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1. I know that priests are required to, but are vowed religious? Is it the same?

2. If so, what are the requirements (what/how many hours)?

3 Who decides -is it by order i.e. Franciscan, Dominican, Benedictine, etc.?

4. Is it in canon law somewhere?

Thanks in advance for any info!

Blessings & Happy New Year!
V

Glory to Jesus Christ!
"Priests and deacons aspiring to the priesthood are obliged to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours daily according to the approved liturgical books that apply to them; permanent deacons are to do so to the extent laid down by the Episcopal Conference;
members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life(religious) are bound (even when in private)according to the norm of their Communities constitutions.[6]

The constitutions of some institutes of consecrated life, in particular Benedictine monks and nuns, but also others, oblige them to follow an arrangement of the Psalter whereby all the Psalms are recited in the course of a single week, partly through an extension of the Office of Readings, and by maintaining the Hour of Prime.

Thus Code of canon law
THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS (Cann. 1173 - 1175)

Can. 1173 Fulfilling the priestly function of Christ, the Church celebrates the liturgy of the hours. In the liturgy of the hours, the Church, hearing God speaking to his people and recalling the mystery of salvation, praises him without ceasing by song and prayer and intercedes for the salvation of the whole world.

Can. 1174 §1. Clerics are obliged to carry out the liturgy of the hours according to the norm of ⇒ can. 276, §2, n. 3; members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, however, are bound according to the norm of their constitutions.

§2. Other members of the Christian faithful, according to circumstances, are also earnestly invited to participate in the liturgy of the hours as an action of the Church.

Can. 1175 In carrying out the liturgy of the hours, the true time for each hour is to be observed insofar as possible.

You are AWESOME! Thanks Emile James!

Youre welcome, Our God id good.....

THE Liturgy of the Hours are the Prayers of the Church...everyone is called to pray them together...lay people....women religious...priests...every vocation is asked to do so....but religious orders do so out of Obedience for the Pope and the CHurch........

I would pray the LOTH if i could every single day!!!!