I started praying morning prayer on my phone. I was really having a hard time with prayer in general, and this was a great help. During confession, a priest recommended adding evening prayer, and I have done that (most days). I live alone, and have very few Catholic friends. I like the phone version (Divine Office) because I pray out loud, feeling connected to the whole church as I pray.
I bought my LOTH 6 years ago and I still haven't made headway with praying from the books because I find them so confusing! I was finally given a book on how to read the LOTH and I look forward to adopting this sacred routine at some point in my life. Plus the books are just collecting dust! 😇
@@Prof_LMC I can recommend this one: The Everyday Catholic's Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours EDIT: Hadn’t made it all the way through the episode when I commented, but now realize that’s the book Brandon mentioned as well.
Perhaps the “Divine Office” app would help. My wife and I just started learning about the LOTH this week and this app is awesome. You can play an audio of all the prayers so you can be led in how to pray them. And it’s free!
It was the same for me! Thank goodness I only got the lay LOTH lol! The only way I got around it was by synch imy praying with a mobile app, so I learned what day I would be in. God bless you!
Wow. Awesome explanation. I have been praying the liturgy of hours off and on for 2 years. More off than hour. That will know change after this podcast. Thank you. God bless.
I am a fairly new lay Oblate of St. Benedict. By chance (or design) I found my self the leader of a local deanery. I love the Liturgy of the Hours and actually look forward to praying it. It didn’t take long for me to recognize the link between the Mass and the the LOTH. I use the ‘Divine Office’ app. I often pause the audio to add my own spontaneous prayers as the Spirit moves me. I have a prayer partner at St. Vincent’s archabbey. He is an ordained OSB priest and monk. I always tell Jesus that I am praying with and for Fr. Michael and I am convinced that his prayers for me are truly beneficial. We also get support from the Oblate director there. I know it is not necessary to be a member of a third order to benefit from praying the LOTH. The priests and brothers of St. Vincent’s are my “community” with whom I pray daily. This was a great podcast and I shared it with my fellow St. Placid Deanery Oblates. We have also used and discussed Fr. Gallagher’s book. God bless you. I am now subscribed 👍🏻
Just started praying LOTH this week. Mostly just morning prayers. Will add others slowly. Beautiful! Love the “Divine Office” app with audio! Easy way to join in the prayers of the Church!
Before you even spoke the recommendations for books, I had gone to Amazon ,ordered 2 books. Thank You Lord for the validation. I ordered the exact books recommended.Praise God
Before I retired, I would listen to Relevant Radio and EWTN on the radio while I was on the way to work in the early morning and they would have the liturgy of the hours. I prayed along. I *LOVED* it. It's so beautiful and such an honor to God :)
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge of LOTH. Unity is the essential reason, “...That they all may be one.” (Jn 17:21) God bless you all in your practice of LOTH.
Thank you. This teaching was so timely as I started praying LOTH one month ago during the onset of Coronatide when I began working from home. It is life changing. I now pray God grants me grace, patience and discipline to continue when I move back to my office. Thank you again. God bless you both!
It’s 2024 and I am glad to come across your channel. I didn’t notice it until I watched this video that 2 of my favourite set of books would almost sound the same. LOTH and LOTR… either way, I hope that in continuing my journey to a deeper understanding and spiritual life may the liturgy always guide us to a better Christian faith and life towards others most of all.
You don't speak of the middle of the night office, which I can't find to join. It doesn't have to necessary be prayed in the middle of the night, and it's so inspirational.
