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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Redeem the time” the poet says and this book is a means toward that end. It is a contemporary book of daily prayer that is a week-long cycle focused on devotion to God in Christ through the life of Mary. It is a book of liturgies (the word liturgy means “work of the people”) that are called offices (which also means “work” and “offering”). But this office is an action and not a loca- tion; something we do rather than a place we go. So this book of officies is used to offer the work of a few minutes several times a day in the hope of redeeming the times of our lives. There are many kinds of prayer but all prayer is essentially being in relation- ship with God. This book offers both traditional and contempo- rary ways of being in the presence of God. The roots of these daily offices are in that branch of Christianity known as the Anglican Communion and more sp cifically the Episcopal Church of the United States of America. Their older roots stretch back to the early Christian church and the daily liturgies of worship that evolved in the mornings and evenings of those fledgling communities; the roots then encom- passed the monastic period in which daily worship was enlarged and enhanced. (LL)