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Morning and Evening Prayer of the Sisters of Mercy (1998, 974 pp.) is a beautifully bound leather-and-gilt reference that gathers the complete daily office used by the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas. Nearly 1,000 pages of psalms, canticles, Scripture and intercession are arranged for ease of use at dawn and dusk, making it the only single-volume edition that contains the full Mercian rhythm of prayer without abridgment. Because the text is fixed to the calendar year, buyers receive a perpetual liturgy that can be revisited every season, yet the language remains accessible to lay readers as well as vowed religious.
Collectors prize this out-of-print paperback for its craftsmanship: the leather cover lies flat on an altar or nightstand, the gilt edges resist fingerprints, and the ultra-white paper avoids the ghosting that plagues later reprints. The Very Good copy offered here is free of inscriptions, dog-ears, or shelving marks, so every page is crisp and the binding tight—an increasingly rare find on the secondary market. Young adults exploring contemplative Christianity, spirituality seekers interested in comparative religion, and devotional readers who want more than a one-minute snippet all discover in this volume a disciplined yet gentle pathway to centering one’s day around mercy, gratitude and intercession.
Unlike generic prayer books, this text carries the charism of Catherine McAuley’s Sisters: a focus on the poor, the sick and the marginalized. Each office weaves petitions for social justice with the ancient psalmic cadences, producing a uniquely Mercy spirituality that has influenced retreat houses, campus ministries and hospital chapels across North America. Owning the 1998 leather edition means holding a piece of living religious history—an heirloom-quality manual that enriches private devotion, family prayer or small-group liturgy for decades to come.
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