Problem with Divine Office

[aquohn]

Well, recently, my father bought me a condensed version of the Divine Office for my brithday. I’ve been dutifully praying it, but I realsied that it’s missing Compline and Vespers (and conspciuously so) for Saturdays. Is this supposed to happen?

 

[CountrySteve]

Well for Saturday Vespers and Compline, the prayers are called Evening Prayer I and Sunday prayer I, the reason for this is because Saturday evening starts Sundays check out divineoffice.org/ thats were i learned how to pray it,

God bless

 

[AJB328]

It’s been a while since I’ve tried to teach myself how to use Christian Prayer (that’s the one volume Liturgy of the hours, probably what you have or the other one is shorter Christian Prayer) but I do remember that Sunday Evening Prayer I is for Saturday and Evening Prayer II is for Sunday.

In the old days (Old Testament) the Sabbath was considered to start at sun down the night before and this continues through to today since you can go to Saturday Vigil Mass instead of Sunday.

If you have any other problems you could always go to Divineoffice.org to double check if you’re reading the right parts.

 

[OraLabora]

There are no Vespers and Compline on Saturday. There’s first Vespers (Evening Prayer I) for Sunday followed by Compline. Saturday evening is actually the start of the Sunday cycle of the following week and the prayers would be found under the Sunday header.

Sundays, feasts or the Lord falling on Sunday and solemnities have first Vespers celebrated the eve.

 

[dcb188]

CountrySteve’s suggestion about divineoffice.org is right on target.

That site has all the daily prayers associated with Liturgy of the Hours. And not only that, but the Hymns there are sung.

It is not just the text. You can read it and/or listen to everything being prayed and said and sung.

A wonderful website, and very easy to navigate.

I highly recommend it. It will help you understand LOH/Divine Office.

 

[aquohn]

Thanks for the help, everyone! Really appreciate it!