Category: Liturgy of the Hours
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What a Simplified Office Book Might Look Like
An idea for the reform of the Liturgy of the Hours.
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My Two Offices
I still struggle to identify which aspects of this worship schedule is most ascetical for me: the way it pulls me from my real office or the way my sinfulness is exposed as the Office prays me.
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Byzantine Catholic Daily Vespers -Subscription Service
There is a new email subscription service for Daily Vespers from Eastern Christian Publications. The Daily Vespers, just like the BDO Hours that they have been sending out the past few years, will include access to all three different versions, Clergy, Reader Service and Propers: Clergy: The full text of Daily Vespers with all litanies,…
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Lord, Close My Lips
The opening verse of the office “Lord, open my lips” used to have a twin at the end of the day.
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Corpus Christi
Biblical verses from the Office of Corpus Christi.
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Pope Francis on Lenten Fasting
Fast from words and be silent—so you can listen.
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The Proslogion and Liturgy in the Classroom
One student was comforted to see her own questions in this text from 1000 years ago. Students wrestled with Anselm’s argument, let it bend their minds a bit, but began to see it as a reflection on a liturgical life.
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Wedding and the Liturgy of the Hours
How a liturgist celebrated his wedding within the Liturgy of the Hours, and why this might be a quite good idea.
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Presbyterian Minister to Conduct Program on the Liturgy of the Hours
The program appears to be designed to reach out to members of churches that do not currently pray the Hours but would like to introduce the practice.