Product Description

The Order of Morning and Evening Prayer throughout the year taken from the Divine Office. For anyone who wants to make a daily act of devotion, Morning and Evening Prayer offers the perfect combination of a consistent structure of prayer alongside daily options and choices to take you through the church's year. Taken from the Catholic Divine Office, these daily prayers and readings offer inspiration for priests and lay people alike to give strength for each day.Now with a new look in the familiar hardwearing and practical format, and an updated table of moveable dates.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40902 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 1280 pages

Customer Reviews

Enlightening and uplifting
I bought this book around 7 months ago...well two actually, one for me and one for my visiting Mother-In-Law (who is wonderful by the way), she wanted to move from the Shorter version to this one. At first glance and to eyes which have never read or used such a book before (have only been a Catholic for one year), it does seem a little daunting. "How on earth am I going to be able to foloww/use this correctly?", I thought to myself.

Well, with practise, together with some much needed guidance and encouragement (I make the most of living in a town where we have a Convent for retired Sisters, it's there that Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament is held twice a week), I was very soon on my way to using this wonderful book properly. I have not looked back since.

For me, Morning & Evening Prayers have been and continue to be enlightening and spiritually uplifting. I encourage you to buy this book and use it. If you need help getting started, please don't hesitate to ask a priest or nun - they would be delighted to help as prayers like these are being said less and less by us lay-people. There's also help on the internet to get you started by highlighting the Cycle of Prayer and the Seasons from where you can pick up in the book and use the marker ribbons so you don't lose your place.

To sum up, well, I've since bought another one (for my Wife) and will soon be helping to purchase another from Amazon for an old lady in our Parish. You will get used to shifting from one side of the book to another when used during particular seasons. Seasonal Hymns are contained also as well as prayers for use on Saint Days, plus much more besides.

I hope this was helpful.

God bless you.

It will go everywhere with you. You'll never want to be without it!
I bought a copy just over a year ago to use in my parish, before Morning Mass. While it's quite simple to use in this sort of group because there's always someone more experienced to point you in the right direction, it's a bit tricky to use on our own. Although there are instructions given at the beginning of the book, it can be a bit of a minefield if you are using it for private prayer because it jumps about a bit. You do, however, soon get into the swing of it, and I wouldn't be without it now. Much to my surprise, I soon became adept at using it for Morning Prayer with the other parishioners, and I was then able to apply those same skills/technique to saying the Evening Prayer and Night Prayer on my own, at home. Now,whenever wherever I go, I always make sure that I carry my Morning and Evening Prayer book with me. These prayers are now such an intrinsic part of my everyday routine that if I miss them then it has a knock-on effect to my whole day.

laity liturgy
This compact version of the Daily Office (or, The Liturgy of the Hours), is a compact well done rendition of the services of Morning and Evening Prayer (as well as Compline) according to the Roman Rite in the UK. The book is a handy size. Fairly easy to follow, once you get the swing of it. It offers some flexibility in the Benedictus and the Magnificat, either the Grail version or the ICEL versions. It does have your typical ribbon markers.
The only fault I found with this version by Collins is that the ribbons start to fray almost immediately, and some pages of the text have a 'lighter' print than others.
Overall, easy to read. Moderate to follow. Not a lot of rubrics and other time consuming notes. The Psalms are pointed for chanting, or just good pauses while reading/praying.
I think I would recommend this version of the Office, and not hesitate to further recomend to fellow North Americans as a tidy, well constructed serious version of the Liturgy of the Hours for those of us that wish to pray along with the clergy and religious in the Work of God.