Evening prayer books

 We just got back from 2 weeks at West Point NY visiting with my oldest son & his family. What a blessing!

He’s an intensely devoted Catholic; I deeply respect his devotion. Every evening he, Rachel, & the children read/sang from these little prayer books. The book provided a different script for each day of the week. Then you just go through it again & again each week. The entire thing took around 10 minutes. I thought it was beautiful that they did this each evening. It was also especially pleasing since both Devon & Rachel have really good singing voices.

It’s really a great concept. Yes, I realize that these books have been around for well over 100 years, but since I’m from a vastly different Christian tradition, it was all new to me. I can see the benefit of the repetition because it would imprint these words into one’s heart. However, if I’ll being transparent here, I find the songs very dirge-like in style and don’t see everything being sung the entire time as necessary. A part of me wants to make my own prayer book to use. I could compile simple songs, prayers & verses myself…