From the Poustinia: A Daily Prayer Podcast

Ash Wednesday Evensong 14.02.2024 16:40 ↓

Jesus told this parable to some who trusted in themselves

Ash Wednesday Morning Prayer 14.02.2024 25:03 ↓

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire

Evening Prayer for Monday, July 11, 2022 11.07.2022 15:36 ↓

Psalms 9 & 15, Canticle 15 (S242) and prayers for the feast of St Benedict and those under monastic vows.

Morning Prayer for Monday, July 11, 2021 11.07.2022 24:26 ↓

Hymn 8 (“Morning Has Broken”), Psalm 25, Canticle 10 (S213) and Canticle 19 (S267) plus a mini meditation on Rahab, Romans, colonialism, sex workers and what the heck God is up to.

Evening Prayer for Sunday, July 10, 2022 10.07.2022 17:12 ↓

Hymn 27, Psalms 114 & 115 (Plainsong Psalter), Canticle 15 (S242)

Morning Prayer for Sunday, July 10, 2022 10.07.2022 27:29 ↓

Everything you need to chant along can be found in the Hymnal 1982 and the Plainsong Psalter. We’ll sing Hymn 4, Psalms 148, 149 and 150, Canticle 16 (S248), and Canticle 21 (S282), plus you get a short bonus meditation after the second reading. Happy Sunday!

Evening Prayer for Friday, July 8, 2022 08.07.2022 19:53 ↓

A little meditation on the Little Apocalypse.

Morning Prayer for Friday, July 8, 2022 08.07.2022 18:53 ↓

The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart.

Evening Prayer for Thursday, July 7, 2022 07.07.2022 14:43 ↓

My God, you make my darkness bright.

Morning Prayer for Thursday, July 7, 2022 07.07.2022 19:56 ↓

Today’s readings invite a little meditation on a God who chooses, who sometimes seems to reject, and who is always faithful.

Evening Prayer for Wednesday, July 6, 2022 06.07.2022 14:03 ↓

Jesus upbraids the Pharisees (watch out for problematic anti-Jewish stereotypes) and we pray for peace.

Evening Prayer for Thursday, November 4th, 2021 04.11.2021 20:30 ↓

John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it; and they went and told Jesus.

Morning Prayer for Thursday, November 4th 2021 04.11.2021 22:47 ↓

The smoke of their torment goes up for ever and ever

Evening Prayer for Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 03.11.2021 16:53 ↓

Is not his mother called Mary?

Morning Prayer for Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 03.11.2021 22:13 ↓

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she had a place prepared by God

Evening Prayer for Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 02.11.2021 13:51 ↓

Have you understood all this?

Morning Prayer for Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 02.11.2021 23:06 ↓

In the sight of their foes they went up to heaven in a cloud

Evening Prayer for All Saints, Monday, November 1st, 2021 01.11.2021 20:19 ↓

We thought that his life was madness and his end without honor.

Morning Prayer for All Saints, Monday, November 1st, 2021 01.11.2021 24:46 ↓

Let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us

Evening Prayer for the Eve of All Saints, Sunday, October 31st, 2021 31.10.2021 15:29 ↓

The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God

Morning Prayer for Sunday, October 31st, 2021 31.10.2021 22:20 ↓

He sank into a deep sleep as Paul talked still longer

Evening Prayer for Saturday, October 30th, 2021 30.10.2021 12:47 ↓

I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world

Morning Prayer for Saturday, October 30th, 2021 30.10.2021 27:48 ↓

These are they who have come out of the great ordeal

Evening Prayer for Friday, October 29th, 2021 29.10.2021 24:04 ↓

An enemy has done this.

Morning Prayer for Friday, October 29th, 2021 29.10.2021 23:53 ↓

This is nothing else but sadness of the heart.