Praying the Liturgy of the Hours
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- The Liturgy of the Hours, or "Divine Office" is the official common prayer of the Catholic Church. Priests and religious are bound to pray it every day, but lay people should also feel compelled to take part in it. What is this prayer, where does it come from, and how is it prayed?
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Been praying the liturgy of the hours since I became a consecrated lay person. After my car accident, my pastor and his friends retaught me, and I relearned with the entire parish. I'm in deep gratitude for my recovery. I owe the Church for my life, and my secular career, too. God bless you, Father Casey.
What means by consecrated lay person? I understand laity. Asking u as I am studying for my upcoming baptism
Well isn’t it interesting I awaken around midnight,can’t figure out why, turn on You Tube and it suggests here that I pray at midnight? I’m ON IT 👍
Pray it when you can. We're lay people. Not vowed to it
In the morning, started praying parts of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the evening before going to sleep I listen to Vespers on TH-cam, as well as praying the Rosary and some other devotions from the Pieta prayer booklet. I pray over an hour a day.
These prayers have helped me very much with my nightmares. Since I was a little child (I'm now 59), I have suffered from demonic nightmares. And these Liturgy of the Hours prayers help me very much.
This sunday the 24th at 11am (central) mass i will be initiated into the church with my confirmation/first eucharist. Blessed mother pray for me. St Joseph pray for me. St dunstan my patron saint pray for me.
Fr. Casey you are an up coming bright radiant for the Catholic Church in America. May Gob help you to reach public home and hearts like St. Fulton Sheen. God loves you father.
You're right Anil. Every country needs their own Fr Casey Cole, Bishop Barrons etc
Gob
Lightoftheworld 1st Corinthians : 4 : 15 - For you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, but not so many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, through the Gospel, I have begotten you.
I just found out about the Liturgy of the Hours because of the Catholic talk show. I left the church for Judaism for 10 years. They pretty much pray 3 times a day. This is commonplace in Judaism, and I wanted to find something like that in Catholicism. This LoTH is a game changer. It’s beautiful! Your heart just smiles when you do it. It’s exactly what I’m accustomed to doing also (big thanks to our Jewish brethren, I really did learn so much from them!) every Catholic should commit to praying often throughout the day like our Jewish brothers do. It’s just such a relaxing thing to do and connect with God. I’m learning so much about Catholicism thanks to what I learned on the other side of the fence. Praise be to God.
I'm Byzantine Catholic and a daily prayer routine like this is common practice fore us. Along with using our Chotki prayer rope for "the Jesus prayer"
Nice testimony. Jesus is the fulfillment of Judaism that is why so much Jewish religious culture is found in the roots of our liturgical practices and prayer in both the East and the West. I have found that LoTH is a wonderful way to live a life of constant prayer. The Holy Rosary and the Chotki are also wonderful prayers that I find myself using often. This habit of prayer helps me enter into God's presence. It takes practice and perseverance but it is wonderful.
So, come back with the Hebrew remnant who is joining the church! This Christian tradition of the prayer of the hours emerges directly out of the Hebrew Tradition that our Lord practiced during His life on earth. The times of the hours, I believe may still be the same. Can you find out from some Orthodox Jews? I wonder if the psalms used are the same.
Jesus asked us to pray without ceasing so the liturgy of the hour is part of it among other prayers
I've been praying the Liturgy of the Hours for years, not as regularly as I wish I did, but it is a gift.
@Shameless Papist Brilliant! The official Swedish translation has been out of print for ages. There's an abridged oecumenical version available, but it's a joint edition with Lutherans, which is fine, but it leaves out some Commons and most Catholic solemnities and feasts. I got the full translation second hand after looking for years.
Where can i find the english prays i want to Start
@@joshuachristie1539 I use the Anglican Breviary, which uses the old eight-Hour structure. You can also use the divinumofficium site to pray the Hours in multiple different translations (or the Latin), and you can set it to various different editions all the way back to pre-Council of Trent. For the modern five-Hour version, I don't know the best source-but you could use an eight-Hour source and pray only Matins (as the Office of Readings), Lauds (morning), Vespers (evening), Compline (night), and then either Terce, Sext, or None (midday).
This video is awesome! I’m a Lay Dominican and we’re called to pray morning and evening prayer.
