Sacred Space is a prayer

Prayer

Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional rapport to a deity through deliberate practice. Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words or song. When language is used, prayer may take the form of...

 website which has achieved considerable fame since its foundation in 1999. It was created by two members of the Jesuit order, Alan McGuckian SJ and Peter Scally SJ, and was managed by the Jesuit Communication Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

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, until June 2008. It is now being maintained and developed by a dedicated Sacred Space office at 36 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin. The site is updated daily, guiding users through a ten-minute session of prayer

Prayer

Prayer is a form of religious practice that seeks to activate a volitional rapport to a deity through deliberate practice. Prayer may be either individual or communal and take place in public or in private. It may involve the use of words or song. When language is used, prayer may take the form of...

 centered on a passage of scripture.

Developments

Sacred Space attracts over five million visits annually. Most of this traffic has been engendered by word of mouth. The website has been produced in almost thirty language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

s over the site's lifetime. This level of interest led an Australian publishing house, Michelle Anderson Publishing, to approach the Jesuit Communication Centre about bringing out a hard-copy version of the daily prayers. Ave Maria Press and Veritas and Jesuit Communications in Manila, also bring out annual volumes of Sacred Space - The Prayer Book of which a Kindle edition is also available from Amazon. Advent and Lent editions have proven popular and have helped thousands of people to bring the simple yet helpful structure to their prayer.

Site elements

In addition to the Daily prayer, Sacred Space offers commentaries on the daily scripture readings that are used in Catholic liturgy. These 'Living Space' commentaries form the Living Space section of the site are written by Frank Doyle, an Irish Jesuit priest.

External links

• Sacred Space - The main website, with links to the various language versions
• Sacred Space - The Prayer Book for Lent 2011 - Ave Maria Press
• Sacred Space - The Prayer Book 2011 - At Michelle Anderson Publishing
• Sacred Space - The Prayer Book 2011 Kindle Edition - Amazon.com
• Sacred Space - The Prayer Book 2011 - At Veritas Publications (Ireland)
• Irish Jesuits