Liturgy of The Hours

[MilesChristi]

Week III

[Paphnutius]

[quote name='FutureNunJMJ' date='Jun 3 2005, 12:48 PM']That sounds like a helpful book!  I'm sure it will help lots!  I'd like to know if its helpful if you ever get a chance to read any of it!
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For future reference...if you will go to the proper of seasons and look at the week it is (eg: 13th week of Ordinary Time) it will say what week it is in in the Psalter underneath the week.

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='MilesChristi' date='Jun 12 2005, 04:30 PM']Week III
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Thx.

[Theologian in Training]

I'm now bound by Canon Law. You guys think it is hard to fit it in during your day to day life, couple it with demands on your time almost constantly. I know of priests that, even though technically should not do this, wind up praying Morning Prayer at 2:00 in the afternoon. Usually, they get a call early in the morning with a sick or dying person and never have a chance to actually pray it, given the family and the ministering. Typically they also find that they have not even eaten since the night before.

No complaints, just kind of showing the practical side of difficulties for even those that are bound to pray it.

God Bless

[Keharitomeni Theotokos]

[url="http://www.liturgyhours.org/"]http://www.liturgyhours.org/[/url]

Check this link out!

I have a pocket pc and can download all the hours of each day onto it. Its high tech prayer. Its so cool!
The 3 volume set is around $150 but on this site you can pray for free!

[Carnanc]

it is terribly confusing at first, but after a while you'll wonder what the difficulty was. its an awesome prayer, and its really cool to know you are praying in union with the Church throughout the world.

[iggy]

[quote name='Catholictothecore' date='May 21 2005, 10:46 AM']I use the Shorter Christian Prayer.
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This is what I use right now, but I plan on moving to the "big book" once i can prove to myself i will do the smaller one

[ThyWillBeDone]

I am a seminarian so I have the LOTH, the four volume edition. I love it, my favorite office (The Office of Readings) is only complete in the four volume edition so if you have the money it worth picking up. As other seminarians can probably testify the LOTH is a major part or your life as a seminarian. My fellow seminarians at the seminary I go to often joking refer it as "my girlfriend" since we spend so much time with it.

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='ThyWillBeDone' date='Jun 28 2005, 10:24 AM']I am a seminarian so I have the LOTH, the four volume edition. I love it, my favorite office (The Office of Readings) is only complete in the four volume edition so if you have the money it worth picking up. As other seminarians can probably testify the LOTH is a major part or your life as a seminarian. My fellow seminarians at the seminary I go to often joking refer it as "my girlfriend" since we spend so much time with it.
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It's also complete in the three-volume.

[Piccoli Fiori JMJ]

I'm wondering if I am going to have to buy my own 4 volume set for the Monastery... or if will there be an older one from a Sister that had gone to Heaven...

[son_of_angels]

Any of you ever try the old Divine Office, it will make the new one seem easy and a bit short. Personally, I prefer it as it seems to fulfill the methods of the Rule of St. Benedict a lot better, though I like how the Office in the Rule is described perhaps even better than that.

[MilesChristi]

Yeah, I occasionally pray the old Divine Office. In comparison to the more recently promulgated Liturgy of the Hours, it is indeed longer and a bit more complicated, but, like all things, it gets easier with practice.

I took a class in Gregorian chant last fall which focused primarily on the old Divine Office. It was an awesome experience, and it really opened up the riches of the Roman Rite's traditional sanctification of the hours. I remember standing in a choir stall one night during Advent, chanting Vespers with the rest of my class in a monastery and being caught up in the sheer beauty of it all.

The Divine Office and Gregorian chant are among the Church's greatest treasures.

[jgirl]

I just got a 4 volume set off ebay for 115. The woman was a novice with a third order in Pennsylvania, and she decided to just do Christian Prayer. I wanted to move from Christian Pray to the 4 volume one, so that I could pray Office of Readings.

[phatcatholic]

go [url="http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/364"][b]here[/b][/url] for some great articles on liturgy of the hours and [url="http://www.phatmass.com/directory/index.php/cat_id/34"][b]here[/b][/url] for some other prayers, devotions, and forms of spirituality to enrich your prayer life.

[zabbazooey]

I have a book called "The Little Book of Hours" It is a 4 week version of the LOTH. It was only $13.95 too!

I do want to save up my money so someday I can buy a 4 volume set!

[phatcatholic]

hehe, ur too cute!!

[zabbazooey]

Me? Well, thank you

[Wynd]

Since they're coming out with a new translation of the Mass, are they going to redo the Office also? I've been wanting to buy Christian Prayer but if they're going to redo it soon I'll just wait. Or are they independent?

[zabbazooey]

they're coming out with a new translation of the Mass??? tell me more

[Totus Tuus]

[quote name='Wynd' date='Jul 24 2005, 01:09 PM']Since they're coming out with a new translation of the Mass, are they going to redo the Office also?  I've been wanting to buy Christian Prayer but if they're going to redo it soon I'll just wait.  Or are they independent?
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Check out the 3-volume, published in England and Ireland, if you want to see a really authentic, traditional translation.