I am a Reformed Christian who discovered the Liturgy of the Hours more than four decades ago via the Lutherans. Up to then my prayer life had been haphazard, but the LotH stabilized it, and I've followed this regimen ever since. More Reformed Christians need to discover this for themselves.
My first experience with the “hours” were with the Eastern Orthodox with their great vespers on Saturday evening and compline during great lent. I quickly fell in love with the orthodox vespers and wishing that the Local catholic celebrated vespers publicly. My second experience with the hours were in a community that celebrates the Latin mass, in which they prayed compline daily.
This Lent I started to pray morning and evening prayer of the office until Easter when I decided to pray the entire office. The LOH gave me an appreciation of the psalms more. The office of readings were my source of the writings of the saints.
I prayed the LOH daily until about a week ago. I decided to switch to the old Roman breviary (the office for the traditional Latin mass) , and I will say that I love the Roman breviary more. It is much longer than the LOH, but what I really enjoy is the fact that the psalms were more focused in the old office.
Each day of the week each hour focuses on a central theme, and you really get the feeling of praying the psalms while living through a certain time period of salvation history. The closest thing that LOH has were the antiphons of each psalm that gives you a general idea on what to focus.
The most difficult about the old office is the length especially the matins (it’s equivalent is the office of readings). In matins you pray around 10 psalms plus 3 to 9 lessons depending on the type of feast. 1 nocturn or 3 nocturns for the feast day. This week for example, every day within the octave of Christmas are matins with 3 nocturns instead of the usually one. You pray all 150 psalms weekly as well.
I'm Eastern Catholic (Byzantine Catholic) and we have our daily prayers
The idea is that we were all One, and this practice of the prayer of the hours shows it. Jesus is now merging us back into One, Holy, catholic and apostolic church. It was His prayer, "that they may be One."
I just found that the word "siesta" comes from the word "sexta", Spanish for "the sixth hour".
Cool fact!
Wow!
Love the Liturgy of the Hours !, doing since 1984 but what really impressed me more is the Benedictus for Laudes, it gave me energy and made my soul stronger to deal with daily life chalengies .
siesta is one the greatest things in life :)
Carlos Piña López So it means nap and sixth hour? Do you know where the nap part came from?
Amen, God bless father Casey. Thanks to all our priests and God bless them
Great video, Brother. I have been praying the Divine Office for a few years now. It was the most major thing that reignited my faith in Christianity after growing up culturally Methodist then going atheist. I questioned why the Jews had 3 daily prayers and Muslims had 5 - and when I found out that Christianity did in fact have prayers at set times I was quite stunned. It's so important to me I chose St. Benedict as my patron saint.
The Hours come from the Jews at the time of Jesus. They had all of them, but maybe the modern practice was altered.
@@hutdweller7430and the Muslims appropriated that as they did so many other things from Judaism and Christianity.
Love the liturgy of the hours and pray vespers almost every evening with the friars. (I have this luxury because I live close to a friary-and I’m grateful for it!) Sure, it takes a while to learn how to operate the breviary, but the red text and all those ribbons help! And in the end, you end up memorizing a lot of Psalms and other scripture.
There is an app for the breviary at least on the Google Play Store. I will admit I am not that familiar with it, but you may find it helpful. God bless you.
😁 you can say that again, about the breviary being very complex, BUT with respect,) and it could very well be MY fault). but I CANNOT,get on with those confounded
ribbons, I personally find that they make things MUCH MUCH more difficult, at least for me.
I use leather bookmarks, and set each days offices with them, so I never get lost, and can concentrate fully on each office as it arises. I don't know about you, but I am really honoured that O get to participate in the great prayer of the church in this way. O was shocked when it was first suggested to me that I should attempt to, as I always thought that one had to have a very thorough knowledge of scripture and liturgy to be able or even permitted to do this, but after, as I mentioned in my previous comment, I had done a years ( approx) training, my professor who trained me decided that I was both worthy and ready,
Swore me in as it were in June of this year, and here I am and I could never NOT do it now.
Before AM Mass, our church prays the Liturgy of the Hours daily, it has helped me so much in my daily walk.
Orthodox Jews still pray 3 services a day, morning, afternoon and evening. If they are prayed in community, there is a cantor and responsive portions, but they can also be prayed alone. Many Orthodox synagogue have a daily schedule of 3 services. There is also an order of sitting, standing, etc
@@erikkirby6509 Show me where in the Old Testament it says that:
The messiah will be the Son of God.
