Shorter Christian Prayer: The Four-Week Psalter of the Liturgy of the Hours Containing Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer [Bonded Leather] Review

There are many forms of prayer.This little book provides the kick-start, spiritually, for more formal and regular prayer-living.Centered on the psalms and holy scripture, any Christian or person interested in Christianprayer life can gain much for a small dollar investment.By one and getone for your closest friend.Pray together!

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This shorter edition of Christian Prayer presents a selection of material for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer in a format that is easier for the lay person to use that the complete Christian Prayer or the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours.

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Shorter Christian Prayer: The Four-Week Psalter of the Liturgy of the Hours Containing Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer With Selections for the Entire Year (Leather Bound) Review

Like an earlier reviewer, I also own the four-volume set of the Liturgy of the Hours.I do enjoy the additional readings and the somewhat nerdy activity of finding my way around the complete liturgy. But for pure prayer value, "Shorter Christian Prayer" is the book.It has the entire four-week psalter for the key prayers of the day, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer, as well as the same Night Prayers as the larger volumes. What it is missing are the special readings and intercessions for feasts and memorials--but even those special days are built around the same psalms printed here.For me, on my commute, Shorter Christian Prayer is less distracting and much nicer in the hand than the standard Christian Prayer or Liturgy of the Hours.It has larger print than either.It has the gospel canticles printed on the inside covers, a brilliant idea.Plus it is a LOT cheaper.

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Celtic Devotions: A Guide to Morning and Evening Prayer [Hardcover] Review

I have settled into this routine: each morning, a cup of tea and a "day" from Miller's "Celtic Devotions." This ritual fills me, opens possibility, sometimes admonishes, always inspires.

A "day" from Miller's pages is arranged like this... an opening prayer or meditation, then Morning Reading, Morning Prayer, Evening Reading and Evening Prayer. I take the whole day at once, knowing myself; I rarely come back to things like this when night descends.

Miller's poetic reflections move me. Bits of Psalm 119, which provide the Morning Reading reorient me. The rhythms of Celtic life and thought and verse, oft quoted from the "Carmina Gadelica" (a collection of Gaelic songs) take me to another time then bring me home... longing, musing, praying, dreaming, hoping, resting.

So I take my tea, and I read.

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Sunrise and sunset. Morning and evening. Waking and resting.
Your days are busy and unknown: each contains unexpected moments of joy and pain, struggle and hope. The time between your rising and sleeping is new each day.
The same was true for the Celts, though their lives looked different from yours. And in the midst of the uncertainty of days, they chose to meditate on truth, to draw near to the One who holds the sun and moon in his hands.
Calvin Miller invites you to do the same in Celtic Devotions. This thirty-day guide provides morning and evening readings and prayers to help you establish a Word-centered rhythm in your days. Centered on Psalm 119, an important psalm in Celtic praise, and including quotations from classic Celtic works, this devotional will guide your thoughts from morning to evening, helping you rest in God's truth when you're awake and when you're sleeping.

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Pursuing the Christ: 31 Morning and Evening Prayers for Christmastime (Paperback) Review

Pursuing the Christ is a 31-day devotional for the Christmas season. Beginning on December 1st and ending on the 31st, this Christmas devotional is rich in scripture that will put you in touch with the true meaning of Christmas, as well as help you to stay focused during a time of year when it is so easy to lose sight of that which we try to so hard to stay focused on: Christ.

Jennifer Kennedy Dean puts these concepts into easy to read and easy to understand words, bringing to light new ways to look at scripture we have been reading for years. With her thoughts and word illustrations, this will be a book you will want to pick up year after year.

Each day has a morning and an evening reading, as well as a thought for the day. If you are strapped for time some days, you can just pick out the thought for the day and not feel as if you have missed an entire day of reading. This will pick up just in time for the Advent season and finish up on New Year's Eve.

I hope you enjoy this book! With Christmas around the corner, I wish you a blessed one!



