Let your household so sleep in peace that at the dawn of a new day they may, with joy, waken in your name. Dominic, who both at home and on the road, day and night, remained diligent in offering Mass and praying the Divine Office with great devotion. In your mercy, Lord, dispel the darkness of this night. The Church promotes the practice of inviting the faithful “to celebrate the principal hours in common, especially on Sundays and holy days” (GILH 23). Save us, Lord, while we are awake protect us while we sleep that we may keep watch with Christ and rest with him in peace. “In the liturgy of the hours, the Church, hearing God speaking to his people and recalling the mystery of salvation, praises him without ceasing by song and prayer and intercedes for the salvation of the whole world” (Code of Canon Law, 1173).
We pray this prayer of the Church not for ourselves only, but for the entire Church and for all of humanity, united with all the faithful around the world. Each hour has its own particular character ordered to the time of day thus Lauds focuses on praise, while Vespers is chiefly a prayer of thanksgiving. Roman Pontifical, Rite of the Ordination of Deacons). The Church considers two of these hours, Lauds (Morning Prayer) and Vespers (Evening Prayer), to be the two “hinges” of the Liturgy of the Hours. The Roman Pontifical reads: Are you resolved to maintain and deepen a spirit of prayer appropriate to your way of life and, in keeping with what is required of you, to celebrate faithfully the Liturgy of the Hours for the Church and for the whole world (Cf. ‘Seven times a day I praise you.’ Ps 119.164 Morning & Evening Prayer comprising the complete Morning, Evening and Night prayers from the Divine Office Shorter Morning & Evening Prayer comprising the. We pray at seven different hours of the day. This prayer, which is called the Liturgy of the Hours, or the Divine Office, is intended to overflow into the rest of daily life, enabling us to “consecrate to God the whole cycle of the day and the night” (General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, 10). Eventually this led to a set cycle of hours, or fixed times for praying the Psalms. But you have pulled my soul out of the pit of destruction, you have put all my sins behind you. I twitter like a fledgling sparrow, make noises like a dove.
Rather like Los Angeles, it was a sprawling mixture of races and creeds and it was a byword for the violence of its. Alexandria was the largest city in the ancient world. He entered a monastery, became a priest and in 412 succeeded his uncle as Bishop of Alexandria. ‘Indeed, nothing is to be preferred to the work of God.’ – The Rule of Saint Benedict 43.3įollowing the practice of the Jewish people, the apostles met to pray the Psalms at particular hours, and this was taken up by the early Church. From morning to night, you have made an end of me. Second Reading: St Cyril of Alexandria (370 - 444) Cyril was born in 370. We are taught in Scripture to pray always, and we see that Christ Himself set aside particular times to pray.
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