Liturgy of the Hours-W/Book from Daughters of St. Paul

[kitafraya]

Is there anyone else Praying the Liturgy of the Hours using the book from the Daughters of St. Paul. Not the one from Catholic Book Publishing. I started praying the Liturgy of the Hours during the middle of Lent with just the Night Prayers. I then have moved to doing the Morning & Evening prayers too. I have found great joy and comfort in doing them.

I now would like to do the Office of Readings, but I am bit confused. In the back of the book they list the biblical readings you can look up in your bible for the readings. They list a 2 year cycle. But if I look at Universalis biblical reading for the day or I often use the Divine Office Website as an audio so I don’t feel alone while I pray. They don’t match up. The Unviersalis & the Divine Office Biblical Readings for the day matches each other but they don’t match up to the references in the Liturgy of the Hours book from the Daughters of St Paul. Make sense???

So, if someone understood my delimma (which I hope someone did ). I really could use some help. Please.

Thanks Bunches!!

 

[Ohiomom]

Hello, It is wonderful that you are starting to pray the office. It has been a while since I looked at the DSP version of the liturgy of the hours, but, like Christian Prayer, it is an edited version of the liturgy of the hours and the emphasis is on morning prayer (lauds), evening prayer (vespers) and night prayer. The Office of Readings for the entire year is too long to include in one volume along with the other prayers so the version in the DSP version and Christian Prayer is not the full cycle of Office of Readings, but is abreviated and is based on a “common” of readings and not the actually daily readings.

 

[Provigil]

Hello, It is wonderful that you are starting to pray the office. It has been a while since I looked at the DSP version of the liturgy of the hours, but, like Christian Prayer, it is an edited version of the liturgy of the hours and the emphasis is on morning prayer (lauds), evening prayer (vespers) and night prayer. The Office of Readings for the entire year is too long to include in one volume along with the other prayers so the version in the DSP version and Christian Prayer is not the full cycle of Office of Readings, but is abreviated and is based on a “common” of readings and not the actually daily readings.

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In our parish we pray the Morning prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours aftwe the Penitentiasl Rite. Itis a beautiful way of gesture to our Lord.
I never knew that the DSP published the TLOH.

The books that I have been using, the Office of Readings cxome first, than Morning prayer, etc.
God Bless you.

PROVIGIL, PhD

 

[ricmat]

Is there anyone else Praying the Liturgy of the Hours using the book from the Daughters of St. Paul. Not the one from Catholic Book Publishing. I started praying the Liturgy of the Hours during the middle of Lent with just the Night Prayers. I then have moved to doing the Morning & Evening prayers too. I have found great joy and comfort in doing them.

I now would like to do the Office of Readings, but I am bit confused. In the back of the book they list the biblical readings you can look up in your bible for the readings. They list a 2 year cycle. But if I look at Universalis biblical reading for the day or I often use the Divine Office Website as an audio so I don’t feel alone while I pray. They don’t match up. The Unviersalis & the Divine Office Biblical Readings for the day matches each other but they don’t match up to the references in the Liturgy of the Hours book from the Daughters of St Paul. Make sense???

So, if someone understood my delimma (which I hope someone did ). I really could use some help. Please.

Thanks Bunches!!

I have both the DSP and Catholic Book Publishing one volume versions.

I like the DSP version because it has the hymns printed in line with the prayers, and it has a 4 week psalter for daytime prayer (in addition to the 4 week psalters for morning, evening, and OOR).

Universalis has a nice product - I used to download it to my Palm PDA. But it doesn’t match up with anything else. Magnificat is also nice, but it doesn’t always match either.

The 1 volume sets don’t include all of OOR. On those occasions when I use it, I use the same day and week for the psalter as morning and evening prayer. Then I turn to the back, and read a “first reading” and a “second reading”. The back of the book has a bunch of readings sorted by liturgical year (we are presently in Ordinary Time, we just finished Easter). I just try to pick readings that I haven’t done before.

There may be a better or more official way, but I can’t figure it out either!

 

[kitafraya]

Thank you all for responding.

Provigil, the way you describe the way you do the OOR is basically the way I been doing it so it can’t be that bad. Hey at least we are praying right?

The DSP one volume does have a short version of the OOR. The one volume is all I could afford. Like Provigil I like DSP better than because the hymns are right there with the prayers and also the midday prayers daytime, and evening prayer follow right after. It just seems to flow better. I don’t feel like I am flipping back and forth like with the Catholic Book Publishing. But everyone has their own comfort.

If I every figure out the an easier way for OOR for the one volume I will repost here for those of us who use the One Volume Christian Prayer Books.

Thanks Again!! May God Bless You All!

 

[tee_eff_em]

I now would like to do the Office of Readings, but I am bit confused. In the back of the book they list the biblical readings you can look up in your bible for the readings. They list a 2 year cycle. But if I look at Universalis biblical reading for the day or I often use the Divine Office Website as an audio so I don’t feel alone while I pray. They don’t match up. The Unviersalis & the Divine Office Biblical Readings for the day matches each other but they don’t match up to the references in the Liturgy of the Hours book from the Daughters of St Paul. Make sense???

The 2-year cycle of readings is optional. From the *General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours *(with emphasis added):

1. There are two cycles of biblical readings. The first is a one-year cycle and is incorporated into The Liturgy of the Hours; the second,

given in the supplement for optional use

, is a two-year cycle, like the cycle of readings at weekday Masses in Ordinary Time.

If I am not mistaken, the 1-year cycle incorporated into the LOTH corresponds to Year II of the 2-year cycle. I do not frequent the sites you refer to, but they may likely be using the single cycle.

ALSO: There are often Proper readings for the celebration of saints and feasts. The cycles referred to above correspond only to ferial days.

(Anyone unfamiliar with the 2-year cycle may find it attached to this post [post=4595993]Re: Office of Readings - which year?[/post])

tee

 

[ncjohn]

Ok, on an even more basic level, when does one use the Office of Readings?

We started doing morning and evening prayer last year during our pilgrimage to Assisi and I have occasionally added night prayer. I do use the DSP version but haven’t been able to figure out from any of the instructions I read when one uses the Office. Is it tied to a time of day or what?

 

[tee_eff_em]

Ok, on an even more basic level, when does one use the Office of Readings?

We started doing morning and evening prayer last year during our pilgrimage to Assisi and I have occasionally added night prayer. I do use the DSP version but haven’t been able to figure out from any of the instructions I read when one uses the Office. Is it tied to a time of day or what?

No, it is not.

1. The Constitution on the Liturgy directs that the office of readings, “though it should retain its character as a night office of praise when celebrated in choir, shall be adapted so that it may be recited at any hour of the day; it shall be made up of fewer psalms and longer readings.”

1. Those who are obliged by their own particular law and others who commendably wish to retain the character of this office as a night office of praise (either by saying it at night or very early in the morning and before morning prayer), during Ordinary Time choose the hymn from the selection given for this purpose. Moreover, for Sundays, solemnities, and certain feasts what is said in nos. 70-73 about vigils must be kept in mind.

1. Without prejudice to the regulations just given, the office of readings may be recited at any hour of the day, even during the night hours of the previous day, after evening prayer has been said.

tee

 

[ncjohn]

Thanks, tee.

One has to love the wording that says: “…the office of readings may be recited at any hour of the day, even during the night hours of the previous day…”

While I understand what is meant, saying that one can recite something on the previous day is an interesting choice of wording. “Gee, I think I’ll go say the Office last night.”