Which Office Do You Pray?

[Luigi_Daniele]

Me: Liturgy of the Hours 4 Volume. My monastery uses its own Ordo. Basically Lauds and Vespers Plus.

 

[KarenElissa]

I use Christian Prayer. For me it is the perfect combination of completeness for the Hours I actually pray and small/cheapness in that I don’t have extras that I wouldn’t use anyway.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I use Christian Prayer. For me it is the perfect combination of completeness for the Hours I actually pray and small/cheapness in that I don’t have extras that I wouldn’t use anyway.

The 4 volume is a tad pricey, no question about it. I do kind of like not having to flip for the daily Hymn, though

I started with the 4 volume over 10 years ago, then switched to CP maybe 4-5 years ago. I have had to switch back to the 4 volume due to the fact that my monastery’s Ordo is based on the 4 volume.

I really enjoy it.

 

[agnes_therese]

I use the 4-volume. I was very fortunate, some years ago, to have an income-tax refund and nothing else pressing that it was needed for.

 

[challam2010]

I use the four-volume LOTH, plus Universalis.com if I’m stuck on the computer. I’ve tried the Shorter Christian Prayer but found it too short (ha). While I’d like to say I read all of the days’ prayers, my priority is the Office of Readins and the psalms.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I use the 4-volume. I was very fortunate, some years ago, to have an income-tax refund and nothing else pressing that it was needed for.

The only down side of the 4 Volume is getting caught out when the volume changes at Vespers, and I haven’t brought the extra volume with me to work (where I usually pray Vespers)

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

Christian Prayer as that is what my community uses.

I also have the one volume Office of Readings that I use in my private prayer.

 

[Furacao]

I use the 1962 Divine Office (Roman Breviary) . . . or an english-use version called the Anglican Breviary.

 

[basenji]

4 Volume plus I email the .pdf files from ebreviary.com to my workplace email and Kindle. Sometimes a breviary can be a great evangelizing tool when others see it, but at other times it can be a bit of distraction if one is attempting to quietly become lost (with)in prayer.

I have the CP volume as well but mainly use it for travel or retreats.

 

[OraLabora]

4-volume for me, in French. However, I do Lauds, Sext, Vespers and Compline in Gregorian Chant using this:

The Gregorian Hours.

It is entirely faithful to LOTH. Excellent for those who wish to chant the office.

For the Office of Readings, I pray that as Vigils. If I’m really ambitious, I’ll chant it recto-tono in French (with Latin hymn) at 4 am (when the cats usually wake me to go out). If not, I’ll read it in bed a 6:30 am before I get up.

When I travel, I just bring the appropriate volume of the 4-volume set (in French) with me.

I tried the various monastic offices but with my schedule, LOTH works best. To keep the monastic tradition, during the week I chant the Monastic version of Compline (ps. 4, 90 and 133 every day, no Nunc Dimittis, no responsory, hymn after the psalmody).

 

[thomas_jd]

Christian Prayers is what we pray as a group. When praying with my wife she prefers The Little Office.
I pray Christian Prayers when praying alone.

 

[corsair]

I’m kind of new at this but I started out with the Little Office of the BVM, then I found a Dominican Little Office which is slightly different. I really like this one because I can really get into the psalms.

Just recently I bought a book of Christian Prayer. Haven’t received it yet. My goal is to eventually graduate to the 4 Volume LOTH in latin.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I figured I would clarify what I said in my 1st post, a bit.

Our monastery uses the 4 volume as I have already stated. We pray Lauds and Vespers (Morning and Evening). But a plus version:

1. We use a different Reading than what is used in the “regular” LotH. It is usally longer (sometimes much longer) and is from a different book of the Bible than the ones in the regular LotH.
2. We add a Psalm (usually borrowed from the Office of Readings of the day). So we end up saying 2 OOR Psalms (1 at Lauds, 1 at Vespers) in addition to the “stock” Psalms
3. On days when a longer Psalm is split by the LotH, we say it all together, under the 1st part’s antiphon. When this happens we add another Psalm for the “second” Psalm (from the OOR)

Quite beautiful, actually.

 

[roveau]

I use the Shorter Christian Prayer except for some mornings when I have to get up at 05.00 to get to work. It really is a great inspiration. When I retire I’ll get the 4 volume one.

 

[Catholicben]

I have a 4 the Volume, Christan Prayer (one vol.), and used to have Shorted Christian Prayer (but I gave it to a friend). I like having the four volume. I actually got it as a gift from a good priest-friend of mine. I haven’t looked, but I bet the “full” four volume isn’t too cheap…

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

I have a 4 the Volume, Christan Prayer (one vol.), and used to have Shorted Christian Prayer (but I gave it to a friend). I like having the four volume. I actually got it as a gift from a good priest-friend of mine. I haven’t looked, but I bet the “full” four volume isn’t too cheap…

Around $150

He’s a really good priest friend

 

[Rachel_1]

I actually go back and forth between the 4 volume LOTH and the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I don’t really know why I do this it’s just some days I like the Little Office over the 4 volume

 

[tee_eff_em]

1. 
   *]*Roman-Franciscan Christian Prayer *(*Christian Prayer *plus a supplement of Franciscan Saints and Blesseds)
   *]Lauds and Vespers per Annum
   *]*Liturgia Horarum *volume II
   *]iBreviary
   
   tee

 

[OraLabora]

I have a 4 the Volume, Christan Prayer (one vol.), and used to have Shorted Christian Prayer (but I gave it to a friend). I like having the four volume. I actually got it as a gift from a good priest-friend of mine. I haven’t looked, but I bet the “full” four volume isn’t too cheap…

I don’t recall what it cost me, but I didn’t buy it all at once. I started just before Advent one year, and bought the first volume. As Lent approached, I bought the second volume. Towards the end of Eastertide, I bought the third, and late summer, I bought the 4th. So I spread the cost over the entire year. Seemed to hurt less

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

1. 
   *]*Roman-Franciscan Christian Prayer *(*Christian Prayer *plus a supplement of Franciscan Saints and Blesseds)
   *]Lauds and Vespers per Annum
   *]*Liturgia Horarum *volume II
   *]iBreviary
   
   tee

1. 
   Yeah I forgot to mention, we have a second book used by the community, the Carmelite Proper of the LotH.