The Daily Prayer Project

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN

The Daily Prayer Project (DPP) is a movement that exists to animate the life of prayer through the manifold beauty of the church. We connect and unify Christians by resourcing them with daily prayers, practices, music from the global-historical church, and visual art of spiritual and artistic value. All of these rich resources are built into a simple, functional, and beautiful product: our Living Prayer Periodicals (LPP).

We produce six LPP editions per year that move with the Christian seasons of Advent, Christmas & Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, and Ordinary Time. These editions combine dynamic and diverse content with a stable method for morning and evening prayer.

This method not only provides consistency for the life of prayer and practice, but it also forms us all into a life of communion with God and unity with our global and historical family of faith. It is this communal prayer that fuels and forms our own expressions of prayer in the present season of our lives. The DPP is an entrance into the holy, unifying, and empowering experience of praying together in a common way without ceasing throughout the Christian year.

MORNING & EVENING

THE DAILY RHYTHM

The DPP is an entrance into the holy, unifying, and empowering experience of praying together in a common way throughout the Christian year. It is a participation with the global and transhistorical family of faith as we all learn, together, to pray without ceasing.

Much like the labyrinth, the diagram to the right is a way to journey through the elements. Each element asks something of you, moving you closer to the center.

ARTISTS & PATRONS

THE GALLERY

We believe the arts are to be deeply integrated into the life of worship and prayer throughout the Christian year. As an outworking of that conviction, we work with visual artists to adorn each of our seven editions per year with rich and thoughtful pieces that immerse the eyes in seasonal themes and invite prayerful engagement.

FOR THE BODY, THE MIND & THE SOUL

THE PRACTICES

The Practices are devotional writings that explore various spiritually formative practices like fasting, confession, meditation, feasting, visio divina, and more.

PSALMS, HYMNS & SPIRITUAL SONGS

THE SONGBOOK

In each edition, we feature four songs from diverse cultural origins. The Songbook includes sheet music, lyrics, and QR codes to access free recordings of the songs provided.

View an archive of songs from the songbook on Youtube.

Seasons of the Christian Year

At the Daily Prayer Project we practice the global and historical tradition of the Christian year (sometimes called the liturgical year or church year) as a communal rhythm that forms us—year after year, season after season—to be the people of God and the bearers of God’s story. Human beings are creatures fundamentally and profoundly shaped by stories. Each of our lives will always be following someone’s calendar and bearing someone’s story, but the question is: whose story is it, and what kind of narrative it is telling? The Christian year is an ancient Christian tradition of ordering the 365-day calendar year around the life of Christ. Some dates and celebrations vary by Eastern and Western Christian traditions, but they are generally as follows: Advent, Christmastide, Epiphany (also called Ordinary Time in some traditions), Lent, Eastertide, and Ordinary Time.