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Very good, I appreciate your work on this.

How can we purchase this book?

Thank you very much Father Chris! I started praying the liturgy of the hours. Christian prayer back in April. I didn't really know what I was doing, but then I watched your video explaining the Christian prayer procedure and it helped a lot. Even though I was still lost, I bought Shorter Christian Prayer and practiced with the psalter as well as the morning and evening prayers because I wasn't ready to do the full Breviary yet. Now I'm more comfortable with it and have have seasonal devotionals by Professor William G. Storey. Your explanation and guidance is the best I have seen. Thank you, Father Chris.

Thanks for your video. I know that this video was done a while back, but I was hoping that you could answer a couple questions for me. I recently purchased the Christian Prayer book, and first of all, I do not like that the hymns are not there/listed for each day? Also on a feast day or memorial its s bit confusing flipping through the pages. Is the four volume set more straight forward since it is broken up into seasons? Did I hear you correctly, that the hymns are there for each day. I do also have too admit that the CP does feel very cramped, as they are trying to do an All in one?

This was the most in-depth explanation I have been able to find! Thank you so much for these videos. I got started with the Devine Office app before I could get the books. I love the app as it's very portable and can be anywhere my phone is. I did find that the readings on Devine Office is different from what the breviary says. They have readings I can't find in my book. I decided to go with one or the other depending on where I am or what I'm doing. I have to get used to do not worrying about doing it wrong and just doing it. lol. I also found a bunch of the Devine office hymns on spotify. I like to listen to the hymns even if I'm using the book because I like music but I'm completely tone deaf and can't carry a tune. Thanks again and God Bless you and your family.

Unfortunately it is VERY expensive, i don’t think you can even find the whole set in public libraries

I know this is an old video but when you're alone do you read out loud or read it all to yourself or a mix of the two?

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I'm in my first year as a Lay Carmelite. We are obligated to pray morning and evening prayer with the option of night prayer. I just started with the Christian prayer book and I like it but I know as soon as I save up enough money I'll definitely purchase the four-volume set

Pope Paul VI didn't like it, sign me up

I have “approached” the LOTH and the Christian Prayer books about 50 times over the past two years. Each time I sit down, I feel optimistic and determined, find a nice video that promises to help me understand the “recipe,” and within about 30 minutes I have given up. It’s like trying to follow a supposedly simple cookie recipe, except the recipe is impossibly dizzying: You’re going to start by measuring out the flour, baking powder, and other dry ingredients. So, you’ll need 4 cups of flour for this particular recipe, which is for every third Wednesday after a full moon. The 4 cups should be all-purpose flour, unless you’re between the age of 26 and 53, in which case you’ll use whole wheat flour (and on Thursdays this is completely different, but I’ll get to that later, in minute 385,719 of video #16). If you’re male, the whole wheat flour should be organic, and you should mix it 50/50 with pastry flour, unless you’re a redhead. [Redheads should use self-rising flour, but you’ll have to adjust your baking powder by the square root of 1/3 the sum total weight of all ingredients, which you won’t know until you completely finish the recipe, which may never happen.] Females will actually use the same flour, but mix it with the other dry ingredients in a slightly different order, just because. For the baking power, if you wear a 28-34 size belt, you’ll use 1/8 tablesooon less per inch of waistline, and add yellow food coloring just after you mix the dry and wet ingredients. Now, if it’s summer, skip the last 2 steps and go to step 14, but do step 11 after step 23. . . And now I’m just eating really crappy store-bought cookies again.

Thank you

This is helpful, am hoping to be enrolled in the brown scapular next month

Thank you for all these videos. They have helped me quite a bit.

Pope Pius V did not "abolish" any liturgies that were established for over 200 years. Look up his Bull Quo Primum. So the Dominican Little Office, for example, and rite of mass, remained in force after 1570. This also established a principle of how to think about older liturgies. Now people like to say that Pope Paul VI abolished the traditional mass and office but he actually did not abrogate anything, as Pope Benedict explained in his Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Paul VI did ALLOW a suppression of all older liturgies, which amount to him saying that he does not prefer them. Whatever. So it seems that the older (1962 and older) Little Office is still the official prayer of the Church.

