Resources for Daily Prayer

This list may be updated with new resources at any time. The recommendation of these resources is not an approval of all of their contents.

Books and Articles on Prayer

• Johnathan Arnold, “The Daily Office: Prayer for the Rest of Us,” Holy Joys.
• Scot McKnight, Praying with the Church: Following Jesus Daily, Hourly, Today (Paraclete Press, 2006).
• Robert Benson, In Constant Prayer (Thomas Nelson, 2010).

Sample Daily Office

• Daily Morning Prayer
• Daily Midday Prayer
• Daily Evening Prayer
• As needed: Confession of Sin
• Optional: Opening Sentences
• Optional: Compline (Night Prayer or Bedtime Prayer)

Collected Written Prayers

• Prayers of Confession and Consecration
• Prayers of Praise and Thanksgiving
• Prayers of Supplication for Various Needs and Circumstances
• Prayers for Illumination Before Reading the Scriptures
• Grace at Meals
• St. Patrick’s Breastplate
• John Stott’s Morning Trinitarian Prayer

Prayer Books for Daily Use

• Protestant/Anglican: The 1662 Book of Common Prayer, International Edition (IVP Academic, 2021). The foundation of the Anglican and Methodist prayer tradition.
• Eastern Orthodox: A Manual of Eastern Orthodox Prayers (SVS Press).
• Roman Catholic: The Liturgy of the Hours. Skip the Marian prayers and it’s mostly just Scripture and great prayers and hymns of the church.
• Roman Catholic: The Glenstal Book of Prayer.
• Modern/Ecumenical: Phyllis Tickle, The Divine Hours (Volume 1): Prayers for Summertime (2006); The Divine Hours (Volume 2): Prayers for Autumn and Wintertime (2006); The Divine Hours (Volume 3): Prayers for Springtime (2006). The easiest prayer book to start using now. The books are thick because they spell out all of the prayers and readings so that you don’t have to flip around.
• Modern/Reformed: Jonathan Gibson, Be Thou My Vision: A Liturgy for Daily Worship (Crossway, 2021); O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Advent to Epiphany (Crossway, 2023); O Sacred Head, Now Wounded: A Liturgy for Daily Worship from Pascha to Pentecost (Crossway, 2024).
• Celtic Daily Prayer: Prayers and Readings From the Northumbria Community (HarperOne, 2002). Very easy to use.
• The Order of Saint Luke, The Book of Offices and Services (2012).
• The Order of Saint Luke, A Lukan Book of Hours: Basic Forms of the Daily Office (2015).

Collected Prayers

• Robert Elmer, ed., Fount of Heaven: Prayers of the Early Church (Lexham Press, 2022).
• Robert Elmer, ed., Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans (Lexham Press, 2019).
• Arthur Bennett, ed., The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers & Devotions (Banner of Truth, 2003).

Online

• Holy Joys, Daily Morning Prayer, Daily Midday Prayer, and Daily Evening Prayer.
• Anglican House Publishers, The Daily Office, www.dailyoffice2019.com.
• The (Online) Book of Common Prayer, bcponline.org.
• Methodist Prayer, methodistprayer.org.
• Ascension Press, Catholic Prayers, ascensionpress.com/pages/prayers.
• Come After Me, The Bible in One Year, comeafterme.com/bible.

Songs and Chants

• Sing the Hours, www.youtube.com/@SingtheHours. Stop before the Marian prayers at the end.
• Seedbed Psalter. Sing the Psalms to familiar hymn tunes.
• Te Deum Laudamus. A hymn for Lauds (Morning Prayer).
• Te Deum Laudamus (E.G. Monk & W. Croft). Another rendition.
• Te Deum Laudamus. Another rendition.
• Phos hilaron (Park). A hymn for Vespers (Evening Prayer), sung by Cambridge Chorale at Ely Cathedral.
• Phos Hilaron (BCP 2019) Chant. The same hymn chanted.
• Nunc Dimittis: The Song of Simeon (Purcell)
• More coming soon