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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
@joshua christie 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).
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.
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.
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I just found that the word "siesta" comes from the word "sexta", Spanish for "the sixth hour".
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 .
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have been praying the angelus and that is 6 12 and 6 gift of the day i have the angelus app it has the reminder to pray anyway now I am ready for more liturgy of the hours here I love thanks Father
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.
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.😮😊
Near home there is a church with franciscan friars and I ,often go to Mass al 18,30 and I stay for the Vespers,It is very soothing this prayer,we are 10 or 12 people and 4 or 5 friars,We sing and we read canticle snd psalms with altern voices,,at the end after the sung Magnificat and other prayers we sing an antienne for Virgin Mary,in gregorian latin Ave regina coelorum or Sub tuum praesidium,,The Vesper are 15 minutes long and I go home very quiet and serene
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.
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.
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 ! .
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!
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.
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.
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 😍
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.
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.
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!
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! :)
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 ;)
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.
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
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?
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!
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.
@@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 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
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.
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.
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"
In RCIA heard liturgy prayer for humility. Loved it, then prayer for trust, thought now need one for hope. Didn't find it but this came up. Anyone know Catholic liturgy prayer for hope?
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.
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!
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? :-)
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 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 🙏
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.
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.
"...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.
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.
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
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
How can I know when you will be heading Mass(I know some churches have multiple preists)?I live close to your Church (Wilson, NC. About a 1.5 hour ride I think) and would love to come see you one day.
Still not that bad but that trip would require more planing(Probably during a 3 day weekend) :) Well anyways let me just say thank you. You played a large part in my conversion and your videos are always super engaging :D
"ideal circumstances...?" I'm not sure what you mean by this. I routinely pray the Liturgy of the Hours on a plane or bus, in bed, at my desk in my office, really anywhere.
@@BreakingInTheHabit thats what i mean, as a religious you have ideal circumstances for monastic prayer. lay people do not aspire to monastic life nor is it their model for spirituality. i know that vat 2 proposed liturgy of the hours for all, but for most lay people its just not practical
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're saying. Praying on a plane or bus, in bed, or at my desk is not ideal. These are extremely inconvenient places, and yet you can still pray the LOTH. There is nothing about these situations particular to religious life; anyone can pray in these situations. I am not a monk and so I do not live a monastic life. I am itinerant, just like most lay people, and find ways to pray the hours throughout my day. That's my entire point: it's actually very practical and easy for busy lay people.
@@BreakingInTheHabit Perhaps the thing that's not always made clear to the public at large IS,,that although there are set hours for the liturgy of the hours, with the exception of lauds and. Vespers, most of the hours at least for the laity, can be flexible unless you live in a convent,,friary or religious institution. I think what frightens most people is the supposed discipline of regular set times of prayer,,and since as a lay person isn't obliged to pray every one of the offices,there's no need to panic about exact timing,and even IF you know that you're going to not be able to say an office at its correct time. It IS permissible to say two offices together to cover the one you can do on that particular day,,at that particular time. I panicked like mad when this arose when I was still in training and shortly after I got( what I jokingly call) my pilots license meaning I'd finished my training, if I missed an office or were late with it,,I'd go tearing round to the Prof to confess this, and get really upset,,and it's only now more or less 2 years later, that I' ve finally learned not to worry too much about timing, specially if the circumstances were out of my control. But certainly there DOES need to be a period of learning and training and much as I dislike z Saying this, reassurance.
I just received a book that is way above my ability to learn. I want to delve deeper in my Catholic faith since I'm going to become a EM in August. The book is "St. Joseph, Guide for Christian Prayer (The Liturgy of the hours) I'm trying so hard to understand how to use it but I think I'm way in over my head. I want to pray it properly but I'm so lost and the instructions are incomprehensible to me. HELP! 😢
Casey, my Brother, I watched this video (as I do all your videos) and decided this was for me. I went to FranciscanMedia and ne illuc vir. I went to Amazon and while there are many varieties, I couldn't find the one you show pictured. Not for vanity's sake, but I would like something that I can pass on in the future. Also, I don't recognize the crest on the side of the box. Is there a different version you would recommend? Could you possibly drop a link here? Thanks.
Hello KC...i love the LH. I try to pray with it. However, once I was invited to read a little book called The Marvellous Secret of the Souls of the Purgatory by Sor Emmanuel. Go ahead and read it if you feel like it. It says interesting things about the Rosary. Lots of love and blessings for you.
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
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
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.
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.
@joshua christie 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.
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 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?
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."
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.
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.
Amen, God bless father Casey. Thanks to all our priests and God bless them
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.
Before AM Mass, our church prays the Liturgy of the Hours daily, it has helped me so much in my daily walk.
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.
I have been praying the angelus and that is
6 12 and 6
gift of the day
i have the angelus app
it has the reminder to pray
anyway now I am ready for more
liturgy of the hours
here I love
thanks Father
I received my liturgy of the hours through Word on Fire, I absolutely love it!
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.
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.😮😊
Near home there is a church with franciscan friars and I ,often go to Mass al 18,30 and I stay for the Vespers,It is very soothing this prayer,we are 10 or 12 people and 4 or 5 friars,We sing and we read canticle snd psalms with altern voices,,at the end after the sung Magnificat and other prayers we sing an antienne for Virgin Mary,in gregorian latin Ave regina coelorum or Sub tuum praesidium,,The Vesper are 15 minutes long and I go home very quiet and serene
The liturgy of the hours also really helps build up Mass on Sunday and the celebration of seasons
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😍
Thank you father ,
For sharing this with us !
So grateful for your wisdom and knowledge ✨
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!
please make a video on how-to pray the Liturgy of the Hours!!
