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You can download the audio, updated daily.

Or recite it:
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Three psalms are recited on each liturgy of the hours

Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at Dawn, or 3 a.m.)
Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = approximately 6 a.m.)
Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = approximately 9 a.m.)
Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = approximately 12 p.m.)
None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)
Vespers or Evening Prayer (“at the lighting of the lamps”, generally at 6 p.m.)
Compline or Night Prayer (before retiring, generally at 9 p.m.)

Divine office is a divine way of prayer!
 
Now we can pray 7 times a day just like the monks and the nuns, at the comfort of our homes:D
 
There is a great app for iPhones called “Divine Office - Audio Prayers - Liturgy of the Hours”
It costs $14.99 - but compared to the price of the books - it’s a real deal. It is easy to use and has both written text, or written with audio. I found Christian Prayer difficult to use and was so glad to find this easy method to always have the correct text!

Hope you like it as well as I do.
 
sam51 said:
There is a great app for iPhones called “Divine Office - Audio Prayers - Liturgy of the Hours”
It costs $14.99 - but compared to the price of the books - it’s a real deal. It is easy to use and has both written text, or written with audio. I found Christian Prayer difficult to use and was so glad to find this easy method to always have the correct text!

Hope you like it as well as I do.
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It’s great! I have it on my iPhone and pray the morning prayer every day

Oh did I mention it has a choir or soloists singing the hymns? Yay for hymns!
 
Yeah, I agree - the vocals really bring the hymns to life. Very different than just reading the words in a book!
 
Wow, hymns! 🙂 That means the divine office is sung, not recited, it is doubly grreat
 
I believe the Office “can be sung” but its not required unless you are living in community.

I use the Office published by Benziger Brothers in 1904 and reproduced by St. Bonaventure Press in 1999. There is a forward by Fr. F.X. Lasance.

It has Latin and English.
 
corsair said:
I believe the Office “can be sung” but its not required unless you are living in community.

I use the Office published by Benziger Brothers in 1904 and reproduced by St. Bonaventure Press in 1999. There is a forward by Fr. F.X. Lasance.

It has Latin and English.
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I chant the Office. I have all the necessary music to do so. I do the antiphons in Latin. I am a secular Benedictine Oblate and use a Monastic Office (same as my monastic community) on a 2-week cycle of psalmody (prayers and the rest are on the same 4-wk cycle as the LOTH). So for the first two weeks I do everything in Latin. For the second pair of weeks, I use Latin antiphons but psalmody in French (my first language, and the language of the Monastic breviary of my community). That way I get the full meaning of the psalms.

When I have a really bad day, chanting the Office is so soothing.
 
mariafransisca1 said:
Now we can pray 7 times a day just like the monks and the nuns, at the comfort of our homes:D
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You are not expected to pray as monks and nuns because you are a lay-man.

I say the divine ofice just in the morning because I know I am not sinning because I am not a religious.

Say te HOurs whenever you have time, God wiill understand.

JESUS I TRUST I YOU
 
OraLabora said:
I chant the Office. I have all the necessary music to do so. I do the antiphons in Latin. I am a secular Benedictine Oblate and use a Monastic Office (same as my monastic community) on a 2-week cycle of psalmody (prayers and the rest are on the same 4-wk cycle as the LOTH). So for the first two weeks I do everything in Latin. For the second pair of weeks, I use Latin antiphons but psalmody in French (my first language, and the language of the Monastic breviary of my community). That way I get the full meaning of the psalms.

When I have a really bad day, chanting the Office is so soothing.
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I love chanting the office. I’m hoping to get a The Mundelein Psalter, which has MP, EP, and NP with point psalms and psalm tones. Right now, I just have The Office of Compline (an amazing book, btw!). I love chanting night prayer every night.
 
Jim_Roberts said:
You are not expected to pray as monks and nuns because you are a lay-man.

I say the divine ofice just in the morning because I know I am not sinning because I am not a religious.

Say te HOurs whenever you have time, God wiill understand.

JESUS I TRUST I YOU
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Some of us though, in secular branches of religious orders, do have obligations as part of our promise. For Benedictines it varies from one community to the other; for mine it is “to the maximum extent that your situation allows”. Others are more explicit, e.g. morning and night prayer.

I do try to do all of the Office, using some of the combinations allowed to simplify it, though I don’t get scrupulous of an obligation or activity forces me to miss an office. I use the same monastic schema as my community, but with psalms divided over 2 weeks instead of 1 week, and combining the minor hours into one mid-day Office. All are allowed by the rubrics of this particular breviary:

Vigils reduced from 6 psalms in two nocturns to 5, shorter readings in summer (also permitted to do only 1 nocturn, alternating between weeks)
Morning prayer reduced from 4 psalms + canticle to 3 psalms, alternating between wk I and II
Tierce and Sext combined into mid-day office for wk I and Tierce and None for Wk II
Vespers reduced from 4 psalms to 3 alternating between Wk I and II
Compline: no changes.

I find this gives me a nice balance. For Vigils I also use the same 2-year lectionary as my community, not the 1-yr in LOTH.

Typically I chant Vigils (recto-tono), Lauds and Vespers, and Sunday Compline; mid-day and weekday Compline, I read, the latter in bed, the former in my cube at work just before lunch.
 
I’m a big fan of praying the Divine Office. I have the 4-volume set, and, though I’ve been struggling in my spiritual life this year, I hope to return to a solid prayer schedule involving the Liturgy of the Hours soon.

I’m thankful my college is supportive of the Office as well. The sisters who reside near campus pray Morning Prayer each weekday, open to everyone, and on Sunday there is chanted Evening Prayer with Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction. One of my classes (Scriptural Foundations of Catechesis) even heavily prayed the Office of Readings (the first hour, after the Invitatory) during class, though this did cut down on the time used for actual teaching. Though, if you’re going to cut down on teaching time, what better reason than the prayer of the Church?
 
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