MORNING AND EVENING PRAYERS
Prayers for each day of the week, plus Saturday Vespers and Sunday Matins!
A member asked today: “How do you and your wife continue your morning prayers after our online session? And what about evening prayers?” Good question! Let me step through the links shown on this photo of our web page https://agape-biblia.org/daily-prayers.htm -
The ”MORNING PRAYERS” link takes you to our page that explains how to JOIN our “live” prayers and readings of the life of a saint and the day’s Scripture readings. We use Microsoft Meet daily at 7 a.m. (ET) where we can see each other and visit after we end the recording. Then I post it to Substack, YouTube, Spotify, LinkedIn, eX-twitter, Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram. You can also text-chat or video-call us on Meet, and text-chat with us on Substack!
If you’d like some background Christian music, click the music player on the right side of the screen. You can adjust the volume to your taste. And on the right side of the screen you’ll see “an” link that displays the current daily prayer requests from our fortnightly newsletter.
First, we start with the Trisagion, then click the appropriate link for Morning or Evening, Saturday mini-Vespers or Sunday mini-Matins prayers. Near the end of Morning and Evening prayers, you can select a link for your own personal prayer items for each day of the week - you can type or paste them right into the web page and they will be saved automatically! There are also spaces to type or paste in names of the sick and for your departed loved ones.
Next, click on the link for Lives of the Saints and Scripture Readings for the day. You can choose New Calendar (Greek Orthodox website) or Old Calendar (Russian Orthodox website). When you’re done, simply click the “back” arrow and it takes you back to our Daily Prayers page.
At the top of Daily Prayers, you’ll see the link “Build the ARC” that tells about our goal of building a Christian community with 12 apartments and a community room / chapel that is fully accessible for elderly and physically disabled people, as well as for singles, young families, and “empty nesters” who crave real Christian community.
Also at the top, there’s a link to “print/feedback” where you can print a 1-sheet list of the prayers. This goes to our Literature page, where you can also print a PDF of our 28-page “Morning and Evening Prayers of the Orthodox Church” booklet in 5.5” x 8.5” format, plus a nice cover that you can print on card stock. It will cost you only about 25 cents each for the paper, card stock, and ink.
In the bottom frame on our “Daily Prayers” page you’ll notice the verse number “27” is a link: it takes you to our “Living Faith That Works” page that shows James 1:27 in its top frame and the first cross-reference in its bottom frame. Click on each cross-reference in the top frame to read dozens of Scripture texts on this theme of how real, living faith (see the James 2:14-20 link) results in good works.
Feel free to join us “live” in Meet and/or chat with us on Meet or Substack if you have any questions about this, or to just get acquainted!