I have been using Phyllis Tickle's Divine Hours for about two months now and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I pray three times a day with it. The morning, afternoon, and evening prayers. I don't have time to pray the compline readings at this time. Often my afternoon prayers are said more like 5pm and the evening prayers at bedtime, but for me, I try not to be too rigid with the times. I have enjoyed praying the psalms, poems, and Bible readings. I love how it follows the liturgical year. I have f...

Great discipline to read every day.I will continue to use this great tool on a daily basis to start my day with God. It’s a seasonal book so I will be reading it again soon when Autumn comes back around. Highly recommend.

Another good collection of prayers. I appreciated the extra prayers for Advent and Christmas.

I really love the IDEA of The Divine Hours but this version just didn’t draw me in. Or maybe I didn’t read it the right way. I understand that the repetition in liturgy is supposed to be comforting, but I found my mind wandering far too often in the repetitiveness. Maybe I’ll try it again in a different season in my life.

Wonderful gift and toolThis one of several of Phyllis Tickle’s prayer books is a wonderful way to use scripture and the words of others to pray and pause throughout the day. It also includes the opportunity to enter into some of the seasons of the church calendar.

Love it but Kindle is hard to navigate A very refreshing approach to prayer. I love the repetition of the psalms and ancient prayers. I wish the kindle version was easier to sort through.

This is a prayer book for Autumn and Winter.

For anyone who is interested in praying the hours, this and its companion volumes are a wonderful resource.

A daily habit of prayers and readings.

One of the finest novels in the English language, but unputdownable.

I like these prayers. They are beautiful.

I ate the whole thing! Highly recommended for anyone who wants to pray the offices throughout the day, and prefers analog over digital.

I have long been drawn to fixed-hour prayer. Growing up, we were taught to have a "quiet time" or "devotional" with God once a day. This has been my regular practice through the years, though like any normal human there were seasons when it went well and times of stagnation. While I treasured reading scripture, prayer often seemed like an add-on, the time when I was supposed to do something but too often my mind wandered. At times journaling helped as writing things out helps keep focus.A few ye...

Among my favorite devotional books, this Divine Hours series sets out prayers--mostly Scripture, with the addition of hymns in the evenings--of Morning, Midday, and Vespers Prayers. Compline is also available at the end of each month, set for one week, Sunday through Saturday, that is repeated as often as is necessary each month if desired. Because I use this devotional in tandem with The Book of Common Prayer 2011, I use the BCP Compline rather than the one in this Divine Hours series. I love p...

This volume, one of three covering the calendar year, affords those of us who haven't gotten to a nunnery a structure and discipline for Scripture-based prayer. Four times a day is a big commitment. I'll admit I don't always pray at the suggested times. But, I pray. Sometimes, I chant the prayers and sing the Vespers hymns (the dog seems to enjoy it). Phyllis Tickle's Hours series might strike some people as old-fashioned, but I've found it refreshing and had no problem fitting it into modern li...

One of the enduring practices of spirtuality is that of prayer. Within the Christian practice is the traditionn of fixed-hour prayer, and within that tradition is found the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. The author of The Divine Hours, Phyllis Tickle, based this contemporary prayer manual upon the Book of Common Prayer.Tickle, who was the founding editor of the Religion Department of Publishers Weekly, is a lay minister of the Episcopal Church and is a Senior Fellow of Cathedral College of the

A very helpful devotional tool. Each day has four prayers to use. They help give your day a real rhythm, and there is a context for each (e.g. the morning prayer contains a request to keep one from sin while the vespers and compline prayers contain words of repentance for the sins committed for the day). The book also follows (though a bit more loosely than other books) the liturgical calender (in this volume, for example, there are advent and Christmas prayers). Many elements remain the same ea...

If this is your first intro to fixed-hour prayer, Divine Hours can seem a little heavy. You might want to first try Common Prayer by Claiborne. However, this amazing series gives a much deeper journey into the practice as it includes 3 unique prayers for each day and a set of daily prayers for each month's compline. It also includes various special weeks for the high seasons of the Church. Following the BCP, with readings primarily from the Jerusalem Bible, and excerpts from Christians of many t...

Of all of the web-based and book-form daily hour prayers, The Divine Hours seems to most closely fit my daily routine. There are a total of three volumes for the year; there is also a night-time Divine Hours from Oxford Press for over-night prayers. The Psalms are heavily cited, as well as other prayers, poetry, canticles and more. The only thing I don't follow closely is the reading of offices on exactly the hour or half-hour, as suggested in the book.

A lovely reference and resource. Personally, too much to use all of it for daily practice, but wonderful for periods or used partially as time, needs, and desires permit. Has an expanded section for use during Advent. Based on ancient Benedictine hours, with a Morning Office, Midday Office, Vespers Office, and Compline (Night Office). Like the care of the publishing and binding of the hardcopy.

The book is part of a three book set that covers the entire calendar year as well as providing special material for Lent and Advent. Please see my review for "The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime" by Phyllis Tickle.Please see my review for "The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime" by Phyllis Tickle.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

When I remember to pray through this book, I am blessed and comforted, and feel like I have hit the reset button on my relationship with God. This could be called The Book of Common Prayer Lite -- the actual BCP is confusing (to me, anyways) but this presents a very similar prayer format, a little bit pared down and in a way that's easy to follow.

i used this as my devotional on the subway to and from work when i first started my new job. it was perfect for where i was at in life, in that it kept me connected with god, and helped me stay grounded as i transitioned out of ministry.

So, this isn't the kind of book you read straight through obviously since it is a daily prayer book, but I love it. it has prayer 3 to for times a day, and revives the ancient practice of keeping the daily office. Nothing I have read or done recently has helped my prayer life more!

I've used the Divine Hours books for several years. Well put together. Good quality throughout. I think they can now only be purchased new as paperback which is too bad as the hard cover edition will stay open on your desk or table. The p'back will not.

This book was a gift from a friend and I am so grateful for the opportunity to have really explored a different way of prayer. I do believe that many of these traditional praying methods bring with them an overwhelming sense of peace. I believe we all ultimately seek.

I have been using these prayer books for a few years, but this was the first time I actually committed to doing all the prayers every day. It was really worth it.

A nice way to bring an order and settledness to daily, regular prayer. Not repetitive and not Catholic theology.Very nice find.

A good help to get in the habit of daily prayer. Sort of liturgical - each session is almost like a little mini-worship service but helpful.

I love the rhythm of praying the hours, even though, as a Protestant, it's not really part of my culture. These books make it so easy! I love these books.