Vintage Evening Prayer Liturgy

1. A Walk Through
Our New Evening
Prayer Liturgy
Sunday, November 19

2. Pulls us out of
- The painful past
- The distracted present
- The anxious future
And leads us into “Divine therapy”
(Brian Zahnd’s Prayer School )
Liturgical Prayer…

3. 1. Do you pray through this quietly or out loud?
2. What if you know you don’t have time to pray
through the whole thing in one sitting?
3. What Bible translation do you use?
4. Is there a larger print version available?
5. Others?
Questions Received So Far…

4. A brief walkthrough the history
of Christian theological evolution…
- The creation story
- The covenant with Abraham
- The covenant with Israel
- The doctrine of the incarnation
- The doctrine of the Trinity
- A common prayer of God’s
people throughout history
Address

5. One of the oldest, most common
forms of prayer in our history
- Psalm 51:15
- The “Gloria Patri” or “Gloria”
- Prayer/response in many
church traditions
- “Hallelujah” throughout the
year, except during Lent…
- Prayed in the plural on purpose
First Prayers

6. A major component of prayer life
in the Eastern tradition
- Often repeated as part of
ascetic prayer practice
- Espoused by early Church
fathers as a way to open up the
heart to God’s voice/presence
Jesus Prayer

7. From the Book of Common Prayer
- Continues the posture of
descent into God’s presence
- Acknowledges sins of both
commission and omission
- Again, prayed in the plural…
- Eludes to the Jesus Creed that we
end our service with each week
Confession of Sin

8. From the Book of Common Prayer
- Spoken or sung
- Written in 1674
- Originally intended as the
ending of a morning and
evening hymn for Winchester
College in the UK
The Doxology

9. Chose the “sins” version because
sometimes I think we need to
remember that we live in a world
marred by sin, one in which we
both passively experience sin’s
destructive power, as well as
actively contribute to it...
The Lord’s Prayer

10. An historic creed of the Church
dating back to the 4th century
- Represented the core tenets
of the early Church’s
“Rule of Faith”
- Confesses the “essentials”
- Offers specific responses to
several Christological heresies
circulating at the time…
The Nicene Creed

11. Against Christological heresies like:
- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus
Jesus as Superman, not really human
The Nicene Creed

12. Against Christological heresies like:
- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus
Jesus as Superman, not really human
- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus
Jesus as chosen/divinized by God
The Nicene Creed

13. Against Christological heresies like:
- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus
Jesus as Superman, not really human
- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus
Jesus as chosen/divinized by God
- Eutychianism Blended/Alloy Jesus
Jesus as “other,” neither human/divine
The Nicene Creed

14. Against Christological heresies like:
- Docetism Clark Kent Jesus
Jesus as Superman, not really human
- Adoptionism Over-achiever Jesus
Jesus as chosen/divinized by God
- Eutychianism Blended/Alloy Jesus
Jesus as “other,” neither human/divine
- Apollinarianism Download Jesus
Hybrid: human body/divine mind/soul
The Nicene Creed

15. Against Christological heresies like:
- Arianism In-between Jesus
not human or divine; first creature;
had a beginning; this theory was
growing in popularity/influence
outside of Alexandria and needed
to be countered/clarified…
- “Of one being/substance…”
The Nicene Creed

16. From the Book of Common Prayer
- Originally “…Lord Christ”
- “…Jesus” is more natural for me
An Evening Prayer

17. A prayer reflecting the Trinitarian
nature of the Christian faith
- Dates back to the 5th century
- Standard part of liturgical
tradition in the Eastern
Orthodox and Eastern
Catholic church
An Trisagion Prayer

18. Prayer For Mercy
The kyrie eleison is highly esteemed
in both the Eastern Orthodox and
Western liturgical traditions…
- Matthew 15:22; Luke 18:39
- A prayer of petition
- A prayer of thanksgiving

19. “There is a different form of
Compline for each day of the week.
Each is named after an individual
from the era of the Celtic Saints,
serving as another reminder of the
example set by ‘good ones of old’
(i.e. the “communion of saints” or
“great cloud of witnesses”) who
inspire us to seek God as they did.”
Compline Prayers

21. Confession…
A common acclamation of faith
across multiple church traditions,
and a condensed declaration of the:
- Incarnation, crucifixion Christ has
died
- Resurrection, ascension Christ is
risen
- Eschaton Christ will come again

22. 1. Do you pray through this quietly or out loud?
2. What if you know you don’t have time to pray
through the whole thing in one sitting?
3. What Bible translation do you use?
4. Is there a larger print version available?
5. Others?
Questions Received So Far…

23. A Walk Through
Our New Evening
Prayer Liturgy
Sunday, November 19

24. Hear, O Israel:
the Lord our God, the Lord is one;
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind,
and with all your strength.’
And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
There is no other commandment
greater than these.”
Mark 12