Shorter Christian Prayer Book Help

[BLP]

I have just gotten the Shorter Christian Prayer Book and I can’t figure out how to use it. What pages/day/cycle are we on today? Where do I start and how do you know? Is there a chart that shows what cycle we are on? I’ve searched and cannot find help to answer these questions. Can anyone help? Thank you.

 

[Magdalen2013]

It’s the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and that means that we’re in Sunday of Week One of the Four Week Psalter.

Tonight, you’ll do Evening Prayer II* on Page 48, you may use Hymn 33 (page 595) or 182 (page 662), the Canticle of Mary** is on the inside of the back cover and the Antiphon for it is on page 517 in the Proper of the Seasons

Read pages 13 -15 for instructions on the celebration of the Hours.

Check at divineoffice.org to verify the readings if you are confused.

*Sunday Evening Prayer I is done on Saturday evening.

**the Canticle of Zechariah is found inside the Front Cover for Morning Prayer.

 

[OraLabora]

It’s the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, and that means that we’re in Sunday of Week One of the Four Week Psalter.

Tonight, you’ll do Evening Prayer II* on Page 48, you may use Hymn 33 (page 595) or 182 (page 662), the Canticle of Mary** is on the inside of the back cover and the Antiphon for it is on page 517 in the Proper of the Seasons

Read pages 13 -15 for instructions on the celebration of the Hours.

Check at divineoffice.org to verify the readings if you are confused.

*Sunday Evening Prayer I is done on Saturday evening.

**the Canticle of Zechariah is found inside the Front Cover for Morning Prayer.

Correction, it is Sunday of week 2 of the psalter. An even number week of OT cannot give an odd numbered week in the psalter.

 

[Magdalen2013]

And it’s been so long since I’ve used SCP that I got the WRONG WEEK.

It’s Sunday, Week TWO in the Psalter – so Evening Prayer Two is on Page 122

The Hymns are either 32, Now Thank We All Our God (P 595) or 40, Love Divine All Loves Excelling (P 598)

The Antiphons for the Canticles and the Prayer for the Fourteeth Sunday of Ordinary Time are found in the Proper of the Seasons on page 517.

I’m glad I went and double-checked at divineoffice.org…

 

[Della]

A quick way to figure out what week in the Psalter we’re on is to divide the week in ordinary time, such as the 14th week, by 4, which is 12, which leaves 2 to complete the number 14, and that is the week we’re on–week 2 in the Psalter. Week 15 would be 3 in the Psalter, week 16 would be 4, week 17 would be 1. Easy-peasy.