MAKE ROOM FOR GOD
Daily prayer
Let us pray.
Receive this day as a gift. Make room for Scripture, silence, and prayer.
Suggested for your local timeThe hours of the day
One day. Seven invitations.Come as you are.
Begin with one office. Let the rhythm grow.
THE LIFE OF PRAYER
Grace for the everyday.
The faith and practice behind these daily offices.
A GENTLE INVITATION
Prayer reminders
Choose the moments when you want to pause and pray.
Use the calendar alerts below. Automatic push reminders from this web app are not yet connected to a background notification service.
Your daily rhythm
Choose your offices and times. Midmorning and Midafternoon are optional complementary offices. These settings stay on this device.
WHEN THE APP IS CLOSED
Phone calendar alerts
Add your selected prayers to your phone’s calendar. Each repeats daily with an alert at the selected time and a link to today’s office. Your Calendar app delivers these alerts, including when Means of Grace is closed.
You have custom times. Download or share the calendar file, then import it into your calendar. The subscription button is available with standard times.
Set up and change calendar alerts
- On iPhone, tap the subscription button and complete the Calendar prompts. Alternatively, in Calendar choose Calendars → Add Calendar → Add Subscription Calendar and paste the link.
- For a downloaded file, import it with a calendar app that supports .ics. If your iPhone only previews the file, import it into Calendar on your Mac using a calendar that syncs to your phone.
- Allow notifications for Calendar and confirm that the prayer events have an alert at the event time. Focus modes and notification settings can silence alerts.
- These calendars use local clock times. Check how your Calendar app handles them when travelling or using a time-zone override.
- Changing times here does not update an imported calendar or an existing subscription. Remove the old prayer calendar or recurring events before adding a replacement to avoid duplicate alerts. Use a separate prayer calendar where possible.
WHILE YOU ARE USING THE APP
Open-app reminders
Show a prayer prompt when a selected time arrives while this app is open and active. With your permission, it can also display a system notification. This is not a background push service and will not reliably run with your phone locked.
For system notifications on iPhone, open this app in Safari, choose Share → Add to Home Screen, and open it from that icon before enabling notifications.
MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME
Settings
A comfortable pace
Your reading preferences stay on this device.
Carry your prayers with you
Save seven days, starting with your selected date, including available commemorations. Previously opened prayers also remain available offline on this browser, subject to its storage limits.
Add to your Home Screen
Keep Means of Grace close at hand, with its own icon on your phone.
Apple · iPhone and iPad
- Open meansofgrace.app in Safari. If you are viewing it inside another app, open it in Safari first.
- Tap Share (the square with an upward arrow). Depending on your Safari layout, you may first need to open the More menu.
- Choose Add to Home Screen. If it is missing, scroll down, tap Edit Actions, and add that action.
- If shown, turn on Open as Web App. Keep the name “Means of Grace” and tap Add.
- Open the new icon from your Home Screen.
Android · Google Chrome
- Open meansofgrace.app in Chrome.
- Tap the three-dot menu.
- Choose Add to Home screen → Install, or Install app, depending on your version of Chrome.
- Confirm the prompt, then open Means of Grace from your Home Screen or app list.
Open the app online first. To prepare for travel, use Save seven days offline above. Adding the app to your Home Screen does not automatically enable prayer reminders; choose those separately under Reminders.
About Means of Grace
Means of Grace: The Liturgy of the Hours
Edited by Rev. Christopher J. Wisener.
A Methodist adaptation of the daily offices for lectionary Years A, B, and C. Each day contains seven complete offices. Midday is the principal daytime office; Midmorning and Midafternoon use complementary psalmody. This is an editorial collection, not an official denominational service book.
Scripture and readings
Scripture uses the World English Bible Updated, ecumenical edition. The Apocrypha is included for worship and instruction, without making it a separate source of binding Methodist doctrine. The daily readings follow the Revised Common Lectionary, using the semicontinuous track after Pentecost.
Spiritual readings draw on public-domain historical editions of early Christian writers and John Wesley’s sermons. They retain historical wording; shortened endings are marked with an ellipsis. Original prayers and explanations express the Methodist character of this collection. No prayers are addressed to saints.
Calendar and prayer
The app follows the book’s Western Christian seasonal calendar, with the lectionary year changing at Advent. Today’s date and suggested office use your device’s local time. Commemorations are optional editorial selections; Eastern witnesses are remembered on Gregorian civil dates. They never replace the seasonal selection automatically.
Music and use
Hymn links open recordings in Spotify and require an internet connection. Lyrics and scores are not reproduced. Recording links do not grant permission to reproduce or distribute the music.
Sources and editorial details
Lectionary: Consultation on Common Texts, Revised Common Lectionary Daily Readings (2005). First alternatives are selected, bracketed optional extensions are omitted, and partial verses are expanded to complete verses. Romans 16:25–27 appears at Romans 14:24–26 in the WEB. The source’s Exodus 3:16–25 reference is corrected to Exodus 3:16–22.
Psalter and office structure: the four-week Roman arrangement after Vatican II and the General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, using public-domain Scripture rather than copyrighted office translations. Festival psalters and Methodist collects are editorial adaptations. Midmorning uses Psalms 120–122; Midafternoon uses Psalms 126–128. The Te Deum is a contemporary editorial adaptation of the historic English form.
Spiritual-reading editions: Ante-Nicene Fathers 1 (1885); Augustine, NPNF first series 1 (1886), translated by J. G. Pilkington; Athanasius, second series 4 (1892), translated by Archibald Robertson; Cyril and Gregory, second series 7 (1894), edited or translated by E. H. Gifford, C. G. Browne, and J. E. Swallow; Basil, second series 8 (1895), translated by Blomfield Jackson; and Wesley’s Sermons on Several Occasions, historic 1872 edition. Reading locators identify electronic source paragraphs.
Historical orientation: Didache 8; Tertullian, On Prayer 25; Egeria’s Travels (McClure and Feltoe, 1919); Rule of Benedict 16–19; Sacrosanctum Concilium 83–101; Book of Common Prayer prefaces; The Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America (1784); and United Methodist General Rules and doctrinal-history resources.
Editorial rights: the source collection was prepared for private use; wider distribution of the lectionary arrangement and other editorial material requires separate rights review. The website copyright notice concerns original website material and does not change the public-domain status of its source texts.
