Not long ago, and I’m sure you remember it as if it were yesterday, I wrote about my search for the perfect prayer book. Help Help Help, &c.
Well, God and reader Ed P. have heard my cry. Ed P. writes:
. . . I commend to your consideration the “Monastic Diurnal” published by Lancelot Andrewes Press.
It contains the day hours of the “old” Benedictine Office with, I believe, the Coverdale Psalms. This is an Episcopal version, but the Book of Common Prayer variations are clearly set off after the Benedictine original. Besides the usual Breviary texts, there is a wealth of supplemental material. I have been using a copy for over two years now and it is a delight and worth every penny I paid. The book is pocket size and the binding is strongly sewn with a synthetic leather-like cover. The press also publishes Matins in a separate volume, but I do not own a copy, so I cannot offer any comments.
I haven’t got the book yet; that is, not that I’m aware of. As I say, we have a lot of prayer books on our shelves, and it wouldn’t surprise me to find this one lurking around someplace. If not, it sounds very worth checking out.
Thank you Thank you Thank you.
