Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: tconwell%oiscola@mathcs.emory.edu (Ted Conwell) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Evening Prayer Message-ID: Date: 27 Feb 91 05:34:25 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Dear Cindy, I just started reading this news group and your article was the first in the queue. Maybe it is God's will. I have been a Third Order Franciscan (Episcopalian) since the middle 1970's. I became involved with the order while living in San Francisco and spent many an evening with the brothers at their Friary. Evening Prayer is best followed from the Prayer Book. There is a minimum of jumping around (psalm in the back and Scripture readings from the Bible) and it is quite simple. Do you do Morning Prayer also? What about the noon office and Compline? I hope that you have a support group of other Franciscans near you. I am the only one in Columbia, SC and it gets lonely. I was one of 7 in the greater Cincinnati/Dayton area when I lived there. I was the only one in San Diego, but we had a good fellowship that met frequently in Riverside and I was able to make some of those meetings. Also, the Southern California fellowship met frequently on Saturdays to permit people to make the meetings. We had members all over the greater LA basin. It is best if you can start saying the offices with others and then branch out on your own. It takes some time to get used to the sequence, but it is worth it. I hope that you have received input from others and I hope that this e-mail gets to you. If so, please keep in touch.