I found this to be a helpful guide to incorporating prayer throughout my day. It's a manual that flexes to be as involved or as quick as I want it to be at any given time. I particularly enjoyed the selection of hymns for the vespers prayers. I often searched online to find an interesting version of the day's hymn to listen to as I prayed the words.

The Divine Hours uses The New Jerusalem Bible for the Bible selections in the prayers (except the psalms, which come from the Book of Common Prayer). That translation is usually okay, but occasionally wildly awkward. This prayer book would be great as an app that lets you choose from among different translations.

We've been using this for morning prayer all summer so I think that's enough to write a review.

We've actually owned all these since someone got them for us as wedding presents and have used them a good bit over the years but never this consistently.

It's a really nice simple prayer book. The thing about it is you have no excuse because there is no flipping around or looking up scriptures as is required with other prayer books.

The only real downside to me is its use of the Jerusalem Bible which I strongly dislike as a translation. It's very hard to read out loud and is often incomprehensible to me. At least the Psalms are from the Bcp Psalter. Immersing yourself in the Psalms is probably the best part of using this book from a devotional perspective.