Liturgy of the Hours

[Nowhere_Man]

I know that Eastern Catholics pray the Liturgy of the Hours (Matins, Lauds, Vespers, etc.), but is it the same thing that Roman Catholics pray, or is it different? I would assume the latter.

 

[ByzKat]

Christ is risen!

Yes, the same general cycle of hours - but always starting with Vespers (not just on Sundays and feast days), and the individual prayers, hymns and readings are different.

Here is an outline of the Divine Office in the Byzantine Rite:

metropolitancantorinstitute.org/liturgy/DailyCycle.html

Yours in Christ,
Jeff Mierzejewski

 

[Aramis]

I know that Eastern Catholics pray the Liturgy of the Hours (Matins, Lauds, Vespers, etc.), but is it the same thing that Roman Catholics pray, or is it different? I would assume the latter.

While it follows the same general timing schedule, it’s a different specific set of prayers.

Each Church Sui Iuris has it’s own rubrics for the specific liturgies of the hours, and each Rite’s are notably different, while the churches of the same rite tend to be generally the same, but with some minor (or in the ruthenian case, not quite so minor) differences.

There are, in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, 3 different forms of each of the hours… Priest-lead, Layman-lead, and as an experimental, a deacon-lead form which is in between. Plus specific variations of priest-lead for the great feasts.

 

[Ignatius]

While it follows the same general timing schedule, it’s a different specific set of prayers.

Each Church Sui Iuris has it’s own rubrics for the specific liturgies of the hours, and each Rite’s are notably different, while the churches of the same rite tend to be generally the same, but with some minor (or in the ruthenian case, not quite so minor) differences.

There are, in the Ruthenian Catholic Church, 3 different forms of each of the hours… Priest-lead, Layman-lead, and as an experimental, a deacon-lead form which is in between. Plus specific variations of priest-lead for the great feasts.

Are there Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Liturgy of the Hours and are they different than the corresponding Eastern Catholic Liturgy of the Hours?

 

[JMJ_coder]

In all the Churches, the Liturgy of the Hours (as it is currently called in the Latin Church) is based primarily on the Psalms. In all the Churches, the day is divided into seven hours. But, other than that, there are differences (sometimes marked). Just as the Divine Liturgy (Mass, Qurbono, or whatever your Church calls it) has the same basic structure but markedly different in various ways, so it holds for the Liturgy of the Hours.

Look at the Agpeya (the Coptic Hours) and compare to the Latin Liturgy of the Hours.

 

[malphono]

Are there Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Liturgy of the Hours

Yes.

and are they different than the corresponding Eastern Catholic Liturgy of the Hours?

No not really. As is the case with the Eucharistic liturgy, they are essentially the same.

 

[Aramis]

Are there Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Liturgy of the Hours and are they different than the corresponding Eastern Catholic Liturgy of the Hours?

metropolitancantorinstitute.org/Publications.html has the hours books for the ruthenians.