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May 16th, 2012 at 06:03
@Jan
Thank you!
May 15th, 2012 at 20:39
Will the Bibles,(RSVCE) be available soon on Android. Let me know. thanks
May 15th, 2012 at 12:31
The audio and text for Daytime Prayer do not agree again today. Text appears to be correct. Please don’t shoot the messenger!
J
May 14th, 2012 at 20:06
I wanted to pray with this.
It says free audio.
I don’t know face book or twitter
I cannot figure out how to get the audio
please let me know
thank you
I used to come here but it has changed and I need help
May 13th, 2012 at 07:42
I see that congratulations are in order for Divine Office.com receiving recognition as the Best Catholic Website, Pod cast and Mobil App. You done good! I am happy for all the folks who work so hard to put this together. I love it.
May 12th, 2012 at 09:31
What are the particular/Traditional times during which the Hours are commonly Prayed ?
May 11th, 2012 at 06:16
@Nljonesflame
monica@divineoffice.org. Thank you for your contribution!
To me
May 11th, 2012 at 05:46
The music for today is beautiful! But the English translation is not as accurate and as clear as it could be. Where can I send an edited translation that you may potentially consider if you use this music again?
May 10th, 2012 at 10:58
@The Cathoholic
In the interest of our community, temporarily, our Catholicpedia App is unavailable for purchase, therefore the link is not functional. Our current release has a few shortcomings and we are working hard to resolve all of them. Thank you for your interest!
May 10th, 2012 at 02:21
@Monica The iTunes link you provided for the Epistle to Diognetus is not downloadable in the U. S. iTunes Store.If you have another link to it, I would appreciate you posting it.
May 9th, 2012 at 06:50
@jan thank you for telling us about the daytime prayer issues. They have been corrected.
May 9th, 2012 at 04:19
@Dave
To answer your question I’m quoting from Catholicpedia: The Original Catholic Encyclopedia (1917) for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. s.v. “Epistle to Diognetus”
This beautiful little apology for Christianity is cited by no ancient or medieval writer, and came down to us in a single manuscript which perished in the siege of Strasburg (1870). The identification of Diognetus with the teacher of Marcus Aurelius, who bore the same name, is at most plausible. The author’s name is unknown, and the date is anywhere between the Apostles and the age of Constantine. It was clearly composed during a severe persecution. The manuscript attributed it with other writings to Justin Martyr; but that earnest philosopher and hasty writer was quite incapable of the restrained eloquence, the smooth flow of thought, the limpid clearness of expression, which mark this epistle as one of the most perfect compositions of antiquity.
May 9th, 2012 at 01:51
Who is the author of the second reading in the Office Of Readings for May 9, 2012?
May 8th, 2012 at 12:43
Today’s daytime prayer is messed up too. The first psalm was the same as the text, but the next one is not. Don’t have time to listen to the rest. Going somewhere else and will try again tomorrow.
(Ebreviary.com agrees with your text. Brings up another question, though. Someday can we have Easter hymns with the little offices?)
Jan
May 8th, 2012 at 02:06
@Dane, can you give us the links to the Te Deum? “Te Deum” at Amazon gives over 3,300 mp3 hits..
May 7th, 2012 at 17:13
The audio and the text of the psalmody for Midday Prayer do not agree today.
May 6th, 2012 at 20:43
@SteveRogers You and a few others have been asking so I just uploaded our Te Deum to iTunes and Amazon.com. It should be available in a couple of days. Thanks for asking.
May 6th, 2012 at 08:27
How can I get a copy of the TE DEUM being sung?
Thanks
May 5th, 2012 at 12:22
the Night Prayer and the Mid Morning and Mid afternoon are not feeding on the RSS, please help
May 3rd, 2012 at 08:00
I really have to share this story with you. I am a convert of 8 years, and I have privately celebrated the Divine Office off and on all those years, but struggled with regularity in my vocation as a SAHM. Your website, coupled with setting alarms on my PC, has solved the problem and allowed me to truly work and pray, as I do dishes, laundry, and fulfill my vocation.
