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The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer
Phyllis A. Tickle
4.35 AVERAGE
7 reviews for:
The Divine Hours: Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime: A Manual for Prayer
Phyllis A. Tickle
4.35 AVERAGE
I so enjoy praying the hours and all liturgy-based prayer. Haven't gotten up the nerve to chant the psalms yet, though....
I really love the idea of this book and I have enjoyed so many of the prayers and hymns. Definitely recommend. I did this along with my devotionals or sometimes it was my devotional. It's not really a book you need to read every day but some mornings it was the way I started my day. I really enjoyed and I'll be doing the others throughout the year and revisiting this one again towards the fall/winter time.
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inspiring
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Another good collection of prayers. I appreciated the extra prayers for Advent and Christmas.
I have long been drawn to fixed-hour prayer. Growing up, we were taught to have a "quiet time" or "devotional" with God once a day. This has been my regular practice through the years, though like any normal human there were seasons when it went well and times of stagnation. While I treasured reading scripture, prayer often seemed like an add-on, the time when I was supposed to do something but too often my mind wandered. At times journaling helped as writing things out helps keep focus.
A few years ago I checked out an app or two that used the Book of Common prayer and found it helpful. For convenience, I wanted an app or e-version. But I heard so much about Phyllis Tickle's prayer books that I finally bit the bullet and bought one. Most reviews said the e-version had poor formatting, so I went with a physical book. If anything, having the physical book helped me do the prayers more often.
I managed to do morning and bedtime prayers most days, sometimes working in either midday or evening (vespers). The realities of having children always gets in the way of regularity, but that is okay! Overall, I find the rhythms of these prayers incredibly helpful. I am planning to use another of Tickle's books for Lent.
If you are looking for something new to recharge your spiritual life perhaps the best place to look is something old - fixed-hour prayer. Tickle's book is a wonderful tool to be added to a journal and a Bible. It would be nice for a well-formatted e-version, but there may be something mystical about paper - paper prayer books, paper bibles and paper journals.
A few years ago I checked out an app or two that used the Book of Common prayer and found it helpful. For convenience, I wanted an app or e-version. But I heard so much about Phyllis Tickle's prayer books that I finally bit the bullet and bought one. Most reviews said the e-version had poor formatting, so I went with a physical book. If anything, having the physical book helped me do the prayers more often.
I managed to do morning and bedtime prayers most days, sometimes working in either midday or evening (vespers). The realities of having children always gets in the way of regularity, but that is okay! Overall, I find the rhythms of these prayers incredibly helpful. I am planning to use another of Tickle's books for Lent.
If you are looking for something new to recharge your spiritual life perhaps the best place to look is something old - fixed-hour prayer. Tickle's book is a wonderful tool to be added to a journal and a Bible. It would be nice for a well-formatted e-version, but there may be something mystical about paper - paper prayer books, paper bibles and paper journals.
I really love the IDEA of The Divine Hours but this version just didn’t draw me in. Or maybe I didn’t read it the right way. I understand that the repetition in liturgy is supposed to be comforting, but I found my mind wandering far too often in the repetitiveness. Maybe I’ll try it again in a different season in my life.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced