ONE WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

One Week in Ordinary Time is a meditation rendering of Psalms (146 of the 150), Canticles (40), Sayings of Jesus, Scripture Readings on the Christian Life (42), and traditional songs from the public domain (46), arranged for offices of Readings, Prophets, Morning Prayer, Daytime, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer. Almost all of the Psalms and Canticles and Readings are placed on the same day of the week as in the four-week traditional cycle of the Liturgy of the Hours. Designed by a parish priest as a straightforward introduction to praying the Liturgy of the Hours, One Week can also be used for private prayer and meditation by veterans of the breviary who wish now and then to pray the full Psalter in one week. This meditation rendering follows consciously these four choices