Category: Liturgy of the Hours
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“O Lord, Open My Lips” – Part 2: It’s Not a Breviary Anymore!
ANTHONY RUFF — The Office is, above all, the daily prayer and praise of the Church gathered.
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“O Lord, Open My Lips” – Part 1: Reform of the Reform of the Reform
ANTHONY RUFF — The monks of Saint John’s Abbey have just completed a two-week trial run of a revised Liturgy of the Hours. Monks positively inhabit the Office, so this experiment felt something like a family moving into a new house in another town.
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Biennial Office Finally Scheduled for Publication
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — To my knowledge this is the last of the liturgical books to be published in the renewal of the Roman Missal, Ritual, Pontifical and Liturgy of the Hours.
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The Divine Office Hymnal: a few initial reactions
FRITZ BAUERSCHMIDT — Some thoughts after using the Divine Office Hymnal for a few moths.
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Canons at Prayer
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — As we journey towards the end of the Season of Lent, I want to take the opportunity to reflect on one of the fundamental themes of the Season, that of Prayer.
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While Gentle Silence Enveloped All Things
By examining texts shared between the Christmas and Easter seasons, we find the Paschal Mystery embedded at the heart of our Nativity celebrations.
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Additional Ideas on the Christmas Octave
Some thoughts for a possible redesign of the liturgy between December 25 and January 1
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Biennial Lectionary for the Office of Readings 3
In September and October 2018 I published two posts on the Biennial Office of Readings. These can be found here and here. In these posts I gave an introduction to this optional two-year Lectionary for the Office of Readings and the state of play with different publications that use it, particularly in English. This post…
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How We Celebrate Vespers – Without Chanting
A pattern for a weekly evening prayer in the current pandemic.