

Includes everything for the Hours of Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline Prime, Sext, and Compline for each other day of the week. In timeless Latin with parallel English translations. Melodies in Gregorian notation for those who chant the office in common. Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering. Come, then, let us bow down and worship, bending the knee before the Lord, our maker, For he is our God and we are his people, the flock he shepherds. The prayers to be said before and after reciting the Divine Office Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.
LITURGY OF THE HOURS DIVINE OFFICE HOW TO
An 11-page Introduction explaining the Divine Office and how to pray it, including guidelines on how to interpret the psalms in a Catholic manner Our Lord, our Lady, and the Saints prayed these psalms.


When understood correctly (this edition has a short explanation preceding each psalm), these are the intentions for which Holy Mother Church wants us to pray for ourselves, for the Church and for all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This is better than private prayer it's the prayer of the entire Mystical Body because you pray with one heart with the millions of other clerics, religious and laymen around the world who have prayed and are praying these exact same prayers, AND because you adopt the intentions of the psalmist as you pray. Join your voice with the Church and her members Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day. Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. But the Church gave us the answer from the very beginning when she structured her official prayer around a framework of the psalms prayed eight times a day so that within one week, all 150 psalms are said. Liturgy Of The Hours/Prayer Of The Church: Resources The Divine Office, 3 Vols. It's so easy to lose sight of God in our busy world. What does it gain a man to have his whole life perfectly organized but to lose his soul? Officium Divinum
