InPraying the HoursSuzanne Guthrie offers us a contemporary way to practice the ancient tradition of hallowing time throughout the day by marking the hours with prayer and thanksgiving. With humor and wisdom she draws on her experience as a wife, mother, Episcopal priest, and teacher of children, showing us through her own life how these devotions can fold into the times of a hectic day. By praying the hours all the activities of our days - our eating, sleeping, working, cleaning, playing, and reading - become part of the sanctification of time and place.
In part one Guthrie focuses on the importance of stability of place in the life of prayer. Every time I move, she observes, I have to learn to pray all over again, and she describes how she has learned to make a new home a house of prayer. In part two Guthrie takes us through the hours of prayer in the monastic day and explores how praying at fixed hours through the day can draw us closer to God.
Praying the Hoursis one of our series of Cowley Cloister Books: smaller format, gift edition books designed for meditative and devotional reading.
SUZANNE GUTHRIEis an Episcopal priest at Holy Cross Episcopal Church in Kingston, New York, where she uses theatre, dance, and movement to teach Bible and worship to children. She is also a workshop and retreat leader, and the author of
Grace's Window: Entering the Seasons of Prayer.
In this fine collection of meditations, Guthrie demonstrates how it is possible to sanctify the activities of sleeping, waking, reading, working, and gardening... Guthrie notes, 'Every time I have ever moved, I have had to learn to pray all over again.' We all know the feeling. Whether writing about the accumulation of dust in her house in Poughkeepsie, their backyard garden, or worship services at the Holy Cross Monastery,...the author captures the devotional aspect of praising God in all that she does. Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat,Cultural|
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