One Day - Eight Opportunities to Pray

By following the Eight traditional Offices that divide up the Christian day into Pockets of Prayer:

Vigil - sometime in the deep heart of night
Lauds - at dawn
Prime - whenever you start your working day
Terce - midmorning (when you take your first tea or coffee break)
Sext - at noon
None - at about 15:00ish
Vespers - when it’s time to flick the light switch
Compline - just before you go to bed

You are given Eight Opportunities to meaningfully pray and, by so doing, better yourself and better the world.

This Advent, parishioners of St John's have committed themselves to praying at least two of these Offices:

One - at a time when we are at our freshest or best
Two - at a time when we are flagging or at our worst

You are welcome to join us wherever you are in the world, trusting that the Angel of the Hour will come and pray with you.

At one of these Divine Offices today - duties which can be real joys, please remember to pray for those whose lives are affected and infected by HIV/AIDS. You may even pray now... and the Angel of the Hour will pray with you. Always Pray as you can (for me, this means the shorter the better) or sometimes, I simply shut up in the face of the Great Mystery of it all.