![]() ![]() Recordings can be found here or via their Podcast The Chant of Le Barroux, found here. If you prefer to listen to the Divine Office, each hour is chanted and recorded daily by the monks of the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux. Universalis - Daily Mass Readings and Office of Readings Recommended Books to Help Pray the Liturgy of the Hours How to Pray the Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours) This was called the Mass of the Catechumens, which has been preserved almost in its original form. ![]() Where I may praise thee with thy saints for aye. The development of the Divine Office was probably in the following manner: The celebration of the Eucharist was preceded by the recital of the psalms and the reading of the Old and New Testaments. In death’s drear moments make me only thine I have often raised my hand in the silence of the night and in my solitary cell, blessing you all and presenting you to Jesus and to our seraphic father, St. Strength and protection may thy Passion be ĭeep in thy wounds, Lord, hide and shelter me Excerpts from Vatican 2, Sacrosanctum Conciliumīlood of my Savior, bathe me in thy tide The better to achieve this, let them take steps to improve their understanding of the liturgy and of the bible, especially of the psalms. The Liturgy of the Hours (also known as the Divine Office) is the richest single prayer resource of the Christian Church. And therefore priests and all others who take part in the divine office are earnestly exhorted in the Lord to attune their minds to their voices when praying it. The divine office, because it is the public prayer of the Church, is a source of piety, and nourishment for personal prayer. Hence all who render this service are not only fulfilling a duty of the Church, but also are sharing in the greatest honor of Christ's spouse, for by offering these praises to God they are standing before God's throne in the name of the Church their Mother.ĩ0. Therefore, when this wonderful song of praise is rightly performed by priests and others who are deputed for this purpose by the Church's ordinance, or by the faithful praying together with the priest in the approved form, then it is truly the voice of the bride addressed to her bridegroom It is the very prayer which Christ Himself, together with His body, addresses to the Father.Ĩ5. By tradition going back to early Christian times, the divine office is devised so that the whole course of the day and night is made holy by the praises of God. Given the recent difficulties for the faithful to come together on Sunday for the Holy Mass, we encourage you to pray the Divine Liturgy in both Lauds (Morning Prayer) and Vespers (Evening Prayer).Ĩ4.
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