daily Office (Morning and Evening Prayer) more accessible, I’ve been putting together Daily Office Booklets for a while now. Ideally, with just a Bible and a booklet, you should be able to work your way through both Morning and Evening Prayer on your own […]
