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This section allows you to set your time zone so this site presents the offices for the correct day in your time zone and modify certain aspects of how the offices are presented to you. When you click the “Set Preferences” button below, a cookie will be placed on your computer to store these preferences. The cookie will remain active for one year or until you delete it. If you delete the cookie, the default preferences will be restored.

You have not yet set your preferences, or the cookie with your preferences has expired. Enter your preferences below and then click on the “Set Preferences” button. You will then be taken to another page where you can select the office you want to pray.

To say an office without setting your preferences, go to the Links section of this page.

Time Zone—Select your local time zone from the list below. The default time zone is Hawai‘i Standard Time (UTC -10).

(A note on time at the end of the day: Given our modern lifestyle, where people may not retire until after midnight, the offices for each day are available until 2:00 a.m. the following day.)

Opening Sentences and Confession—You may choose to include or omit the opening sentences and confession in the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer.

Morning Prayer
Include Opening Omit Opening

Evening Prayer
Include Opening Omit Opening

First Lesson (Time after Pentecost)—Beginning with Lectionary 9 (the Sunday between May 29 and June 4), Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings provides a choice between the “Complementary” and “Semicontinuous” readings for the First Lesson. It is best to choose the series that matches the Sunday lessons in your congregation.

Complementary

Semicontinuous

Apostles’ Creed—You may choose to include or omit the Apostles’ Creed in the offices of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer.

Morning Prayer
Include Creed Omit Creed

Evening Prayer
Include Creed Omit Creed

Psalms at Noon Prayer and Compline—For these offices, you may choose to include only a selected psalm appropriate to the time of day, only the psalm provided by the lectionary for that day, or both psalms.

Noon Prayer
Noon Psalm Lectionary Psalm Both Psalms

Compline
Compline Psalm Lectionary Psalm Both Psalms

Lessons at Noon Prayer and Compline—For these offices, you may choose to include one of the designated lessons for that office, one or more lessons from the lectionary, or no prescribed lesson.

Noon Prayer
Noon Lesson First Lesson Epistle (Gospel on Sunday and Major Feasts)
Epistle and Gospel (when appointed) All lessons Own Lesson

Compline
Compline Lesson First Lesson Epistle (Gospel on Sunday and Major Feasts)
Epistle and Gospel (when appointed) All lessons Own Lesson

Environmental Prayers—You may choose to inlcude a different environmental prayer for each day of the week as the last prayer for one or more of the offices. The prayers were written by the Rev. Fritz Fritschel, former assisting pastor at the Lutheran Church of Honolulu.

Morning Prayer

Noon Prayer

Evening Prayer

Compline

Links

Return to the Daily Prayer home page.

To say one of the offices, follow one of these links:

Morning Prayer	Evening Prayer
Noon Prayer	Compline

Daily Prayer is brought to you by the people of the Lutheran Church of Honolulu.