The Christian discipline of pausing at midday for prayer. The OT pattern is established in Daniel 6:10 (he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime) and Psalm 55:17 (Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray). The midday prayer corresponds to the sixth hour in the Jewish-Roman reckoning (about noon by the sun). The NT continues the practice: Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour (Acts 10:9), where he received the vision that led to the Gentile inclusion. The three traditional prayer-hours of the post-apostolic church (third, sixth, ninth hours; morning, midday, mid-afternoon) developed from this biblical foundation. The midday prayer-pause has rich theological resonance: it occurs at the highest point of the day, the moment of greatest light and activity; it interrupts the day's labor with deliberate attention to the LORD; it provides a regular re-orientation under the day's pressures and temptations. The Reformed-Puritan tradition retained the practice in various forms: the dinner-bell at noon was often accompanied by family prayer; the apprentice or worker paused for a moment of prayer; the merchant or farmer set aside a brief period at midday. The patriarchal-Reformed reader recovers midday prayer as a substantive interruption of the day's labor for re-orientation: a brief but deliberate pause for thanksgiving for the morning's labors, confession of midday-besetting sins (impatience, frustration, distraction), intercession for the day's continuing labors and the LORD's grace through the remaining hours.