Hi Father! Would you consider making a video where you actually go through and pray the liturgy of the hours one day, as an example? Maybe choose a "complicated" day and just film each segment then put them together at the end?
I just got this set from a dear priest freind. This is so complicated haha but I am so exited to learn. I think I’ll start just looking through the books to get aquatinted with them and where things are. I’ll keep re watching this until I understand.
Father, one thing that I noticed is that on every Sunday (regardless of volume), it tells you which week in the psalter you should be in. If you know, for example, it's the 7th week of ordinary time, then go to that Sunday and count forward. No math needed! 🙂 Thank you for this. It's the best explanation of the Divine Office I've seen.
Yes! I always forget about that - at some point I figured out the week sequence and just started doing in my head... but you're right, there's no need to be overly complicated... Glad you enjoyed it!
Great overview! I’d just add that the red text is your friend, since it will tell you what to do next. The Liturgy of the Hours is just as much Liturgy as Mass is, since it celebrates the same Paschal Mystery (albeit in a very different way). While this means that your prayer becomes more powerful since it is united through the Liturgy to the intercessory prayer of Christ before the Father, it also means that the texts are prescribed and must be prayed in a particular manner. Fortunately, the rubrics (the formal name for the instructions in red) help you navigate that, so as the saying goes, “Say the black, do the red.”
Thank you Father. I am introducing this to our Stephen Ministers - I have experience praying this as a former religious and I want to share it with our lay community. Thanks for sharing!!!
I discovered Sing the hours during advent and I LOVE it. I am not Catholic ... and I am following the Liturgy of the Hours. I learn more each day as God leads me. I plan to order a prayer book from Amazon. I also love the Universialis app.
I love the Divine Office app. It has everything laid out to read, which is great since I don’t have the books. You’re praying with the app which sings & recites the psalter & prayers. Also you can go to the globe to see how many people are using the app & praying at the same time you are, tbh that’s pretty cool😊
Thanks for the guide! I’ve been thrifting LotH books whenever I can find them and so far I have 2/4, so I can pray it for about half the year, but I’ve always been really lost praying it. I usually just pray whatever part I can find that seems to apply to the day
Thank you for this wonderful video. I shared it with my wife and kids. I would love to see a more advanced discussion of moving from book to book in the Divine Office and using the St. Joseph's guide. Another discussion on Spiritual Reflection and Spiritual Direction, focusing on the benefits to a layperson, would also be beneficial. Thanks, again.
I've owned a copy of Christian Prayer for years, but never really got the hang of it. I will take your advise and start small, and then expand over time. New subscriber, no doubt!
Thanks for this. A great start point coming from the Magnificat and then Liturgy of the Hours from Word on Fire and Divine Office app and now finally after a long time of wanting to more I can start with confidence.
Nicely done! I've been praying the Liturgy of the Hours for decades. I remember when as a graduate student I bought the 4-volume set and I hadn't a clue how to use it. I went to an elderly priest at the campus Newman Center, and he invited me to pray the morning prayer with him each day at 7:00 AM. He taught me the "ribbons" and he guided me through the daily prayers. It's now been over thirty years and I've benefitted greatly from his kindness and instruction.
Maybe you could give me your email? I'm a new convert from Lutheranism (I was an amateur Protestant apologist who came to realize through an intense rabbit hole) that Catholicism was true, and converted. I just bought a 4 volume set and I've watched ALL of the videos but I'm still lost...
As consecrated secular I 'm committed to read the Liturgy of the Hours. This is a supplementary prayer after the Holy Mass. It's sanctify the day and praying the whole Church. It's my lifetime partner and companion.
I’ve looked at a copy of the Liturgy of the Hours in a local Adoration chapel, but they only had the Advent readings. We were in Time after Pentecost/Ordinary Time so it didn’t help to study the words. I did get Benedictus, the monthly subscription with morning and evening prayer in addition to the feast days laid out. Hopefully it comes before Advent arrivals on Nov 28th this year, I could always use the Breviary in the adoration chapel if it’s late :/
Fantastic summary, Father! As a Lutheran, I am used to Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer/Compline. However, our service books are organized differently. This was most helpful.
This is awesome. My only ask is for another version where the process is delivered a bit more slowly. Perhaps you can offer some prayerful thoughts about the section to give the rest of us a bit of time to catch up. Seriously, my goal is to better understand each section, why it's important and then secondarily how to move between sections.
