Prayer List

To access the prayer list

1. The Prayer List can be accessed through through the Documents/Docs menu.

• If you know the document’s name (or part of it), you can enter the name in the Find box and the documents shown will be limited by that name e.g. prayer
• Otherwise, click on Type and scroll down to find your prayer list.

2. The Prayer List can also be accessed from the Home Page Dashboard (or Sidebar)

• If not displayed:
  • Open the Customize menu and click Prayer List
  • Select your Prayer List
• Open the document
  • Click the header in the displayed prayer list e.g. My Prayer List
  • It will open in your current layout.

To control the display of prayer lists

The display of Prayer Lists on the Home Page is set in the Customize menu on the Home Page. You can do the following:

• To display a Prayer List, click on the box in front of its name – a check mark means that it will be displayed.
• To hide a Prayer List, click on the box in front of its name – an empty box means that it will not be displayed.
• To change the location of a Prayer List drag and drop the item to your preferred location.

Note that the sequence of the prayer list is:

• scheduled, unscheduled and complete
• scheduled is subdivided into scheduled date
• within the divisions prayers are sequenced alphabetically by title

To pray from the prayer list – short form

By short form, I mean a Prayer List that meets these requirements:

• the Prayer List displays on the Home Page – even if you have to scroll to see it
• you merely wish to mark the prayers as complete for the day

After you pray the first prayer, mark the prayer as complete for the day by clicking in the box at the front of the prayer.

When you have prayed the first prayer, the list on the Home Page will drop the completed prayer, and any additional prayers will be added to the bottom of the list until you have gone through the entire list of prayers scheduled for the day.
 

WARNING: If you have accidentally marked a prayer as read, there is no way to restore it. However, it will still reappear the next time it is scheduled.

When the schedule for a prayer is complete, the prayer will no long appear on the Home Page. However, it still appears as a Prayer List document and can be reactivated at any time by extending the schedule.
 


 

To pray from the prayer list – long form

By long form, I mean a Prayer List:

• that you wish to modify – see edit existing prayers below
• where you wish to record an answer to your prayer.

The actions specific to editing during prayer are:

• opening the appropriate Prayer List
• expanding the first prayer to pray the entire text
• marking the prayer as completed for the day
• recording the answer to the prayer
• final status of Prayer List as it appears on the Home Page.

To edit existing prayers

To edit existing prayers, you must first open the Prayer List document. You may do this by either:

• clicking the Prayer List name on the Home Page.
• opening the document via the Documents menu.

You may edit any of the information including the scheduling of the prayer. Remember that any entry in the Answer text box will automatically flag the prayer as complete and it will not appear in you prayers again. It will, however, be archived in your Prayer List. Also note that links to Scripture passages or source URL’s do not work.

To add prayers to an existing prayer list

To add prayers to an existing Prayer List, you must first open the appropriate Prayer List document (as above).

Adding a prayer requires the following steps:

• select the Add prayer button
• expand the new prayer by clicking within its area
• add a title to prayer
• add additional information about the prayer in the Notes section
• add the range of dates in which you wish to pray for this item
• set the frequency and day

To create a new prayer list

One creates a new document by selecting Prayer List under New in the Documents menu.
 


 

Once the document is created, (1) assign a name to it, (2) then add prayers as described above.
 


 

Note that you need to access the Customize Menu on the Home Page to display the new Prayer List, and then drag and drop to its location.

To use for set prayers

Some prayer disciplines include prewritten prayers such as these from the World Council of Churches. In this particular case, new prayers for the week come out every Sunday. The illustrations show access from the Prayer List document with mouse over, and from the Prayer List document in edit mode showing the setup for the week’s duration. Note that neither mouse over view shows the full content of the prayer.
 


 


 

When dealing with this kind of material, please pay attention to copyright considerations before using for anything other than personal use.

To use for devotional quotations

While one cannot make a document of quotations to be displayed randomly, one can make the quotations appear months apart. In this case, a choice selection of the best of Orthodox quotations is set up to appear on an annual cycle. Note one or more of the “prayers” (quotations) may appear on a given day.
 


 

Using a different quotation to illustrate the structure of the prayer list. Note the frequency information in the lower right hand corner of the expanded prayer.



 

When dealing with this kind of material, please pay attention to copyright considerations before using for anything other than personal use.

To delete a prayer or prayer document

To delete a Prayer document:

• Navigate to the document in the Documents menu
• right click to bring up a menu
• select Delete

 

To delete an individual prayer within a document

• navigate to the document
• ‘hover’ over the prayer to make an X in a red circle appear
• click on the X to delete the prayer. It does not matter if the prayer is expanded or not (CTRL + Z will undo an error).

Other features of use for prayer

This section offers suggestions for supporting prayer styles that do not fit easily into the Prayer List format. If you use these methods, you may wish to put the documents on your shortcut bar or in your favorites list.