I started doing Celtic Daily Prayer a while back. At first it was great because it brought some consistency to my prayer life. But now I am feeling spiritually malnurished living on that diet. I am going to take a little break from it and just concentrate on simple bible reading with The Message. Hopefully that will be enough to put things back into balance.
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Posted by Daniel
on August 24, 2004
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Daniel,
I stumbled upon your blog a couple of weeks ago (can’t remember right now from whose blog the link was) and have enjoyed your insights. On the topic of Celtic Daily Prayer. I’ve been doing it for about six months now, and it has probably been the single most important thing ever in giving me consistency in my prayer life. But I could not exist only upon CDP. I use it as a “springboard” in my prayers, and to refocus at midday and also in the evening. So I conyinue to use it, but supplement it with some deeper readings that are not from CDP. Also helpful to me has been the practice of Lectio Divina (if you are familiar with that) whenever I can set aside a block of time to do that. Anyway, I just thought I would share that and thanks for the insights.
Hey A, thanks for writing. You are right, man cannot live on CDP alone… I don’t want to lose it(and especially the consistency it brings), just take a break to jumpstart something else. I might actually do Holy Island Prayer Book for a little while to give me some change. If you have any other advice, please feel free to share it.
What a coincidenace; I was looking at the Holy Island Prayer Book on barnes and noble today. I’m thinking about giving it a go as well.
It’s pretty good. Lots of variety in it’s 5 weeks of prayers. I like the different topic for each day. But you can’t memorize it like you can CDP. It does not have any complines either, just morning, noon and evening… so I might still use the CDP complines. Seems like a good change of pace from CDP.