Is the Rosary a substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours?

[steve986]

Is the Rosary a substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours? Is the laity required to say the Liturgy of the Hours?

 

[scarbar]

the rosary and loth are totally different.the rosary is a private devotion,that is even if 100 people were all together saying the rosary,it is still considered a private prayer.The liturgy of the hours is a public prayer,the prayer of the Church,that is ,even if you say it alone,it is still considered a public prayer,because all around the world the faithful are all saying the same prayer at the same time.The laity are not required to say loth,although one certainly can,even just parts of it.I believe priests and deacons are required to sat the loth,I am not sure about religious.

 

[TommyQ]

Praying the Liturgy of the Hours isn’t mandatory for lay persons, but it’s certainly a good idea if you can.

The Rosary isn’t a substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours for our priests and deacons who are required to pray the LoH, but it’s probably a good idea for them to do that too.

From Wikipedia:

Prayers with beads like the rosary may have begun as a practice by the laity to imitate the monastic Liturgy of the Hours, during the course of which the monks prayed the 150 Psalms daily. As many of the laity and even lay monastics could not read, they substituted 150 repetitions of the Our Father (Pater noster in Latin) for the Psalms, sometimes using a cord with knots on it to keep an accurate count.[12] During the middle ages, evidence suggests that both the Our Father and the Hail Mary were recited with prayer beads. In the 7th century, Saint Eligius wrote of using a counting device to keep track of the 150 Hail Marys of the Psalter of Mary.[13] In 13th century Paris, four trade guilds existed of prayer bead makers, who were referred to as paternosterers, and the beads were referred to as paternosters, suggesting a continued link between the Our Father (Pater noster in Latin) and the prayer beads.[12] In the 12th century, the rule of the English anchorites, the Ancrene Wisse, specified how groups of fifty Hail Marys were to be broken into five decades of ten Hail Marys each.[12] Gradually, the Hail Mary came to replace the Our Father as the prayer most associated with beads. Eventually, each decade came to be preceded by an Our Father, which further mirrored the structure of the monastic Liturgy of the Hours.

 

[Chatter163]

Is the Rosary a substitute for the Liturgy of the Hours? Is the laity required to say the Liturgy of the Hours?

No and no.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

I think historically it was a substitute in the sense that it was recommended for the illiterate laity who could not manage the Liturgy of the Hours. The 150 Hail Mary’s substituted for the 150 Psalms they could not read.