LITURGY OF THE HOURS DIVINE OFFICE PLUS

Contained within the office are many Psalms that were recited regularly by our Lord in addition to other very powerful and beautiful prayers of the Church. It is the image of Christ’s own prayer to the Father, “for where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them” (Matthew 18:20).Ĭlergy and religious are obliged to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, and the laity too are encouraged to participate as often as possible. The Divine Office (aka The Liturgy of the Hours) has been prayed for the Churchs entire existence, and its tradition and its content-inspired by God himself-has been handed down throughout the centuries. Along with Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours constitutes the public prayer of the Church. “The Liturgy of the Hours extends to the different hours of the day the praise and thanksgiving, the memorial of the mysteries of salvation, the petitions, and the foretaste of heavenly glory, that are present in the eucharistic mystery, ‘the center and high point of the whole life of the Christian community’” ( GILH no.

The Church satisfies Christ’s precept “to pray always” in accordance with apostolic tradition by celebrating the Eucharist and the Liturgy of the Hours, or Divine Office. General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours, no. Jesus’s earthly work was closely bound up with his prayer, and indeed flowed out from it (cf. The Gospels frequently show Jesus at prayer, especially when his saving mission is being revealed, as for example at his baptism, before he called the apostles, at his transfiguration, when he healed the sick and raised the dead, and above all at the events leading up to and during his Passion.

LITURGY OF THE HOURS DIVINE OFFICE PLUS

offers daily Morning, Daytime, Evening and Night Prayer, plus the Office of Readings. The prayers are offered in Adobe Acrobat formats that print as booklets, display on PCs and mobile devices, and Read Out Loud on PCs. Following Jewish custom, Jesus offered prayer at various times of the day and night, would retire to the desert or to the hills to pray, or rise up very early or spend the night in prayer to God. This website offers daily Liturgy of the Hours Night Prayer in various languages. In his goodness, our Savior modeled how we might do this.

Christ told us about our need “to pray always and not to lose heart” (Luke 18:1).

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