So, my little ones are getting very used to your voices. My youngest are just over a year old twins, mostly nonverbal. But when they hear your intro music, they have been known to open their mouths and sing along the most adorable “Alleluias.” Thank you for helping me nurture the next generation in their faith, and truly make our home a “domestic church.”
May 3rd, 2012 at 06:27
How great this ministry is to all of us that SO need God’s word! God bless your ministry!
May 2nd, 2012 at 19:25
I enjoy the apps for Lauds, Vespers, and Evening Prayer. With the easy access to these prayers you have brought me closer to the Lord. Please develop the iphone app for daytime prayers. Thank you very much!
May 2nd, 2012 at 07:22
Well done. Keep up the good work.
May 1st, 2012 at 08:57
1st, thank you for everything! I use this site and the app on my phone when I travel.
I noticed that the Invitatory this past Sunday was for Virgins, not the proper for Eastertide. Sundays should normally trump, unless it’s a local Solemnity, e.g.
Also, I noticed that the red “Ant.” pops up a lot in some psalms while doing the office. Not sure if this a bug?
God bless!
April 30th, 2012 at 13:00
@GarzaR They are on our system, but you are right they are not in the RSS Feed so they aren’t on our apps ether. They will be there in 5 minutes.
April 30th, 2012 at 11:54
Is it just me or are Midmorning/Midafternoon Prayers missing? I tried to find them through iTunes & RSS Feed but couldn’t.
April 29th, 2012 at 09:44
@Alessandre We have the Canticle of Zechariah recited in a number of ways so you will hear it in the ways you don’t favor. I am going to make a note to create a much better version to make it easier to recite.
April 29th, 2012 at 09:42
@mmfollbaum We celebrate all Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials together at Divine Office. We usually do not celebrate Optional Memorials and Commemorations. Peter Chanel’s day is an Optional Memorial. You may elect to celebrate this saint and you would be correct in doing so, but celebration is optional. There will be a day when we can provide that option to everyone, but we are not there yet.
April 28th, 2012 at 09:07
Thank you for restructuring the Song of Zechariah. It is much easier to choose & follow one voice while praying antiphonally. Thank you so much for the ministry you provide.
April 28th, 2012 at 04:27
Should we be using the feast day readings of Peter Chanel today? And the common of one martyr? I’m fairly new to this. God bless! Michele
April 28th, 2012 at 03:58
I read that you are trying to follow the loth and that is why I don’t understand why the prayers like in morning prayer today is not the same as in volume II. I have noticed that in previous days this year. And by the way, I’m not upset, I’m just curious. I also read that people get upset at you guys which is incomprehensible to me. We are SO BLESSED TO HAVE THIS WEBSITE!!!!! And still have the freedom to access it, although I don’t know for how long the way things are going in this my adopted country.
April 27th, 2012 at 12:33
Hannah -
Thank you. Enjoyed the hymn – very Slavik! – and really enjoyed the pictures on the website – that’s some coffin! Thanks for passing it on.
J
April 27th, 2012 at 04:31
@nigelgreenx
, that will lead you to Amazon.com.
To what office are you referring to? Is it the Evening Prayer hymn? In the text after the lyrics you will find a link, disguised as text
Monica.
April 27th, 2012 at 00:31
I had asked this before but received no response. My inquiry was about the possibility of adding the Vigils found in Appendix I of the Divine Office to the celebration of Office of Readings on Solemnities, Feasts and Sundays.
April 26th, 2012 at 07:45
I am really enjoy the app on my Kindle Fire – wonderful music, for the most part! This has added a whole new dimension to my daily prayer. Even my husband, who prays using the regular 4 volume set and is a bit “old-fashioned”, is somewhat jealous! However, I saw a glaring error on today’s morning reading and as a certified music “snob” just couldn’t let it pass.
EVERYONE knows that “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” was written by Johann Sebastian Bach. How could you get it so wrong? Signed, A Classical Musician
April 25th, 2012 at 17:13
Can these be printed for a small group use?
April 25th, 2012 at 14:31
The download links do not seem to be working.