The messiah will be God.
The messiah will come twice.
God is a trinity and the messiah is part of that.
God will become a man.
God expects perfection or else you go to hell.
Only a sacrafice brings atonement.
The messiah will prove himself by performing miricales.
The messiah will rise from the dead.
When the messiah comes, you must believe in him or you go to hell.
True, Jews "don't have Christ". We also don't have Krishna, Joseph Smith, Mohammed, David Koresh, the monkey god, the elephant god, etc because all of them are false gods that never spoke to our ancestors. The only God that spoke to is told us not to have any gods before him
It's interesting that the only reason Christians have the Old Testament is because the Jews recorded, studied and preserved it. But Christians are so sure they understand the Old Testament better than the people that brought it to them.
@@erikkirby6509 Anyone who cares about the origin of many of the traditions of the Church come from cares. I think it might just be you that doesn't.
Good for you Father Casey promoting the liturgy of the hours! To me the purpose of this prayer is captured well in the simple story of the day when Peter went up to pray in the afternoon and got the groundbreaking vision about the Gentiles (Acts 10:9) and the prayer in Acts 4. The idea is that God communicates with us in that privileged time and we receive personal revelation and key information from God and we praise God through Christ and present the needs of the world and the church it is or could be so amazing. Just like the early church that prayed as a community in Acts we can be empowered with the Holy Spirit today.
The thing that really kills that spirit of revelation/communication that ideally should characterize the liturgy of the hours is the legalism/ritualism imbedded in the thought process surrounding the LOTH. Every catechetical document we have on it is dripping in language that does nothing to facilitate personal contact with God but emphasizes the gestures the words and of course the almost magical nature of a “Public prayer” (super prayer) that must/should be recited together in public, etc all these legalistic mindsets and requirements kill participation in the prayer and the benefits of the prayer for those who do participate. I believe that behind all of this legalism lurks the idea that the liturgy of the hours is somehow a magical exercise designed to tap into God's power and perhaps even score us points with God rather than facilitate personal prayer. Now I know there are some devote Catholics out there who would probably say how dare you say such a thing?! Or she is a “heretic” or How dare she question the way the church does things?! But the results or lack thereof in our current approach to the LOTH don't lie. I'm not sure that I am fully capturing what's wrong but I know that it could be so much more.
I wish my parish had daily morning and evening prayer in the church. Even when the psalms we read do not relate to my life, I think of Catholics all over the world are praying the exact same psalms on every continent and whose needs (rights and freedom, weather, happiness, sadness, etc.) may be different from my own.
My old parish had daily morning prayer twenty minutes before mass every weekday. The lay people led the different parts, without any priest or religious. On special days, we had sung Evening Prayer (vestments, incense, etc.), sometimes during Exposition of Blessed Sacrament. It was beautiful.
Thank you so much Father, 🙏🙏 I really wake up usually at twelve midnight and I felt good instead of seeing tv until midnight Ipray this,I'm also attending Mass and praying the rosary asides from praying for the souls in purgatory I felt that God knows my needs so my priority is to pray not for me and my needs but, to say the Prayers like this ,because times is running short for us living temporarily here on earth and the most important is our preparation for our salvation and the time to depart which we don't know when,this prayer is our consolation and hope to avail the offer by God for our eternal life.
Yes ,yes,yes in praying liturgy of the hours I've turn my time into a precious moments 💗💗💗🎉 and I have reserved this ,as I found this priceless treasure on earth by praying contemplating and waiting for the moment when I'm ready to face our Creator to tell that I don't waste my precious time in listening to distracted sounds but,only to this. Thank God and to those who are concerned to let us know further the importance of the liturgy of the hours I'm in it as my commitment until the last of my breath here on earth .May the Good Lord ❣️.Bless everyone United us in praying the Liturgy Of the Hours.Amen.😮😊
Great job, Fr. Casey. I love watching our next generation priests leading the Church in their ardor, love, and promotion of the faith using the tools of the age in the New Evangelization. Thank you!
This tool is ANCIENT church. The disciples and apostles took this practice from the Jews, of praying the hours.
Peace and Good brothers and sisters in Christ & Mary Immaculate ! .
There are two very important "food x the soul" to me beside the Mass :
1- The Liturgy of Hours and
2- The Holy Rosary
Also the reading of the Sacred Scripture ! .