Overcoming objection to scripted prayer: I think of prayers like the Psalms or the Roman Canon or Agnus Dei as POWERFUL, ANCIENT prayers. My own words in prayer are cool, but I conceptualize these words echoing from Jesus, and the Bible, and King David, and the Saints, and the Church throughout history, and the Church around the world presently. Plus to my knowledge, anyone can insert their own prayers at the end of Intercessions.
i have the book Christian Prayer and try to prayer the breviary bt find it a lil too difficult and tedious. Also I heard that the LOTH does NOT contain the full Psalter. some of the psalms or parts of them have been removed. So even you buy the 4 volume set and pray every hour, you still would NOT be praying the actual Psalter in its entirety. That troubles me. I pray instead the 1962 little office by barnious press. I find the translations much more beautiful and the structure is much mre simple and easy to navigate
I have IBreviary and use it regularly. You mentioned that some LOTH apps are not the same as what the Church uses. My IBreviary app can be buggy so I sometimes use the Divine Office app. Would you say that this has an authentic LOTH?
Yes, both of them (iBreviary and Divine Office apps) are pretty good. Divine Office bases everything on the U.S. liturgical calendar and uses the exact translation that the official books have, so if you are praying with a group using the books, you can join along with everyone else. I highly recommend the Divine Office app and website (www .divineoffice. org), as they have high quality audio that you can use to pray with.
Thank you for sharing. It has helped me understand better many things about prayer thank you. 85 year-old cradle Catholic. By grace love the Scriptures, deeply converted and believing in our holy catholic church in all his teachings that are in in line with the Catholic teaching that have been taught for 2000 years. Thank you this is the church of Jesus Christ and his words. He died to leave his word for us, therefore all who contradict it, or not totally following Jesus. He said, if you love me, you will keep my words, not contradicting and not try to change them. We must bend our knee and rebellious way of thinking and rebellious spirit ,our stiff neck neck to His Word!!!
Unfortunately, i don't remember hearing and knowing about the Liturgy of the hours as a Catholic. It is just today when I'm already young adult that I'm starting to know a bit more. My problem is how and where am i going to learn it, and whom i am going to pray it with. Haven't seen it in the church except praying the Rosary.
Thank you very much for this insightful and helpful episode. Would love to hear how Brandon and his wife incorporate LOTH into family life. Do you require that your children participate? Obviously it depends on their ages. We have littles (5 and under) so I’m wondering if we would just pray it in front of them while they play quietly or look at books?
I purchased the LOH a few hours and I’m having trouble navigating the breviary. I’ve been going to Sing the hours. I want to ask my priest but he is from another country and I don’t understand him.
All I can say is, I am thankful that as a professed Secular Franciscan, one of our promises is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours morning and evening. It was not easy at all, it took me some years, but once I was able to do it, i knew I had a treasure !
These books are so very complicated just to figurer out where to go in the books.. I have had book Four and Christian Prayer, for 3 years . I have tried and tried to understand how to use them.. I have watched many videos and I still just give up because I cand understand how to use them. your video did help but I am still lost. our church does not offer instruction on this problem. But thank you for your video..I your very kind both of you..
Convinced Catholic you tube I found very helpful. I am only 2 weeks in but I have found there is a learning curve at it gets pretty easy once you get around the curve. Also . If you get a little confused just flip back to the ORDINARY section and that should get you back on track.
Good luck with telling people parishioners aren't welcome on Sunday unless they pray the LOH. Most Catholics don't go to church anyway. I started praying using the Word of Fire monthly books, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. Most Catholics I know haven't heard of it.
Pax! I am an Oblate OSB, Cam. I prefer still to pray Vigils/ Matins. I am lucky as I wake up for some time around 2:00 / 3:00 am. I also prefer to pray the traditional Benedictine Opus Day. I cherish giving top priority to the Psalms. Love Compline!
Excellent discussion. I started praying Night Prayer on the Hallow App about 6 months ago and fell in love with it. My birthday is coming up soon and my wonderful son (whose name is Brandon) asked me what I wanted. I said a set of LOTH books. He ordered them and they arrived yesterday. They're beautiful books and I'm really enjoying learning how to use them. Thank you for this video. I learned so much from watching it. May God bless you both! :)
First time i hear about this and I’ve been a catholic all my life and that would be like 50 years. I got the Christian Prayer one because the cost of it was more affordable then the 4 books.
