1. Introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours
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- Welcome! This is an introduction on a series of videos to learn about the Liturgy of The Hours; what it is, why we pray with it, and how to pray with it.
Please pay attention to the playlists!
"Liturgy of the Hours" playlist covers the entire four book set. (11 videos)
"Christian Prayer - Single Book Liturgy of the Hours" covers the SINGLE book version (4 videos)
There is also a comparison of the two formats mentioned above and I close with a complete walkthrough for the "special" occasions of Solemnities, Feasts and Memorials.
"Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary" playlist gives you some info and a general walkthrough of this office (2 videos)
Thank you very much for this. I am a Protestant who wants to become catholic in a few years. This really helps me.
And may you find Holy Orthodoxy a few years after that.
@@mnelson1960may you both come home to the Holy Mother Church.🌷
This is very good. I spent three years in Catholic Seminary and never fully understood the books this well. We did Morning and Evening prayer in the Chapel. Night Prayer was on our own. I still love them. Incredible way to pray. It is worth the effort to learn. Thank you. Bill
Thanks Bill! I hear it's the same way in the permanent diaconate as well.. It was described to me once as they had a bunch of breviaries on the table and everyone had to take one. Then the teacher opened the book and started praying and the students were all confused and flipping pages back and forth trying to figure it out!
Did u finish your coursework?
Even though I prefer the Western Rite Orthodox Benedictine Matins and Monastic Diurnal, I do quite like the Liturgy of the Hours. I would definitely buy the Leather Bound edition if I were to pray these instead of the traditional Benedictine hours.
Your videos are excellent, so you are an advanced layman. Matins is my favorite hour, so definitely I'd have to use the 4 volume set instead of the one volume Christian Prayer.
I think many Catholic laymen will benefit for you videos on the LOTH.
Very good, I appreciate your work on this.
I have been to so many videos to get a real sense of how to pray the Office and this is the best one I have found so far. It has made me very confident I can buy the entire Office and pray it without too much difficulty. I know it takes a lot of time to do well, but I am ready to "dive right in". Thank you so much for sharing these very important tips and tools.
I'm glad it helped! You are going to love it!
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!
Excellent series on the Liturgy of the Hours, very complete and very helpful. I like the logical approach and the very complete explanations. Great stuff.
Thank you! I hope you get as much out of the Divine Office as I do!!
Man! This is thorough. I watched another video on this from the Catholic Company, which was pretty good, but it just didn't get it across well enough for me. I love how you structured this video, to include its history, and the unboxing element is cool to. Im a postulant in a religious order and need to understand the liturgy of the hours better, and this is just what i needed. Thanks for responding to the spirit and making this for us all. On to video 2!
Thanks! I'm glad it's of some use to you! There's a whole bunch of videos, so hopefully you find the rest just as informative!
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😊
This is what I need in my life
Thank you for all your wonderful videos. Really helped me so much. Now i cannot imagine my life without these books. God bless you.
God bless you for taking the time to do this video and share it. I have watched several other videos on the Liturgy of Hours on CZcams and have come away with a headache and a feeling of frustration. Your video is so darn clear! Thank you! I finally am beginning to understand how the Liturgy of the Hours works! Especially helpful is actually opening the books and pamphlets to see what's there. I can't thank you enough. You are an answer to prayer.
Thanks for the kind words! I am always happy to help if you have any specific issues or questions... just ask!
Super cool !!! Loved it. I needed this tutorial. Warmth, gratitude & blessings! 🙏🌹📿🙋♀️
Thank you for this; I've had these books for forever but didn't know how to even go about them.
That's great!! I'm glad you found this useful! I try to answer questions, so just let me know if you get stuck anywhere.
Thank you so much for these videos. I'm still not learned enough to feel comfortable but I know how to pray every hour and I'm starting to have an idea where to flip to. Thank you so much these videos have been a wonderful help!
It gets easier with practice. Stick with it and make it a part of your normal routine.... very satisfying!
Total everyday layperson perspective on this... I love it! Thanks for the vid on this!
Thanks for the feedback! Hopefully you'll find the whole channel of some benefit!
