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While many churches celebrate Sunday Worship with Holy Eucharist, there are times when instead of or in addition to Eucharist, churches will celebrate Sunday with the Morning Prayer service.
Morning Prayer is an old form of worship, as I have discussed on Trey's Thoughts before. Those older forms of worship are based on even older and ancient ones.
Morning Prayer is very flexible because it provides many options for how to go about the service. It is also flexible because it is a service that can, in fact, be led by anyone.
As the notes for "Concerning the Service" say in the Book of Common Prayer, "the term 'Officiant'", the term for the person who officiates or leads the service, "is used to denote the person, clerical or lay, who leads the Office." That means whether or not you are officially ordained, you can officiate the service.
In fact, the only difference between having a bishop or priest lead the service verses anyone else, is that only a bishop or priest can pronounce absolution in the Confession of Sin. If a deacon or lay person leads Morning Prayer and includes the Confession of Sin, she or he will say that God forgives "us all our sins" instead of that God forgives "you all your sins."
You can say Morning Prayer any day of the week you desire. In fact, the Prayer Book includes other similar services, collectively called The Daily Office. These services include Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline (which is a prayer service you can do later in the evening or just before you go to bed). If these services are too long for you, there's also a collection of services called "Daily Devotions for Individuals and Families" that condenses all these different services into a one page format.
If you choose to say any or all of the Daily Office services each day, note that there is also a Daily Office Lectionary where you can find Scripture passages to read with the service. This can be a tool to help you study Scripture on a daily basis.
You can find more about Morning Prayer by clicking the link in this video to go to the original posting of this Faith Fact on therevtreysthoughts.blogspot.com, or by scrolling beneath the video if you are already on the posting. There are various links in the manuscript that will lead you pages in the Book of Common Prayer to get you started as well as other Faith Facts and Christian Formation sessions where you can learn more about Morning Prayer and the Daily Office as a whole.