7:00 I love this🤣 Thank you for giving us these wonderful guides! God bless you.

I got an old used copy which didn't have any ribbons, so I added a couple. It's easy with a small amount of superglue. The spine has a layer of thick paper between the cover and the page block, so I placed the glued ribbon in the gap between that paper and the page block, and pressed it into place with a toothpick. Don't forget to lightly melt the free ends of the ribbons to prevent fraying (assuming you used polyester ribbon.)

Thank you for the detailed introduction (both in this video and in the whole playlist). My copy arrived in the mail this afternoon and I was feeling rather confused when I tried to set it up without guidance.

I came to knowing of the Divine Office late in life. As an aspiring deacon we were required to learn the practice. As time went by, I came to wonder, "why did I not know about this sooner?" St. Ambrose (lived in the 4th Century and one of the first doctors of the Church wrote this about the book of Psalms: "History instructs us, the law teaches us, prophecy foretells, correction punishes, morality persuades; but the book of psalms goes further than all these. It is medicine for our spiritual health. Whoever reads it will find in it a medicine to cure the wounds caused by his own particular passions. Whoever studies it deeply will find it a kind of gymnasium open for all souls to use, where the different psalms are like different exercises set out before him. In that gymnasium, in that stadium of virtue, he can choose the exercises that will train him best to win the victor’s crown." I have come to understand the practice of the Divine Office is like working out in this gymnasium of which St. Ambrose spoke. It is not just the psalms - but the psalms comprise the majority of it. I appreciate that you promote this "workout".

Thank you for such a thorough explanation. I just started the little office and now I don't feel lost.

Thank you so much for your explenation. This is so helpfull. May the Lord bless you. When I start praying I know now I am not the only one doing it. May know that we are in Christ praying together. Best wishes from Maaike, Living in Amsterdam.the Netherlands.

Thank you for these videos Christopher and welcome home to the Catholic Church! I have searched and searched for a good explanation of how to pray the LOH and came upon your videos last week. They are excellent! Concise, easy to follow, and informative. So, thank you and may God bless you!

I am so glad to have found this video. Thank you for explaining things carefully. My St. Joseph manual didn't come with the prayer card so I had to write them down. I do appreciate you explaining and going through the days of the sections. I'm trying to work hard on my praying cycle.

Still confused! My book is 1867 John Fowler edition. Seems quite a bit different

Fantastic job brother was tired of looking for videos to learn Again fantastic job God bless you

Thank you, Christopher, for creating this entire series! 4 years have gone by and it's still helping people (like me) learn how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours. UIOGD.

My books turned up!!!!

Thank you so much - this is just what I've been looking for! For some time I have felt that God was inviting me to a deeper prayer life, and I wasn't sure how to go about that. When I found out what praying the liturgy of the hours was, it was like the answer to a prayer. I now have my first book - Volume II (Lent & Easter) - and plan to being on Ash Wednesday next week, This group of videos is just what I need. Grace a Dieu!

I came across this book several years ago at a yard sale and picked it up. I have not said these prayers before and was very interested in correctly using the book. This was a good explanation and i made notes! Thank you.

Your disdain for the one volume Christian Prayer is noted. However, its genius is that it includes a hymnal set to musical notation and a music section which includes various psalm tones for chanting the hours and the musical settings for morning and evening prayer. It can be supplemented by the one volume Daytime Prayer which includes the four week cycle and psalter, but the Office of Readings can no longer be supplemented except by recourse to the four volume Liturgy of the Hours since the Daughters of St Paul edition of “The Office of Readings” is no longer in print. That volume included the complete Psalter for the office of readings, and I understand Christian Prayer uses an abridged psalter that is complete for Ordinary Time but does not include the seasonal variations used for Advent, Lent and Easter. It also includes a two year cycle of readings in an appendix, as opposed to the four volume office which has but one year of readings. The two year cycle of readings may be obtained from lulu.com

Because of the meticulous attention you paid to explaining this I now feel emboldened to start saying these prayers independently. Was introduced to them on retreat but didn't know how to start by myself. Currently doing them with an app, but very much looking forward to my books turning up in time for Lent. I cannot thank you enough. This was exactly what I needed.