What is Father Brandon's church website? I thought there might be something on there about the chanted liturgy of the hours. I started the Office awhile back, I'm inconsistent. I try to start my day with simple prayers like the Morning Offering and study and reflection on the Scriptures. Can you do the latter-- reflecting on the Scriptures -- with the Office?🙏💖
I am so happy that I can also pray the liturgy of the hours because that exercise gives me a greater connection with the Trinity. This gives me a greater conscience connection with God. I think this helps the laypeople so much.
I started praying morning prayer on my phone. I was really having a hard time with prayer in general, and this was a great help. During confession, a priest recommended adding evening prayer, and I have done that (most days).
I live alone, and have very few Catholic friends. I like the phone version (Divine Office) because I pray out loud, feeling connected to the whole church as I pray.
I pray out loud too. Rather than running through it in my head, reading out loud allows me to think about it and put emotion into it.
I bought my LOTH 6 years ago and I still haven't made headway with praying from the books because I find them so confusing! I was finally given a book on how to read the LOTH and I look forward to adopting this sacred routine at some point in my life. Plus the books are just collecting dust! 😇
Buy the St. Joseph Guide to the LOTH. Catholic Book Publishing Company.
@@Prof_LMC I can recommend this one:
The Everyday Catholic's Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours
EDIT: Hadn’t made it all the way through the episode when I commented, but now realize that’s the book Brandon mentioned as well.
Perhaps the “Divine Office” app would help. My wife and I just started learning about the LOTH this week and this app is awesome. You can play an audio of all the prayers so you can be led in how to pray them. And it’s free!
It was the same for me! Thank goodness I only got the lay LOTH lol! The only way I got around it was by synch imy praying with a mobile app, so I learned what day I would be in. God bless you!
Wow. Awesome explanation. I have been praying the liturgy of hours off and on for 2 years. More off than hour. That will know change after this podcast. Thank you.
God bless.
I am a fairly new lay Oblate of St. Benedict. By chance (or design) I found my self the leader of a local deanery. I love the Liturgy of the Hours and actually look forward to praying it. It didn’t take long for me to recognize the link between the Mass and the the LOTH. I use the ‘Divine Office’ app. I often pause the audio to add my own spontaneous prayers as the Spirit moves me. I have a prayer partner at St. Vincent’s archabbey. He is an ordained OSB priest and monk. I always tell Jesus that I am praying with and for Fr. Michael and I am convinced that his prayers for me are truly beneficial. We also get support from the Oblate director there. I know it is not necessary to be a member of a third order to benefit from praying the LOTH. The priests and brothers of St. Vincent’s are my “community” with whom I pray daily. This was a great podcast and I shared it with my fellow St. Placid Deanery Oblates. We have also used and discussed Fr. Gallagher’s book. God bless you. I am now subscribed 👍🏻
Just started praying LOTH this week. Mostly just morning prayers. Will add others slowly. Beautiful!
Love the “Divine Office” app with audio! Easy way to join in the prayers of the Church!
Before you even spoke the recommendations for books, I had gone to Amazon ,ordered 2 books. Thank You Lord for the validation. I ordered the exact books recommended.Praise God
Before I retired, I would listen to Relevant Radio and EWTN on the radio while I was on the way to work in the early morning and they would have the liturgy of the hours. I prayed along. I *LOVED* it. It's so beautiful and such an honor to God :)
So great to see Fr Blake from our diocese!! Thank you Brandon and Fr Blake for this great resource!
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge of LOTH. Unity is the essential reason, “...That they all may be one.” (Jn 17:21) God bless you all in your practice of LOTH.
Thank you. This teaching was so timely as I started praying LOTH one month ago during the onset of Coronatide when I began working from home. It is life changing. I now pray God grants me grace, patience and discipline to continue when I move back to my office. Thank you again. God bless you both!