In the Orthodox Church it is common for all to celebrate Vespers and Matins and the hours. They are not only for monastics or clerics. Holy and Divine Liturgy (Holy Mass) is not enough
Father first of all thank you so much for this video. My question is can you make a video that is not so technical in directions. I am 75 and not as quick a mind as I once was. I have the Christian Prayer book and some of the vocabulary is not as familiar to me. I am a KISS kind of learner.
Yes, thank you! My sister bought me a daily missal for my birthday and my first question was... whats with all the ribbons?! And then paging through it all... that's why all the ribbons. Hehe. Thank you for the guide! EDIT: Still a little lost but need more time to go through it all. Thanks again!
I just picked up mine yesterday. I've been wanting to pick one up since I was confirmed in May. I'm really excited. Even if I can't hit them all because of my fluctuating work schedule I know it'll be a great discipline to start things off.
Thanks so much Father for doing this video! This was a great intro for me. I am still learning how to do the liturgy of the hours, and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind doing a follow up walking us through doing one prayer for that day and explaining it as you go. Something like that would help me out :-) God bless!
I got to minute 11 before he totally lost me. It reminds me of when you ask someone for directions and they give you a 15 minute response with 49 steps. Yeah, like I’ll remember that. I am a basically self-taught Catholic convert, because I guess Catechesis these days for new Catholics is basically optional. I have been able to basically figure out what the Church is, how it works, how to join and how to worship with mostly just TH-cam and various good books as my guide. I have been trying to learn how to pray the hours for a couple of years now, with very little success. Despite many hours of research, the prayer books are still basically about as impenetrable as kevlar. I was hopeful this video would be helpful, but I was pretty disappointed. Thanks for trying Father. Maybe next time dumb it down a bit for those of us who are a lit closer to square one.
What I did to begin with was to use Universalis along with the printed full 3 volume set we use here in Ireland. It might seem a bit cumbersome to use both but it's only temporary but helped find where I should be in what looks like a daunting book!
I use the Magnificat. The only thing I need to turn to is the canticles. Feast days are all with it and each day is placed in order. Then it goes into the mass, so all the daily readings are there, although I like a Bible. Then after the mass is a meditation. Do I have to do the hymns? I really don’t like reading them_ Oh and the Hallow app does the night prayer. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the others. But it is audible.
So glad I found this. I've been doing the liturgy of the hours with an app for a while and found it a little confusing but your explanation is so helpful!!!!😍
This is that I’m trying to do at home but has been hard to find the book in Spanish . My primary language I’m using the app. Thank you for your teaching father.
You didn't talk about the guide you can get it has been a great help. I got mine at Catholic book store. You can get either four volume set or the Christian book
For the first time ever, on Ash Wednesday, I will begin trying to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, using volume II (Lent, Easter)of the 4 volume set. I think a sample diagram for an hour, or a day, would be helpful...
This was wonderful. You've done a great job here. Please continue with this effort of sharing how to go about the Liturgy of the Hours. Your encouragement too was well placed and consoling.
Is there someplace where the gestures are explained for everyplace during the LOTH? When and where do we bless ourselves, bow, mark the sign of the cross on our lips, stand, etc. thank you. Also are they different for the different hours?
I was taught the Liturgy of the Hours by an Extern Dominican Nun years ago, long before she retired completely into the Cloister. Update: the Church must restore the deprecatory Psalms and those parts removed from Psalms. They are Psalms for this day and age, regardless of how anyone understands them. Good thing those Psalms are still in the Bible.
Great video Father! I've been (attempting) to put this into my routine now that I've got so much time to kill, but it's been slow going. Getting used to flipping around with the ribbons took a bit, but I've supplemented my Christian Prayer book with some little sticky notes marking the canticles and such, just to be safe 😂 Also, for figuring out where in the Psalter you should be (especially if you're like me and miss a few or more days and lose track), I have the Universalis calendar bookmarked on my computer, and next to each Sunday they tell you what week of the Psalter you should be in, it's v helpful universalis.com/calendar.htm
This actually didn’t help me at all. I’m sitting here with my 4 volume Christian Prayer book that ive no clue about. When you start jumping to parts of the book you’re assuming that we see where that is 😕. Pretend your teaching a 6th grader.. no wait ...a 4th grader...it’s just too confusing otherwise...
Why did you start with the entire 4 volumes then? There are pocket liturgies that only have the main parts. Namely Invitatory, morning, middle (third sixth nineth) evening and compline. And at the beginning there is a short explanation
Agree this is all assuming you actually know a lot more than I know. Which is sad because I’ve been praying the liturgy of the hours for years, but with an app on my phone.
This is a great instructional. Thank you for helping with the ribbon setup and clear explanations. I have been using the Universalis app to help, but want to get comfortable with flipping. Well done, Father!