They play the office instead of downloading the file.
Has something been changed? I never had a
problem before . . .
Thank you for this wonderful web site!
Sr. Marguerite, l.s.p.
April 25th, 2012 at 09:40
Would it be possible to have some sung prayers on your site so they can be heard/prayed more often? I am thinking about two in particlular: Te Deum and Daniel’s Canticle (3:57-88, 56). If you set up a library, I am sure people will have other suggestions.
April 24th, 2012 at 22:37
Tuesday 24th April Hymn seems to be accurate lyrics except the final sentence is repeated. Gorgeous BTW where can I get the sheet music?
April 24th, 2012 at 12:41
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! What a treasure I have found!!
April 24th, 2012 at 09:03
Jan – I just happened to come across a video of that song attributed to St. Adalbert, “Boga-Rodzica”. I hope this link works:http://nobility.org/2012/04/23/adalbert-of-bohemia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NobilityAndAnalogousTraditionalElites+%28Nobility+and+Analogous+Traditional+Elites%29
If not, just type in the above. It’s actually a Polish song sung when going to war. It’s sung in Polish, but the lyrics are in English. I hope this works for you.
April 24th, 2012 at 04:37
I really enjoyed yesterday’s hymn for Morning Prayer, “Open My Eyes” performed by St. Monica Church Choir. I know you usually link if there is an opportunity to purchase, but I thought I would ask anyway.
I would love a recording of this. Thank you for everything you do! Your app has changed my life. God bless, Michele F.
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:38
I believe I commented on the “wield” vs “yield” error a long time ago, but I suspect the problem is that it is not as easy to correct an audio error as one in print.
April 23rd, 2012 at 12:28
We need to find a recording of “Boga-Rodzica” to honor St. Adalbert, the patron saint of my uncle and Grandfather!
April 23rd, 2012 at 04:59
@gillis226: Follow-up. I wrote “I did listen.” I meant to write “I did not listen.”
April 23rd, 2012 at 04:50
@gillis226: Re: your comments about the mispronunciation of “wield”. I did listen to the audio of the one you are talking about. But I do know that one of the readers commonly pronounces words like “wield, shield”, etc., as “willed, shilled”, etc. When I first heard it, I wrote about it. After a while and now having heard it quite a few times, it finally occurred to me that this is just the reader’s accent from wherever he is from, so I just ignore it. And the should quality of my laptop sometimes makes a “sh” sound where none exists.
April 22nd, 2012 at 17:36
Dear Sir;
Today for the Evening prayer, Psalm 110, the cantor seems to have misread the text. It sounds like he is singing “yield” when the word should be “wield”, with a “w”.
Thanks for this site and thanks to all who sing and recite. If this were a minor thing, I wouldn’t bother, but I think it is a significant difference.
Cordially,
Teresa
April 19th, 2012 at 14:19
Are we allowed to sing either “Salve Regina or Regina Caeli” at the end of Vespers. We know that these Marian hymns have their place at the end of Compline.
April 19th, 2012 at 09:40
I would like to have the Divine Office on my Laptop instead of a phone. Is it possible? Thanks.
Anil
April 19th, 2012 at 05:22
I seem to recall a recent Facebook post from you stating that you would begin using the new translation of the Confiteor. However, yesterday’s Night Prayer still used the old version?
Thanks again for all that you do.
JG
April 19th, 2012 at 02:38
Help! I can’t find the music you used for Morning Prayer today; “Hallelujah” by Birgitta Lindsey. The website you mentioned does not exist and a Google search did not provide any results. BTW – thank you so much for this site and the work you do! I use your iPhone app, podcast and this website on a daily basis. Look for a donation from me!
Peace!
April 17th, 2012 at 20:34
I do love your app. It’s great to have my Divine Office with me where ever I am. I belong to a lay association in which we often recite evening prayer together. We often have a problem with the hymn in the app not matching that in the hard copy sets.
Why is that? Can it be remedied? I am much less interested in the musical version of the hymn than in the words of the same hymn that is in the hard copies.
Thank you for your help.
