If you already have an Ordo for daily usage, you can certainly test out any of these other formats and see if they are helpful grist for the spiritual mill.
Today I am going to post a link to the Order of Saint Luke's collected Ordo. There are not only the services of prayer for the day and night, but also some interpretive articles by some of the Brotherhood. I am a member of the Order and love the texts gathered here. Page through the pdf and find a service to try today. Perhaps morning is your quiet time, then use Morning Prayer. Maybe you need a break at mid-day, try the Diurnal Prayers. Some prefer evening.
Whatever time of day you favor for your devotional time, be sure to start small (if you are a novice at prayerbooks). The role of the prayerbook is to facilitate prayer. It not only primes your heart and reminds it of things that all humans would do well to look at (because it has grown over time by the additions of multitudes of people, countless generations) it also uses word that evoke other thoughts and feelings and desires that we would all do well to contain.
The other role of the prayerbook is to teach. The prayers are not only "live moments with God" but they are small instructional vignettes. Most prayerbooks are either chocked full of pieces of scripture, or are rewordings of scripture that call our attention to what scripture is calling us to.
With each days post I will also leave some relevant links to the places I have gathered prayers/services from, not only as copyright footnotes, but as sites you may want to explore on the spiritual journey. All of these places are worth our viewing. Below is the Daily Office of the Order of Saint Luke, and their website.
Peace,
+Tom
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