I got a liturgy of the hours book a couple months ago and i’ll be honest, I was doing it soooo wrong for so long. Now that Ive looked it up it makes a lot more sense. Thank you for your guide!
I have been using The Magnificat prayer book. How does this morning\evening prayers fit into the three types? It’s easy each month has a new book and puts all prayers in a simple order. Thanks.
This was my guide when I first started praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Thank you very much Fr! :) By the way, for the readings, I also add the readings for the day. That is okay Fr., right? :)
Fr. I learned the litugy of the hours back when i was trying to become a Monk, at the first monster i visited, they had the guests use the app on a tablet, so when i got home for my birthday i asked my parents to get me the 4 book set and they fit it for me. I didn't use the proper of saints for the first few months until i hit used to the book version of the liturgy of the house hours.
Matthew 6:6-13 KJVS But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. [7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. [8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. [9] After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. [10] Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. [11] Give us this day our daily bread. [12] And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. [13] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Very good presentation father but at a rather "Blitzkrieg" pace. I do think that due to the complexity of the Liturgy of the Hours, you did and amzing job. Well done. I have used the large print "Christian Prayer" book for years but eventually found it much easier to use my tablet and donwload the "I-Brievery" ap. It got to be annoying to have to buy a little guide booklet every year to find out what pages the readings and feast days are on. The ap lays everything out for you and you don't have to flip through pages in a book. My question concerns the "I-brievery". What do the little symols mean at the end of various lines in the psalms? I'm guessing they must have to do with chanting the psalms but what does the asterisk and the little sword or pointed cross symbols mean? I've been praying the liturgy of the hours for years and most of what I've learned was self taught. I first bought the one volume "Christion Prayer" book and Thought I'd breeze right through it. Wow!! what an awakening. After much frustration I sat the book on the shelf and there it sat for years. I finally got so determined, after watching a few people come into the Church and act like they knew what they were doing that I forced myself to dive into it. The brochures that came with the book (this was before the internet and TH-cam) were as complicated as the book itself and all "Greek" to me . The average Catholic only knows rote prayers and prayer cards. Most Catholics I grew up with didn't even know how to use the St. Joseph's Sunday Missal so jumping into the Liturgy of the Hours was an absolute nightmare. I guess it was the Holy Spirit but I eventually kept plodding along and eventually began to figured out how things went. Surprisingly, I was right and as I persisted, I became more knowledgable. Your video has expanded my knowledge even more. My criticism of the Church however (if I may be so bold) is why make things so complicated ? People simply become frustrated and simply won't bother with the liturgy of the hours? I had one couple that I tried to teach, give me their brand new volumes of Christian Prayer and walk away from the little prayer group I'd started. I've tried to introduce people to this prayer form and they simply told me, their rosary and chaplet of Divine Mercy is much easier along with their prayer cards and novenas, they were content. Why do we complicate things? Having had the same experience, I can't blame them yet our Popes have encouraged the laity to engage in this "beautiul tradition" of the Church. If it's so beautiful and desireable, why make it so complicated ? It's as if it were meant for the "Elite" religious, not the laity. Flipping" back and forth in a very complicated book isn't something the average Catholic is accustomed to. We've been conditioned to use memorized prayers and read prayer cards and being led in praying. And it can't be too complicated or we'll lose interest real quick. It's like a long winded homily; if you aren't connecting with whats being said or read you're wasting time. I'm one of the "dummies" that accidently firgured out how to navigate the complexity of these books, but it took years to do it and I still get confused by "optional prayers and readings and feast days". I would suggest if anyone is interested, get the little "skinny" book Father showedd at the beginning. It's just the basics and the best way to learn. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about all of this?
Father I dont think I have the book you started off with, on the spine of mine it just says Liturgy of the Hours IV, ordinary time. Weeks 18-34 .. I am so confused? I am Catholic only 9 years and my friends who were born Catholic have no Idea what to do with these books. I want to know ; in fact I want to know everything i can squeeze into my brain about our faith .. I also have a book (red) called Christian prayer that looks like yours..Also no idea how to use it:( I am still listening. I pray you can help, God bless you
A good way to think of it is like a missal, the ordinary is like the order of the mass in the missal, where you find things like the creed “prayers that never change” etc
Thank you. This video was helpful. I definitely need to practice more. I agree with a follow up of you actually praying it would be helpful. But can you also add how to read the Guide for Christian Prayer. It is probably very simple, but would be helpful just the same. Thanks again and God bless you.
