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Luigi_Daniele
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Can this be used in place of the “regular” Liturgy of the Hours? Is there a “St Joseph’s” Guide for it?
$360
$360
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JM3
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agnes_therese
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Maybe.
It can, for those praying it as a private devotion. As a Secular Franciscan, you should check with your community’s spiritual advisor. As a Secular Discalced Carmelite, I’m bound to pray the Liturgy of the Hours (i.e., the current version). But I don’t know if that would be true for you.
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Luigi_Daniele
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It is indeed. We are required to pray Lauds and Vespers.
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agnes_therese
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As are we, and Compline whenever possible.It is indeed. We are required to pray Lauds and Vespers.
You might want to ask. Our constitutions specify the Liturgy of the Hours, so I’ve never thought seriously about investing in any of the older versions. Which, you may well already know, are available free online –
divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl
Just between you & me, I sometimes go there for some of the “non-required” hours. It’s interesting to see how the old breviary was said.
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Luigi_Daniele
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I will have a look. Thank you!As are we, and Compline whenever possible.
You might want to ask. Our constitutions specify the Liturgy of the Hours, so I’ve never thought seriously about investing in any of the older versions. Which, you may well already know, are available free online –
divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl
Just between you & me, I sometimes go there for some of the “non-required” hours. It’s interesting to see how the old breviary was said.
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YoungTradCath
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I think it’s not a bad price at all, relatively speaking.
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Luigi_Daniele
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The “regular” LotH is “only” $150 (and you get an extra volume.
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JM3
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The “regular” LotH is “only” $150 (and you get an extra volume.
150 psalms in 4 weeks or 150 psalms in one week… think I’ll go for the one week.
Hopefully, there’ll be some left when I get paid on the 8th.
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Kielbasi
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You can get the Kindle version for $3.80, about 99% off of the paper and ink version.
amazon.com/The-Roman-Breviary-November-December-ebook/dp/B00G0OTJK2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383092876&sr=8-1&keywords=roman+breviary
amazon.com/The-Roman-Breviary-November-December-ebook/dp/B00G0OTJK2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383092876&sr=8-1&keywords=roman+breviary
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JM3
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First, you have to have a Kindle. (I don’t).
Second, it’s only for Nov and Dec 2013.
Third, I don’t do Amazon.
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JM3
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:tiphat:I admire you greatly, sir. That’s the way St Benedict did it.
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OraLabora
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As an Oblate, I have been given the choice: LOTH, or the same 1-week Monastic breviary that the abbey I’m affiliated uses, as best fits our condition in life. Lauds, Vespers and Compline are highly recommended. I use both depending on my workload, family activities, travel, etc. Presently I’m using the 4-week LOTH.
There’s no shame in admitting that time limitations constrain you to the 4-week schema. Even monks are allowed to use it when they have heavy apostolates or are outside of their abbey. As a Benedictine I also believe in balance, and as I’m not a monk, I have to balance the Hours with my family and professional obligations.
150 psalms in 4 weeks or 150 psalms in one week… think I’ll go for the one week.
Hopefully, there’ll be some left when I get paid on the 8th.
That said, I do it differently. I currently am using the 4-week as noted, but I chant it in Gregorian chant. I chant each psalm in Latin, then read it silently in French (my mother tongue). I find it much more spiritually beneficial. The Latin chant helps pull me from the material world around me into the spiritual world, which then better disposes me to absorb the psalm. Lauds and Vespers, doing it that way, take me about 20 minutes. I do the Office of Readings in French exclusively, as I don’t at the moment have musical settings for it (one of my retirement projects, using antiphons from monastic sources).
But that’s just me. Whatever works.
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