Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours

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Are there any lay people out there who currently pray the (Christian Prayer) The Liturgy of the Hours? I’ve been inspired to return to this practice, but need help finding the prayers I’m suppose to say each day.

I ordered the 2007 companion guide (Saint Joseph Guide for Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours) but it won’t arrive for a couple weeks. I’m hoping someone can respond with the current readings, so I can begin sooner.

Thanks in advance for your help! 🙂
 
I pray the night prayer and sometimes the morning prayer. I am not quite sure if I am doing it right, but I figure prayer is prayer and it can’t be bad either way:p .
 
A good instructional book is “The Divine Office for Dodos” by Madeline Pecora Nugent. It is kind of corny [speaking of the humour in the book] but covers the basics of the “how to” using the various books out there [as in are you using the four [4] Volume Breviary “Divine Office” or the one [1] volume breviary sometimes refered to as the Book of Christian Prayer or the travel version one [1] volume verion called the “Shorter Christian Prayer”]

There are differences in where to find the prayers and work through the books depending on the version you are using. It can be somewhat frustrating ‘flipping’ the pages…

Once you get in a routine, you will be blessed…
 
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Until the yearly guide gets to you, try this website to get the pages:

stfrancisdesales.com/prayer.php

I must also second the “Divine Office for Dodos” book. My library system has it available for borrowing, so check at yours if you are on a budget (inter-library loan should be able to get it for you). If you borrow the book, you won’t get her pagemarkers. While a bit more cheezy looking than ribbons, I love them, especially when I was learning. (They even have ‘cheat sheets’ of easily forgotten things on them!) Just the markers can be ordered here:

divineofficefordodos.com/

Also, the (free!) book Discovering Prayer would probably tell you what you need to know as well:

prayer.rosaryshop.com/

Try searching in the ‘Spirituality’ forum: there are many informative posts on Christian Prayer/the Divine Office/ the LOTH in there.

Hope this helps. 🙂
 
Try this. The page is morning and evening prayer for each day. Just click on the web site and start reading. It changes to the appropriate psalms, readings and prayers each day. They are working (according to the site) on incorporating midmorning, midday and midafternoon prayers as well.

universalis.com/

In the Father’s Love,
Matthew
 
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Are there any lay people out there who currently pray the (Christian Prayer) The Liturgy of the Hours? I’ve been inspired to return to this practice, but need help finding the prayers I’m suppose to say each day.
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I hate it when people recommend Universalis. Universalis contains only a poor subset of the Divine Office, uses the wrong translation and lacks essential components like antiphons, which are never to be omitted. If you intend to pray the Divine Office as the Divine Office, do not use Universalis.

Anyway, you asked for the prayers for the day. I assume you use the Christian Prayer from Catholic Book Publishing. As of Feb 28, 2007, we are now Week 1 of the Psalter, p. 738; Proper of Seasons p. 278.

The sequence for Morning Prayer goes:

Invitatory: p.686. Antiphon Come let us worship Christ the Lord who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.

or Today if you hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts. p.687

Psalm 95 p.688

Hymn. Choose a hymn for Lent, see guide, p. 1502. Select a hymn from nos. 53, 85 to 100

Psalmody. p. 738
Reading, p.278
Canticle of Zechariah, antiphon p. 279, canticle p.691
Intercessions and closing prayer, p. 279.
Closing blessing p.694
 
porthos11 said:
I hate it when people recommend Universalis. Universalis contains only a poor subset of the Divine Office, uses the wrong translation and lacks essential components like antiphons, which are never to be omitted. If you intend to pray the Divine Office as the Divine Office, do not use Universalis.

Anyway, you asked for the prayers for the day. I assume you use the Christian Prayer from Catholic Book Publishing. As of Feb 28, 2007, we are now Week 1 of the Psalter, p. 738; Proper of Seasons p. 278.

The sequence for Morning Prayer goes:

Invitatory: p.686. Antiphon Come let us worship Christ the Lord who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.

or Today if you hear the voice of the Lord, harden not your hearts. p.687

Psalm 95 p.688

Hymn. Choose a hymn for Lent, see guide, p. 1502. Select a hymn from nos. 53, 85 to 100

Psalmody. p. 738
Reading, p.278
Canticle of Zechariah, antiphon p. 279, canticle p.691
Intercessions and closing prayer, p. 279.
Closing blessing p.694
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I agree! Universalis is only a good substitute for those who don’t have the breviary.
For those who don’t, bite the bullet and at least get the Christians Prayers, the Liturgy of the Hours.

My wife and myself pray the LOTH using this version together, everyday.

One of these days we’re going to spend the $280 for two sets of the complete 4 vol.

Jim
 
As a Benedictine Oblate I’m obligated to pray at least part of the Divine Office every day. Since I’m blessed with a job where I work most of the time from a home office, I pray the entire office on the Benedictine Monastic schema B every day: vigils, lauds, tierce, sexte, none, vespers and compline. Schema B is the entire psalter in a week although I do split vigils over two weeks as permitted by the rubrics (3 psalms each week instead of two nocturnes of 3 psalms each).

There are variations. For the current Roman breviary, Lauds & Vespers

If first office of the day, invitatory + antiphon
Hymn (from commons of the season or proper or common of the saints)
Lauds: Psalm, O.T. Canticle, psalm (with antiphons)
Vespers: 2psalms or part of psalms, NT canticle
Short reading appropriate to the liturgical season
Responsory appropriate to the liturgical season or appropriate commons of the saints (not required by rubrics in private recitation)
N.T. Canticle (Lauds: Benedictus, Vespers: Magnificat) with antiphon of the day, or from proper of the season, proper or common of the feast of the day)
Universal prayer (litany)
Our Father (preceded by the Kyrie in the monastic tradition)
Collect (of the day, or of the Sunday previous during ordinary time, or from the proper of the season or of the saint/feast) with long conclusion (and without “Let us Pray”)
Dismissal (if presided by priest or deacon) or in private recitaiton “may the Lord bless us…”
 
JimR-OCDS said:
One of these days we’re going to spend the $280 for two sets of the complete 4 vol.

Jim
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I’ll need the large-type version, so I’ll have to spend over $200 (with shipping) for one set. 😦

Right now, I’m using the one-volume Christian Prayer, and it got a whole lot easier once I added additional ribbon bookmarks. My book came with five ribbons; some newer editions have only three. I found eight to be a good number (I made my own 8-ribbon bookmark to replace the one that came with the volume).
 
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