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Which do you pray?
I am not familiar with either of the books you mention, but if you have found the Catholic Book Publishing edition and if you think you might be all right with just a couple of hints, the guide for that book is published weekly here:I found an excellent copy of the book used, which looks brand new. I think the book will be better for me ecuase it has less distractions than the computer. It is the one volume edition that some how has everything in it. Problem is there is so much information and I am having trouble negotiating it.
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I just want a simple introduction.
I was trying to say it from the web site www.liturgyofthrhours.org but began to get too distracted by the use of the cpmuter. I found an excellent copy of the book used, which looks brand new. I think the book will be better for me ecuase it has less distractions than the computer. It is the one volume edition that some how has everything in it. Problem is there is so much information and I am having trouble negotiating it.
I hope this is not hijacking the thread, but I was thinking about purchasing the book:
Lord, Open My Lips: The Liturgy of the Hours As Daily Prayer
****by Seth H. Murray
hoping that it will teach me to navigate the book. Has any one used it? There are no reviews on the web site for it. Amazon recommended the Divine Office for Dodos, but it is almost twice the price, and I don’t like the dodo pictures. Yeah, stupid complaint sorry. I just want a simple introduction.
I agree. If I’m able to, I try to go to 7am daily Mass, after which a few very devout women (God bless them) are always there to say Morning Prayer together.If you guys can organize something at church, or find a church near you that pray it…there is NOTHING like doing it in a group, with leaders, responses, parts 1 and 2…it’s beautiful.
Our parish does that before 8:30am Mass each day.If you guys can organize something at church, or find a church near you that pray it…there is NOTHING like doing it in a group, with leaders, responses, parts 1 and 2…it’s beautiful.
Ditto, although I usually am not able to do daytime.I’m trying to make this a regular part of my daily prayer. I have the Christian Prayer book and not the full 4 book set. When I do pray I try at minimum to do Morning, one of the Daytime, Evening and Night. I love the Night prayer not because of the brevity but rather the Antiphons and even the final blessing are so beautiful.
Yes and no. It’s sort of like the adage, “He who sings, prays twice;” I don’t SING the Office usually! The Office is based on monastic choir prayer, where monks and nuns were obligated to chant all offices together approximately every three hours throughout the day and night. Diocesan priests have never had this obligation to pray in common, even though many priests like to pray the Office together. St. Ignatius of Loyola intentionally left out the group requirement for the Society of Jesus to emphasize their charism to be soldiers ready to be deployed for God’s work at any moment. I like to pray with others when I can.I’m not sure, but someone told me it’s actually “preferred” that we say it in a group if you’re able, rather than alone. Do you agree?
I am finding all the posts in this thread of real interest. I try to pray Morning and Evening Prayer and also Night Prayer with a daily examination of conscience. At times, however, I have not time … and so I have contacted my local OCD Carmelite Monastery and asked them to unite me with them at those times I cannot get to formal prayer. This is one of the functions of our contemplatives in The Mystical Body of Christ, The Church, to pray on our behalf when the demands and duties of our fast paced at times secular lives in the world preclude formal prayer time.Yes and no. It’s sort of like the adage, “He who sings, prays twice;” I don’t SING the Office usually! The Office is based on monastic choir prayer, where monks and nuns were obligated to chant all offices together approximately every three hours throughout the day and night. Diocesan priests have never had this obligation to pray in common, even though many priests like to pray the Office together. St. Ignatius of Loyola intentionally left out the group requirement for the Society of Jesus to emphasize their charism to be soldiers ready to be deployed for God’s work at any moment. I like to pray with others when I can.
I’ve prayed the Office relatively regularly since 1989. I pray the full office but with the single volume (red color) Christian Prayer, mostly because that is the volume the religious I sometimes pray with use. The greater preference rather than common recitation is that each office be offered at generally the approximate time, i.e., Lauds in the morning, Vespers in the evening, Compline at night, rather than the entire day’s prayer being recited one after another. I usually pray Matins, Lauds and Prime early in the morning before Mass and then Vespers and Compline at night. It would be better and more in keeping with the character of the Office for me to break it up a little more, but I just read yesterday that this was the same schedule Pope Paul VI used, so I felt like I was in good company!