Just bought my set, thanks!!
I was watching your video and rigarding the wording of (Glory to the Father...) it is the new version of the prayer. It was change a few years ago. Most "old" people use that form. I have been praying the office since 1967 mostly in Latin and Italian. Five years ago I switched to the current LOH. Pax et Bonum
Very thorough. Thanks, Chris - may the Lord reward you for all the good work you put into making this series!
Chris, just wanted you to know how much I appreciate your Liturgy of the Hours teaching videos. I have been wanting to pray the Hours for 40 years and just got turned off by the complexity and obviously my personal lack of discipline. Your teaching style and depth of coverage was what I needed to be successful. So happy I found you. You will probably see me going back to your videos over and over....but I am learning. Got the Invitatory and Morning Prayer down pretty well and now moving to the evening prayer. I'd like to do all the Hours but my goal right now is to be consistent in these 3 areas. God's blessing to you and your family and again thanks for helping me!
Thanks for the kind words! I did it out of my own frustration and the hope that I could help others. I always makes me feel blessed to know I've helped others.... and yes, Easter is the toughest season to keep track of!
I'm happy to hear you are taking it slowly and working up instead of rushing in and getting frustrated enough to quit. Stick with it!! It's well worth the internal peace and comfort you will start to experience.
Not sure if I mentioned it in the videos (it's been awhile!), but the St. Joseph's Guide might be worth picking up to double check yourself.. They make them for the 4 volume and 1 volume sets:
www.catholiccompany.com/st-joseph-guide-liturgy-hours-twenty-twenty-i32164/
And if you're just looking for a quick and simple page number guide, a free page guide for just Morning and Evening can be had here:
www.liturgyofthehours.org/todays-pages
I've been using apps for the Liturgy of the Hours for quite awhile, but pray that I will be able to afford to buy my own copies someday. Praying with your phone is not the same as holding the books. Love this series that you've done - so thorough!
Millions of thanks 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
2021. This video is a must watch. My desire to pray with the Church brought me here. Well thanks for thia great effort to share your knowledge. I am about to begin this Advent with my new book Breviary.
From the Philippines!
Thank you a hundred times for this video series. I have to learn to pray this as part of my activities with a third order, and your videos were recommended to me as the best how-to instruction. We are expected to use books at the meetings, why I don't know because it seems like most of the members are using the apps for their daily prayers outside the meetings, and many of the resources telling us how to pray this are way too much into theology and not enough into practical advice. I don't need to be told how to think about Jesus when I read a psalm, I need to be told how to flip around in the book 10 times without going insane.
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 have helped me so much! I have been determined to master this form of prayer and I am succeeding, thanks to your videos. I listen over and over until I get it! I can’t thank you enough!
Thanks for your kind words! I try to answer any questions, so feel free to ask if you need help!
Christopher McNicholas
Question: I am working on Office if Readings. Page 615; Verses. They are said “before the readings to mark the transition from...”
What on the page is my verse?
For example, see today-page 68/69?
What is the Verse? (I wish it was labeled in red)
I hope this isn’t a stupid question. As beautiful as this prayer form is, I feel as though I am learning a different language right now. 🙃
@@evelynellison8515 The verse you are looking for today is on page 859 in the psalter immediately after the last antiphon in the psalms.. I agree, it's not clearly marked but it's the line "I put my trust in the word of the Lord. -- All my hope is in him." It appears directly above the instructions to reference the readings on pg 68/69.
Christopher McNicholas Got it! 😊
You’re a good man for making this video.
Thank you so much for doing these videos. This really helped me to set up my books and to get to grip with them (I probably need to watch them a few times more and then the SOL series that you did.).
I'm glad it's helped you out! Learn those few pages of the Ordinary and you got the bones of the whole thing ready to be fleshed out!
In the videos, I downplayed the "St. Joseph Guide For The Liturgy of The Hours" (or the Christian Prayer version), but I've reversed that thought as I've become more comfortable working with the Liturgy. I don't use the guide much for actual page numbers, but it's been invaluable on finding memorials that are not in the book nor the red 1992 addendum. Today, November 25th is a good example... neither the book nor the addendum have it listed, but the Guide told me that today is the memorial (optional) of St. Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr.
