Overview Session One Session Two Session Three Session Four Session Five Session Six Session Seven Session Eight Ministry Practicum Guidelines About this course

SESSION FIVE:                

BROAD PRINCIPLES AND STRUCTURE OF MORNING PRAYER

This session focuses on the broad principals and structure of Morning Prayer along with options in planning a Morning Prayer liturgy  

Link for Recording of Session Five

Practical Skills and Outcomes

This session prepares participants to identify a roadmap to inform and simplify:

  • An understanding and working knowledge of the shape and contents of Morning Prayer 
  • The choices to be made when planning Morning Prayer (e.g. sentences, seasonal and general intercessions, canticles, etc.  

Preparation

 To prepare for this session, please read chapters 20-24 of Joan Chittister’s ‘The Liturgical Year’, and answer the question below. (250-500 words only). Be prepared to discuss your answer in a small group in class.  

Holy Thursday is about mixed emotions – celebration giving way to fear and sadness. What times in your own life reflect such emotional conflict? What in the service of Morning Prayer gives you comfort in difficult times?  

Submit your reflection here

 

 

Further Reading and Resources:

Alternative Collects: https://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/Alternative-RCL-Collects-Final-2019.pdf

 

Books:

A note: While Amazon links are given here for convenience, you are actively encouraged to order and purchase these books from your local independent bookstore, or, even better, buy them secondhand (Thrift Books is a great online resource.)

Common Prayer - A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals: https://www.amazon.ca/Common-Prayer-Liturgy-Ordinary-Radicals/dp/0310326192/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TGUGJXJMTFL&keywords=Common+Prayer+for+ordinary+radicals&qid=1666736147&sprefix=common+prayer+for+ordinary+radicals%2Caps%2C1233&sr=8-1

Celtic Daily Prayer - the Northumbria Community: https://www.amazon.ca/Celtic-Daily-Prayer-Northumbria-Community/dp/0008123020/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KSCOL0E73QOO&keywords=celtic+daily+prayer&qid=1666736227&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjU5IiwicXNhIjoiMS43NyIsInFzcCI6IjEuNjMifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=celtic+daily+%2Caps%2C295&sr=8-1

Celebrating Common Prayer - SSF: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/celebrating-common-prayer-society-of-st-francis_society-of-saint-francis/8854569/item/38076968/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuu-NqbX8-gIVbhCtBh2gnQVvEAQYASABEgJS8PD_BwE#idiq=38076968&edition=32562544

Contemporary Parish Prayers https://www.amazon.ca/Contemporary-Parish-Prayers-Frank-Colquhoun/dp/0340908408

New Parish Prayers https://www.amazon.ca/New-Parish-Prayers-Frank-Colquhoun/dp/0340908416

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