Praying amidst daily life

Another thing I am researching is resources for people to use to pray while at their desks -prayer breaks, so to speak. These come in various types: meditation; intercession; offices (that is forms of set-liturgical prayer like morning or evening prayer). Below is what I found today. I have an impression that I have seen others, but my bookmarks show no others and search engines show few others that I'd trust. What I've got less of is bible-devotional sites and, of course at this time, other faith traditions. I would rely on you, dear Reader, to advise me or at least make further suggestions. I'm hoping to produce an 'Amidst the Day Prayer' page myself in due course which would use the structure of the Lord's prayer as it's framing principle and having Northumbria University people as its target users in the first instance.

Meditational prayer sites.
Re:Jesus have a daily prayer site which is more reflective or meditational in feel and will often have things to do as part of their suggested journey of prayer. It also is time-aware, so adjusts to the time of day.

Quiet Space (which seems to be based in Australia) has an 'exercises' approach to a reflective time in front of your monitor based on an examen pattern. .  Supported by lots of white space and 'calm' graphics to give a sense of 'space'. They also have a useful gospel reflection page which has sound files.

In the same spirit the Irish Jesuits have Sacred Space, with a similar ethos and approach; this has been quite a popular site and probably inspired most of the others we find of a similar ilk. Their visual presence is even simpler and the use of fade between items is quite calming in effect too. One nice feature is that the scripture passage has an option with it to get a few more thoughts to help reflect on it, or you can simply move on when you are ready.

Also in a similar vein but with a title that may inspire others is 3-Minute Retreat which does what it says. It has a sound track for the meditation of quiet guitar playing -which may be important to know if you're doing it at your desk at work!

Explore Faith has some interesting options for meditative prayer: through visual art; music; poetry; reading.

Intercession or petitionary sites.
Re:Jesus also have a virtual candle-lighting stand where you can manipulate graphic candles and write a prayer for someone (and even post an email to let them know you've done so if you wish) and the candle will burn down virtually over time. By touching the candles on the stand you can read the petitions of others and pray for them you can click the candle and in so doing add an 'Amen' and these are totted up so you can know for any prayer how many people have 'amened' it.

The commendable 24-7 Prayer network have an online prayer wall which invites you both to leave a request and to pray for one someone else has left. I quite like, too, their invitation to join them in dropping everything at 12nn to pray the Lord's prayer. Not least because this imitates a Christian practice going back to the early church.

Office-prayer.
The Church of England has pages for morning and evening prayer which have all the readings and Psalmody for the day collected together along with the prayers that go with that day -so no fiddling around with lectionary and collects; it's all there, ready to go.

Recently-formed the Order of the Black Sheep has a daily prayer feed which includes video embeddings of songs (with a tendency towards metal style, as that represents their cultural context) as part of the liturgy.

A traditional Breviary approach which is adjusted for the day offering a menu for the various times of the day and Roman Catholic reflections and sanctorale is at the Universalis site. The site gives guidance on how to produce your own monthly e-breviary from the resources on the site. Similarly the Mission of St Clare has an online office which gives you the control of moving through the sections with a menu of the elements on the left hand of the page. At the Explore Faith site you can choose your time zone and be presented with the office that most closely fits your time of day. These are very simple and short with a lot of scripture in them.

Anglicans Online gives a set of links to various options for daily office-style praying: one of these is the much-used and loved Celebrating Common Prayer (modelled after the Franciscan office) which has links for the various days. What it doesn't do is intergrate the readings so you have to make separate arrangements for that side of things. The online Breviary linked to from here is another version of the CofE's Daily Prayer but on a simpler page format.

I like this site because it links to a simple aural office based on the NZ prayer book. This is great if you don't want to read or find it challenging but would like to hear the prayers and readings. The reader is not heavily-accented NZ.

A basic Divine Office with readings inserted can be found here, it's Catholic in feel and offers all the hours.

There's a page on the Taize site with  basic liturgy but it's not a fully integrated multimedia thing though elsewhere on the site are resources for learning the music.

The Northumbria Community office is available online and with some helpful advice on how to pray it. It has links to open the readings in new windows when you get to them. My main beef with it is that it doesn't do seasonal variations and what they call a canticle isn't; it's a prayer.