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! ❤️🔥
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.
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.
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!
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!
Thanks for the peaceful words father. :) Bless us always. ❤
Thank you for this catequesis! It makes me understand better who we love and worship, and how and why we do it.
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! :)
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
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
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?
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.
I am so moved by this video, I am on the verge of crying.
Thank you so much, Father, for that wonderful explanation so succinctly.
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!
Thank you for the video. I pray the Lauds and Vespers and sometimes the Compline if I am still awake. ❤
Exactly what I have been looking for! Thanks! 👍
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
Thanks for this talk
Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for your clarity and enthusiasm
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
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.
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"
Divine office has an app and website ❤with audio
Night Prayer is my absolute favorite
In RCIA heard liturgy prayer for humility. Loved it, then prayer for trust, thought now need one for hope. Didn't find it but this came up. Anyone know Catholic liturgy prayer for hope?
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.
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.
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!
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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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 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 🙏
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.
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
Had never heard of the Liturgy of Hours before today and your explanation was both fascinating and informative. Thank you!! God Bless
Compline is my favorite of the hours!
"...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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Your such a great speaking and love how the videos are edited 🙌👍👍 great information 🙏
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.
15 min. and a cup of coffee...hey its its a start for me
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.
AMEN PRAISE GOD
I bought a Christian Prayer LOTH book and can’t figure out how to use it. Haven’t found clear instructions anywhere. It’s all out of order.
Thank you for this explanation.
I wonder if any groups pray the original Matins divided into 3 vigils 1st watch, 2nd watch and 3rd watch.❤
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.
Benedictine monks of Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma on the cover image for this video.
@Breaking in The Habit you mention priests and religious obliged to pray LoH...you forgot deacons...
😊 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.
Im an anglican and i just found this video by searching for litergy after i couldnt make church today due to work.
Thank you Fr.!
The intro music got you off to a good start!!
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
How can I know when you will be heading Mass(I know some churches have multiple preists)?I live close to your Church (Wilson, NC. About a 1.5 hour ride I think) and would love to come see you one day.
I’m sorry, I’m in Georgia, not very close to you.
@@BreakingInTheHabit Oh I thought you were in Raliegh
Still not that bad but that trip would require more planing(Probably during a 3 day weekend) :) Well anyways let me just say thank you. You played a large part in my conversion and your videos are always super engaging :D
@@thomasbryant2486 St. Francis of Assisi parish in Raleigh is a wonderful and welcoming community. I have visited there a few times when on vacation.
usually requires ideal circumstances, which is why most catholics opt for the rosary, also a biblical prayer
"ideal circumstances...?" I'm not sure what you mean by this. I routinely pray the Liturgy of the Hours on a plane or bus, in bed, at my desk in my office, really anywhere.
@@BreakingInTheHabit thats what i mean, as a religious you have ideal circumstances for monastic prayer. lay people do not aspire to monastic life nor is it their model for spirituality. i know that vat 2 proposed liturgy of the hours for all, but for most lay people its just not practical
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand what you're saying. Praying on a plane or bus, in bed, or at my desk is not ideal. These are extremely inconvenient places, and yet you can still pray the LOTH. There is nothing about these situations particular to religious life; anyone can pray in these situations. I am not a monk and so I do not live a monastic life. I am itinerant, just like most lay people, and find ways to pray the hours throughout my day. That's my entire point: it's actually very practical and easy for busy lay people.
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Perhaps the thing that's not always made clear to the public at large IS,,that although there are set hours for the liturgy of the hours, with the exception of lauds and. Vespers, most of the hours at least for the laity, can be flexible unless you live in a convent,,friary or religious institution. I think what frightens most people is the supposed discipline of regular set times of prayer,,and since as a lay person isn't obliged to pray every one of the offices,there's no need to panic about exact timing,and even IF you know that you're going to not be able to say an office at its correct time. It IS permissible to say two offices together to cover the one you can do on that particular day,,at that particular time.
I panicked like mad when this arose when I was still in training and shortly after I got( what I jokingly call) my pilots
license meaning I'd finished my training, if I missed an office or were late with it,,I'd go tearing round to the Prof to confess this, and get really upset,,and it's only now more or less 2 years later, that I' ve finally learned not to worry too much about timing, specially if the circumstances were out of my control.
But certainly there DOES need to be a period of learning and training and much as I dislike z
Saying this,
reassurance.
Besides which, his battle cry, with the obvious exceptions was always
You can say this at any time😆😅. I can laugh now, but it wasn't so funny then.
Great video, thanks so much! It really helps with my writing research!
Yes, that is beautiful.
That was very helpful, thanks!
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Warszawa!!! :D
Have you ever been to Poland?
I just received a book that is way above my ability to learn. I want to delve deeper in my Catholic faith since I'm going to become a EM in August. The book is "St. Joseph, Guide for Christian Prayer (The Liturgy of the hours)
I'm trying so hard to understand how to use it but I think I'm way in over my head. I want to pray it properly but I'm so lost and the instructions are incomprehensible to me. HELP! 😢
Casey, my Brother, I watched this video (as I do all your videos) and decided this was for me. I went to FranciscanMedia and ne illuc vir. I went to Amazon and while there are many varieties, I couldn't find the one you show pictured. Not for vanity's sake, but I would like something that I can pass on in the future. Also, I don't recognize the crest on the side of the box. Is there a different version you would recommend? Could you possibly drop a link here? Thanks.
Hello KC...i love the LH. I try to pray with it. However, once I was invited to read a little book called The Marvellous Secret of the Souls of the Purgatory by Sor Emmanuel. Go ahead and read it if you feel like it. It says interesting things about the Rosary. Lots of love and blessings for you.
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.