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With the hustle of the holiday season come multiple distractions-distractions that keep readers from focusing on Christ. Beloved prayer author and speaker Jennifer Kennedy Dean, in her first Christmas release, Pursuing the Christ, helps readers see the distractions of Christmas in a new way. Pursuing the Christ is a 31-day devotional and prayer guide based on themes of Advent, such as hope, peace, and joy. This guide, with its beautiful and poetic divider pages and easy-to-use format, leads readers through the weeks of Advent, providing familiar Christmas verses and some possibly not-sofamiliar Messianic passages from the Prophets and Psalms. As readers record their own Advent prayers, their hearts will be warmed as they pursue the Christ of Christmas.

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My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 3: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries--P'sukei D'zimrah (Morning Psalms) (Hardcover) Review

Rabbi Hoffman's book, My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 3, is an exquisit addition to any Jewish library. This book, which concentrates on Psukei DiZimra, morning prayers, teaches both the experienced and neophyte person, what these particular prayers mean, their significance in the morning service and why they need to be said. All three of Hoffman's books on prayer have proved a great assett in the classroom and in my personal spiritual aspiration to learn more.

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My People's Prayer Book is a momentous seven-volume series that opens up the traditional Jewish prayer book (the Siddur) as a spiritual resource. Commentaries by 10 of today's most respected teachers, from all perspectives of the Jewish world, help worshippers and spiritual seekers understand the spiritual messages that make up the Siddur, while involving us in a personal dialogue with God, Jewish history and tradition through prayer.
Sometimes awe-striking, sometimes surprising, but always deeply spiritual, My People's Prayer Book is a gateway to understanding the riches the heritage of prayer has to offer us in our worship, and in our lives.
This third volume of the series explores the rich content and meaning of the P'sukei D'zimrah, the morning psalms that serve as the introduction to the larger prayer service. The P'sukei D'zimrah sets the tone and prepares the way for the daily transition from secular routine to the sacred act of communal prayer. Volume 3 helps us to appreciate this "prayer before the prayer" as a profoundly moving spiritual experience in its own right.
Vol. 3-P'sukei D'zimrah (Morning Psalms) features the authentic Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let people know exactly what the prayers say. Introductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries, to search for--and find--meaning in the prayer book. Commentaries from some of today's most eminent scholars and teachers from all movements of Judaism examine P'sukei D'zimrah from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, medieval, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives.
Even those not yet familiar with the prayer book can appreciate the spiritual richness of the Amidah. My People's Prayer Book enables all worshippers, of any denomination, to encounter their own connection to 3,000 years of Jewish experience with the world and with God.
Commentators:Marc Brettler--Our Biblical HeritageElliot N. Dorff--Theological ReflectionsDavid Ellenson--How the Modern Prayer Book EvolvedEllen Frankel--A Woman's VoiceJudith Hauptman--Our Talmudic HeritageJoel M. Hoffman--What the Prayers Really SayLawrence A. Hoffman--History of the LiturgyReuven Kimelman--Rhetorical StructureLawrence Kushner and Nehemia Polen--Chasidic and Mystical PerspectivesDaniel Landes--The Halakhah of Prayer

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We Side With the Morning: Daily Prayers to the God of Hope (Paperback) Review

Thousands of prayer books flow from publishers, but it's hard to find a fresh voice that just might startle us into a moment of awe. True awe--a rare and rejuvenating spiritual experience. Seeking this kind of surprising daily prayer book for 2010, I was pleased to find that "We Side with the Morning" was written by a poet now in his 80s.

William Cleary is a former Jesuit who left the priesthood years ago to marry and raise a family. Both of his grown sons are musicians. His wife is a Unitarian minister. In a family like this, beautiful prayers seem to blossom on a daily basis.

As I am growing older myself, like most Baby Boomers, I'm humbled by life's daily crises and my own human limitations--but a boundless faith pushes me out of bed each morning to rejoin the global community. That's why I love prayers like one that Cleary calls "May It Be So: Giving thanks despite imperfection." The prayer includes these words: "You have made us as you made us: imperfect, crudely shaped, dull of mind--but full of promise, every single one of us. Give us insight and gratitude for things as they are."

