COVID-19 and the Office

COVID-19 has provided an excellent opportunity with which to explore the more austere and monastic side of the English spiritual patrimony Having just visited my parents in Ballarat and, on returning from Victoria, finding my family required to undertake a two week period of self quarantine, it seemed like a good time to impose a further discipline of praying the offices of Morning and Evening Prayer daily. Having done so for a few days now, the regular rhythm of the prayerbook is starting to sink in, giving a calmness to my daily prayers that is both new and welcome.