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Title: A Year of Days with the Book of Common Prayer by Bishop Edmond Browning ISBN: 0-345-41682-1 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 28 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent aid to daily devotion and prayer life
Comment: Many people want to become more involved in a daily spiritual endeavor, or simply want a way to spend a few extra minutes every day in prayer. But it can be difficult to start and sustain, or confusing if you're not familiar with lectionary readings, the church calendar, or just have never tried such a pursuit.
This book is a very good start!
Bishop Browning has compiled short personal devotions, reflections, excerpts from the Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer, and his own comments -- one devotion for each day of the year. Each day's devotions are short and sweet -- though they are the size of "appetizers," they will fill you as though they were full-course meals! The devotions cover a wide range of topics, but rather than seeming disjointed, it actually drives home the important underlying theme: God is with you every day! God loves you, no matter what! Trust Him, and invite Him into your daily life!
Regular prayer, and especially daily prayer, is so vitally important not only to individuals but to the church as a whole that anything we can do to advance it is valuable. Even if you're not an Episcopalian (I'm not) and are not familiar with the Book of Common Prayer, those seeking to enhance their daily prayer life will find this book to be a treasure. I do.
Most highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: Thought-provoking and reverent
Comment: The Book of Common Prayer contains the liturgy of the Episcopal Church for most occasions and the text of all the Psalms. Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, who has now retired as the presiding bishop of the United States, has taken brief phrases from here and there in the BCP and provided a thought-provoking meditation on each. His thoughts are as current as the Waco siege -- "we were haunted by the deaths of those little ones," he writes -- and how withdrawal from the world is not the way of Jesus. A passage about the weather reminds him that "We often have very little say over what will happen, but we have sole power over what we will do with it." Each BCP phrase has a page number with it, so you can look it up if you want to read more. Even if you are not familiar with the poetry of the Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Browning presents each passage without previous knowledge required. If you have a well-thumbed copy of the prayerbook, then you may be surprised at the meaning he brings to oft-said words.
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Title: Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by Oxford University Press, Church of England ISBN: 0195287134 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: A User's Guide to the Book of Common Prayer: Morning Prayer I and II and Holy Baptism by Christopher L. Webber ISBN: 0819216968 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Welcome to the Episcopal Church: An Introduction to Its History, Faith, and Worship by Christopher L. Webber, Frank T., III Griswold ISBN: 0819218200 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Dictionary for Episcopalians by John N. Wall, Philippa J. Anderson ISBN: 1561011789 Publisher: Cowley Publications Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Introduction to the Episcopal Church by Joseph B. Bernardin ISBN: 0819212318 Publisher: Morehouse Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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