O God, you are my God, early will I seek you.
In the morning, I will direct my prayer unto you and will look up.
For centuries, the Church has maintained the spiritual disciplines of Morning and Evening Prayer. These originally stem from the Old Testament practice of morning and evening sacrifice, led by the levitical priests in Ancient Israel. We encourage you to discover and use these liturgical devotionals either individually or with your family at home.
Anglican House Publishers have an online interactive Daily Office, which includes the full services for Morning, Midday, Evening and Compline Prayer, as well as the daily Scripture readings from the Lectionary.
Listen to the Daily Office Podcast
You can listen to the Daily Office Podcast every day for Morning and Evening Prayer with Rev. Andrew Russell, who serves as the assistant pastor at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Birmingham, Alabama.
For more information, read ‘An Introduction to The Daily Office Podcast’.
Discover the Book of Common Prayer
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, 69th Archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred at Oxford in 1556, led the English phase of reform of Church life and Church worship. Undoubtedly Cranmer’s most enduring achievement was his replacement of the numerous books of the Latin liturgy with a carefully compiled Book of Common Prayer. This was a Prayer Book in the vernacular, one which brilliantly maintained the traditional patterns of worship, yet which sought to purge away from worship all that was “contrary to Holy Scripture or to the ordering of the Primitive Church.”
The Book of Common Prayer, from the first edition of 1549, became the hallmark of a Christian way of worship and believing that was both catholic and reformed, continuous yet always renewing. According to this pattern, communities of prayer — congregations and families rather than the monasteries of the earliest centuries — would be the centers of formation and of Christ-like service to the world.
The Book of Common Prayer (2019) is indisputably true to Cranmer’s originating vision of a form of prayers and praises that is thoroughly Biblical, catholic in the manner of the early centuries, highly participatory in delivery, peculiarly Anglican and English in its roots, culturally adaptive and missional in a most remarkable way, utterly accessible to the people, and whose repetitions are intended to form the faithful catechetically and to give them doxological voice.
The Daily Office Booklet
Christ’s Church (Oceanside) in Nanoose Bay, BC has published The Daily Office as a portable booklet, which includes individual liturgies for Morning, Midday, Evening and Compline Prayer. It’s available now on Amazon.