It’s 2024 and I am glad to come across your channel. I didn’t notice it until I watched this video that 2 of my favourite set of books would almost sound the same. LOTH and LOTR… either way, I hope that in continuing my journey to a deeper understanding and spiritual life may the liturgy always guide us to a better Christian faith and life towards others most of all.
Thank you dear friends for your experiential sharing on the Liturgy of the Hours.
You don't speak of the middle of the night office, which I can't find to join. It doesn't have to necessary be prayed in the middle of the night, and it's so inspirational.
Overcoming objection to scripted prayer: I think of prayers like the Psalms or the Roman Canon or Agnus Dei as POWERFUL, ANCIENT prayers. My own words in prayer are cool, but I conceptualize these words echoing from Jesus, and the Bible, and King David, and the Saints, and the Church throughout history, and the Church around the world presently. Plus to my knowledge, anyone can insert their own prayers at the end of Intercessions.
i have the book Christian Prayer and try to prayer the breviary bt find it a lil too difficult and tedious. Also I heard that the LOTH does NOT contain the full Psalter. some of the psalms or parts of them have been removed. So even you buy the 4 volume set and pray every hour, you still would NOT be praying the actual Psalter in its entirety. That troubles me. I pray instead the 1962 little office by barnious press. I find the translations much more beautiful and the structure is much mre simple and easy to navigate
i pray Prime and Compline. On Sundays I add Lauds and Vespers. Also the fact that the modern breviary "supressed" the hour Prime bother me as well
Amazing topic and brilliant explanation for the LOTH!
Very enlightening video. Thank you for this guidance.
I love this! Thank you so much. God bless you both and your followers, through our most Blessed Mother 🙏
I have IBreviary and use it regularly. You mentioned that some LOTH apps are not the same as what the Church uses. My IBreviary app can be buggy so I sometimes use the Divine Office app. Would you say that this has an authentic LOTH?
Yes, both of them (iBreviary and Divine Office apps) are pretty good.
Divine Office bases everything on the U.S. liturgical calendar and uses the exact translation that the official books have, so if you are praying with a group using the books, you can join along with everyone else.
I highly recommend the Divine Office app and website (www .divineoffice. org), as they have high quality audio that you can use to pray with.
@@juanperez2006 Thank you! God bless!
Thank you for sharing. It has helped me understand better many things about prayer thank you. 85 year-old cradle Catholic. By grace love the Scriptures, deeply converted and believing in our holy catholic church in all his teachings that are in in line with the Catholic teaching that have been taught for 2000 years. Thank you this is the church of Jesus Christ and his words. He died to leave his word for us, therefore all who contradict it, or not totally following Jesus. He said, if you love me, you will keep my words, not contradicting and not try to change them. We must bend our knee and rebellious way of thinking and rebellious spirit ,our stiff neck neck to His Word!!!
THIS IS AGUSTIN I HAVE A CUESTIÓN,DO YOU HAVE DE LITURGY OF THE OURS EVINING PRAYERS VULETIN,GOD BLESS YOU. 💒🙏🙏🎇🎇🎇🎇🙏🙏💒
Unfortunately, i don't remember hearing and knowing about the Liturgy of the hours as a Catholic. It is just today when I'm already young adult that I'm starting to know a bit more. My problem is how and where am i going to learn it, and whom i am going to pray it with. Haven't seen it in the church except praying the Rosary.
Thank you very much for this insightful and helpful episode. Would love to hear how Brandon and his wife incorporate LOTH into family life. Do you require that your children participate? Obviously it depends on their ages. We have littles (5 and under) so I’m wondering if we would just pray it in front of them while they play quietly or look at books?
pray that my daughter Melissa will return to the catholic church. Really it's breaking my heart, as a mother I am living in fear. for her.
Why do you live in fear?
I purchased the LOH a few hours and I’m having trouble navigating the breviary. I’ve been going to Sing the hours. I want to ask my priest but he is from another country and I don’t understand him.
