Benedictine Daily Prayer, Third Edition
A Short Breviary
the Monks of Saint John's Abbey editor Maxwell E Johnson, ObISB editor
Format:Leather / fine binding
Publisher:Liturgical Press
Publishing:17th Dec '26
£63.99
This title is due to be published on 17th December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Experience and pray in the beauty, depth, and spiritual richness of the Benedictine monastic tradition.
Benedictine Daily Prayer provides a relatively complete, abridged, and simplified version of the traditional monastic Liturgy of the Hours for people who desire to pray with the church in a more limited manner. Based on fifteen hundred years of liturgical prayer rooted within the Benedictine tradition, this refreshing revision of Benedictine Daily Prayer offers a rich diet of office hymnody, psalmody, and Scripture.
This third edition of Benedictine Daily Prayer continues and expands much of what was present in the previous version with key updates, several requested by devoted readers:
- All of the daily Offices are arranged in a two-week cycle with the complete Offices of the various days printed in that cycle, thus limiting frequent page-turning.
- In addition to an updated sanctoral cycle, including feasts and memorials adopted from other Benedictine resources, Vigil readings are provided for several saints and memorials not included in the previous editions as well as additional seasonal hymns in the Advent and Christmas seasons.
- Includes additional readings, proper of saints.
- The Bible texts are from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Catholic Edition.
- The psalter used is The Psalms: Grail Translation from the Hebrew, 1993 Revision.
- For significantly improved ease of use this edition comes with seven ribbons.
- Includes an expanded “Aids to Praying Benedictine Daily Prayer” feature within the Introduction.
Benedictine Daily Prayer is designed for all who pray in the monastic tradition and small enough to use for travel.
“In this revised masterpiece of monastic prayer for many different types of users, Maxwell Johnson has responded in a creative and thoughtful manner to many suggestions for making the volume easier to use. That means that there are now seven ribbons; there is some repetition of texts so that a more linear flow is possible, with less searching and locating texts. There has also been an effort to increase the diversity of non-scriptural readings. This revised edition is faithful to authoritative guidelines within both the Benedictine and the Roman Catholic traditions. Finally, there is a very helpful Aid to Praying Benedictine Daily Prayer which will prove essential to a beginner and helpful to more experienced pray-ers of the Divine Office.”
Fr. John Klassen, OSB, Saint John’s Abbey
“Benedict urges us that 'nothing is to be preferred to the Work of God' (RB 43:3). In the daily recitation of the Psalms, we place ourselves, and our world in the presence of God through our participation in the saving Word and the Spirit of life. For those, both new to and familiar with, the Benedictine Daily Prayer book, this new and improved third edition of Benedictine Daily Prayer, enables the opportunity for anyone to immerse themselves in the transformative wisdom of the monastic discipline of prayer and so join their joys, and hopes, their griefs and anxieties, to all of humanity.”
Carmel Posa, SGS, author of The "Lost" Dialogue of Gregory the Great
ISBN: 9798400802577
Dimensions: 178mm x 114mm x 64mm
Weight: 1361g
2144 pages
third edition