Download or read book Praying the Dark Hours written by Jim Cotter and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Jim Cotter’s beautiful and striking prayers for night time. Based on the traditional pattern of Compline, it presents structured prayer for each night of the week, with seasonal variations and a reflection for every night of the year.
Download or read book Hours of Devotion written by Dinah Berland and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in the nineteenth century, rediscovered in the twenty-first, timeless in its wisdom and beauty, Hours of Devotion by Fanny Neuda, (the daughter of a Moravian rabbi), was the first full-length book of Jewish prayers written by a woman for women. In her moving introduction to this volume--the first edition of Neuda’s prayer book to appear in English for more than a century--editor Dinah Berland describes her serendipitous discovery of Hours of Devotion in a Los Angeles used bookstore. She had been estranged from her son for eleven years, and the prayers she found in the book provided immediate comfort, giving her the feeling that someone understood both her pain and her hope. Eventually, these prayers would also lead her back to Jewish study and toward a deeper practice of her Judaism. Originally published in German, Fanny Neuda’s popular prayer book was reprinted more than two dozen times in German and appeared in Yiddish and English editions between 1855 and 1918. Working with a translator, Berland has carefully brought the prayers into modern English and set them into verse to fully realize their poetry. Many of these eighty-eight prayers, as well as Neuda’s own preface and afterword, appear here in English for the first time, opening a window to a Jewish woman’s life in Central Europe during the Enlightenment. Reading “A Daughter’s Prayer for Her Parents,” “On the Approach of Childbirth,” “For a Mother Whose Child Is Abroad,” and the other prayers for both daily and momentous occasions, one cannot help but feel connected to the women who’ve come before. For Berland, Hours of Devotion served as a guide and a testament to the mystery and power of prayer. Fanny Neuda’s remarkable spirit and faith in God, displayed throughout these heartfelt prayers, now offer the same hope of guidance to others.
Download or read book Night Prayer written by Catholic Book Publishing Co and published by Catholic Book Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy-sized edition, taken from the Liturgy of the Hours, provides the last prayer of one's day. Each day includes an introduction, the examination of conscience, an appropriate hymn, a psalm (or psalms) with accompanying antiphon and psalm-prayer, a short reading and response, the Gospel Canticle of Simeon, and a concluding prayer, final blessing and antiphon in honor of Mary. Printed in two colors.
Download or read book A Catholic Book of Hours and Other Devotions written by William G. Storey and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storey's new compilation of "The Liturgy of the Hours" is presented in language that is both dignified and contemporary, crafted in accordance with Vatican II's liturgical emphasis and promotion of scriptural prayer.
Download or read book Learning to Walk in the Dark written by Barbara Brown Taylor and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this long awaited follow-up to the best-selling An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor explores ‘the treasures of darkness’ that the Bible speaks about. What can we learn about the ways of God when we cannot see the way ahead, are lost, alone, frightened, not in control or when the world around us seems to have descended into darkness?
Download or read book Blessed Be Hard Prayers for the Dark Hours written by Craig Childress Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient holy writings of Christendom tell us to pray without ceasing. That makes it even more complicated. How am I supposed to do that and still have a life? I haven't felt called to be a cloistered intercessory hermit monk. I figure these are about the only ones who could fold their hands, close their eyes, bow their heads, and kneel on stone floors most of the day and night. Perhaps, prayer isn't about posture, place, linguistic gymnastics, being holier than thou in our intoned erudition to our almighty most holy, revered, all loving, eternal, unchanging, timeless heavenly Father. Perhaps it's just about popping off with what's bugging and scaring us when life seem to be coming at us too fast. Perhaps coming to God with unrehearsed unprinted prayers, much like a small child just spooked in the dark by something under the bed would do when he calls out to Mommy or Daddy to "Come quick!" Perhaps, something akin to "Dad! Help me! Save me! I'm about to go under!" would work best. I have long wondered if there is a simpler easier way to go about praying. There is! Just do it. On the fly. Spontaneously. Anywhere, anytime, with whoever thinks there's value in sharing in this exercise of faith, trust, and hope. Believe that prayer changes things - big time. I think I will consider this book successful if it inspires you to realize there's no right or wrong way to pray, if it gets you in the practice of praying for all kinds of stuff in your life. All you have to do is suit up and show up with honest intentions and even a modest measure of faith and trust. Believing that your prayers make it further than the sheetrock on the ceiling.