I thought that the Magnificat magazine did not contain the liturgy of the hours, it’s just a prayer in the morning and evening.
Word on Fire has a monthly publication of the LOTH. Does anyone have any thoughts about this one?
Just found your UA-cam posted podcast. Love looking into doing the loth but I'm a truck driver. I need something I can do while driving.
Try this- ua-cam.com/video/RGJyFzVNXdA/v-deo.html
I just got the Christian prayerbook. Is this ok for me to start with? Morning and evening/ night prayer...
I use the Christian Prayer book for morning, evening, and night prayer! So yes, it should work for you :)
Wonderful, exactly what am looking for to deepen my spiritual life.
Good Morning, May I have a link to where you bought your breviary, thank you.
I started out using Christian Prayer and then graduated into the LOTH 4 Volume set.
I have the Christian Prayer book, but I just bought the 4 volume set, and it’s much easier for me.
All I can say is, I am thankful that as a professed Secular Franciscan, one of our promises is to pray the Liturgy of the Hours morning and evening. It was not easy at all, it took me some years, but once I was able to do it, i knew I had a treasure !
does anyone have a list of times or when each is said? no one ever seems to give that
Ii miss the week I am to pray. How do I need to find
These books are so very complicated just to figurer out where to go in the books.. I have had book Four and Christian Prayer, for 3 years . I have tried and tried to understand how to use them.. I have watched many videos and I still just give up because I cand understand how to use them. your video did help but I am still lost. our church does not offer instruction on this problem. But thank you for your video..I your very kind both of you..
Convinced Catholic you tube I found very helpful.
I am only 2 weeks in but I have found there is a learning curve at it gets pretty easy once you get around the curve.
Also . If you get a little confused just flip back to the ORDINARY section and that should get you back on track.
Love iBreviary app..
Good luck with telling people parishioners aren't welcome on Sunday unless they pray the LOH. Most Catholics don't go to church anyway. I started praying using the Word of Fire monthly books, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right. Most Catholics I know haven't heard of it.
Pax! I am an Oblate OSB, Cam.
I prefer still to pray Vigils/ Matins. I am lucky as I wake up for some time around 2:00 / 3:00 am.
I also prefer to pray the traditional Benedictine Opus Day. I cherish giving top priority to the Psalms.
Love Compline!
Excellent discussion. I started praying Night Prayer on the Hallow App about 6 months ago and fell in love with it. My birthday is coming up soon and my wonderful son (whose name is Brandon) asked me what I wanted. I said a set of LOTH books. He ordered them and they arrived yesterday. They're beautiful books and I'm really enjoying learning how to use them. Thank you for this video. I learned so much from watching it. May God bless you both! :)
First time i hear about this and I’ve been a catholic all my life and that would be like 50 years. I got the Christian Prayer one because the cost of it was more affordable then the 4 books.
What is Father Brandon's church website? I thought there might be something on there about the chanted liturgy of the hours. I started the Office awhile back, I'm inconsistent. I try to start my day with simple prayers like the Morning Offering and study and reflection on the Scriptures. Can you do the latter-- reflecting on the Scriptures -- with the Office?🙏💖
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I am so happy that I can also pray the liturgy of the hours because that exercise gives me a greater connection with the Trinity. This gives me a greater conscience connection with God. I think this helps the laypeople so much.
The initial placing of the color coded ribbons is the way to go. Then remember your 4 times table to the psalmody.
Watching this only now! Thank you so much for this wonderful explanation of the Liturgy of the Hours!
What about Universalis in comparison to I breviary
Thank you so much! I am so grateful that I found this video.
Truly enjoyable and engaging discussion.
Is divine office same prayers and format as I Breviary
Excellent. Thank you.
Thank you for this! Will make a difference.
How do I see the books recommended?
Beautiful teaching
. . .more to come ??
Great talk
Very helpful
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Thank you so much!