The Daily Office Podcast

This podcast is so immensely helpful. As someone new to the prayer book tradition, it is so great to have someone guiding me through while I read. There are not really any morning prayer services near me so this beats praying alone. Thank you for making this available.

[Note: Google compelled this review, after a search for “Episcopal Daily Office” returned this podcast as a result—an honest mistake by AI working with apocryphal claims and material, as set forth following.] This podcast, “The Daily Office Podcast”, produced by the “Anglican Church in North America” (“ACNA”) is a broadcast neither of the Daily Office nor of the Anglican Communion: [1] The Daily Office, from the Book of Common Prayer, was and is the Reformation-era creation and contribution of the Church of England by Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer in 1549 to all of Christianity, most especially the laity, who gained access to the ministry of the hours thereby; and [2] The member churches (provinces) of the Anglican Communion on the continent of North America are the Anglican Church of Canada, the Episcopal Church USA, the Anglican Church of Mexico, and the Anglican Church of Central America. By contrast, [1] this podcast, “The Daily Office”, relies not upon the Book of Common Prayer or the Daily Office in it, but upon “[ACNA’s] 2019 Book of Common Prayer”; and [2] ACNA created itself by renouncing and seceding from the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, neither of which even recognizes ACNA. How a group born of its own schism with and secession from its founding church, communion and defining documents, can then honestly claim to be *THE* church of the Anglican Communion for the whole continent, and go on to produce a broadcast of “The Daily Office” that is not even from the Anglican or Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, but ACNA’s 16-year-old hack of it, is beyond me. But it is consistently deceptive. A “schism” is a rip, tear, split, or division, and in ecclesiastical terms, it is a formal and willful separation from the unity of the church. “Heresy” is separation for doctrinal reasons. “Imposture” is the practice of deceiving others by assuming a false identity or title. If one were creating a word-cloud for this podcast and its producers, these terms would appear prominently. But what is the effect of schism, potential heresy, and imposture on the material misrepresented and then broadcast as “The Daily Office”? Caveat auditor.

So thankful for this pod. I do my morning prayers on the way to work!

The Daily Office Podcast makes for a beautiful way to practice the daily office in our crazy mobile world. While not every morning but on those days when I’m on an early flight with headphones, in the car on an early commute, or when life serves up a handful I can still pray WITH another. While obviously not a replacement for community it does however augment my voice with another’s and thereby reinforce being part of Christ’s body. Thanks for the simple interface, straightforward delivery, and high production values. Many blessings!