Download or read book Prayers for the Night written by Dorothy M. Stewart and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich treasury of prayers for the night aims to soothe, reassure, calm, strengthen, delight and restore. Compiled by one of Britain's foremost collectors, the prayers are arranged in categories to help you find just what you need
Download or read book Prayer in the Night written by Tish Harrison Warren and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty.
Download or read book Liturgy of the Ordinary written by Tish Harrison Warren and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and habits that form us. Each chapter looks at something author Tish Harrison Warren does in a day—making the bed, brushing her teeth, losing her keys—and relates it to spiritual practice as well as to our Sunday worship.
Download or read book The Prayer book Simply Explained written by Edward Vine Hall and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daytime Prayer written by Catholic Book Publishing Co and published by Catholic Book Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prayers for mid-morning, midday, and midafternoon.
Download or read book The Big Book of Pagan Prayer and Ritual written by Ceisiwr Serith and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A comprehensive collection of prayers and rituals for contemporary pagans, from a variety of traditions; includes a list of offerings and a glossary of deities"--
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Download or read book A Book of Pagan Prayer written by Ceisiwr Serith and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is you who will be talking to the gods. Be clear. Be careful in how you pray. Take care how you come before the gods. Give them your best. There are many reference books on elaborate pagan rituals but never - until now - a guide to the most basic of practices: prayers and offerings. A Book of Pagan Prayer provides the pagan community a comprehensive and thoughtful selection of prayers - and shows readers how they too can create their own. After an introduction on why to pray, author Ceisiwr Serith explores how to pray through words, posture, dance, and music. He explains how to prepare for and compose prayers, how to address and honor the deities, and how to conclude a prayer. Serith also answers important questions, such as: Why should pagans pray? Should prayers be spontaneous? What are offerings about? Is all this just trying to buy the gods off? Gathered from many traditions - including Celtic, Germanic, Egyptian, Greek, and Zoroastrian - this guide includes nearly 500 sample prayers organized by purpose: for the family and household; times of the day, month, and year; life passages; thanksgiving, grace, and petition; as well as litanies and mantras. Whether offering a blessing, celebrating new life, safeguarding travel, or honoring the seasons, readers will discover timeless pagan prayers for worship, spiritual connection, and personal relationship with the gods.
Download or read book The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Night Offices written by Phyllis Tickle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phyllis Tickle's inspirational trilogy The Divine Hours™ was the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixth-century Benedictine Rule of fixed-hour prayer--an age-old discipline of saying prayers at certain times of the day. This highly regarded trilogy has become one of America's best-loved and most frequently consulted manuals for observing this ancient form of Christian worship. Now, in The Night Offices, Tickle offers the perfect complement to The Divine Hours™, bringing together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings not included in the original trilogy, covering the offices for the hours from late evening (Compline) to early morning (Prime). Fans of the Divine Hours™ will recognize Tickle's simple, elegant format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, to track one's progress through the year. As in the trilogy, Tickle makes primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and she draws all the scriptural readings from the Revised Standard Version. The book includes a set of Matins, Lauds, and Prime specific to each day of the week and varied only by month. Thus, the Monday reading for January would be used every Monday in January, but Monday in February would have new offices for it. The cumulative total, being 84 Matins, 84 Lauds, and 84 Prime (252 offices), fits neatly into a single, nightstand edition, a small, compact book that can be comfortably held in the hand. Easy to use, poetically rich, with a superb sampling of devotional works, The Night Offices will be welcomed by a broad readership, Christian and non-Christian alike.
Download or read book The Fireside annual afterw pictorial annual formerly Our own fireside conducted by C Bullock written by Fireside pictorial annual and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
