2006 Thus Far
The dust is finally settling after many back-to-back phenomena -- Christmas, the wedding details, the wedding itself, the Rose Bowl, return to work, etc.
Melissa and the Abbey seemed to have adjusted to one another quite beautifully so far. We are thrilled to have her stay with us as a fully-resident family member now! In such a small community, it's amazing how much one person can contribute to the overall dynamics and chemistry.
We are currently trying to tweak our daily prayer "offices" to better accomodate our particular situation. We are currently using the Revised Common Lectionary, with daily readings as suggested by none other than pcusa. In the mornings we read the designated morning psalm, the gospel selection and either the OT or NT passage. Which ever passage we don't read then will be read in solitude at some other part of the day.
The big change is an effort to add a brief evening prayer in lieu of compline. The idea is to read the evening psalm from pcusa, combined with a brief meditation (Merton, Bonhoeffer, Brueggeman, Berry, etc.) and book-ended with liturgical prayer. We are still developing the liturgical portion.
We've got a few other potential areas we'd like to tweak in the near future as well. Will keep you posted...
BTW, if you have any ideas about how to arrange the Psalms into an 8-week cycle, we would love to know about it.
Melissa and the Abbey seemed to have adjusted to one another quite beautifully so far. We are thrilled to have her stay with us as a fully-resident family member now! In such a small community, it's amazing how much one person can contribute to the overall dynamics and chemistry.
We are currently trying to tweak our daily prayer "offices" to better accomodate our particular situation. We are currently using the Revised Common Lectionary, with daily readings as suggested by none other than pcusa. In the mornings we read the designated morning psalm, the gospel selection and either the OT or NT passage. Which ever passage we don't read then will be read in solitude at some other part of the day.
The big change is an effort to add a brief evening prayer in lieu of compline. The idea is to read the evening psalm from pcusa, combined with a brief meditation (Merton, Bonhoeffer, Brueggeman, Berry, etc.) and book-ended with liturgical prayer. We are still developing the liturgical portion.
We've got a few other potential areas we'd like to tweak in the near future as well. Will keep you posted...
BTW, if you have any ideas about how to arrange the Psalms into an 8-week cycle, we would love to know about it.
