Lord, Open My Lips: The Liturgy of the Hours As Daily Prayer - Softcover

Murray, Seth H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972520082 ISBN 13: 9780972520089

Publisher: North Bay Books, 2004

Synopsis

Lord, Open My Lips is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours - those powerful prayers that contemporary Christian monks gather to recite seven times each day. Designed to help laypeople integrate these prayers into their daily routine, this guide can be used in conjunction with any of the several basic texts of the liturgy currently in use. Tested by students of the liturgy for more than three years, Lord, Open My Lips has been carefully revised for clarity and simplicity.

About this title

About the Author

A former Assistant Director for Ministry Formation for the Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, Seth Murray holds a Masters Degree in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas Institute for Religious and Pastoral Studies (now headquartered at Ave Maria University in Naples, Florida).

Raised in various Protestant denominations, Seth and his wife, Tyra, entered into full communion with the Catholic Church in 1994. He and Tyra own and operate the online store and prayer resource, The Rosary Shop. They live with their four children in McMinnville, Oregon.

From the Inside Flap

For more than 1,500 years, the life of Christian communities has been shaped by a dynamic collection of Psalms, hymns, prayers and readings known as "the Liturgy of the Hours." These are the words that religious men and women gather to chant and recite at specified times throughout the day. Anyone who has participated in this "Divine Office" can testify to its power to infuse the activities of daily life with a sense of holiness.

Lord, Open My Lips is a concise, class-tested, easy-to-use manual for praying the Liturgy of the Hours, designed to help laypeople integrate the Liturgy, or elements of it, into their prayer life. It serves as a guide to any of the standard editions of the Liturgy, whose language and organization most newcomers to the Hours will find dauntingly complex.

Lord, Open My Lips has been carefully written and revised for clarity and simplicity. It includes a short introduction to chant, and useful resources for forming a prayer group. This manual and a prayer book are all one needs to successfully master a prayer that, as the Catechism explains, "is intended to become the prayer of the whole People of God."

Edition details

• Publisher: North Bay Books
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972520082
• ISBN 13: 9780972520089
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 103