Daily Prayer – Page 9 – The Lutheran Zephyr

Daily Prayer, Sept 20 thru Sept 26

I’ve updated my Daily Prayer page to include the prayers and daily readings for the next seven days, according to usage in Evangelical Lutheran Worship. Let us pray.

The Daily Offices & ELW

Lee, Derek, LutherPunk and others around the blogosphere are chatting about Philip H. Pfatteicher’s article over at Lutheran Forum, "Reforming the Daily Offices: Examining Two New Lutheran Books." Some thoughts . . . The settings for Daily Prayer in Evangelical Lutheran Worship may or may not be good, as far as Daily Prayer setting goContinue reading “The Daily Offices & ELW”

Pray with me

I’ve moved my order of Daily Prayer from a Google Doc to a new Daily Prayer page on this blog. The form of prayer I use is an adaptation of The Suffrages or Responsive Prayer that have appeared in all major Lutheran worship books in this country since the Common Service Book. I’ve added toContinue reading “Pray with me”

A Return to Daily Prayer

I am returning to daily prayer after a summer away from the practice. Following the daily lectionary published in Evangelical Lutheran Worship, I hope to post here the daily readings and prayers that surround the Sunday texts. Since this daily lectionary is oriented around the Sunday texts – providing a weekly reading schedule that beginsContinue reading “A Return to Daily Prayer”

Falling Away from Prayer

For most of the past month I have fallen away from what was my routine prayer practice. Since September, when I began my 70 minute train ride to Center City, I have been praying a modified form of The Suffrages from Evangelical Lutheran Worship, and reading the three assigned texts from the daily lectionary. ItContinue reading “Falling Away from Prayer”