The Hours are a meditative dialogue on the mystery of Christ, using scripture and prayer. Check out all the posts or sign up to get them delivered in your email. The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office or the Work of God (Opus Dei), is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer. This post is part of the 31 Days of Resources for Catholic Moms: tools to inspire and challenge you in your Catholic faith. Her book Plan Your Year: Homeschool Planning for Purpose and Peacewalks you step-by-step through how to create a homeschool plan perfect for your family. You can find homeschooling resources, ideas to inspire kids to read, and free homeschool planning forms on her blog, EdSnapshots. She and her husband Matt are raising three beautiful, but loud, children in southern Alabama. Pam Barnhill is a Catholic convert and homeschooling mom. Have you tried praying the Liturgy of the Hours? I’d love to hear your experience. Even that little bit goes a long way to feed my soul. My prefered mode of prayer delivery is auditory with the Morning Prayer, Lauds and Night Prayer, Compline apps. I truly enjoy starting my day with Morning prayer, and I less frequently end the day with Night prayer. I even wrote a quick-start guide to help people just get started praying the hours, if they are not the kind who needs to know why or if they want to start praying as they are reading Daria’s book. Once all of the confusion was cleared, I was anxious and happy to pray. It not only breaks down exactly how to pray the Hours, but also the history of the prayers, its place in the overall Church, and gives multiple resources - technology and old-school versions for integrating these important prayers into your daily life.Įnlightening and informative, I put it at the top of my favorite Catholic books list. This book gave me exactly what I needed it. That is when I was fortunate enough to find The Everyday Catholic’s Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours by Daria Sockey. To me, they whys and what of something has to precede the how. I struggled making the Liturgy of the Hours a fixture in my life because I am one of those people who needs to understand something before doing it. Or there was an app for that and bells that could be set on your phone. And then they would talk about multiple volumes of prayer books and ribbon placements. They talked about how this ancient prayer provided wonderful stops in their day, how they were blessed by the words of Scripture, how it fed their soul. Yeah, the fact that it has two names may hint to where I am going with this post. It seemed like every Catholic blogger I read at the time was singing the praises of praying the Liturgy of the Hours, otherwise known as the Divine Office. If you have already bought, see our Licensing FAQ.Prayer became a trendy, Internet “thing” a few years back. It is available worldwide, and you will be charged in your own currency. Universalis costs £19.99 for everything, or around £9.99 for just a single iOS or Android app. They also give you the Grail psalms for the Liturgy of the Hours, and the option of the NAB texts for Mass if you are in the USA. Other e-book readers (reading the ePub format).Īll these formats give you access to unlimited dates.If you want to see texts for more than a week ahead (or for the distant past), then you need to get one of our apps or programs. Just like anyone else, translators have to eat. The one-week limit is a compromise between giving you free access and giving them some reward for their hard work. This is possible through the kindness of the various copyright owners who have allowed us to reproduce their texts here. (On small screens, the links may be shown below, on the left-hand side). Links to all the available dates are on the right. The Universalis web site shows you today, yesterday, and the week ahead.
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