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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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5dc9bd No.682183

So I recently became a Catholic and a lady at my local Church bought me "A Shorter Evening and Morning Prayer" as a present. Thing is, I have no idea how to use it.

May I have an explanation of how to use this book? Please speak to me like I'm a child as I have no clue whatsoever. Thanks.

f050c2 No.682192

>>682183

Lauds and Vespers traditionally are combinations of hymns, psalms, antiphons, a short reading, and prayers. They are usually divided by the days of the weeks (though the divine office itself is different each day), so Monday Lauds is recited Monday morning and Monday Vespers on Monday evening.

I'm guessing considering its called "shorter", that your book omits most of the minor hours (terce, sext, none, compline, guessing matins as well?). So just pick a time each morning to recite the Lauds, reading aloud the passages, then pick a time in the evening to recite Vespers. You just follow along with the book.


b10c6f No.682193

It's kind of hard to explain over the net and without the book in front of me but let's try.

First of all you should have the Common section, which is split into four weeks (numbered psalm weeks 1 to 4 and which correspond to the modern Roman calender), which you will cycle through for the whole year. This is the basic, unchanging part of the office which shouldn't change. This will be the

>introductory prayer

>possibly a proper hymn

>the psalms of the day

>a short reading and responsory

>the Benedictus in the morning, and the Magnificat in the evening

>possibly some prayers or intercessions (I don't know if your volume does this)

>the concluding prayer

You should then have the Proper of the Seasons section, which should have proper rubrics for Easter, Advent, Ordinary Time etc. which contains antiphons, readings, hyms etc, which you fit into the Common section. So, for advent, a proper festal hymn will be recited in place of the "Ordinary" hymn of the day.

In addition to this, you should also have a Proper of the Saints section, which you will use to swap out some of the seasonal rubrics and replace it with the saint of the day. Not all of the saints are obligatory for some reason, but will just have a commemoration, which means that everythin for a Tuesday should be just the same, but that the concluding prayer will ask for the saint's intercession.

I don't know about your volume particularly, but you might also have an Office of the Dead, too, which works along the same basis.

There is a lot of back and forth in the Divine Office, but you will quickly get used to it as you familiarise yourself with it.

tl;dr - use Universalis, and if what you have in your hands matches what is on this site, you are on the right track.

http://www.universalis.com/index.htm

I don't really like the new office as I think it complicates daily prayer too much, so I stick with the Roman Breviary which is much simpler, but I hope that this helps somewhat


1c8866 No.682253

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What Prayer books do you guys use if any?


5dc9bd No.682393

>>682193

I'm so sorry but I'm still really confused.

Universalis just compounded by confusion. Is there like a guide who or website which breaks it down and explains it section by section with all the terms defined?




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