Comments on: A Guidebook to Daily Prayer http://psalterstudies.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/a-guidebook-to-daily-prayer/ Thoughts on the Psalms and their use by Christians through the ages Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:22:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: dale caldwell http://psalterstudies.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/a-guidebook-to-daily-prayer/#comment-98 dale caldwell Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:36:05 +0000 http://psalterstudies.wordpress.com/?p=14#comment-98 because i introduce so many people to the daily office, i'm happy webber has come up with this little book, even though i would like something that is a bit more related to the bigger traditions of the church rather than just to the 1979 bcp. but of course then it would not be a little book. i suspect the reason so much from the apocrypha is included when so many "canticles from [protestant] scripture . . . are omitted" is that the church of england, including many folks who did not (do not) consider the non-jewish canon as scriptural could in this way keep the larger canon of the ancient church without its being read as "lessons." remember the puritans who objected even to the gospel canticles. regarding the nightly use of the <i>magnificat</i>, it is important to remember that this canticle is used not as a response to the readings but as a reminder of how time itself reveals the mysteries of salvation. each evening is another advent, when mary as model of the church becomes again the bearer of the messiah, and the nature of the messiah's kingdom is sung again. because i introduce so many people to the daily office, i’m happy webber has come up with this little book, even though i would like something that is a bit more related to the bigger traditions of the church rather than just to the 1979 bcp. but of course then it would not be a little book.

i suspect the reason so much from the apocrypha is included when so many “canticles from [protestant] scripture . . . are omitted” is that the church of england, including many folks who did not (do not) consider the non-jewish canon as scriptural could in this way keep the larger canon of the ancient church without its being read as “lessons.” remember the puritans who objected even to the gospel canticles.

regarding the nightly use of the magnificat, it is important to remember that this canticle is used not as a response to the readings but as a reminder of how time itself reveals the mysteries of salvation. each evening is another advent, when mary as model of the church becomes again the bearer of the messiah, and the nature of the messiah’s kingdom is sung again.

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