Poll: How do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours

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Do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours? If so, how do you pray it?
  • I not only pray all the hours, but I do the Office of Readings, saint’s days readings, etc
  • I pray all the hours everyday
  • I pray 3 hours a day
  • I pray morning and evening prayers from the LOTH
  • Other, please elaborate
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Have you found praying the LOTH has been a major benefit in your life? If so, how?

What books or apps do you use?
 
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I have a book called Christian Prayer that I use. It’s the LOTH minus the office of readings to make it more affordable. I usually only get to the Evening prayers, though.

It’s good for me. I’ve been slacking spiritually lately- not doing as much reading and study as I should- so this keeps me in a regular pattern of prayer.
 
I usually only pray the Office of Readings. Then my day goes zooming into action and I never do any of the other hours, except sometimes Compline (“night prayer”) in bed before turning out the light.
 
I’m a big fan of iBreviary. It puts everything on my phone for me so I can pray at home, at work, or anyplace I happen to be.
 
I use the 4 volume LOTH. Sometimes I use Universalis to pray the hours.
 
I voted or picked other as I pray office of readings and morning prayer together when I wake up, midday at noon or as close too it depending on my day, evening prayer when I get home from work or between 6 and 7 usually and night prayer before I go to bed. Sometimes if a manage to oversleep which is rare I will pray the office of readings with evening prayer. I use Universalis for Loth, I find iBrevery confusing by comparison I have the morning and evening volume of Loth but my preference is to use Universalis as it is really easy and straight forward.
 
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I use divine office. org at home and Laudate app on my phone if I am out and about.
 
Thom18 said:
I have a book called Christian Prayer that I use. It’s the LOTH minus the office of readings to make it more affordable. I usually only get to the Evening prayers, though.
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I’ve been reading through the Morning and Evening Prayers, and I really like them, so I’m thinking about adding them into my routine. Do you happen to know what the difference is between the Christian Prayer and the Shorter Christian Prayer?
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I use Universalis for Loth, I find iBrevery confusing by comparison
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Can you elaborate more on this? I am using iBreviary right now and it does seem a bit confusing. What does Universalis do better?

Do you find the Christian Prayer book difficult to use? I’ve been using iBreviary, but I feel a bit uncomfortable using my phone for prayer. I know this seems silly, but it is true.
 
I pray at least Morning and Evening Prayer, using the 4 Volume Set.

Often, I’ll also pray Day Prayer/

Morning and Evening Prayer, is required as part of the Rule of Life, i.e. Constitution for OCDS members.

Jim
 
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I usually pray morning prayer. Sometimes I’ll say evening prayer.
I am discerning a call to be a third order Dominican, which requires adherents to say both morning and evening prayer. So I need to get in the habit of saying both.
 
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Shorter Christian Prayer only has two hours, I believe- morning and evening, whereas Christian Prayer has all five.
 
IBrevery you need to jump around a bit to find psalms etc on universalis you select morning for example and it flows right through on one page you scroll down if that makes sense
 
Hmm. Ok. I think I’m going to stick with iBreviary while I get used to the LOTH. Then I’ll decide whether to go with the Christian Prayer book or Universalis.

Thank you!

I’d still love to hear from others who pray the LOTH.
 
Morning is my best prayer time, so I say Morning Prayer. That’s it.
 
I pray from a little booklet called “A Book of the Hours, Abbreviated for Personal Use”, published by Sophia Press. It contains shortened versions of the Byzantine Hours, which take quite a long time to pray in their entirety. I only pray Compline with great regularity at this point. I also pray Vespers at my parish when I can.
 
I pray the evening prayer. There are some days when my schedule doesn’t permit me to pray the liturgy of eh hours every day. Some mornings I pray the Aurora.
 
Depends on my school schedule. For this term, I have classes every Monday to Thursday from 11:30 am to 5:30 pm, therefore I only have time for Morning and Evening Prayer. On other days, I pray the two major hours, Midday prayer and Night Prayer
 
I usually pray the Monastic hours using « Liturgie monastique des heures ». I pray all the canonical hours, except in summer I do only one mid-day prayer according to a licit variant in LMH. I pray Lauds and Vespers and all the hymns in Latin Gregorian chant; the other hours I chant in French plainchant. It helps keep the voice in tune for the schola 😉

Nominally LMH is a one week schema doing the entire psalter in a week, but it has a couple of licit two week arrangements. So in summer, mid-day Prayer and Vigils I do on a two week cycle.

In the monastic version, the office of Vigils takes the place of the Office of Readings. It has more psalms, 6 divided into two nocturnes. It can use the same readings as the LOTH, or it can use a 2-year lectionary (as can the LOTH incidentally), which is what I use as the patriotic readings have more monastic sources.

When I’m really busy (more rare since I retired), or more tired (more frequent as I age), and when travelling, I use the LOTH using « Les Heures Grégoriennes » to chant the day hours in Latin Gregorian chant. I don’t sing it while travelling as LHG is a massive book that weighs a ton!
 
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I see you are a Benedictine Oblate. Is it a part of your charism that you pray the monastic version of the LOH?
 
Not being a religious, I pray them when I can, and never keep to a strict schedule, because I use it as private devotion and not an obligation to pray on a timeline with the Church.

But, to each his own.

And, I do love the LOTH.
 
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