Thank you, father,. I do the liturgy of the hours with the universalist app. My parish priest showed us how to do it when we were all stuck in our apartments or our homes. I fell in love with it it’s so beautiful. It did help listening to your instructions. I’m going to listen to more of your instructions cause I need to understand it better. Thank you so much.
I find your explanation to be very complicated. I think it would be helpful to see the order of prayer lain out in a downloadable list that can be followed.
The apostles prayed in the spirit choose a living Jesus Christ. The apostles never prayed the Liturgy of hours prayer. Priest person you're preaching hate. In the New covenant we pray to Jesus in the spirit not in the flesh. Like that prayer your recommending
Why does everyone complicate this so much, my priest years ago said forget about seasons, saints etc, and just got me grounded in the structure of morning prayer ordinary time, where to say the glory be, where to find the prayers etc, then we did evening then night. Once you can do that without having to think too much, then worry about the other stuff.
Thanks Father for this explanation. I have been looking for a way how to learn how pray using a book the liturgy of the hours and it has been quite challenging. Thanks for taking us thru this great prayer of the church. I also support the idea that u film yourself while praying different hours and we watch too. Stay blessed.
You're not the only one. I stayed with nuns for months who had to flick the pages for me every single day, they were like "it's not that hard' I didn't know what was going on. Get the app.
Thank you Father! I recently bought the one volume Christian Prayer book and it works well for me right now! :) I'm now praying morning, vespers and compline daily. The ribbons and your explanations help out a lot!
Thank you for making this video father. I just recently attended a Spiritual Exercises Retreat with a few friends and I accidentally opened a Liturgy of the Hours Book because I thought it was a Bible, honestly, I've never seen so many ribbons on a book. It is quite intimidating to look at and read through at first but we have to start somewhere right? I downloaded the IBreviary last Saturday (yeah, I did watch Fr. Mike Schmitz's video, it was his recommendation too) and still learning how to navigate through the app. I hope to see more content from you here in YT. God bless!
I'm glad you're giving it a try! If you do want to learn to use the book (which I obviously support), the app is really helpful early on for seeing the order of all the parts.
Hi Father! Would you consider making a video where you actually go through and pray the liturgy of the hours one day, as an example? Maybe choose a "complicated" day and just film each segment then put them together at the end?
Great idea! That would be an awesome follow-up.
Great idea! That would be helpful.
@@thehappypriest Yes please!! This would be so helpful!
@@thehappypriest The Roman Missile as well - please?
Has Father done any videos yet? I too would like to go through and pray along for BEGINNERS- a week or a few days would be very helpful please.
I just got this set from a dear priest freind. This is so complicated haha but I am so exited to learn. I think I’ll start just looking through the books to get aquatinted with them and where things are. I’ll keep re watching this until I understand.
Father, one thing that I noticed is that on every Sunday (regardless of volume), it tells you which week in the psalter you should be in. If you know, for example, it's the 7th week of ordinary time, then go to that Sunday and count forward. No math needed! 🙂 Thank you for this. It's the best explanation of the Divine Office I've seen.
Yes! I always forget about that - at some point I figured out the week sequence and just started doing in my head... but you're right, there's no need to be overly complicated... Glad you enjoyed it!
Great overview! I’d just add that the red text is your friend, since it will tell you what to do next. The Liturgy of the Hours is just as much Liturgy as Mass is, since it celebrates the same Paschal Mystery (albeit in a very different way). While this means that your prayer becomes more powerful since it is united through the Liturgy to the intercessory prayer of Christ before the Father, it also means that the texts are prescribed and must be prayed in a particular manner. Fortunately, the rubrics (the formal name for the instructions in red) help you navigate that, so as the saying goes, “Say the black, do the red.”
I was today old when I learned what the black and the red mean, and I'm a grandma!
Thank you!!
I just got my 4-volume set a couple of weeks ago - it is changing my prayer life!
I just got mine yesterday
@@dwlumpkin7726 Have a wonderful Lent. The LOTH has completely changed my life!
@@amandagray825 You're subscribed to Joe Biden, and you aren't subscribed to PewDiePie. Your salvation is at risk!
Sounds good! I wish to learn it some day.
Thank you Father. I am introducing this to our Stephen Ministers - I have experience praying this as a former religious and I want to share it with our lay community. Thanks for sharing!!!
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" - thank you. Good advice.
I discovered the app called the divine office and a TH-cam channel called Sing the hours. It's like I walk with the church in my hand now.
I love Sing the Hours! And another channel that does all the hours is Make Prayer A Habit.
I discovered Sing the hours during advent and I LOVE it. I am not Catholic ... and I am following the Liturgy of the Hours. I learn more each day as God leads me. I plan to order a prayer book from Amazon. I also love the Universialis app.
