In a recent article, “The Daily Office: Prayer for the Rest of Us,” I noted that most Christians struggle to have a consistent and meaningful prayer life until their spontaneous prayers are rooted in some fixed habits of prayer. God’s people have always stopped at appointed hours throughout the day to praise and petition the Lord as one. The ancient habit of fixed-hour prayer, also called the daily office, establish sacred rhythms of prayer that sanctify the whole day to God and unite our voices with the communion of saints in our local church and throughout the world. Those who persist in the daily office have found it to be a transformational spiritual discipline.
With the links below, you can download a printable booklet with an abridged Daily Office. Print the text pages as a booklet, set to landscape, flip on short side. Then, print the cover on glossy cardstock. Put them together, fold, and staple (saddle stitching).
- Printable Booklet Text Pages (PDF): “The Daily Office: A Guide to Morning, Midday, and Evening Prayer.”
- Booklet Cover (PDF): Daily Office Booklet Cover.
