Merciful God, who sent your messengers the
prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation:
Give us grace to heed their warnings and forsake our sins, that we may
greet with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and
reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

From the Book of Common Prayer:

Almighty
God, give us the grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on
the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your
Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last
day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge both the
living and the dead, we may rise to life immortal; through him who
lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for
ever.

Amen.

I've enjoyed listening to Phyllis Tickle and teach and reading her writing.  I really would love to just go sit down at the dinner table over some cornbread and other southern type foods and just listen.  Here are some of her thoughts on fixed hour prayer – amazing!

Fixed-hour prayer is the oldest form of Christian spiritual discipline
and has its roots in the Judaism out of which Christianity came. When
the Psalmist says, "Seven times a day do I praise You," he is referring
to fixed-hour prayer as it existed in ancient Judaism. We do not know
the hours that were appointed in the Psalmist's time for those prayers.
By the turn of the era, however, the devout had come to punctuate their
work day with prayers on a regimen that followed the flow of Roman
commercial life. Forum bells began the work day at six in the morning
(prime, or first hour), sounded mid-morning break at nine (terce, or
third hour), the noon meal and siesta or break at twelve (sext, or
sixth hour), the re-commencing of trade at three (none, or ninth hour),
and the close of business at six (vespers). With the addition of
evening prayers and early prayers upon arising, the structure of
fixed-hour prayer was established in a form that is very close to that
which Christians still use today.

Fixed-hour
prayer is also commonly referred to as "the divine offices" or "the
liturgy of the hours," and from the time of the Reformation until very
recently was held almost exclusively as a part of Orthodox, Roman
Catholic, and Anglican Christian practice. With the re-configurations
and re-alignments within Christianity during the last years of the
twentieth century, however, there came an increasing push on the part
of many Christians from within every sectarian division of the faith to
return to the liturgy, or work, of being Church on earth. As the
service which was most completely the people's service in first-century
Christianity, the observance of fixed-hour prayer began to emerge once
more as the desired discipline for more and more Christians.


Read the rest on her site.