![]() ![]() First Thessalonians 5:17 seems to have encouraged early Christians to gather regularly for prayer following the example of the Apostles and “Mary the mother of Jesus” as described in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:14). ![]() The continuity between Jewish and Christian traditions seems clear, as Christ’s first followers were Jewish and no doubt comfortable with existing forms of public prayer.Īlong with possible Jewish roots, another important source of the Divine Office is the New Testament injunction to “pray without ceasing,” found in Saint Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians, a document that even pre-dates the written Gospels. Jews and Christians prayed the Psalms and other Scripture texts especially in the morning and evening and continue to do so. Many scholars hold that the origins of the Christian Office are within the Jewish liturgical tradition due to the fact that the Book of Psalms is the bulk of the structure for both Jewish and Christian public prayer (outside of the Mass). ![]() No exact date, however, can be assigned to the inauguration of the official “Prayer of the Church,” the Divine Office, as we’ve come to know it. The origins of the Divine Office, the Opus Dei or “Work of God,” are to be found in the early Church. Sayings and Stories from the Desert Fathers.How We Pray and Chant – Monastic life has prayer at its very heart.Abbot’s Archives – Personal reflections from our abbots across the years.Subscriptions – We can add you to our postal or electronic mailing lists for monastery news and homilies.Fourteenth Sunday Ordinary Time, Year A.Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A.Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A.Take yourself on a virtual tour around our Monastery. ![]()
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