Excerpt from Jesus Our Table Guest: An Order of Family Prayer
The "Order of Family Prayer," published a few years ago by the author, being out of print, the question of printing a new edition came up for consideration. On reflection, it was deemed best not to retain the order there recommended. but to present an entirely new Order of Service.
The family, being assembled in any convenient room of the dwelling, each member having a copy of this Order in hand, the service may be fully carried out as herein laid down, for the several seasons of the Church year. The form is fully printed, without abbreviation, in the first service for the first week in Advent.
The observation and experience of the author have brought him to the conviction that, if ever family prayer is to be generally practiced in our families both in town and country, it must be offered whilst the members of the family, old and young, are sitting around the table at the morning or evening meal. Then they are necessarily together, but it is difficult to get them regularly together at any other time. The interruptions are so frequent when the time of family prayer is fixed at an hour either before or after the meal, and in another room of the dwelling, that the service, after having been for a short time irregularly held and often interfered with, is soon abandoned altogether. But when all are sitting at the table, and without changing the posture, it is not difficult to have family prayer. This little manual is specially prepared for use in this way. Let a copy he placed beside each plate and before each guest, and, opening at the regular week of the Church year, let the form here laid down be gone through with by all joining in the parts assigned them. The parts for the father, or whoever leads in his stead, and the parts for the family in the Kyrie, the Gloria, etc., are printed in full in the first service in the book, as a specimen of the way in which they are to he said throughout the book. The Bible lesson can be read by the head of the family, or by one of the children; or the father can say one verse, and all the others say the next in unison, and so on until the whole is read.
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