Lesson 2 of 3 · About 3 minutes

Already Chosen for the Day

The psalms, readings, canticles and collects are already in their places, so you can read straight through. Noonday Prayer and Compline keep their own psalms and readings.

The psalms and readings

At Morning and Evening Prayer, unless you have chosen otherwise in Settings:

• The psalms come from the BCP’s own Psalter. Each shows its page in the BCP. A number stands beside each verse, and an asterisk marks the pause in the middle of it.
• The readings are the ones the daily lectionary appoints. On a Holy Day, they are the Holy Day’s own. Each shows its chapter and verses.
• The canticles after the readings are the ones the BCP suggests for the day, on pages 144 and 145.
• The collects begin with the Collect of the Day. A Holy Day has its own.

The choices made for you

Where the BCP leaves a choice to the Officiant, Daily Office makes it for you. It follows what you have set in Settings, or the BCP’s own rules for the day. Unless you choose otherwise in Settings, the BCP’s own appointments for the day, such as a Holy Day’s, come first. Directions for choices already made are left off the page.

Each choice stays until you change it. For example:

• Rite and Hours holds the rite: Rite One or Rite Two.
• The Liturgy holds how the office begins, the Invitatory, the canticles and the Suffrages.
• Scripture holds the lectionary and the Psalter.

Each choice stays until you change it. Rite is under Language. The rest, such as how the office begins, the canticles and the Suffrages, are under Customize the Liturgy.

Chapter 4 shows you how to change them.