For each day during June through September complete daily readings and appointments are provided for The Morning Office, The Midday Office, and The Vespers Office, with a weekly Compline for each month. Tickle has compiled a complete text, made possible by over thirty years of daily intimacy with the divine offices and with the discipline of keeping them. She has done a beautiful job of just that.
Many prayer books are more obstacle than aid.
The traditional breviary used in monasteries was conceived, I believe, by someone with a penchant for fanning himself with page turnings and a love of colored ribbons. Just when you settle down to a page, you've got to mark your place with a ribbon, quickly turn to the back of the book, mark your place with another ribbon and then quickly turn back again, all this in the quiet of a chapel at noon. The practice of praying at fixed times throughout the day has its origins in Judaism. Early Christians continued the discipline and it was further reinforced by the Roman empire's forum bells, which tolled at 6 a.m., midday, and 6 p.m. The rhythm that Tickle's book establishes gives one a stronger sense of participating in an ancient, worldwide but very personal liturgy that was founded by the desert fathers in the third century .One group of monks, obeying the movement of the sun around the globe, would start their prayers just as the monks to the east had ended theirs.