Plans are Underway --and now confirmed!--for Ecumenical Daily Prayer in Richmond, Kentucky

Members of five parishes--St. Mark's Catholic, St. Thomas Lutheran, Our Saviour Episcopal, First Prsbyterian, and First United Methodist--are now being asked to participate in An Invitation to Daily Prayer, an eight-week gathering of Christians, starting on Thursday, January 18, of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Here are the dates, topics, and places where we're meeting as of today:

• January 18, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  The What and Why of Daily Prayer
  St. Thomas Lutheran Church
  1285 Barnes Mill Road (one mile west of I-75’s Exit 97).
  
  
• January 25, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  The History of Daily Prayer
  First United Methodist Church
  Hartman Room
  401 West Main Street, Richmond, KY
  
  
• February 1, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  The Place of Scripture in Daily Prayer
  First Presbyterian Church
  330 West Main Street, Richmond, KY

• February 8, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  The Shape of Morning and Evening Prayer
  Episcopal Church of Our Saviour
  2336 Lexington Road, Richmond, KY
  
  
• February 15, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  Jesus, Our Praying Lord and Daily Teacher
  First Presbyterian Church
  330 West Main Street, Richmond, KY
  
  
• February 22, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  Why and How We Pray the Psalms Daily
  First United Methodist Church
  Hartman Room
  401 West Main Street, Richmond, KY
  
  
• March 1, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  Offices for Daily Prayer
  St. Thomas Lutheran Church and/or the Curtis-Pike Community
  
  
• March 8, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
  Sustaining Daily Prayer
  Episcopal Church of Our Saviour
  2336 Lexington Road, Richmond, KY
  

If you wish to participant, call 589-582-3368 for more information or ask your pastor or priest for details.

The posts below highlight several of the prayerbooks from Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox traditions that participants will share with one another. Each of these prayerbooks provides an attractive use of the Church's Morning and Evening Prayers, now a three-thousand years tradtion. This bibliography will soon include books related to the Daily Prayer of the Church, sometimes known as The Daily Office.