Acts 2.42

One of the many extraordinary aspects of living in community and being at summer camp is the abundant opportunity for various forms of prayer.  One such prayer is The Divine Office.  Each morning the full-time and summer missionaries (and anyone who would like to join them) rise around 6am to participate in a holy hour (adoration) and then have morning prayer.  Morning prayer is called The Divine Office which “From ancient times the Church has had the custom of celebrating each day the liturgy of the hours. In this way the Church fulfills the Lord’s precept to pray without ceasing, at once offering its praise to God the Father and interceding for the salvation of the world.”  – Office of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship.  The Liturgy of the Hours is the prayer of the whole People of God. In it, Christ himself “continues his priestly work through his Church.” His members participate according to their own place in the Church and the circumstances of their lives. The laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office either with the priests, among themselves, or individually. The celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours demands not only harmonizing the voice with the praying heart, but also a deeper “understanding of the liturgy and of the Bible, especially of the Psalms.”  (www.divineoffice.org)  One of my favorite parts of this is singing the "Salve Regina" at the end of the prayer.  Mary, Our Mother, has always brought me great comfort and as "camp mother" I find I am in constant need of her patience, kindness, compassion, meekness, and courage.  Salve Regina!  Ashley - Psalm 34.5

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Jessica, Life Teen full-time missionary and Camp Coordinator for Session 1, always radiating Mary's joy.