Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism (eBook)

Wesley Hill, Peter J. Leithart, Ben Myers (Autoren)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Lexham Press (Verlag)
978-1-68359-755-1 (ISBN)

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A life discipled by the catechism. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism is perfect for daily devotions, personal study, and prayer with others. - Let the catechism of the Ten Commandments, Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer guide your devotional life. - Experience a simple liturgy of morning and evening prayer. - Pray fresh prayers inspired by the catechism. - Read Scripture with the church year. - Understand the riches of the catechism with Peter J. Leithart, Ben Myers, and Wesley Hill. The catechism- the Ten Commandments, the Apostles' Creed, and the Lord's Prayer-has sustained and nurtured every generation of believers, directing their faith, hope, and love. It helps Christians read, pray, and live God's word. By giving Christians God's word to give back to him, it plants seeds of his word and cultivates them to full growth. The Collected Christian Essentials: Catechism brings the church's ancient catechism to a new generation. The twenty-four catechism prayers were written by the Right Reverend Joey Royal, Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Arctic.

Peter J. Leithart is president of the Theopolis Institute.

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An Order
of Prayer

With Confession and Forgiveness

Deep calls to deep at the roar of your waterfalls;

all your breakers and your waves have gone over me.

By day the Lord commands his steadfast love,

and at night his song is with me,

a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 42:7–8

When we’ve run out of words—whether because of sorrow or happiness—God gives us his own words, because God’s word interprets us, our lives, our worries, and our joys. “The Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words” (Rom 8:26). And so, since ancient times, Christian worship has been defined as receiving God’s word and speaking God’s word back to him. This order and logic undergirds the Daily Office: the twin services of Morning and Evening Prayer (also called Matins and Vespers).

This Order of Prayer is a simplified version of the Daily Office. The English version of the Daily Office is mediated through the Book of Common Prayer. The sixteenth-century English Reformer Thomas Cranmer streamlined the eight prayer offices of the medieval church into two and rendered them in common English for common Christians.1 Thanks to Cranmer, all are now welcome to enjoy the hallowed tradition of praying psalms and verses.

This simplified Order of Prayer shows the basic structure and logic of the Daily Office. Once you’re used to this Order, you should be comfortable with any edition of the Book of Common Prayer (and there are many!) or any of the various traditional prayer offices. If you want to further explore the tradition of the Daily Office, there’s a list of prayer books and prayer book resources at the end of the notes section, “Bible References and History of the Order of Prayer,” below.

This order of prayer has five parts: (1) Invocation, (2) Confession and Forgiveness, (3) the Service of the Word, (4) Prayer and Thanksgiving, and (5) Benediction. These five parts invite us into God’s word, which brings God present with all his gifts of forgiveness, salvation, and life, and they send us out into the world with words of faith, hope, and love.

Prayer begins with the Invocation, the speaking of God’s name, because God promises to be present in his name and word.

In Confession and Forgiveness, we tell the truth: we have fallen short of God’s law by sinning against him and our neighbors; and we hear God’s promise of forgiveness and the declaration of forgiveness.

In The Service of the Word, we hear God’s word. God’s word calls us to worship, instructs us, comforts us, and gives us hope; we respond in thanksgiving for God’s word with God’s word.

In Prayer and Thanksgiving, we ask our merciful God for his mercy; we confess who he is and what he has done and continues to do, and we pray as he taught us.

In the Benediction, we praise and thank God, blessing those present with God’s name.

This order of prayer can be prayed individually; just read all the text as if you were reading a book. It can also be used by a group—with a leader speaking the plain text, and the group responding with the words in bold. The psalms and songs can be read in unison or in response—with a leader reading up to the asterisk and the group reading the line after the asterisk.

An Order of Prayer

Invocation

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Our help is in the name of the Lord,

who made heaven and earth.Psalm 124:8

I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”

and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.Psalm 32:5

Confession & Forgiveness

The Confession of Sin

Let us confess our sins to God:

Most merciful God,

we confess that we have sinned against you

in thought, word, and deed,

by what we have done,

and by what we have left undone.

We have not loved you with our whole heart;

we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.

We are truly sorry and we humbly repent.

For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ,

have mercy on us and forgive us;

that we may delight in your will,

and walk in your ways,

to the glory of your holy name.

Amen.

The Forgiveness of Sin

Almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us all our sins through our Lord Jesus Christ,

strengthen us in all goodness,

and by the power of the Holy Spirit keep us in eternal life.

Amen.

The Service of the Word

Psalm of Praise

O come, let us sing to the Lord; *

let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *

and show ourselves glad in him with psalms.

For the Lord is a great God *

and a great King above all gods.

In his hand are all the corners of the earth, *

and the strength of the hills is his also.

The sea is his, for he made it; *

and his hands prepared the dry land.

O come, let us worship and fall down *

and kneel before the Lord our maker.

For he is the Lord our God, *

and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Psalm 95:1–7

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Prayer for Hearing the Word

Blessed Lord, you have caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning. Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of your holy word, we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which you have given us in our Savior Jesus Christ; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Reading of the Word

Here at least one Bible passage is read; see page 377 for a Bible-reading plan.

After a psalm:

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

After other readings:

The word of the Lord:

Thanks be to God!

Response to the Word

In the Morning

Zechariah’s Song, or The Benedictus

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; *

he has come to his people and set them free.

He has raised up for us a mighty Savior, *

born of the house of his servant David.

Through his holy prophets he promised of old *

that he would save us from our enemies, from the hands of all who hate us.

He promised to show mercy to our fathers *

and to remember his holy covenant.

This was the oath he swore to our father Abraham: *

to set us free from the hands of our enemies,

free to worship him without fear, *

holy and righteous in his sight all the days of our life.

You, my child, shall be called the prophet of the Most High; *

for you will go before the Lord to prepare his way,

to give his people knowledge of salvation *

by the forgiveness of their sins.

In the tender compassion of our God *

the dawn from on high shall break upon us,

to shine on those who dwell in
darkness and the shadow of death, *

and to guide our feet
into the way of peace.

Luke 1:68–79

In the Evening

Mary’s Song, or The Magnificat

My soul magnifies the Lord, *

and my spirit rejoices in God...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2023
• Mitarbeit: General-Herausgeber: Todd R. Hains
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Religionspädagogik / Katechetik
• ISBN-10: 1-68359-755-9 / 1683597559
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68359-755-1 / 9781683597551