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Does anyone know of where one could find a book of the lauds and vespers (i dont want a full set of liturgy of the hours, juts lauds and vespers). Is that possible? where to look? do i misunderstand the divine office?
 
I don’t know if you can just get Lauds and Vespers but you can certainly get a one volume book which has Lauds, Vespers and Compline. Any good Catholic bookshop should carry it. Be sure to get the one aproved for the country in which you live and it would probably be useful if you buy an ordo too. I think they are inexpensive.

I have found an online ordo but that is for Australia and New Zealand. If you type ‘ordo’ into Google something should come up for the USA or Canada. The Australian ordo is part of the Liturgical Commission for Australia and New Zealand; there might be a counterpart for your country.

liturgyhours.org/ This site might prove useful. I download the day’s prayers via Adobe and use it to help me work my way through the prayers in my Aussie book. This is an American site and the bible translation used is different to that used in Australia.

Good luck. 🙂
 
lauds and vespers is morning and evening prayer, contained in Shorter Christian Prayer (the slim red volume) it also has night prayer (compline). does not have the office of readings, and commons of saints etc. that make the larger books so bulky.
 
We each use the single volume Divine Office :

Christian Prayer : The Liturgy of the Hours

It is published by Catholic Book Publishing Co. New York.

We bought them at our local Catholic Book Shoppe ( $ 33.00 each )

I highly recommend purchasing a vinyl protective book cover ( $2.95 ) AND the 2005 GUIDE for Christian Prayer booklet
($3.00 ) as well.

Learning the structure of the Divine Office can be a challenge but it is well worth the effort. As in learning all new things we need to be patient !

Joining in the daily prayer of the Church is wonderful. It blesses each and every day.
 
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Brain:
Does anyone know of where one could find a book of the lauds and vespers (i dont want a full set of liturgy of the hours, juts lauds and vespers). Is that possible? where to look? do i misunderstand the divine office?
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Dear Brain

The full set of the LOTH can be very expensive. You may wish to buy the Little Office of Our Lady Of Mount Carmel which contains morning and evening prayer and is far less costly.

Most Catholic shops will stock that.

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
Where exactly can I buy The little Office of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
 
Catholic Book Stores…or you could try ebay…I got a really nice 4 Volume Liturgy of the Hours box set off of ebay, the black leather edition for about $100 which is cheap, because they retail for around $150
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FrankvT:
Where exactly can I buy The little Office of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
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Could you give me names of online stores. I have been searching but can’t find.
 
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FrankvT:
Could you give me names of online stores. I have been searching but can’t find.
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Dear friend

Click on this link below,

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: LittleOfficeOur****Lady

once you are on the page you will notice an advert ‘Liturgy of the Hours’ click on that advert and it will lead you to an oline shopping site where all versions of the Liturgy including the Little Office is for sale. (if you click on no.12 in the list in blue on the left hand side and scroll down until you see the office you desire.)

God Bless you and much love and peace to you

Teresa
 
I like to do the night prayers too, though. I wouldn’t mind a slimmer book though, esp for traveling.

I never do the office of readings, I haven’t learnt how. I don’t have the guide, so I don’t know how to match the days up. Any tips on that?
 
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WhiteDove:
I like to do the night prayers too, though. I wouldn’t mind a slimmer book though, esp for traveling.

I never do the office of readings, I haven’t learnt how. I don’t have the guide, so I don’t know how to match the days up. Any tips on that?
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Hi White Dove!

I learned to do it in Latin and use the 2 volume Breviarium Romanum (1959 ed) Nice and compact,and very traditional…ok not so traditional as the Pius X era editions…but hey, I can’t get my hands on decently priced one.

For those interested in the traditional breviary see www.breviary.net
 
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WhiteDove:
I never do the office of readings, I haven’t learnt how. I don’t have the guide, so I don’t know how to match the days up. Any tips on that?
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When I do pray the office in english I use the 4 volume LOTH…makes life much easier…see, I’m not that hard headed about using Latin…lol
 
Dear Greg,
LOL, you’ll fit in well here. Lots of Latin lovers in this place 😃 The spirituality forum is a good one. Water cooler for fellowship, In the News for the George Bush fan club. 😉
 
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WhiteDove:
I like to do the night prayers too, though. I wouldn’t mind a slimmer book though, esp for traveling.

I never do the office of readings, I haven’t learnt how. I don’t have the guide, so I don’t know how to match the days up. Any tips on that?
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Hi
universalis.com/cgi-bin/display/-600/USA/Readings.html

This is the universalis site which has the psalms, all the Biblical readings, and most of the non-biblical readings.

Most of the other hours are also here.
 
It’s great to see such interest in the “Office.” For those who are not able to attend daily Mass, the office is the next best way to join with our brothers and sisters all over the world, in the prayer of the church. All clergy and religious pray the mourning and evening prayer, as well as many others around the world.

God bless,
Deacon Tony
 
Have you checked out the Magnificat publication? It contains the morning and evening prayers along with the Mass readings for each day. It is supposed to come from the LOH but I have never compared it verse-for-verse. It is a monthly publication and quite compact to carry around with you.
 
Have you checked out the Magnificat publication? It contains the morning and evening prayers along with the Mass readings for each day. It is supposed to come from the LOH but I have never compared it verse-for-verse. It is a monthly publication and quite compact to carry around with you.
 
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