This Order for Daily Devotion offers a structure to encourage the discipline of daily private devotion. It may be used alone, or in a family or other small group. What is said about Readings, in the introductory rubrics to the Daily Service, is relevant here.
The structure of the Daily Office is:
Scripture Sentence
Collect of the Day
Song of Praise
Psalm(s) said or sung
Scripture Reading(s)
Silence
Song of Praise
Thanksgivings and Intercessions
Lord’s Prayer
Final Collect
Conclusion
The Song of Praise, at 3 and at 7, is usually from a biblical text, and is set out for responsive or antiphonal reading by a family or other group. It may, of course, be said alone. A hymn or song may be substituted for it.
The Conclusion is sometimes in the form of a prayer for blessing. A minister may use it as a benediction by changing the first person pronouns in italics to the second person.
Extracts from the Book of Common Order of the Church of Scotland 2nd ed. 1996 ISBN 0 7152 0721 0 © Panel on Worship of the Church of Scotland 1994
On this website the daily devotion departs from the Common Order text in the following small respects: Links to the Church of Scotland Pray Now site have been added at section 2, and to the Prayers for the Season (if any) at step 9. The General Collects for Monday to Saturday have also been added at step 10.
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