April 17th, 2012 at 03:43
Dane: Thanks for the quick response. I just sent in a donation to cover my use of your website. I will send in a donation everytime I hard copy your stuff. Our men’s group meets approximately once a month. Thanks for your quick response and all your help.
God Bless!!!
April 17th, 2012 at 01:38
I was wondering if you had given any further consideration to my earlier inquiry about the possibility of adding Vigils to Office of Readings on Sundays, Solemnities and Feasts. Thank you.
April 16th, 2012 at 21:56
What a pleasant surprise this morning to hear Cappella Musicale Pontificia “Sistina”. Grazie mille!
Stefano
April 16th, 2012 at 19:01
@BigE We don’t mind you doing so, but we are not the original copyright holders so we don’t have a final say. I will say that our license allows us to publish the free content for free, which is what you used, and the content for which we charge, such as our apps, we ourselves pay royalties/license fees. We personally hope people will do what you did because we think it benefits the copyright holders because those who are exposed will eventually purchase something from the copyright holders and they will be compensated. The resource I do like most is http://ebreviary.com/. They will work with you so it will be free or cost almost nothing. They are excellent folks, just tell them exactly what you want to do and they will accommodate it. Another option is for you to make a small (and I mean very small) donation to us and send us a message on how you used the materials and then it will all be fine with us. We will send the donation in as a royalty payment. You must not resell it and you must give us attribution and include the ICEL copyright information you find at the bottom of everyone of our posts.
April 16th, 2012 at 18:42
Quick question. I am a Deacon who copied one of your evening prayers to a hard copy to use at one of our men’s fellowship meetings. I was scolded by one of the pastoral associates and told that I could get in legal trouble for doing so. Is that true? I admit to being pretty ignorant of copyright laws. So if that is indeed the case, my apologies. For future reference, can you tell me what it is ok and not ok to do relative to using your wonderful website as a resource. Thanks for the great website and for your very blessed ministry.
Peace,
Deacon Eric
April 16th, 2012 at 06:02
Thanks for your prompt reply Dane. I restarted as you suggested and all is well. God bless you and your ministry.
I hope you consider my suggestion in the comments section. I would love to see a page on divineoffice.org where we can get to know the people we pray with (the prayer readers) each day.
April 16th, 2012 at 05:36
@FLJIM560 work on our servers caused the problem. You need to turn your device off and back on or kill the app and restart it. Sorry.
April 16th, 2012 at 04:42
I LOVE THE D.O. APP! While I usually read along, it wouldn’t be the same without the audio. The audio serves as a nice reminder of all who are praying with us. I would love to put a name and face with the wonderful voices of those who provide content. Perhaps you could add a page to this site. All the readers/prayers are wonderful. I am particularly struck by the genuine passion in the voice of the woman who usually reads all the Concluding Prayers as well as the First Reading in each day’s Office of Readings.
Alas, my iPhone app only downloaded the Invitatory and the Office of Readings today. I have a support ticket in. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.
April 15th, 2012 at 07:28
I was blessed the day that I found this mission project through iTunes. It has changed me and I am grateful. I let anyone, who will listen, know about this wonderful tool of prayer. Peace.
April 15th, 2012 at 06:01
It would be great if the psalm or canticle numbers or sources from where the readings are taken from, would be mentioned. Particularly the psalms and/or canticles.
Also if more recitation rather than singing is done. I appreciate the vocal/singing talents but sometimes they do sound very piercing and I have to turn off my headset and revert back to my book format.
OTherwise, great work and keep it up!
April 14th, 2012 at 14:53
All is well. I turned the Kindle off and on again, everything then appeared.
April 14th, 2012 at 04:33
I have the app for my Kindle Fire and yesterday the day’s prayers were missing Midmorning and Afternoon prayers. Today and tomorrow are completely blank! Help? (Otherwise, I have been so pleased with the app.) God bless, Michele F.
April 14th, 2012 at 01:24
First of all, thank you for aiding my prayer life with your ministry. may I ask a question? Vigils are a part of the Divine Office. have you ever considered adding the Canticles and Gospel Readings to enrich the Celebration of the Office of Readings on Sundays, solemnities and feasts?
