Keeping faith, plainly explained.

Short guides to the old practices Ordo is built on: a rule of life, keeping it with others, prayer, and the seasons of the church year.

• What is a rule of life?The old monastic practice of a chosen pattern of prayer and work, and how to write one with a group.
• Covenant discipleship, explainedFrom Wesley's class meetings to today's covenant groups: mutual accountability that makes honesty possible.
• Breath prayer and the Jesus PrayerA short prayer prayed with the breath, from the desert and the Hesychasts to Psalm 46. How to begin.
• The church year, explainedAdvent to Ordinary Time: the seasons, their colours and this year's dates, and why keeping them helps.
• How to run a Christian accountability groupHonesty, confidentiality and a simple rhythm, and the quiet ways groups go wrong.
• Christian accountability questionsForty questions for groups and partners, by area of life, with Wesley's questions and how to ask them kindly.
• How to find an accountability partnerWho to ask, what to agree at the start, and how to keep a partnership honest past the first month.
• The spiritual disciplines, listedFoster's inward, outward and corporate disciplines, Willard's abstinence and engagement, and how to begin.
• The daily examen, step by stepIgnatius of Loyola's short evening prayer for reviewing the day with God, and how to pray it tonight.
• Lectio divina, in four stepsGuigo II's ladder of reading, meditation, prayer and contemplation, and how to pray scripture with a group.
• The Daily Office, explainedMorning and Evening Prayer from Daniel and the psalms to the Prayer Book and the Hours, and how to begin.
• How to keep AdventAdvent 2026 begins on 29 November: the wreath, the O Antiphons and simple ways to keep the four weeks together.
• How to keep LentLent 2027 begins on 10 February: fasting, prayer and almsgiving, what to give up or take on, and keeping it together.