The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (Philippians 4:5b-6) My prayer is that this series of Reflections has been helpful for expanding your vision for your own prayer life. The Daily Office, as a form of prayer and a model for…

In our discussion of the way that the Daily Office shapes and forms us as a people of prayer, we come now to the prayer that embodies this dynamic more clearly than anything else. The Lord’s Prayer, the beginning of the section of the Daily Office focused on our prayers and petitions, is a microcosm of this entire project—what we pray shapes…

The next element of the Daily Office, which we are working our way through so as to explore the shape of a Christian prayer life, is to recite the Apostles’ Creed. Daily, we are affirming the core truths of our faith through this creed, reminding ourselves of what it is we believe and letting it settle deep into our bones. For when…