But I have to say that the reading of the Saints Biographies IS very helpful and strongly recomend it to every one ! .
Deus Meus Et Omnia ! .
Also Jesus prayer
I strongly recomend also the lecturre and study of the Magistery of the Church, studying it change my life completly.
The liturgy of the hours also really helps build up Mass on Sunday and the celebration of seasons
I just got your book Called on Audible and was delighted to hear it's read by you too!
Great video :) Definitely would like to explore the Liturgy a bit more :)
I bought the book and I'm currently reading it ...but, definitely, when I finish my reading, I'm going to listen to it read by fr. Casey! Many thanks for this information 😍
Hi, I look forward to this class and getting my own book set in 2024. I was fortunate to have our instructure have the volumes I can use during our class times.
Without wanting to sound like a holier than thou type, I admit to having been consecrated in June of this year, and have infact been reciting the Divine Office since February of this year, albeit that this ofcourse includes a period of training, which concluded in June. SO I can 100% identify with all you have explained in this video, as I am now SO MUCH involved in it Fr Casey. Thank you though for the explanation of the why's and wherefores of the purpose of these offices, but I am sad to say, that due not so much to the complexities of the offices themselves,,but the tool we use,( viz the breviary, all 3 volumes of it)need a lot of patience, study and training on its use,as it's very complex, and I'm afraid that it'll put many people of reciting these liturgical, unless a simpler layout or format is used
I can now do it without any more difficulty, but it's taken me the best part of a year to become conversant and fluent in it. As I have some serious health issues, I am unable to recite it communal every day, but am forced to do it solo, altho I try to do it in public 2 or 3 times a month. Still, it HAS changed my life immeasurably, that's for sure.
THANK YOU FR Casey, I have participated in this prayer a number of times at a local Monastery. I knew that it was a tradition but did not understand the significance nor how ancient the origin of the prayers were. Blessings and peace from The Great South Land of The Holy Spirit.
Thank you father ,
For sharing this with us !
So grateful for your wisdom and knowledge ✨
Incredible, Fr. Casey. You have made difficult things most simple and easy to understand. GBU ever to bring more such spiritual learnings to inflame our hearts and live our faith!
You know it's become a habit if you've ever started grace with +God come to my assistance...
Exactly. I usually start my rosaries like this too
Herre, skynda till min hjälp
(The response in Swedish)
Lord make haste to help me
Where do i find this?
Sorry, protestant convert here.
Timothy Freeman The easiest way to start is with an app. I prefer the iBreviary app, which also provides the daily Mass readings.
Welcome home!
Thanks for the peaceful words father. :) Bless us always. ❤
Magnificent summary! My pastor just gifted me a 4-volume Breviary and my head has been hurting trying to understand how the prayers are structured! Thank you Fr. Casey and God bless you! :)
I received my liturgy of the hours through Word on Fire, I absolutely love it!
I've recently fallen in love with the liturgy of the hours after a preparation camp for the WYD in Lissboa this summer. I try to pray it in the morning and durring the evening as a simple intro to it, balancing it with my rosary and holy hour and aiming for praying all the LOTH prayers. A day feels just off without praying Laudes and compline, I love interacting like that with the psalms.
please make a video on how-to pray the Liturgy of the Hours!!
Thank you for this catequesis! It makes me understand better who we love and worship, and how and why we do it.
Yes, I do, thanks to my former pastor! Fr J Kirby ♥️♥️♥️ forever grateful! Available from Word on Fire, available on a monthly basis, easy peasy! ❤️🔥
Finally! I have been researching the Hours for weeks and this is the first time I actually get an explanation that makes sense … Thanks Father!
Fantastic explanation of the Liturgy of the Hours! It puts it into a good perspective. I hope to start incorporating it into my daily prayer.
Thank you for this introduction. With some adaptations Christians of other traditions can pray this as well.
I'm waiting for a comment that says "you shouldn't pray like the pagans". A quick refute, before someone can comment this:
When we pray the liturgy of the hours, we pray that God sanctifies each part of the day, and we keep a consistent and open "line of communication" with God throughout the day. I believe the liturgy of the hours to be a great way to pray fervently and often
How is the Liturgy of the hours “praying like the pagans”? It’s not even vain repetition smhhhhhh
@@jayveeaurea9091 I was anticipating others comments who might say that lol
Thanks for this talk
I love the liturgy of the hour. It's so beautiful. Though during the week I usually only find time for the evening prayer/complet.