Excellent block of instruction. Good shit, thank you!
God bless you Sir for providing us with your videos. I appreciate the efforts that you have done. It was very helpful and your videos and comments are helpful indeed. Now I know which prayers books to buy in order for me to step up my devotions and prayer life. Your video instructions are the best guide we can find here in YT!
God bless you Sir!
Deo gratias! 🙏🏻
Thanks for the feedback! I'm always thrilled when I find out I helped someone!!
This is AWESOME!! Thank you for doing this. I have always wanted to do the full 4 volume set, for years have been doing the Christian Prayer volume. The priest in my old parish saw that I had the Shorter Christian Prayer book, looked at and said here try this one (Christian Prayer).
I love it, but I always wanted to take on the full set of Hours, but wasn't sure how complicated it would be and you can't find anyone (Priest included) that want to teach this amazing prayer.
God Bless you!
Thanks for taking the time to watch! I'm always willing to help, so don't hesitate if you have a question.. it's been almost two years now, and I've become a wee bit more proficient/confident :-)
Thanks for doing this video series, as you said its difficult to get started.
Hopefully I explained it well enough to get you started! Good luck!
Many thanks, Christopher! It is great to see how universal the Catholic Church and it's liturgy of the hours is. I am German and I looked for a good introduction to the liturgy of the hours in German. But I found nothing satisfactory.... until I stumbled upon your series on CZcams. It is extremely helpful to me, even though I pray the LOH in German with German breviaries. But only the language is different, all the rest - structure, sequence, calendar etc. - is the same using my German language breviary. So, I just follow your instructions... Thanks again for your helpful and thorough introduction. It makes things much easier for me, here in Heidelberg, Germany! 🙂🤝🙏
Thanks for the feedback! We are truly one Church and it amazes me all the time... I'm glad that my videos were useful outside of the U.S.! I'm not familiar with any of the texts outside of the U.S., so I appreciate you letting me know that the structures don't vary and my videos are compatible elsewhere in the world!
Good luck and God bless!
Thanks for doing this video. I thought Liturgy of the hours was only meant for the priests and the nuns. Very thoroughly explained.
It was common practise for the clergy and religious to pray this daily. But the laity was encouraged by the fathers of II Vatican council to take it up.
Very helpful! Thank you.
Thank you
Oh by the way, I got started during 2022 Easter Season; nothing like getting thrown into everything that could change!
I started praying the Liturgy of the Hours about 4 months ago using an app installed on my smartphone. The problem I've found using my phone is the screen makes my eyes tired. But my birthday is coming soon and today I decided to buy the 4 volume book set. I'm very excited to get them. Your video is really helpful because I know I'll need practice finding out how to navigate my new books :)
Congratulations on your choice and happy birthday! I also have the iBreviary app on my phone, but I only use it when my book is not handy and also to check myself for any memorials I may have missed!
Since you are just starting out, pick up a copy of the St. Joseph Guide to help you out until you get more comfortable. If you buy the 4 volume as a complete set, they usually include a free guide. If not, guides can be purchased annually for like $2.50 USD. I think Amazon sellers also have them.
The direct link to the publisher:
catholicbookpublishing.com/product/1589
I found the Liturgy of The Hour mentioned in the Novena of Blessed Imelda prayer (patron saint of First Communion). At the young age of nine years old she was doing the Devine Hour (Liturgy of the Hour) in a covent with nuns whom her parents had allowed the child to be educated and trained by them because the child loved God so much. I found the application on the cell phone called, "Laudate". It is simply organized there. However I am going to start to safe money to invest in the hardback books to own and use. I want them in my home because the internet may become unavailable for weather or cell towers not operating. Not to mention I want to learn the true way of studying, worship, singing, and praying throughout the day with the schedule to help me discipline my soul, mind, heart, etc. for God is so good that I need to commit myself to him. So far I have been using the application coming up on two weeks. The schedule that you share with us that you use I am doing to. I so much from you further and for that I thank you. May God bless you for teaching myself and you viewers, I too a layperson.
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".
