How to Pray from the Book of Common Prayer: The Daily Office, Morning Prayer Detailed

This video is for anyone curious about how to pray the Daily Office found within various Anglican Traditions. In particular, this video walks us through how to pray Morning Prayer Rite II from the Book of Common Prayer 1979 (BCP), used most commonly in the Episcopal Church in the United States (https://episcopalchurch.org/).

The video begins with a brief history of the Daily Office and continues with a detailed description of how to prayer Morning Prayer Rite II. Morning Prayer is used as an example of how to pray one of the 4 prayers in the Daily Office.

You will need a Book of Common Prayer 1979 either in hard copy or found online (bcponline.org) to follow along with this video.

Morning Prayer begins on pp. 75 in the BCP 1979. Morning Prayer continues as follows:

pp. 75-78: Opening sentence of scripture
pp. 79: Confession of Sin
pp. 80: Absolution
pp. 80: Invitatory and Pslater
pp. 80-82: Antiphons
pp. 82-83: Venite/Jubilate/Christ Our Passover
pp. 84: Psalm & Lesson (Psalter on pp. 581-808; Lectionary on pp. 933-1001; prayer.forwardmovement.org)
pp. 85-96: Canticles
pp. 96: Apostle's Creed
pp. 97: Lord's Prayer
pp. 97-98: Suffrages A & B
pp. 98-100, 157-251: Collects of the Day
pp. 100-101: Collects for Mission
pp. 101: The General Thanksgiving
pp. 102: Prayer of St. Chrysostom
pp. 102: Dismissal

Definitions on video from "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church," https://episcopalchurch.org/library/g...