Excellent video! God bless you Fr. Casey!
If I did this, I would have to do it a little differently lol. I wake at about 2pm, go to work at 8 or 9pm, and get home at about 4-5am. I would have to do the morning prayers at noon! lol
Thank you so much, Father, for that wonderful explanation so succinctly.
Thank you for the video. I pray the Lauds and Vespers and sometimes the Compline if I am still awake. ❤
Thank you so much Father Casey. It is an awesome video clip full of information. I do appreciate it, and I did enjoy it. 🙏 God bless you 🙏😇 👼❤️💙🙏💟 Greetings from the District Of Columbia 🙏
The Breviarium Romanum is my way to go. 7 hours and much more complete and interlaces with the Mass of All Ages. 😇
There are a couple of websites where you can access the Daily Divine Office in Latin and English. I use the Divinum Officium website with the rubrics of 1960 which I am familiar with. You don't have to navigate your way around as you would if you used a breviary. It's very straightforward. Start at the top and continue to bottom.
Paul Bastier ...indeed good idea. I use it when in my car. However, I’m a book reader by nature 😇
I'd been praying Liturgy of the Hours for a few years, but after I had gotten my roman breviary, I often question why I would ever pray my liturgy of the hours again. It's much more expensive, but much more worth it
You must know Latin with excellent reading comprehension in order to to do this. For most, this is neither practical nor necessary. Unless one learns Latin as a second language with reading expertise, otherwise it is a useless endeavor. I've tried it. I have the Pius XII Psalter, pre Vatican 2 Roman Breviary and I have the Latin edition of the Four Week Psalter from Midwest Theological Forum in Six Volumes. But I use the one volume "Christian Prayer" because it has the music section with hymnal, which introduces one to the great musical tradition of the Divine Office by introducing "Psalm Tones" which may be used to pray the Psalms as was done in ancient times. Very moving and very beautiful. Using a Latin-only breviary, especially one using the pre-Vatican II format, one would need additional Latin resources to do the same thing, such as the Liber Usualis to understand Gregorian Chant.
Great video Father, I was thinking about this for a while, As a layman i guess I should start praying it.
There are several websites where you can access the full daily traditional Divine Office in Latin and English.
Just learning about this & your video helps.
Great video. But one thing blew my mind. How on Earth you came up with a pic of the Old Town in Warsaw (4:21), my home town. Very random and surprising selection :)
Night Prayer is my absolute favorite
AMEN PRAISE GOD
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for your clarity and enthusiasm
I am so moved by this video, I am on the verge of crying.
In addition to these very helpful instructional videos, I think it would be great to see some videos of actual communal praying of the LotH without commentary. Thanks!
Fr. Casey I've been trying to read the DO for awhile now. Being a truck driver makes it extremely difficult. Do you know of an audio way I can listen to it while driving? I really enjoy your channel while driving. Thanks and God bless for all you do. 🤗💖🙏💖👏
There is a podcast by divineoffice.org and maybe others... The app that I use when traveling (Universalis) also has an audio subscription which I haven't tried since it costs extra ;)
Also if you don't mind occasional latin divine office listening, then the vatican news website has divine office audio streaming.
Please I found an app on Google Playstore named Divine Office.
It has no in app purchases and you need an internet connection to get access to the prayers in either audio or text form.
The podcast “the literguy of the hours: sing the hours” SO GOOD FOR AUDIO SINGING
great idea
Broo Warsaw in the background!!! 4:27 love from Poland
Someone is teaching me how to pray The Hours now. I hope I can learn it completely soon. I want to be a Brother some day
The intro music got you off to a good start!!
The end to the evening prayer seems like the template for Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ's brilliant capture of his Dark Night of the Soul: "All life death does end and each day dies with sleep"
Compline is my favorite of the hours!
Im an anglican and i just found this video by searching for litergy after i couldnt make church today due to work.
Your such a great speaking and love how the videos are edited 🙌👍👍 great information 🙏
My order prays the hours of 9am, Noon, and 3pm at minimum.
Even back in 1960 before the Second Vatican Council many religious houses had given up the recitation of the Divine Office in choir. It was only done in the novitiate. The old monastic and contemplative orders were better at keeping up the tradition of Divine Office in Choir.
my order is in big trouble...