Best idea is to build up your collection, get one book once every month.
I tried doing that, but the store was out of the volume I needed for our current week in ordinary time. It was morning, I got up really early to snag one, I was bummed (and may have been a teeny bit cold towards the cashier, Lord have mercy on me) so I just said screw it and bought em all at once. I'm glad too, seeing all these things together in the little stand is beautiful.
Greg The NotGreat eh, you can get them on ebay, however the gold edged ones are pretty nice, but i’m going to be simple and stick to the coloured ones
I usually refer to it as the Brievery or Liturgy of the hours
Please consider a video on Bishop Baron’s monthly LOHs publication. And other publication.
You should do a video on the Little Office of Baltimore
I'm here 😁✌️
I'm at a standstill with my decision. 4 vol set vs the 1 book. Will I pray the whole day? Probably not. Morning/Evening and maybe mid-day. Will I be unhappy with the 1 book? Will I regret the hefty price tag of the 4 vol set? Will the 4 vol set be too confusing for me? Ugh! Also, thank you for all your videos on LotH.
Somewhere in this pile of videos is a comparison vid of the versions. Sounds like the single volume might be your leaning.
Hey Christopher can you tell me what times(like a timeline) to pray the hours? Like I know how to pray them but not sure when to pray them during the day. Thank you so much for teaching me how to pray the LOTH! ❤️✝️
That's really up to your schedule, but I try to stick to a pretty even spread of every three hours:
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer when I get up (5am-6am)
Midmorning - 9am
Midday - 12pm
Midafternoon - 3pm
Evening - 6pm
Night Prayer - 9pm
@@cmcnicholas thank you so much. god bless you
What time do you do the office of readings? Thank you for posting all this information. Well done!
My LOTH books arrive tomorrow. Your videos prompted me to go for it!
Thank you!
Office of Readings can be done at any time. I personally keep it in the order it appears in the LOTH and I perform it before Morning Prayer. I literally go from Invitatory to Office of Readings to Morning Prayer. It usually takes me about 30 - 40 minutes for the whole thing.
@@TROUTBROOKIE Praise God! You will not regret it!
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.
Yes, you would use the texts in the back. There is an interesting read in the link below which includes this nugget:
"This option is the result of another compromise. The experts reforming the Divine Office did not want the Office of Readings to be overly long, so that it would not be a burden to priests charged with pastoral ministry. Some of the experts, however, felt that some, such as contemplative religious and retired priests, might appreciate the ability to observe these more important days in an expanded way. The solution agreed upon was to relegate the material to an appendix of the book and leave it as an option."
adoremus.org/2022/03/the-general-instruction-of-the-liturgy-of-the-hours-speaks-of-a-supplement-optional-lectionary-and-special-appendix-where-are-these-to-be-found/
@@cmcnicholas perhaps I’ll buy the Benedictine Breviary. It has significant patristic material… Pax, J
Unfortunately it is VERY expensive, i don’t think you can even find the whole set in public libraries
true... but have you tried eBay? I see a few used sets hovering around $70 USD. I've also seen individual used volumes on the second hand book market like Thriftbooks and AbeBooks. Just make sure to add the volume number to your search; "Liturgy of the Hours Volume 1", etc.
Can you do a video using the Christian Prayer book?
Check the rest of the collection of videos, i cover that as well as Shorter Christian Prayer!
@@cmcnicholas oh fantastic, I found it! Thanks so much and God bless!
Will these be different than Latin Mass Calendar? Is there a different set that matches up with Latin Mass Calendar?
Nothing in print today. You would have to find a pre-1970 version. You can find a 1942 version online that I found referenced on an anti-Vatican II website : www.essan.org/Main/Liturgy/BreviariumRomanum/breviariumromanum.html
@@cmcnicholas thank you
I’m going to get the 4 book set. Do you feel from Amazon might be risking it regarding fake or issues with print?
I don't think that's a problem. Amazon has a generous return policy I believe. The only problem *might* be a "new-old stock" issue .. the guide booklet that comes with the new set might be a 2021 version. You may have to spend the extra $5 for a 2022 guide
The edition of the Divine Office that your using in your video can this edition be used in Australia as well as America ?
