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Do the canonical hours for the Divine Office correspond to any specific numerical hours or are they generalized times?
How do those of you who work find time for your devotions? I am at work all day, and I have difficulty fitting all of the prayers I would like to say (including the offices) into my schedule.The hours are really intended to be said at specific times -
eg Morning Prayer at 6am or thereabouts,
Daytime prayer at 9am, noon and 3pm,
evening prayer at 6pm,
Night Prayer just before you go to sleep.
Office of Readings can be said at any time at all, but is traditionally said directly prior to Morning Prayer.
Of course there is some latitude, depending on whether or not you say the Daytime Prayers (if you do, your hours should be evenly spaced so as not to be said too close together).
Beyond that, I guess as long as you say your Morning Prayer in the Morning (before noon) and your Evening Prayer sometime after about 4pm ish you should be fine.
I work full time too. The way I finish my daily devotions is to utilize every possible time I can find. Usually on my way to work, I can finish one Rosary while driving.How do those of you who work find time for your devotions? I am at work all day, and I have difficulty fitting all of the prayers I would like to say (including the offices) into my schedule.
I usually try to make my recitation of the Office revolve around Daily Mass. In my parish, Lauds (Morning Prayer) is said communally after one morning Mass. So I say the Office of Readings before the Mass and Daytime Prayer after Mass with the Reading and Versicle for ‘Before Noon’. Night Prayer before I sleep and Evening Prayer when I hear the mosques call for the fourth prayerHow do those of you who work find time for your devotions? I am at work all day, and I have difficulty fitting all of the prayers I would like to say (including the offices) into my schedule.
Just to nitpick- but the Divine Office is not exactly on par with other devotions as it is the public prayer of the Church like the Mass (though of course, Mass is the mostimportant).O But I prefer to stick as consistently as possible to Daily Mass rather than worry too much about the other devotions, since it is by far the most beneficial use of my prayer time
I pray the Office of Readings either in the middle of the night when I wake up or in the half hour in church before 7:00 a.m. Mass, joined to Morning Prayer. I have permission from my spiritual director to cluster the hours whenever my schedule won’t let me pray the hours “on time.” For those who are obliged to pray the office, the obligation takes precedence over the desirability of “consecrating the day” by spacing them.How do those of you who work find time for your devotions? I am at work all day, and I have difficulty fitting all of the prayers I would like to say (including the offices) into my schedule.