Ekklesia.Anglicana: The Prayer Book: Part IV

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

The Prayer Book: Part IV

The Daily Office: Integrating the Faith

In The Daily Office, the Prayer Book teaches us to integrate the faith into our lives. We become a people of prayer, a people seeking God. We follow the same pattern of daily life, and we learn what it is to experience God through daily obedience. We live the church year daily both personally and communally, and our lives are set on a common path to God. We also learn to live our daily life in view of the pattern of Christian worship. We confess our sins to God, we praise him for forgiveness, we remember his works, we bring our petitions before him, we pray as the Savior taught us. The value of daily prayer cannot be overstated, and the wisdom and power of communal prayer cannot be adequately expressed.

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THE NICENE CREED

We believe in one God, the Father Almighty; Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who, for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary, and was made man; and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures; and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of Life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets. And one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one baptism for the remission of sins; and I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.