CAF Liturgy of the Hours (or Divine Office) daily Propers

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Good news. I went to church today and somebody brought back my volume iv of the LotH. 🙂 Thanks to all who prayed.

Unfortunately, I probably will not be able to post the Propers of Monday, so the posting of all 5 hours will resume on Tuesday.
 
****November 1: All Souls Day **

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From the Office of the Dead except for the following:

Closing Prayer for Office of Readings, Morning and Evening Prayer:
Merciful Father, hear our prayers and console us. As we renew our faith in Your Son, Whom You raised from the dead, strengthen our hope that all our departed brothers and sisters will share in His resurrection, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. R. Amen.

Closing Prayer for Daytime Prayer:
Merciful Father, hear our prayers and console us. As we renew our faith in Your Son, Whom You raised from the dead, strengthen our hope that all our departed brothers and sisters will share in His resurrection, Who lives and reigns with You forever and ever.R. Amen.

Office of Readings:

SECOND READING

Froma sermon on the detah of his brother Satyrus by St. Ambrose, bishop.
  • Let us die with Christ, to live with Christ*

    We see that death is gain, life is loss. Paul says: For me life is Christ, and death a gain. What does “Christ” mean but to die in the body, and receive the breath of life? Let us then die with Christ, to live with Christ. We should have a daily familiarity with death, a daily desire for death. By this kind of detachment our soul must learn to free itself from the desires of the body. It must soar above earthly lusts to a place where they cannot come near, to hold it fast. It must take on the likeness of death, to avoid the punishment of death. The law of our fallen nature is at war with the law of our reason and subjects the law of reason to the law of error. What is the remedy? Who will set me free from this dead body? The grace of God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
    We have a doctor to heal us; let us use the remedy he prescribes. The remedy is the grace of Christ, the dead body our own. Let us then be exiles from our body, so as not to be exiles from Christ. Though we are still in the body, let us not give ourselves to the things of the body. We must not reject the natural rights of the body, but we must desire before all else the gifts of grace.
    What more need be said? It was by the death of one man that the world was redeemed. Christ did not need to die if he did not want to, but he did not look on death as something to be despised, something to be avoided, and he could have found no better means to save us than by dying. Thus his death is life for all. We are sealed with the sign of his death; when we pray we preach his death; when we offer sacrifice we proclaim his death. His death is victory; his death is a sacred sigh; each year his death is celebrated with solemnity by the whole world.
    What more should we say about his death since we use this divine example to prove that it was death alone that won freedom from death, and death itself was its own redeemer? Death is then no cause for mourning, for it is the cause of mankind’s salvation. Death is not something to be avoided, for the Son of God did not think it beneath his dignity, nor did he seek to escape it.
    Death was not part of nature; it became part of nature. God did not decree death from the beginning; he prescribed it as a remedy. Human life was condemned because of sin to unremitting labor and unbearable sorrow and so began to experience the burden of wretchedness. There had to be a limit to its evils; death had to restore what life had forfeited. Without the assistance of grace, immortality is more of a burden than a blessing.
    (contd.)
 
The soul has to turn away from the aimless paths of this life, from the defilement of an earthly body; it must reach out to those assemblies in heaven (though it is given only to the saints to be admitted to them) to sing the praises of God. We learn from Scripture how God’s praise is sung to the music of the harp: Great and wonderful are your deeds, Lord God Almighty; just and true are your ways, King of the nations. Who will not revere and glorify your nature? You alone are holy; all nations will come and worship before you. The soul must also desire to witness your nuptials, Jesus, and to see your bride escorted from earthly to heavenly realities, as all rejoice and sing: All flesh will come before you. No longer will the bride be held in subjection to this passing world but will be made one with the spirit
Above all else; holy David prayed that he might weep and gaze on this: One thing I have asked of the Lord, this I shall pray for: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, and to see how gracious is the Lord.

