Read Online The Night Offices: Prayers For The Hours From Sunset To Sunrise Conceived By Phyllis Tickle Offered As Audio Books

Tickle's inspirational trilogy The Divine HoursTM was the first major literary and liturgical reworking of the sixthcentury Benedictine Rule of fixedhour prayeran ageold discipline of saying prayers at certain times of the day.
This highly regarded trilogy has become one of America's bestloved and most frequently consulted manuals for observing this ancient form of Christian worship,

Now, in The Night Offices, Tickle offers the perfect complement to The Divine HoursTM, bringing together prayers, psalms, hymn texts, religious poetry and other readings not included in the original trilogy, covering the offices for the hours from late evening Compline to early morning Prime.
Fans of the Divine HoursTM will recognize Tickle's simple, elegant format, her use of a modern calendar rather than a liturgical one, and the single ribbon in the binding, to track one's progress through the year.
As in the trilogy, Tickle makes primary use of the Book of Common Prayer and the writings of the Church Fathers, and she draws all the scriptural readings from the Revised Standard Version.
The book includes a set of Matins, Lauds, and Prime specific to each day of the week and varied only by month, Thus, the Monday reading for January would be used every Monday in January, but Monday in February would have new offices for it, The cumulative total, beingMatins,Lauds, and
Primeoffices, fits neatly into a single, nightstand edition, a small, compact book that can be comfortably held in the hand.


Easy to use, poetically rich, with a superb sampling of devotional works, The Night Offices will be welcomed by a broad readership, Christian and nonChristian alike.

Praying the hours is a christian tradition that really works for me, I currently work as a nightshift hotel clerk, The liturgies Phyllis Tickle has assembled from traditional sources in this volume feel special because they are uniquely designed to be prayed during the very hours I am active.
They are beautiful in their reflection and often refocus my mind and spirit in the dark hours of the night and offer me a vehicle for praying for the world around me as it sleeps.
Join with the body of Christ in the ancient tradition of divine hours, when the church joins in common prayer, While I marked read, actually as a guide, I read this whenever I find the time and place for the night offices, I love the rhythm of praying the hours, even though, as a Protestant, it's not really part of my culture, These books make it so easy! I love these books, This is a book for daily office prayers during the night, I'm often up at midnight and:am, and feel I need the hours for praising God at these times, The book covers the entire year the offices follow the same format as the threevolume Divine Hours of the daytime, A manual for the night offices of prayer throughout the year,

The author provides a prayer manual for each month of the year as well as some special events, Each month features three prayers per evening: midnight, the night watch, and dawn, Similar elements are maintained throughout,

Much of the prayers feature Scripture quotations or useful apocryphal material, There may be certain questionable theological or doctrinal material in some prayers but such are easily excluded,

A beneficial guide to structure one's prayers in the night, For the Wee Small Hrs

For those night owls who want a way to wind down the wee hours with words of comfort and grace, knowing there are others lying in the dark f knight whispering the same prayers.
The Night Offices have been a lovely companion over the past year, teaching me more about spiritual practice observing the monastic hours, and also bringing me into a place of deeper connection at what are often the loneliest and most painful times of day.
Suitable for individual prayer and small group use, Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues, After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer.
She is well known as a leading voice in the emergence church movement, She is perhaps best known for The Divine Hours series of books, published by Doubleday Press, and her book The Great Emergence How Christianity Is Changing and Why, Tickle was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was licensed as both a lector and a lay eucharistic minister, She has been widely quoted by many media outlets, including News Phyllis Natalie Tickle was an American author and lecturer whose work focuses on spirituality and religion issues, After serving as a teacher, professor, and academic dean, Tickle entered the publishing industry, serving as the founding editor of the religion department at Publishers Weekly, before then becoming a popular writer.
She is well known as a leading voice in the emergence church movement, She is perhaps best known for The Divine Hours series of books, published by Doubleday Press, and her book The Great Emergence

How Christianity Is Changing and Why, Tickle was a member of the Episcopal Church, where she was licensed as both a lector and a lay eucharistic minister, She has been widely quoted by many media outlets, including Newsweek, Time, Life, The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, C SPAN, PBS, The History Channel, the BBC and VOA.
It has been said that "Over the past generation, no one has written deeply and spoken widely about the contours of American faith and spirituality than Phyllis Tickle, " sitelink.