Thank you. God bless you, brother.

I have shorter “Christian prayer” but I really want to buy “Christian prayer” do you think it’s worth it?

Thank you for all your wonderful videos. Really helped me so much. Now i cannot imagine my life without these books. God bless you.

Hey Christopher, I’m not from jersey so I’m not buying from jersey so put that in your pipe, anyway thanks for the suggestion . Buy the way I like your style this has been extremely helpful.

You're right, clear as mud. However, will persevere with both, and thank you. I shall just repeat the videos, and hopefully it will sink in.

As far as I can tell with Shorter Christian prayer the psalter says the concluding prayer will be in the proper seasons for evening prayer, morning prayer and evening prayer two for this Sunday. Yet morning prayer is the only one that seems to have a conclusion prayer. Very confusing.

Awesome videos.

Christopher could you do the Office of Readings (Matins) as a stand alone in the One volume Christian Prayer? Once I get past the OoR Psalms and Psalm prayer it says use Readings sprayer from Office of the Day. The morning and evening each have a reading but no patristic or hagiographic reading? Can you cover this…. Do I just use Biblical and non-biblical texts in back of volume? Thanks, Pax.

Is the office of the dead asked to be prayed during the Octave of Christmas or do i need to wait until after the Octsve of Christmas? I have had 2 friends pass away in the past 2 days, I've was a coworker and one was my softball coach. Also Mary i am that you pray for me, i currently have covid.

Hi! Just wanted to give an update on the app. They’ve updated the app already over the years. Its much more streamlined now. All the complementary psalters are put to the back, so you can basically just read through your whole thing quite easily. I use the app primarily because the actual hardcopy breviary is difficult to get where I’m from (malaysia) and its very expensive. But ideally, we should use the book. Because our phones are not exactly consecrated for prayer alone.

I watched the whole series. Thank you! This is the most comprehensive tutorial on this prayer i found on youtube. The demonstrations for each hour really helped😊

Great videos. Thank you for your service to our Lord. These will be a great help to many people. According to the GILH section 81, if you pray only one daytime hour, you use the psalms found in the four-week psalter. If you pray all three daytime hours, you use the four-week psalter for one of the three hours and you use the complementary psalmody for the other two. Also, if at the end of the psalter for daytime prayer it states, at the other hours use I and III from the complementary psalmody, it is because one or two of the psalms in II will be in the four-week psalter for that day’s evening prayer. (See Volume I, pages 952-954). The GILH Section 113 hints that “each psalm retains its own antiphon.” That is the only mention or hint of the single antiphonal situation that occurs for example in the daytime prayers for Advent and also in the canticles provided for the Vigils in Appendix I. My thought is to use the one antiphon for each psalm or each canticle so that “each psalm retains its own antiphon.” But my reasoning is not totally satisfactory because of the word “own”Unfortunately the GILH is not clear on this situation. I love the Liturgy of the Hours. Thank you for your work in promoting this prayer of the church. Also one of my favorite things is that the Our Father prayer is not written in full anywhere in the four volume Liturgy of the Hours.

I know someone that just received the last rites on Saturday, would it be appropriate for me to pray the office of the dead

To be fair the title of this video is introduction. Not surprising it’s confusing to point to a different intro video.

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This is the book I'm using.

MATINS the Morning Service and than the 1st hour is read at 6.00, the 3rd at 9.00, 6th at 12.00, 9th at 3.00pm. Than Vespers and after dinner Compline. There is also the Midnight Service at Midnight. Holy and Divine Liturgy (Holy Mass) should be celebrated between the 3rd and 6th hour. If there is no Liturgy (Mass) another Service can be read.

Hi, I have a question, should I kneel when reciting Little Office?

I use the shorter Christian prayer book. I'm not sure it has much less than Christian prayer. I use it for Night Prayer. I've also used it for morning prayer. But i don't have much more time. It's not my only devotional practice and my job is pretty busy.