Benedictine Daily Prayer, Third Edition

Experience 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.

Maxwell E. Johnson is emeritus professor of liturgy at the University of Notre Dame and a retired presbyter in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His numerous publications are on the origins and development of early Christian liturgy, contemporary rites, and current ecumenical and theological questions in both East and West. He is the author and/or editor of more than twenty-five books and over one hundred essays and articles. He is also a former president of the North American Academy of Liturgy, a member of the Society of Oriental Liturgy, a member of Societas Liturgica, and a member of the scientific advisory board for the journal Ecclesia Orans. He has received the Berakah Award from the North American Academy of Liturgy and the Christus Rex Award from the Liturgical Studies Institute at Valparaiso University.