@@stevierichiemoeller I am very sorry to hear that. I am quite old now and have lived to see a number of monasteries, convents and seminaries close in the UK due to lack of vocations, and those like me who gave up because they were not able to cope with the changes in their order and the Holy Mass in the wake of Vatican II.
@@paulbastier3773 I am scared I attend Novus Ordo but I’m just 15
@@paulbastier3773 Without the changes of Vatican II, more less people attend the Holy Mass, because only a few people understand latin language. I trust in the church, in the cardinals, in bishops, and above all in the pope, that know very much more than me in matery of liturgy, pastoral, theology, and the necessities of the Church. In the obedience in the pope and in the bishops is not possible to go wrong
Had never heard of the Liturgy of Hours before today and your explanation was both fascinating and informative. Thank you!! God Bless
15 min. and a cup of coffee...hey its its a start for me
Divine Office
Wonderful !
Please make an instructional video on how to pray and set up your book(s) for the liturgy of the hours it is very confusing
Finally, a presentation about the Liturgy of the Hours! I was beginning to think I was living in some sort of Twilight Zone where I was the only lay person who ever heard of it. The Hours were designed for the more educated whereas the Rosary was created for the uneducated. BTW, I could never find out how many psalms are prayed in the three mid-day hours between Morning and Evening Prayer. I have been only praying one psalm per hour. I am a lay person.
How can you say the rosary was created for the uneducated. What an ignorant stupid comment
Those who seek knowledge for its own sake, are curious!
Those who seek knowledge to be seen by others is Vanity!
But those who seek it to serve, that Is Love!
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
You, sir, are VAIN! Educated, and uneducated, has absolutely nothing to do with the recitation of The Hours! Who, sir, do you think you are!?!
You, sir, give Catholicism a bad name! May God be merciful to you!
@@user-db6el7eb9p that's what I've heard too.
In those times Lay people who weren't literate or didn't have a set prayer routine were there.
There was a method of saying our fathers that existed among laity but didn't have structure.
And St Dominic who popularized the rosary & preached everywhere probably gave it to the lay people who were unable to pray the liturgy of hours or structured prayers.
There are many legends and speculations about it.
The Eastern jesus prayer too probably evolved from our father prayers.
ie rosary and liturgy of the hours came from the same tradition but evolved differently.
Rosary has been a great offering.
It's a private devotion. But liturgy of the hours have always lay dormant waiting for us.
We are in an age where we are more educated than our ancestors and have easy access to printing, liturgy of hours books and even mobile apps.
So we should begin to pray the liturgy of the hours and pass it on to our coming generation.
sacredheartmedford.org/intellectual-articles/qa-did-st-dominic-receive-the-rosary-and-was-it-15-decades/
I used to say, Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer. Then I just said Morning and Evening Prayer. That soon became Morning Prayer only. Now I don't even manage to say that. I seem to go through phases where I simply have to break away from all conformity.
Communal and personal worship are both important. Maybe try the Rosary, or the 3 O'clock Great Hour of Mercy.
Looks like this is a good reminder to start doing it again!
Yes, I guess I could give it one more try.
Joseph: I haven't been at it that long--I made my Profession to become a Secular Franciscan only last month--but I've kind of stumbled on a formula that works for me (so, maybe for you as well!). With my first cup of coffee, I pray the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer. Just before lunch, I pray Sext, and prior to making dinner, Vespers. As soon as I am ready to get in bed, I pray Compline. If I wait too long, I fall asleep! With this as a framework, I find that I often remember to pray Terce and None. Because I have a difficult time sleeping, if I'm awake (as I often am) around 3 AM--4 AM, I start my prayers then.
I am a Canon regular living under the Rule of Saint Augustine at the Orthodox shrine of our Lady in Scotland. Secular clergy and laity are bound to pray morning, evening prayer and compline but the Canons maintain the Shrine chapel, the Relics and the grounds of the College of Saint Augustine at Buittle castle. But more important than all that is maintaining prayer to our Lady seven times a day. We currently use the Benedictine Office of our Lady but hopefully will soon move to using the Marian office found in the Use of Sarum which is the Orthodox patrimony of the British Isles and the liturgical use that we practice at our cathedral in Dumfries. I think Matins, with all its lessons from scripture and expositions of the Fathers is my favourite Hour to pray. The entire liturgical round is composed solidly of scripture in all its parts. The Church intends for us to learn scripture through liturgy not bible study.
