This is the last in a four-part series focused on different Lenten practices at Saint Philip’s. Each week a parishioner shares specific prayer practices and disciplines adopted to observe the season.

By Br Jordan Albert, OCS

The full Daily Office in the 1979 BCP contains Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. Did you know that this is a shortened version of the traditional seven canonical hours (yet still slightly expanded from the two in Thomas Cranmer’s original BCP)?

I typically use the Anglican Office Book instead of the BCP for my practice of the Daily Office — Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. But, it has the other smaller offices as well and for Lent I’ve been saying them all, however imperfectly.

While it’s certainly more work saying all of the offices than not, I’ve been surprised at how easily I have integrated it into my day. What a gift to channel time I would have spent on my phone into Prime, Terce, Sext, and None. Thanks be to God.

Interested in the Anglican Office Book? You can find a physical copy here and a free online version here!