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?
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 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😊
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!
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.
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.
Thank you for sharing this explanation of the church prayer. As you stated - "The Liturgy of the Hours, or "Divine Office" is the official common prayer of the Catholic Church. Priests and religious are bound to pray it every day, but lay people should also feel compelled to take part in it." This is such a beautiful prayer for so many! However, it saddens me when clergy in their explanation of such prayer fail to include the deacon (ordained clergy). The deacon too is also bound in his vocation to pray it daily. Please consider the inclusion of such in your explanation, it just supports and clarifies our ministry call. Blessing, Dcn Bob Sondag.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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...
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!
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!!!
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!!!!😍
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!
In 2021, I spent two weeks at an Abbey in Missouri. I spent each liturgical hour trying to keep up. The good thing about my visit was that I attended mass each day.
Fantastic video Fr. Cassidy, thank you! My priest recently lent me his volumes of the Hours to look over during the summer, since I’m wanting to look a lot into liturgics when I go into university this year. It’s good to see that these hours have a similar learning curve to the Daily Office in the Book of Common Prayer, which I usually pray being Anglican. God Bless
Thanks for this great starting guide. I was very intimidated by the flipping back and forth and learning the system in general. Now, rather than intimidated, I'm excited to learn. Thanks again, and God bless.
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
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.
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
Father, I'm in my 4th year of formation to the Permanent Deaconate. I am only now becoming comfortable with saying the hours. I wish I had seen your video four years ago!!
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!
Hi Fr. Thank you SO MUCH for this! After scouring the internet, this is the only explanation that helped in understanding the different sections of the book...the actual "how" of the process. Most other explanations focused on why the Liturgy of the Hours should be prayed. Thank you again for this great resource. God bless you!
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.
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.
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!
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.
Thanks Father that was really good video and I like the one prayer at a time till I get down part! That makes everything less stressful! Prayer should not be stressful. 😃
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.
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
Just got the Christian Prayer, it has the Morning and Evening prayers, just getting to know it. I am just doing what is on the page for the day for now, but thanks to your video, I see I have to look for other prayers and pages. it's a bit tricky, but with practice I will get better at it!
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!
Great and perfectly explained basics was very easy to understand .....make more detailed videos on how to read breviary by reading daily basis breviary for eg. Morning hrs breviary dated 26th June, 2023 then afternoon evening and night .....so that slowly we get used to praying self
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’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 :/
Also please make video of daily reading breviary together for eg. Tomorrow's 26th June 2023 and mentioning wat you are reading from. Where that will be AWESOME FOR US BEGINNERS
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?
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.
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? :)
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.
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.
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?
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
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"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" - thank you. Good advice.
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.
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...
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.
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.
My younger brother the priest. Thank you. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Love this.
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 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.
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!
I fall in love with the Liturgy of the Hrs
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.
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 for sharing this explanation of the church prayer. As you stated - "The Liturgy of the Hours, or "Divine Office" is the official common prayer of the Catholic Church. Priests and religious are bound to pray it every day, but lay people should also feel compelled to take part in it."
This is such a beautiful prayer for so many! However, it saddens me when clergy in their explanation of such prayer fail to include the deacon (ordained clergy). The deacon too is also bound in his vocation to pray it daily. Please consider the inclusion of such in your explanation, it just supports and clarifies our ministry call.
Blessing, Dcn Bob Sondag.
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!!
Just bought my Liturgy of the Hours. I will be watching your video several times. Thank you for the encouragement..this looks daunting.
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.
The right place to answer my question on how to use the book. Thank you, Father 🙏
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.
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 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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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...
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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Hope you're well, Fr. This video helped me a d inspired me to pick up the breviary again.
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!!!
Thank you Father, now I have a clue.
Excellent conversation!! My two cents: the heart is everything. We seek to align our hearts with God’s, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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!!!!😍
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!
Thank you Farah I’m lost but I’ll listen again and gain until I understand it . Thanks 🙏
In 2021, I spent two weeks at an Abbey in Missouri. I spent each liturgical hour trying to keep up. The good thing about my visit was that I attended mass each day.
Great help fr. Cassidy Stinson. Thank you for uploading. God bless
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.
Fantastic video Fr. Cassidy, thank you! My priest recently lent me his volumes of the Hours to look over during the summer, since I’m wanting to look a lot into liturgics when I go into university this year. It’s good to see that these hours have a similar learning curve to the Daily Office in the Book of Common Prayer, which I usually pray being Anglican. God Bless
Thanks for this great starting guide. I was very intimidated by the flipping back and forth and learning the system in general. Now, rather than intimidated, I'm excited to learn. Thanks again, and God bless.
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.
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
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
Father, I'm in my 4th year of formation to the Permanent Deaconate. I am only now becoming comfortable with saying the hours. I wish I had seen your video four years ago!!
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!
Hi Fr. Thank you SO MUCH for this! After scouring the internet, this is the only explanation that helped in understanding the different sections of the book...the actual "how" of the process. Most other explanations focused on why the Liturgy of the Hours should be prayed. Thank you again for this great resource. God bless you!
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.
Thanks father for this instruction, it has helped me get started
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
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!
Great video! I'm super confused, but at least now I know the basics of what to expect.
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.
Thanks Father that was really good video and I like the one prayer at a time till I get down part! That makes everything less stressful! Prayer should not be stressful. 😃
That was extremely helpful for me. Thank you Fr!
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.
Very well explained. Thank you Father. God Bless and Be With you always
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.
Thank you Father Cassidy!
Just got the Christian Prayer, it has the Morning and Evening prayers, just getting to know it. I am just doing what is on the page for the day for now, but thanks to your video, I see I have to look for other prayers and pages. it's a bit tricky, but with practice I will get better at it!
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!
Great intro video to the Liturgy of the Hours!
Thanks for this! So easy and comprehensive to learn.
Thank you for this video! I use Laudate app, which is simple for me. But this explains so much!
Great and perfectly explained basics was very easy to understand .....make more detailed videos on how to read breviary by reading daily basis breviary for eg. Morning hrs breviary dated 26th June, 2023 then afternoon evening and night .....so that slowly we get used to praying self
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.
This is awesome. It’s hard for me to learn but your video is so helpful, Fr. Keep up the good work 🙏🏻
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 :/
Thank you for helping this n00blet Lay Dominican. Even when you pray the LOH badly, at least you're praying.
Thank you dear fr. For your service. God bless you
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
I used salter since I'm student in college until now.
thank you Father! This was super helpful!
God bless you father
Well done! Thank you so much.
Thank you! Please consider making this specifically for Christian Prayer. I found using a printed schedule helps.
😱 I just ordered a four book set. After watching this video I’m scared!
Also please make video of daily reading breviary together for eg. Tomorrow's 26th June 2023 and mentioning wat you are reading from. Where that will be AWESOME FOR US BEGINNERS
Hello Good mourning rev.fr.cassidy watching from phillippines
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?
Thanks so much this is very very helpful.
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?
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.
Clear as mud!
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? :)
OUTSTANDING!
Thank you!
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.
ThAnk you father
Father could you cover the Office of readings in the single volume office?
Thank you Fr
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.
So helpful, thank you Fr.!
Can you do a video that focuses on "Shorter Christian Prayer"?
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.
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?
It’s very confusing still for me but I’ll keep trying…🙏
Great work Father
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
Thank you, this was helpful.
I get a new book monthly, from word on fire bishop Barron
Thanks fr Cassidy this is really helpful