I love the Divine Office app. It has everything laid out to read, which is great since I don’t have the books. You’re praying with the app which sings & recites the psalter & prayers. Also you can go to the globe to see how many people are using the app & praying at the same time you are, tbh that’s pretty cool😊
Thanks for the tips! I found sing the hours... It's wonderful
I love the Sing the Hours channel. Along with Chants and Rants. There is also a description of Liturgy of the Hours in Chants and Rants.
Thanks for the guide! I’ve been thrifting LotH books whenever I can find them and so far I have 2/4, so I can pray it for about half the year, but I’ve always been really lost praying it. I usually just pray whatever part I can find that seems to apply to the day
St Thomas More House of Prayer has online guides for the single volume Christian Prayer and the 4 set LOH.
Thank you for this wonderful video. I shared it with my wife and kids. I would love to see a more advanced discussion of moving from book to book in the Divine Office and using the St. Joseph's guide. Another discussion on Spiritual Reflection and Spiritual Direction, focusing on the benefits to a layperson, would also be beneficial. Thanks, again.
I've owned a copy of Christian Prayer for years, but never really got the hang of it. I will take your advise and start small, and then expand over time. New subscriber, no doubt!
Thanks for this. A great start point coming from the Magnificat and then Liturgy of the Hours from Word on Fire and Divine Office app and now finally after a long time of wanting to more I can start with confidence.
Thank you for this video! I use Laudate app, which is simple for me. But this explains so much!
Nicely done! I've been praying the Liturgy of the Hours for decades. I remember when as a graduate student I bought the 4-volume set and I hadn't a clue how to use it. I went to an elderly priest at the campus Newman Center, and he invited me to pray the morning prayer with him each day at 7:00 AM. He taught me the "ribbons" and he guided me through the daily prayers. It's now been over thirty years and I've benefitted greatly from his kindness and instruction.
Maybe you could give me your email? I'm a new convert from Lutheranism (I was an amateur Protestant apologist who came to realize through an intense rabbit hole) that Catholicism was true, and converted. I just bought a 4 volume set and I've watched ALL of the videos but I'm still lost...
Thank you for helping this n00blet Lay Dominican. Even when you pray the LOH badly, at least you're praying.
As consecrated secular I 'm committed to read the Liturgy of the Hours. This is a supplementary prayer after the Holy Mass. It's sanctify the day and praying the whole Church. It's my lifetime partner and companion.
My husband was a seminarian for a few years and his missals have been sitting on our shelf taunting me....
Glad I found this, lol.
Thank you, father
Thank you for this Father! Fantastic video
I’ve looked at a copy of the Liturgy of the Hours in a local Adoration chapel, but they only had the Advent readings. We were in Time after Pentecost/Ordinary Time so it didn’t help to study the words. I did get Benedictus, the monthly subscription with morning and evening prayer in addition to the feast days laid out. Hopefully it comes before Advent arrivals on Nov 28th this year, I could always use the Breviary in the adoration chapel if it’s late :/
My younger brother the priest. Thank you. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Love this.
Fantastic summary, Father! As a Lutheran, I am used to Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer/Compline. However, our service books are organized differently. This was most helpful.
Wonderful - I'm glad to hear that.
thank you Father! This was super helpful!
This is awesome. My only ask is for another version where the process is delivered a bit more slowly. Perhaps you can offer some prayerful thoughts about the section to give the rest of us a bit of time to catch up. Seriously, my goal is to better understand each section, why it's important and then secondarily how to move between sections.
Hello Good mourning rev.fr.cassidy watching from phillippines
Here in the UK (and also approved for use in some other English speaking countries) we have a 3 volume set as opposed to the USA 4.
In the Orthodox Church it is common for all to celebrate Vespers and Matins and the hours. They are not only for monastics or clerics. Holy and Divine Liturgy (Holy Mass) is not enough
Father first of all thank you so much for this video. My question is can you make a video that is not so technical in directions. I am 75 and not as quick a mind as I once was. I have the Christian Prayer book and some of the vocabulary is not as familiar to me. I am a KISS kind of learner.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!!! I really wanted someone to explain this to me, and now here I am, learning! YOU;RE THE BEST!
Yes, thank you!
My sister bought me a daily missal for my birthday and my first question was... whats with all the ribbons?! And then paging through it all... that's why all the ribbons. Hehe.
Thank you for the guide!
EDIT: Still a little lost but need more time to go through it all. Thanks again!
Take your time... it gets easier!