Thank you Fr.!
Thank you for this explanation.
Benedictine monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma on the cover image for this video.
I don't know that this is less important than the rosary, but it is great because the liturgy of the hours remained common in the Eastern church. So, now we are more, traditionally, the same, (One Holy Catholic and Apostolic church) with our eastern brothers and sisters in the church. Pretty soon, we won't be ABLE to differentiate our own selves; "that they may be One," was what Jesus prayed, right?
That was very helpful, thanks!
3rd hour = 9AM 6th hour = noon 9th hour = 6 PM
"...in and out in 6 minutes." Yeah, if you're John Moschitta.
On average I find it takes 12-15 minutes. With the shortest one being night prayer, of course, usually about 5 minutes. I daily pray all 7 hours and I enthusiastically encourage it but just want to be straightforward so as to not frustrate anyone starting this; 6 minutes? Not really.
Great video, thanks so much! It really helps with my writing research!
Yes, that is beautiful.
Thank you for explaining
Which of these hours do the Franciscans pray daily? And do you pray together in the choir like monks do? What about when you’re outside the convents on duty or traveling?
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Could you give us an example of praying this way, since you do it ? A video mentioning the prayers, Psalms etc for each time of the day( awakening, working, bedtime) you mentioned, would be very helpful and appreciated.
The liturgy of the hours is difficult and cumbersome. It defies use. To encourage use and understanding it should be simplified. There are of course liturgy apps for your phone. They are very good. The days prayers are set for time and season. I’m thinking of buying the book of christian prayer which is a simplified prayer book i think designed by Anglican groups but has gained popularity in church.
@@johngardiner2294 I agree with you, I've bought my "Christian Prayer" (in Brazil we call it "breviary") and struggled to use, then I asked some Salesian seminarians on my school and they easily taught me to pray it
Christian Prayer is the one-volume edition of the Liturgy of the Hours which includes Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer.
"The Daily Office" is similar, simplified without proper antiphons to the feast or season, and with longer bible readings (so that the majority of the Bible is read over the course of two years--different from our weekday Mass readings, but along the same lines), following the Episcopal Church (USA) calendar.
It is not that difficult at all when one has the structure of it explained. It has always been a communal liturgy where you join in and learn along the way. It is only in modern times the breviary has been available like it is today and people are trying to learn it on their own.
It's difficult because we don't do it from a young age and don't have a community to do it with.
If we teach and train children how to pray liturgy of hours in sunday catechism and have public divine office celebrations in churches, they'll get the hang of it.
Same way divine office teaching courses should be done in retreats and at parishes. And churches should encourage public celebration of divine office. After learning and doing it together for a while, we'll begin to slowly get the steps and it'll become easy.
Another extra step could be making language translated divine office apps for catholics outside the english speaking demographic and eastern catholic churches.
Also cheaper divine office books. Not every divine office book need to be printed in high quality paper or have high quality binding. Make them abundant and cheaper and easier to buy.
Richard B
I agree with you that the breviary which comes in 3 volumes( in the UK)at any rate, IS very difficult to master initially,and also that to encourage the laity to start to recite the daily offices it could be simplified more. BUT!
Speaking from a purely personal point of view, the mobile apps, whilst they're ok for getting you started, I don't like the language that they use,It's uptodate ofcourse,but to really appreciate the full beauty of these liturgies, and to really go heart,mind and soul,into the depth of this form of prayer,,the breviary, difficult as it initially IS, invokes a much deeper feeling of lifting your heart in prayer using the lovely old form of words, instead of the modern usage,where often faulty
translation ensures that the full meaning of the psalms etc is lost and has far less meaning.
But as I said,this is purely my own feeling.
Interesting. The traditional form which priests and religious may pray to fulfill their obligations under sumorum pontificum is slightly different you have Matins (equivalent of office of readings) Lauds(morning prayer), Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers(evening prayer) and Complin(Night prayer). The layout is different eg (not limited to) complin having 3 Pslams. Also a priest/religious (as far as my research let’s me know) need to say all the hours of the pray the traditional form to fulfil their obligations unlike the new form.
I do pray the liturgy of the hours. Liturgia de las horas, en español. For those Spanish speakers the best app to pray the LH is Salterio Pro.
