Benedictine Daily Prayer, Third Edition: A Short Breviary

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.