I’m even more confused 😕
I just picked up mine yesterday. I've been wanting to pick one up since I was confirmed in May. I'm really excited. Even if I can't hit them all because of my fluctuating work schedule I know it'll be a great discipline to start things off.
Thanks so much Father for doing this video! This was a great intro for me. I am still learning how to do the liturgy of the hours, and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind doing a follow up walking us through doing one prayer for that day and explaining it as you go. Something like that would help me out :-) God bless!
The Bible says call no man Father. Roman Catholicism is very suspect. Roman 3:23 states All Have Sinned. That includes the Pope!
I got to minute 11 before he totally lost me. It reminds me of when you ask someone for directions and they give you a 15 minute response with 49 steps. Yeah, like I’ll remember that.
I am a basically self-taught Catholic convert, because I guess Catechesis these days for new Catholics is basically optional. I have been able to basically figure out what the Church is, how it works, how to join and how to worship with mostly just TH-cam and various good books as my guide.
I have been trying to learn how to pray the hours for a couple of years now, with very little success. Despite many hours of research, the prayer books are still basically about as impenetrable as kevlar. I was hopeful this video would be helpful, but I was pretty disappointed. Thanks for trying Father. Maybe next time dumb it down a bit for those of us who are a lit closer to square one.
So helpful, thank you Fr.!
Hi i just found this video. Where can i get the black prayer book please. Im new to my faith and this book seems to be perfect ! Thank you
What I did to begin with was to use Universalis along with the printed full 3 volume set we use here in Ireland. It might seem a bit cumbersome to use both but it's only temporary but helped find where I should be in what looks like a daunting book!
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I use the Magnificat. The only thing I need to turn to is the canticles. Feast days are all with it and each day is placed in order. Then it goes into the mass, so all the daily readings are there, although I like a Bible. Then after the mass is a meditation. Do I have to do the hymns? I really don’t like reading them_
Oh and the Hallow app does the night prayer. Unfortunately it doesn’t have the others. But it is audible.
I love The Liturgy Of The Hours. What messes Me up, is the optional Feast and Memorial’s as a Lay Carmelite, I want to be really good at it.
I fall in love with the Liturgy of the Hrs
Thank you Father, now I have a clue.
Great help fr. Cassidy Stinson. Thank you for uploading. God bless
So glad I found this. I've been doing the liturgy of the hours with an app for a while and found it a little confusing but your explanation is so helpful!!!!😍
This is that I’m trying to do at home but has been hard to find the book in Spanish . My primary language I’m using the app. Thank you for your teaching father.
Can you please share the App’s name
Nice work Father, this explains things for me well. One question i have, how does the office of readings fit in? Is that a seperate hour?
It’s very confusing still for me but I’ll keep trying…🙏
You didn't talk about the guide you can get it has been a great help. I got mine at Catholic book store. You can get either four volume set or the Christian book
For the first time ever, on Ash Wednesday, I will begin trying to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, using volume II (Lent, Easter)of the 4 volume set. I think a sample diagram for an hour, or a day, would be helpful...
Please, please, someone please create a SIMPLE way for new Catholics to just open the book and pray❣️
Clear as mud!
This was wonderful. You've done a great job here. Please continue with this effort of sharing how to go about the Liturgy of the Hours. Your encouragement too was well placed and consoling.
It took me all of seven minutes to get totally lost.
Is there someplace where the gestures are explained for everyplace during the LOTH? When and where do we bless ourselves, bow, mark the sign of the cross on our lips, stand, etc. thank you. Also are they different for the different hours?
I was taught the Liturgy of the Hours by an Extern Dominican Nun years ago, long before she retired completely into the Cloister. Update: the Church must restore the deprecatory Psalms and those parts removed from Psalms. They are Psalms for this day and age, regardless of how anyone understands them. Good thing those Psalms are still in the Bible.
Is there a publishing year to aim for to find the ones that are now omitted?
I’m wondering if I could find a full version on eBay or something
i just started it
Great video! I'm super confused, but at least now I know the basics of what to expect.
That was extremely helpful for me. Thank you Fr!
I want a real one, pre Vat II. How do I get it?
Thank you for the video. It didn't help me. But thank you. I'm lost
Anything in particular you're having a hard time figuring out?
@@thehappypriest thanks for responding Father. I need to go back and re-visit it.
