O Lord, mercifully receive the prayers of your people who call upon you, and grant that they may know and understand what things they ought to do, and also may have grace and power faithfully to accomplish them; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen. (Proper 10 Collect, Book of Common Prayer, page 231)
Try a chanting exercise from the CD Inside Chants. Chanting engages your body, mind, and spirit in prayer. As musician Ana Hernandez puts it, he sounds of chants "turns to energy, feeding our brain, causing it to relax. We let down our guard, defenses fall away, and we can hear our heart beating." Chanting focuses our being to let us hear the voice inside.
Read the Daily Office in either English or Spanish. The Daily Office provides a discipline of acknowledging God's presence through set prayers and readings throughout each day. Morning and Evening Prayers are common practices. Monastic communities often gather five times a day for prayer.
Pray-as-you-go offers daily prayer podcasts to download to your iPod or audio player. It guides listeners on their daily journey to work, school, or college through prayer and readings from the Jesuit's daily lectionary. Produced by Jesuit Media Initiatives.
Veriditas offers an online finger labyrinth to do at your desk. A labyrinth is a sacred pattern in the shape of a circle with one path that winds to the center and back out again. The labyrinth reflects the unity and wholeness of creation and our lives. Enter the labyrinth with by gently offering a question or situation to God with an attitude of openness. Click on the image to launch the labyrinth.
Download portions of the Book of Common Prayer for the Episcopal Church and Books of Common Prayer for a few other Provinces in the Anglican Communion. The Book of Common Prayer provides liturgies, prayers and instructions so that all Episcopalians share in a common worship.
A site of prayer resources including the calendar of saints, hymnal resources, the prayer book, and a searchable Bible. Oremus is Latin for "let us pray."
View mandalas from all over the world at the Mandala Project. A mandala is a circular pattern of lines and colors. Drawing a mandala can reveal your inner thoughts and God's voice to you.
Begin a 20-minute centering prayer exercise from St. Benedict's Monastery in Snowmass, Colorado. The Lord's Prayer ends the 20-minute silence. Centering prayer quiets and stills our body, mind, and spirit so that we may know God's presence in our innermost parts. It is a practice of deep breathing, detaching from thoughts, and traveling to where God dwells in us.
