Evolving Divine Office: Calendar, Horarium, Horologion



4:10 PM Thursday. Alright, heavenly Father, it looks like you are calling me to view Tuesday's Lent 2026 Horologion Capstone as a constructive rough step in the right direction. Now I need to clarify that my "Stewardship of the Gates" watch from 3 PM to 6 PM every day is the calendar, mail, filing, and checkbook component of an emergent new monastic Divine Office. I should further clarify that secular use of a Microsoft Outlook calendar as part of my annual Office 365 subscription seems to be turning into the religious management of a horarium (the temporal structure, or "trellis") and a horologion (the prayerful contents of the calendar structure, or the "vine" that grows on the trellis and produces "fruits").

Despite Tuesday's "capstone" accomplishment, it would be totally wrong for me to suggest that I have put a final Lent 2026 Horologion into place. Rather, what I mean to say is that I will be working out the structure of my horarium and horologion all during this Lent, most explicitly during my Stewardship of the Gates watch daily from 3 PM to 6 PM, here on New Monasticism with Jonathan.    

Prior to my February 2026 blog platform upgrade, I was thinking in terms of a "Time Management" GTD area of responsibility with two subordinate projects: "Blog-Based Life Planning" and "Office Organization." That system had its value but now I am clearly transitioning to a new methodology.

Here is the cutting edge of my evolving horarium:




In my next session, unless anything more important arises, I will explore whether the Watch of the Diaspora or the Watch of the Polis is a better name for my 7:30 to 8:30 PM time block, keeping the encounter between Jesus and Pilate in mind, and I will also ask how I might refine this horarium into an even 12 watches, picking up with Gemini AI right here:


I might want to reduce the Watch of the Primordial Word until 2 AM, and add a new watch from 2 AM until 5 AM, perhaps titled the Watch of the Restless Disciples. I am already attached to the Watch of the Yeshiva, but the Watch of the Emmaus Road might be better after the Watch of the Open Tomb.

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