Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings from the Northumbria Community

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This is a resource you will want to come back to, and so I am going to minimize my own words today, encouraging you instead to dive deep into the Northumbria Community and experience all the Spirit has for you through them. For those unaccustomed to recited prayers, it will be new and invigorating, even if the strangeness of it may take some getting used to.

Some find that the mornings tend to be too rushed for lengthy silences and that this can best wait till evening prayer. This compilation of said and sung liturgies makes the Northumbria Community's 'Daily Office available to a wide audience. After the scripture readings and meditations, there is an opportunity to pray whatever is on your mind and heart, offering to God the concerns of the day, your personal needs and prayers for other people. All short, beautiful prayers in the Celtic tradition, rich in scripture, but easily accessible to all.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

The selected slips may be placed where they can be seen from time to time during the day, or carried around, as a reminder for continued prayer.Great resource for daily prayer and meditation, all helpfully set out for the different times of the day on the kindle, making it very easy to access the prayers on the go. Thoughts, prayers and readings for every day of the year, both morning and evening, with Celtic themes and inspiration, from the Northumbria Community. An A5 booklet with the liturgies (including the melody line of the music) for Morning, Midday and Evening Office plus the Meditations for each day of the month from Celtic Daily Prayer Book 2: Farther Up and Farther In. As well as the Daily Office, there are four original Communion services, along with liturgies and prayers that have emerged out of real-life experiences of seeking God in many differing contexts throughout the world. Having purchased the previous physical copies of Celtic Daily Prayer and used them now a good few years I was very glad to be able to get this on Kindle.

The Daily Office – Morning, Midday and Evening Prayer – is at the core of the life of the Northumbria Community. One of the best contemporary prayer books available" - RICHARD FOSTER "A useful resource book for groups of Christians who wish to pray together regularly. Taken from [Morning/Midday/Evening] Prayer from Northumbria Community’s Celtic Daily Prayer published by Collins. Links forwards and backwards between the readings and Morning / Evening Prayer all work correctly, and I've found no need to use bookmarks to save pages. We load an article each month entitled Daily Readings during…… which provides information on the selected readings for the current month.A short set of liturgy with picturesque language ("Christ as a light, Christ as a shield" for example)followed by readings designated for each day of the year, both from Scripture and poems or thoughts from medieval religious figures (such as Aidan or Cuthbert or the like), then a time of intercessions that are open to your own materials or impromptu prayer, closing with blessings. The first in a two-volume collection of liturgies, prayers and meditations from the Northumbria Community, inspired by ancient Celtic Christianity, but reaching out to bring inspiration and comfort to all today who seek to be still and to find spiritual truth. Building on the foundations set down in the first volume, this new collection blends the voices of the early Celtic and desert saints with more contemporary sources in ways that continue to speak to us in our own generation and culture. It also provides a two-year cycle of insights and daily reflections with accompanying scripture readings for use in morning and evening prayer. This is a rich treasury that is loved and trusted by individuals, ministers, families, groups and communities across the world.