RESPONSORY
Cf 2 Maccabees 12:45; Matthew 13:43​

There are some who have died a godly death
— they shall receive the splendid reward which awaits them

Then the just will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father
---- they shall receive the splendid reward which awaits them

At all hours the following hymn is sung

Office of Readings:
Dies irĂŚ! dies illa
Solvet sĂŚclum in favilla
Teste David cum Sibylla!

Quantus tremor est futurus,
quando iudex est venturus,
cuncta stricte discussurus!

Tuba mirum spargens sonum
per sepulcra regionum,
coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,
cum resurget creatura,
iudicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,
in quo totum continetur,
unde mundus iudicetur.

Iudex ergo cum sedebit,
quidquid latet apparebit:
nil inultum remanebit.

O tu, Deus maiestatis,
alme candor Trinitatis
nos coniunge cum beatis. Amen.

Morning Prayer
Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?
Quem patronum rogaturus,
cum vix iustus sit securus?

Rex tremendĂŚ majestatis,
qui salvandos salvas gratis,
salva me, fons pietatis.

Recordare, Iesu pie,
quod sum causa tuĂŚ viĂŚ:
ne me perdas illa die.

QuĂŚrens me, sedisti lassus:
redemisti Crucem passus:
tantus labor non sit cassus.

Iuste iudex ultionis,
donum fac remissionis
ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:
culpa rubet vultus meus:
supplicanti parce, Deus.

O tu, Deus maiestatis,
alme candor Trinitatis
nos coniunge cum beatis. Amen.

Evening Prayer
Peccatricem qui solvisti,
et latronem exaudisti,
mihi quoque spem dedisti.

Preces meĂŚ non sunt dignĂŚ:
sed tu bonus fac benigne,
ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum prĂŚsta,
et ab hĂŚdis me sequestra,
statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis,
flammis acribus addictis:
voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,
cor contritum quasi cinis:
gere curam mei finis.

Lacrimosa dies illa,
qua resurget ex favilla
judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce, Deus:

O tu, Deus maiestatis,
alme candor Trinitatis
nos coniunge cum beatis. Amen.

Translation
 
Hi - I am new to the forum - it’s a great resource. I was wondering about the Liturgy of the hours - I bought myself a copy of the Divine Office about two years ago and have managed to read/pray the morning and evening prayer most days. I find this discipline most helpful … however I was wondering, does anyone know if it is acceptable to use an alternative to the daily prayer in the Divine Office? I have bought a CD from CD baby of morning and evening prayer (by Val Goldsack) - and I must admit, it is nice to have alternative texts and also to have the psalms gently sung. I notice that the text on the CD says “based on the prayer of the church” - does listening to this CD qualify as - saying my morning and evening prayer. It has become a way of life now, something I truly treasure, my prayer time - does it matter whether I read the words from a book or listen on CD. I would value your opinion.
Peace and light to all, Mary Lambeth.
 
JPW97 said:
Hi - I am new to the forum - it’s a great resource. I was wondering about the Liturgy of the hours - I bought myself a copy of the Divine Office about two years ago and have managed to read/pray the morning and evening prayer most days. I find this discipline most helpful … however I was wondering, does anyone know if it is acceptable to use an alternative to the daily prayer in the Divine Office? I have bought a CD from CD baby of morning and evening prayer (by Val Goldsack) - and I must admit, it is nice to have alternative texts and also to have the psalms gently sung. I notice that the text on the CD says “based on the prayer of the church” - does listening to this CD qualify as - saying my morning and evening prayer. It has become a way of life now, something I truly treasure, my prayer time - does it matter whether I read the words from a book or listen on CD. I would value your opinion.
Peace and light to all, Mary Lambeth.
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I don’t think it matters inyour own private devotion. If you were in a monastery or in Holy Orders, then I believe it would. I am not an authority on this, but it is what I have been told by those more knowledgeable than me.
 
Thanks for your response - I am trying to maintain the discipline of the Divine Office and would like to be ‘in keeping’ with the prayer of the church. As you suggest, in private prayer, it is probably acceptable to use the prayer CD as an alternative.
Blessings MBLambeth
 
I think the ebreviary is wonderful - thank you for taking the time to make it available for us. BLambeth
 
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