To that, we all can say: Amen!

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In this timely book of candid, powerful, and thought-provoking prayers, William Cleary gives courage and hope to those who find it difficult to connect with the divine in the midst of uncertainty. Cleary's newest work is an engaging expression of faith in a God who often seems entirely "other"―and it recognizes that true faith is not bought cheaply. We Side with the Morning provides 365 prayers on subjects ranging from doubt, social injustice, and the inevitability of death―to joy, peace, and the mystery of a loving, personal God who hears the prayers of each person.

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Shabbat Morning: Shacharit and Musaf, Morning and Additional Services: My People's Prayer Book--Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries (My People's Prayer Book) [Hardcover] Review

Having studied the previous nine volumes in the Hoffman series on prayer, I find this much awaited volume to be a great help.As has been the case in the earlier volumes Hoffman provides a wide range of perspectives from which we may extract greater meaning from the prayer service.Shabbat morning is for many of a difficult service to relate to.With only once weekly frequency and the various distractions of Shabbat it can be difficult to relate to the meaning of the prayers.Hoffman provides a wonderful introduction, although parts are often borrowed from previous volumes, and then a talmudic approach to the individual verses of prayer.I always found something new and something that enhanced my understanding of the prayer and this by a person that has been davening for years and also studying t'fillah with the help of many teachers and texts.

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Vol. 10--Shabbat Morning: Shacharit and Musaf (Morning and Additional Services) features the authentic Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let people know exactly what the prayers say. Introductions tell the reader what to look for in the prayer service, as well as how to truly use the commentaries and to search for--and find--meaning in the prayer book.
Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, commentaries from many of today's most respected Jewish scholars from all movements of Judaism examine shacharit and musaf from the perspectives of ancient Rabbis and modern theologians, as well as feminist, halakhic, Talmudic, linguistic, biblical, Chasidic, mystical, and historical perspectives.

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Liturgy of the Hours - Morning & Evening Prayer: December 2009 (Kindle Edition) Review

This kindle book was the best gift in our house this Christmas!My brother is 82 years old, a Catholic priest, and suffering from low vision due to macular degeneration.We gave him the kindle for Christmas and its enlarged print was a great help to him.The arrival of John L. Davis' "Liturgy of the Hours" made the gift just about perfect.He has been unable to pray his breviary prayers in recent months, and has found this particular version to be particularly inspiring.What a disappointment to find that January is unavailable!Please do whatever you can to help us get this book for those who so appreciate it!I, too, would gladly purchase the whole year at once.

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The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the Church.It is the work of the Church to always and everywhere enter into deeper relationship with the Holy Trinity.Our prayer is the fabric into which God's will is woven and revealed.

The problem for many - clergy and laity alike - is that the rubrics and mechanics of this prayer form can sometimes eclipse the opportunity for grace which is its fruit.This version of the Liturgy of the Hours has been designed to limit that distraction.

Using the approved text for the Dioceses of the United States of America this formatted edition includes the full text of Morning and Evening Prayer and is optimized exclusively for use on the Amazon Kindle.In this edition there are no ribbon markers to contend with and no rubrics or directives to follow.

The straight-forward rendering of the text will allow you to focus on prayer, and allow the context and meaning of the words to soak in like the rain.

No copy rite is claimed for the textual content of the psalms, antiphons, readings, or prayers.All rights are reserved only as to the font, formatting and optimization for amazon kindle.Additional volumes will be published in the series for each month.

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Commanding Your Morning (Hardcover) Review

Commanding Your Morning does not purport to present a never-revealed mystery from the Bible.Within the pages of this compact treatise Dr. Trimm brings the readers attention to two biblically based realities -- the power of thought and the spoken word.

For those who have not been able to grasp the fullness of the scriptures, or are looking for a deeper insight, this work will be of great value.

The author is to be commended for compiling a discourse with the intent of helping to break detrimental habits that blocks paths to fulfilling purpose.

Reviewer/Dr. Linda Beed
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