Great video Father! I've been (attempting) to put this into my routine now that I've got so much time to kill, but it's been slow going. Getting used to flipping around with the ribbons took a bit, but I've supplemented my Christian Prayer book with some little sticky notes marking the canticles and such, just to be safe 😂
Also, for figuring out where in the Psalter you should be (especially if you're like me and miss a few or more days and lose track), I have the Universalis calendar bookmarked on my computer, and next to each Sunday they tell you what week of the Psalter you should be in, it's v helpful
universalis.com/calendar.htm
This actually didn’t help me at all. I’m sitting here with my 4 volume Christian Prayer book that ive no clue about. When you start jumping to parts of the book you’re assuming that we see where that is 😕. Pretend your teaching a 6th grader.. no wait ...a 4th grader...it’s just too confusing otherwise...
Why did you start with the entire 4 volumes then? There are pocket liturgies that only have the main parts. Namely Invitatory, morning, middle (third sixth nineth) evening and compline. And at the beginning there is a short explanation
Agree this is all assuming you actually know a lot more than I know. Which is sad because I’ve been praying the liturgy of the hours for years, but with an app on my phone.
The right place to answer my question on how to use the book. Thank you, Father 🙏
This is a great instructional. Thank you for helping with the ribbon setup and clear explanations. I have been using the Universalis app to help, but want to get comfortable with flipping. Well done, Father!
In my opinion, it's a much more natural way to pray.
I got a liturgy of the hours book a couple months ago and i’ll be honest, I was doing it soooo wrong for so long. Now that Ive looked it up it makes a lot more sense. Thank you for your guide!
I have been using The Magnificat prayer book. How does this morning\evening prayers fit into the three types? It’s easy each month has a new book and puts all prayers in a simple order. Thanks.
This is awesome. It’s hard for me to learn but your video is so helpful, Fr. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻
Just bought my Liturgy of the Hours. I will be watching your video several times. Thank you for the encouragement..this looks daunting.
This was my guide when I first started praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Thank you very much Fr! :) By the way, for the readings, I also add the readings for the day. That is okay Fr., right? :)
Fr. I learned the litugy of the hours back when i was trying to become a Monk, at the first monster i visited, they had the guests use the app on a tablet, so when i got home for my birthday i asked my parents to get me the 4 book set and they fit it for me. I didn't use the proper of saints for the first few months until i hit used to the book version of the liturgy of the house hours.
Great intro video to the Liturgy of the Hours!
Matthew 6:6-13 KJVS
But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. [7] But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. [8] Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. [9] After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. [10] Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. [11] Give us this day our daily bread. [12] And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. [13] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.
Very good presentation father but at a rather "Blitzkrieg" pace. I do think that due to the complexity of the Liturgy of the Hours, you did and amzing job. Well done. I have used the large print "Christian Prayer" book for years but eventually found it much easier to use my tablet and donwload the "I-Brievery" ap. It got to be annoying to have to buy a little guide booklet every year to find out what pages the readings and feast days are on. The ap lays everything out for you and you don't have to flip through pages in a book.
My question concerns the "I-brievery". What do the little symols mean at the end of various lines in the psalms? I'm guessing they must have to do with chanting the psalms but what does the asterisk and the little sword or pointed cross symbols mean? I've been praying the liturgy of the hours for years and most of what I've learned was self taught. I first bought the one volume "Christion Prayer" book and Thought I'd breeze right through it. Wow!! what an awakening. After much frustration I sat the book on the shelf and there it sat for years. I finally got so determined, after watching a few people come into the Church and act like they knew what they were doing that I forced myself to dive into it.
The brochures that came with the book (this was before the internet and TH-cam) were as complicated as the book itself and all "Greek" to me . The average Catholic only knows rote prayers and prayer cards. Most Catholics I grew up with didn't even know how to use the St. Joseph's Sunday Missal so jumping into the Liturgy of the Hours was an absolute nightmare. I guess it was the Holy Spirit but I eventually kept plodding along and eventually began to figured out how things went. Surprisingly, I was right and as I persisted, I became more knowledgable. Your video has expanded my knowledge even more.
My criticism of the Church however (if I may be so bold) is why make things so complicated ? People simply become frustrated and simply won't bother with the liturgy of the hours? I had one couple that I tried to teach, give me their brand new volumes of Christian Prayer and walk away from the little prayer group I'd started. I've tried to introduce people to this prayer form and they simply told me, their rosary and chaplet of Divine Mercy is much easier along with their prayer cards and novenas, they were content. Why do we complicate things? Having had the same experience, I can't blame them yet our Popes have encouraged the laity to engage in this "beautiul tradition" of the Church. If it's so beautiful and desireable, why make it so complicated ? It's as if it were meant for the "Elite" religious, not the laity. Flipping" back and forth in a very complicated book isn't something the average Catholic is accustomed to. We've been conditioned to use memorized prayers and read prayer cards and being led in praying. And it can't be too complicated or we'll lose interest real quick. It's like a long winded homily; if you aren't connecting with whats being said or read you're wasting time. I'm one of the "dummies" that accidently firgured out how to navigate the complexity of these books, but it took years to do it and I still get confused by "optional prayers and readings and feast days". I would suggest if anyone is interested, get the little "skinny" book Father showedd at the beginning. It's just the basics and the best way to learn. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about all of this?