Does not appear so. The first page lists approved conferences... my version covers your neighbors in Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, but Australia appears to be using the UK version: www.amazon.com/dp/0007210892
@@cmcnicholas Thank you for replying , but tell me , I wouldn't think there would be any fundamental difference between the American edition and the one used for Australia, the Liturgy would be the same for both countries, shorely as too the Saint's Days if not , how so? I own the English edition of three volumes and I'm far from happy with it . I find it cramp and the volumes are to bulky. Your edition with its four volumes seems to be layed out and styled more agreeable plus the font is larger. What are your thoughts can the American edition be adapted to work in Australia. I hope you don't mind me asking you as you appear quite knowledgeable upon the subject.
@@anthonysummerfield3702 From what I can tell, you are free to use whatever version you want to, UNLESS you are bound by vows as clergy or religious order. In that case, you would be required to use the officially authorized texts.
@@cmcnicholas As I'm not bound by clerical nor religious law , this is great. Thank you for answering my query I'm very grateful for your help, thanks again.
Where do I find the hymns? I just got my book for Easter.
What's better vinyl or leather?
Should I buy the leather zipper case?
It's really a personal choice as well as a budgetary one. I prefer leather as it historically lasts longer (and I am hoping to not have to replace any volumes due to wear and tear) but it does cost more.
Since I only use one book at a time, I bought a single large leather zip case that can fit my small bible and any one of the LOTH volumes... Again, that's a personal choice.
Does the Breviary have the daily mass reading in them?
No. The Liturgy of the Word at mass is not the same as the Liturgy of The Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is built around the psalms.
Hello, Christopher!
Can I buy your videos so, I can play them without being on youtube? Thanks!
My work is free for everyone, so I wouldn't think about selling anything. It all takes about 8GB... I can throw it on a USB drive for you and mail it if that works... just give me a mailing address via private email and I'll send you one!
@@cmcnicholas What email address should I send my mailing address to? Thanks.
@@lucyvillanueva497 use cmcnicholas@stmarychurchnj.org
@@cmcnicholas Thank you very much, Chris! I will text you tomorrow as we have to do something tonight. I do appreciate very much.
God bless you always! Lucy
Is there an easy method of chanting or singing the hours?
You'd have to try something like: musicalbreviary.com/
I am interested a book of liturgy of the hours how I will get one.
Amazon.com sells them or you can go directly to the source:
catholicbookpublishing.com/
I found mine on ebay from a priests estates sale for 100 dollars.
I’m hurt that you throw it LOLZ Can’t afford HAHAHA
I’m so lost
Kyrie eleison
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Kýrie, eléison (Greek: Κύριε, ἐλέησον) means “Lord, have mercy.” Besides being a statement, the “Kýrie” also is the first sung prayer of the Tridentine Mass.
Surely, you wouldn’t have the time to say all the hours?
You'd be surprised... now that I have more experience with it, each of the 3 day time prayers takes no more than 10 minutes each... equivalence of a smoke break in some parts of the world. It's not about how long it takes, it's about making God the focus of your day and remembering Him throughout it!
Has it made a change in your life and surely you would use your mobile phone when at work instead of a obvious book?
@@The12thSeahorse It *has* made a difference. I am more at peace with myself, and knowing that I have a prayer interval in front of me (or just past), I am more apt to slow down and reign in my temper with others.... it's too embarrassing to me to curse out another person or wish harm on them and then follow that up by praying to the Lord as though I didn't just fail to love my neighbor.
And I do prefer the book. I prefer the tactile feel of it, and when I put it on my desk or carry it somewhere with me, it's a reminder. There is too much distraction for me with the phone. Nothing worse than reading a psalm when a text or email pops up on the screen to ruin my flow. I also believe that some of the apps use different translations than what we use in the U.S., so I prefer to stick with a rarely changing set of print authorized for use in the U.S. dioceses and confirmed by the Apostolic See.
So complicated.
Is that some animal's skin ?
Yes. A deer hide.
Sorry but I think that it's in poor taste.
Is that an animal skin? Are you a hunter?