Do you pray the Divine Office?

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My previous thread disappeared? forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=499119 Could be because I posted it the other day just before the Great Database Disaster. 🙂
Anyway, I was wondering which Office do you pray, and does any have any additional benefits than another. And is it alright do you think to pray the Pre-VII version in which you pray all the psalms in a weeks time instead of the eased up Office which does it in a month?
 
I want to follow this thread, so please expand the discussion to exactly what you are praying (what book, etc. ) and how long it takes? how many intervals per day are you praying?

What do you derive from praying the office?

I decided to get a copy of the Jewish Siddur (prayer book) from ArtScroll. I’m getting into it to understand the Jewish rationale of prayer, form of prayers, etc.

It describes prayer as fulfilling the command that we should serve God with our whole heart. Prayer is the service of the heart.

It’s a long shot, but is there any website which has the daily version of the Divine Office, in any form? maybe the current form?
 
I know about:
Universalis: www.universalis.com [appears to have own translations of psalms?]
Divine Office: divineoffice.org/ [says that there are excerpts from The Liturgy of the Hours (Four Volumes)]
Divinum Officium: divinumofficium.com/ [Appears to be Pre-VII, different editions]
Right now I’m praying the one from DivineOffice.org, but am considering switching to DivinumOfficium for the Pre-VII prayer style…
 
Yes, I pray the current Liturgy of the Hours daily. While as a Benedictine Oblate I would prefer the traditional Monastic Office (which is still legally in effect), my time constraints simply make that unrealistic. So I do the LOTH.

However I should point out that I chant the entire diurnal Office in Gregorian chant, using this excellent resource: The Gregorian Hours. At least, when I am working from my home office (4x per week), and on weekends. When I travel or work from my city office, I simply recite LOTH.

My schedule looks like this:

6:30 am: Vigils (Office of Readings), recited only (I’m trying to work up to a discipline of chanting it recto-tono at 4 am… it’s been a struggle), about 15 min.
Then from 6:45-7, I read my commented chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict, the Mass readings for the day, and an extract from the Martyrology.
7:00 am, I chant Lauds (about 25 min);
12:00, I chant the mid-day Office (Sext), about 10-15 min;
5:00 pm (later in summer), I chant Vespers (about 20-25 min);
9:30 pm, I chant Compline (or occasionally, recite it in bed before retiring), about 15 min, and on weekdays I use the Monastic variant to keep some contact with the monastic office (Ps. 4, 90 and 133 chanted “in directum” without antiphon, versicle instead of responsory, no gospel canticle).

Sometimes on Sundays I sleep in a bit and Lauds will be at 8 am; on Saturdays especially if the weather is nice, I often wake up a little earlier to take full advantage of my day off, and will start a bit earlier. I mark time with recordings of the various church bells at Solesmes, which can be heard on their various CDs. To do this I have programmed all the offices into iCal on my Mac.

I do my Offices in my small oratory located in my home cell, where I also work and sleep:





 
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