I recommend the app of the Liturgia de las Horas de la Conferencia Episcopal Española.
That’s our liturgy, indeed!
Love this!
"Look at the Title of this Video" *Father Casey points up*
The titles are below the video, at least on my devices?
On mobile, which is how most people watch, it’s above.
@@BreakingInTheHabit not true! I'm watching on a mobile device and it's under the video. I believe it's above the video on desktop though
Up, down, or around the Padre got his point across.
When you are actually watching the video, in full screen (as would be the case when people are watching it) the title is above.
@@BreakingInTheHabit So it's both; the title is always above when the control buttons are active, and it's also always below the video (not-full-Modus)
Fr. Casey, will you be doing a video on observing Advent at home? I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would be interested in hearing some ideas from you.
😊 I was licensed to recite the liturgy of hours, all 7 of them,,2 years ago, it IS actually quite demanding in a way,,but it does give structure to the day.
Unfortunately, on health grounds, I don't do the office of readings, in the middle of the night, but at 9am in the morning, as it's the last office I read before the midday angelus, Sext( at midday), and terce at 3pm and the last 2 offices at 6pm, (vespers) and 9.30pm Compline (night prayer) sounds frightfully complicated but once you've got into the routine of it, it becomes a habit, that sets out your entire day, and with an otherwise normal days activities in between whiles, it certainly ensures that you're never short of something to do.
I'm not a priest or a nun, but after a period of training by a brilliant priest
( now very sadly deceased) had to vow and undertake to recite these offices daily, both on my own and at least monthly in public.
I thoroughly recommend anyone to try it. Usually you need only recite morning, and evening prayer and you're encouraged to do one of the day time ones, say at 3pm though that one's not compulsory, whereas morning smd evening prayer are. It's definitely a good anchor for your day, the only real difficulty IS the book( called the breviary) is quite complicated to master, so you mught find it easier to have a bit if guidance and help on that aspect of this practice.
My first contact with the Liturgy of the Hours was probably in the Sister Frevisse Murder Mysteries. The Author, Margaret Frazer, was not a catholic herself, but very respectful and empathetic with the faith and didn't have a medieval benedictine nun having modern viewpoints all the time. And through Sister Frevisse and her fervent faith - although she has to fight for her faith, too - I became a better catholic myself. The way she describes her Joy in the Liturgy of the Hours as "being part of a weave going through the centurys" inspired me to search for more information about it, and ... here I am.
Orthodox pray the Horologion...which is similar to the Liturgy of the Hours.
And Byzantine Catholics. I, as a Byzantine Catholic, love Vespers, Compline, Matins, the Hours, and the Typika
Similar but the Horologian is quite brutal in terms of length haha... I mean it's really for monastics. I have heard of Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox praying forms of Western/Latin Rite canonical hours since the Eastern churches don't seem to view it as a practice that the non-religious and non-clergy should take up, unfortunately.
@@aahlstrom93 Yes, that's true! They figure if you wanted to practice penance such as that you would become a monk!
@@aahlstrom93Peace & Good !, Franciscans Third Order( OFS ) has also a breviary for the laity( seculars ) with Laudes & Vespers only, BAC edition wich I strongly recommend it. Ave Maria Ora pronobis ! .
@@aahlstrom93 gotta disagree, the Byzantine hours aren't hard at all. The size of the Horologion is based on how confusing Matins and Vespers can be since the services vary greatly whether it's a weekday or Sunday /Lent vs non-Lent
I AGREE WITH U. BUT FOR ME READING THE GOSPEL & MEDETAITING IN THE DAILY READINGS IS THE BEST PRAYER FOR ME, IT'S MY "DAILY BREAD" AND I PRAY THE CHAPLET OF DEVINE MERCY AND MY SCREPTURAL ROSARY DAILY, AND I SING 8-10 HYMNS PRAISING GOD (BY "Catholic Book of Worship III) PRAISE HIM, etc, Amen! By Saba K
Just got back from attending a vespers service, this video could have not been more relevant.
Nice job Father on your channel. By the way, why do you used picture of beautiful Warsaw Old City?
Why not? Our country is beautiful.
What is sad is that so many of the religious admit to not praying the liturgy anymore
They are too busy working with "social " issues, both spiritual and social must go together and we have to keep the balance all the time to prevent...troubles ! . La Paz ! .
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