Too confusing
Father I dont think I have the book you started off with, on the spine of mine it just says Liturgy of the Hours IV, ordinary time. Weeks 18-34 .. I am so confused? I am Catholic only 9 years and my friends who were born Catholic have no Idea what to do with these books. I want to know ; in fact I want to know everything i can squeeze into my brain about our faith .. I also have a book (red) called Christian prayer that looks like yours..Also no idea how to use it:( I am still listening. I pray you can help, God bless you
A good way to think of it is like a missal, the ordinary is like the order of the mass in the missal, where you find things like the creed “prayers that never change” etc
Yes, very similar in that respect.
Matthew 23:9
King James Version
9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Thank you. This video was helpful. I definitely need to practice more. I agree with a follow up of you actually praying it would be helpful. But can you also add how to read the Guide for Christian Prayer. It is probably very simple, but would be helpful just the same. Thanks again and God bless you.
Thank you, father,. I do the liturgy of the hours with the universalist app. My parish priest showed us how to do it when we were all stuck in our apartments or our homes. I fell in love with it it’s so beautiful. It did help listening to your instructions. I’m going to listen to more of your instructions cause I need to understand it better. Thank you so much.
I find your explanation to be very complicated. I think it would be helpful to see the order of prayer lain out in a downloadable list that can be followed.
The apostles prayed in the spirit choose a living Jesus Christ. The apostles never prayed the Liturgy of hours prayer. Priest person you're preaching hate. In the New covenant we pray to Jesus in the spirit not in the flesh. Like that prayer your recommending
We are in the 24th week divided by 4 is 6 so what week are we supposed to be reading?
Why does everyone complicate this so much, my priest years ago said forget about seasons, saints etc, and just got me grounded in the structure of morning prayer ordinary time, where to say the glory be, where to find the prayers etc, then we did evening then night. Once you can do that without having to think too much, then worry about the other stuff.
Isn’t the point of doing the liturgy of the hours to pray all 150 psalms?
Thanks Father for this explanation. I have been looking for a way how to learn how pray using a book the liturgy of the hours and it has been quite challenging. Thanks for taking us thru this great prayer of the church. I also support the idea that u film yourself while praying different hours and we watch too. Stay blessed.
Thank you for this, Father, I have fallen in love with the Liturgy of the Hours! How did I not know about this my whole Catholic life?
Right? I don't know why they don't teach this in catechism? I only encountered it in vocational retreats. Family never prayed it.
@@lindac7968 usually just priests are required to say it
I have the shorter but from a different company from a friend
My question is, does the Liturgy of the hours make good toilet paper?
Hey father so I am beginner for the LOTH I was wonder what times of the day(timeframe) are the hours for prayer.
Need timings for when to pray which eg. Morning g prayer between 6 am to 11am etc...
Father could you cover the Office of readings in the single volume office?
Well done! Thank you so much.
I'm a slow learner he go's to fast for me. I only the Christian prayer: liturgy of the
Hours.
Can you explain the office of readings?
Can you do a video that focuses on "Shorter Christian Prayer"?
This video was too advanced for me. I’ve been having the four book set for a few years and I still can’t follow
You're not the only one. I stayed with nuns for months who had to flick the pages for me every single day, they were like "it's not that hard' I didn't know what was going on. Get the app.
Look at you throwing in some mod-4 arithmetic !!!
Thanks for this! So easy and comprehensive to learn.
Thank you Father! I recently bought the one volume Christian Prayer book and it works well for me right now! :) I'm now praying morning, vespers and compline daily. The ribbons and your explanations help out a lot!
Awesome! I'm so glad!
Thank you for making this video father. I just recently attended a Spiritual Exercises Retreat with a few friends and I accidentally opened a Liturgy of the Hours Book because I thought it was a Bible, honestly, I've never seen so many ribbons on a book. It is quite intimidating to look at and read through at first but we have to start somewhere right? I downloaded the IBreviary last Saturday (yeah, I did watch Fr. Mike Schmitz's video, it was his recommendation too) and still learning how to navigate through the app. I hope to see more content from you here in YT. God bless!
I'm glad you're giving it a try! If you do want to learn to use the book (which I obviously support), the app is really helpful early on for seeing the order of all the parts.