Liturgy of the Hours

Universalis: The Liturgy of the Hours Pray the Liturgy of the Hours every day of the year. Provides both text and guide.

Liturgy of the Hours Another site for praying the Liturgy of the Hours every day of the year. Provides text in PDF format which can be printed out and prayed in community.

The Liturgy of the Hours in audio daily with The Monks of Adoration Office of Readings (updated by 8:30 am EST Mon-Sat, 9:30 am Sundays & Solemnities); Morning Prayer (updated by 8:30 am EST Mon-Sat, 9:30 am Sundays & Solemnities); Evening Prayer (updated by 7 pm EST).

Liturgy of the Hours Sister Janet Baxendale, S.C., Executive Secretary of the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of NY and adjunct Professor of Liturgy at St. Joseph's Seminary, NY, offers an outline of the material she presents on a regular basis to her students.

Liturgy of the Hours: A Monastic Reflection

An Incentive to Prayer A 1950 address by Cardinal Spellman of New York on the practice of praying the Divine Office.

Short Breviaries in 20th Century America Looks at the background and history of each of the short breviaries (and its relationship to the "official" text of the Divine Office), its compiler(s) and perhaps translator(s), its impact on Catholics and others, and its role as part of the larger picture of liturgical renewal and reform in the 20th century.

Divine Office Get a pre-Vatican II perspective from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia.

The Liturgy of the Hours From an introduction to medieval Christian liturgy.

The Liturgy of the Hours in Our Lives of Prayer Paper by Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha, Nebraska.

The Liturgy of the Hours A general outline along with quotes from church documents.

The Ambrosian Liturgy of the Hours Today The Ambrosian rite is used in the Archdiocese of Milan.

Short Breviaries in 20th c. America A study by Theo Keller of various public prayer forms known as breviaria parva ("short" or "little" breviaries), as they came to be used in this century, and in particular, here in the United States.



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