Glas is a simple daily pattern of prayer, and an invitation to the postures of spirit, table, and rule.
Our daily office is kept through a simple office of about ten minutes: readings, set prayers, silence, and prayer in our own words. It is short on purpose, and meant to be kept.
Belonging is simple. A member is a friend. Anyone who shares in the rhythms and the prayers, wherever they are, belongs.
to be the Kingdom of God.
Glas is an old Celtic word for a colour that crosses blue, green, and grey. It names an in-between colour: sea under cloud, wet slate, lichen, distant hills - the line where land, sea, and sky meet. Like our name, the pattern of prayer we hold sits at the merging of things, somewhere between contemplative and active, ancient and current, said in the morning and the evening.
Glas is a simple daily pattern of prayer and an invitation to adopt the postures of the spirit, the table, and the rule.
We operate mostly through our prayer web-app, which you can add to your phone's home screen and keep close. The daily office is simple: readings, set prayers, silence, and prayer in our own words. It is short on purpose, and meant to be kept.
Our readings follow the Common Worship Lectionary, so we are joined to thousands of others all over the world praying over the very same verses. We keep the feast days, and we take our cues from the lives of the saints.
We believe God is active in history, at work as Spirit, and that we can know that work and join in with it. We look for God's presence in scripture, in tradition, in creation, and in human experience, and we read all of it through Jesus. Prayer is the inner fire of this. Our prayer is not a retreat from the world but a way of learning where God is already moving, and following.
Seek the Kingdom of God.
Our faith and our prayer are worked out in action, service, and hospitality. This welcome is costly. It asks for our availability, our commitment, and sometimes our discomfort. At the table we are fed, and from the table we are sent, to share in the liberating work of Christ: to stand with the poor, to care for creation, to love the land and the people on it.
There's always room at the table.
The rule is the rhythm we keep, and the way of life that grows from it. Our day is held by prayer, morning and evening, through the web-app. Our commitment to hospitality belongs to the rule too. We try not to confuse discipline with imposition. The Spirit is the one who convicts; our part is to notice that work and join it. So we invite far more than we require.
Come as you are; bring what you have.
That Jesus is present in each of us, and that by living this out in prayer and in community we come to know him more and more. Everything else — the spirit, the table, the rule — grows from this.
Our common prayer life is facilitated by a simple web-app. Each day it opens to the office for that morning or evening: an opening, a psalm, a reading, and prayers said in our own words. It takes about ten minutes.
You can read it quietly or follow the audio. Nothing to set up, nothing to log in to — just open it and pray. Kept together, and apart.
The app keeps the year. On feast days and saints' days the office carries a collect for the day, set alongside a short description of the day or the life of the saint — who they were, and what their life still asks of us. Our rhythm is marked, gently, by the great company that has gone before.
The app installs straight from your browser — no app store. Add it to your home screen and it opens full-screen, like any other app, and works offline once it's there.
Held in prayer; sent in love.
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