![]() ![]() And stay tuned for the next installment in this introductory “course”. ![]() I’ll do my best to answer all of them, based on long practice and careful study of the Church’s instructions regarding this prayer. Questions about the Liturgy of the Hours/Divine Office are welcome in the comments section. Although I do write about other Catholic topics on this blog, its main purpose is to encourage and teach people to pray it, and to share some of the spiritual treasures I find in its pages every day. I have been praying the Divine Office for many years. For that reason alone, it is worth considering as an addtion to one’s prayer life. Thus, the Liturgy of the Hours is on a different level from the rosary, chaplets, novenas, and devotionals. When you pray the Liturgy of the Hours you are praying on in the name of the Church, and in union with the Pope, clergy, religious and laity throughout the world who are praying it. The Liturgy of the Hours is, as its name implies, liturgical prayer: along with the mass it forms the public worship of the Church. As recently as last November, Pope Benedict stated that he wishes all laity become familar with Morning, Evening and Night prayer. The revision of the Liturgy of the Hours that came after the Second Vatican Council was done partly with the aim of making it more accessible to the laity. There are additional variations for the liturgical seasons and/or feast days.Īlthough long perceived to be the territory of religious and clergy, the Divine Office is strongly recommended by the Church to us lay people. ![]() ![]() The psalms and readings of the Divine Office rotate in a four week cycle throughout the year during ordinary time. Daytime Prayer can be called Terce, Sext, or None, depending on whether it is prayed at Mid-morning, Noon, or Midafternoon. Book size: 6.2 x 8.5, 221 pages, leatherette sewn hardcover, 2 ribbons. Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day. Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. Lauds, Vespers, and Compline are the other names for Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer. Divine Office (In Latin and English) CAD 59.00. If I were a betting man, I would say it will not be available in English until 2016.You may also have heard other names for the liturgical hours, names derived from Latin. The most recent supplement to the Divine Office (2005) is available in Latin and incorporates the new feast days and saints days. While the Third Typical Edition of the Roman Missal was approved by John Paul II in 2000, we did not start using it in English until the First Sunday of Advent, 2011 that’s 11 years later. Given the release of the “Editio Typica Tertio” (Third Typical Edition) of the Roman Missal in 2002, notable among other reasons for the inclusion of new feast days and saints days as you mention, one would expect a new edition and English translation of the Divine Office some time in the future. The current English version was translated and published in 1975. Ordained clerics and consecrated religious are obliged to pray this prayer of the Church on a daily basis. The Divine Office, also known as the “Liturgy of the Hours,” or the Breviary, is a highly recommended resource for the prayer of the faithful. Is there going to be a new edition of the Divine Office? I ask because numerous saints were canonized during the papacy of John Paul II and the feast of Divine Mercy as well. ![]()
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