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Pray the Divine Hours at Explore Faith. Note that you need to select your timezone the first time.

This is a great way to maintain the discipline without having to carry around the book as I need to (this site is blocked as "religious" at my place of work).

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The Great Thanksgiving - Anglican Liturgy

The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give him thanks and praise.

It is indeed right, for you made us, and before us, you made the world we inhabit, and before the world, you made the eternal home in which, through Christ, we have a place.

All that is spectacular, all that is plain have their origin in you; all that is lovely, all who are loving point to you as their fulfillment. And grateful as we are for the world we know and the universe beyond our ken, we particularly praise you, whom eternity cannot contain, for coming to earth and entering time in Jesus.

For his life which informs our living, for his compassion which changes our hearts, for his clear speaking which contradicts our harmless generalities, for his disturbing presence, his innocent suffering, his fearless dying, his rising to life breathing forgiveness, we praise you and worship him.

Here too gratitude rises, for the promise of the Holy Spirit, who even yet, even now, confronts us with your claims and attracts us to your goodness.

[Update] I thought that this was an Anglican liturgy, since it was used for communion at my Anglican church. But Paul Weary has since commented on this posting that the liturgy is actually from the Iona Community - to be precise "Liturgy for Holy Communion A" in the "Wee Worship Book" (4th edition) by Wild Goose Publications.  Thanks for pointing that out Paul!