June 17, 2009> 9:09 PM
oremus Well, this is something that's been on my back burner for a while now and I thought this was as good a time as any to just get it started. Oremus means "let us pray," basically, in Latin. For our purposes here, it's a new podcast that I'll be doing about liturgical prayer and monastic practices for everyday Christians "in the world." This is something I've been thinking about doing for a while, almost a year. I actually sat down out back and recorded the first podcast last September and never did anything with it. I guess now I'm doing something with it.
Praying the Liturgy of the Hours has been a very good thing for me for several years, even as sporadic as my practice has been sometimes. And I've loved being able to introduce this kind of prayer to others along the way. I have felt as if that, along with thinking about some other ways of living monastically "in the world" are a part of my personal vocation - part of it. So this will be some part of living that out for me. I hope it proves to be helpful for anyone who listens.
The first issue is ready to go. I've set up a simple site to house the podcast episodes. You can check that out here. The podcast is also now available, all one episode of it, on iTunes. You can subscribe to the Oremus Podcast through this feed. The first episode is basically an introduction to the what and why of it, I pray one of the little hours from the LOTH, etc. I hope, in the future, to be talking about some "how-tos" of praying the Office, other contemplative ways of prayer/meditation, interview friends from different Christian traditions who pray in this way, etc. I'm looking forward to it. Pray for me that I keep to this and make it a regular thing.
June 17, 2009
> 9:09 PM
Well, this is something that's been on my back burner for a while now and I thought this was as good a time as any to just get it started. Oremus means "let us pray," basically, in Latin. For our purposes here, it's a new podcast that I'll be doing about liturgical prayer and monastic practices for everyday Christians "in the world." This is something I've been thinking about doing for a while, almost a year. I actually sat down out back and recorded the first podcast last September and never did anything with it. I guess now I'm doing something with it.
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