April 13th, 2012 at 04:52
To Catholoholic and any others interested in Kindle formatting:
I use a simple approach -
1. Create a new document in Microsoft Word with the following page margins:
Top: 0.5″
Bottom: 4.0″
Left: 1.0″
Right: 2.0″
Gutter: 0″
Gutter position: Left
Header: 0.5″
Footer: 0.5″
2. Enter whatever text you wish to save to your Kindle device.
3. Save the document as a *.PDF file.
4. Upload the PDF document to your Kindle device.
Good luck!
April 12th, 2012 at 18:31
Why doesn’t my night prayer show the text of the psalms, reading, or canticle? It used to, but for the past two or three days no text just citations. Please advise. Thanks, Robin
April 12th, 2012 at 02:10
@Charles Demmers, can you tell me how you formatted the materials for you Kindle? I too have a horrendous time trying to navigate the DO website using my K3 browser. DO does had a Kindle option, but only for the Kindle Fire, not for other models.
April 11th, 2012 at 17:59
Thank you for this great resource!
April 11th, 2012 at 14:42
To Dane, Monica, and all the volunteers at Divine Office: thank you again for your ministry, and wishing you continued blessings of the Easter season. You do a tremendous job providing this online opportunity to participate in the prayer of the Church, and for which I am grateful.
I have noticed, though, that at Night Prayer (Compline) this week, no particular antiphon to the Blessed Virgin Mary has been specified. By way of history there had been a set rotation of four Marian hymns to be said at the conclusion of Compline during different seasons throughout the year. The revision of the LOTH in 1971, however, allowed that not only more Marian hymns could be added (by a conference of bishops) to Night Prayer in addition to the traditional four, but also that the selection of the Marian hymn to be said was left open to choice–except during the Easter season. I bring to your kind attention that in the section on Night Prayer (#92) of the General Instruction, it states, “Finally one of the antiphons in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary is said. In the Easter season this is always to be the Regina caeli.” I am unaware of any pronouncement since 1971 that supersedes this instruction, but if I am mistaken, please forgive me. Thank you, again.
April 11th, 2012 at 08:07
I’m about to go on a week long retreat and updated my prayers and found that the night prayer no longer has the text just the Chapter and verse for the psalms. I was planning on not taking my Christian Prayer book. Is this a permanent change? Liked being able to prepare for bed with just my phone. Now I’ll need my CP book or my phone with a Bible.
April 11th, 2012 at 06:04
For Wednesday in the Octave of Easter
CONCLUDING PRAYER for Office, Morning and Evening TEXT should be:
God our Father,
On this solemn feast you give us the joy of recalling the rising of Christ to new life.
May the joy of our annual celebration bring us to the joy of eternal life.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever
– Amen.
April 10th, 2012 at 20:15
Hi, HAPPY EASTER.
About a month ago I purchased the Divine Office App for my iPad. I was able to use it for a week or so. Then it just stopped suddenly. I wonder why?
I did not inform you right away because my sister (i used her credit card) has not received the billing. I thought that there was a problem in billing. Now, she was already charged.
May I know if I still have to buy some more Apps before I can use it again? Though there was no mention of any other Apps.before it can be used. Besides I have used it for a number of days already.
Waiting for your reply.
Thank you,
Lolit
April 10th, 2012 at 14:20
@Charles Demers
Thank you and a blessed and happy Easter to you! I made the correction of the text you mentioned. Feel free to contact me directly at monica@divineoffice.org if there are more text issues in the future.
Welcome to the Divine Office community!
Monica.
April 10th, 2012 at 13:13
A blessed and happy Easter to you!
Thank you for this resource. I own a printed, 4 volume set of Liturgy of the Hours. I also have the single volume, Christian Prayer, which I formerly used.
In preparation for some personal travel, I “googled” Divine Office and found your wonderful materials. I have captured the pertinent dates and reformatted them for upload to my Kindle device. (You may wish to consider a Kindle-compatible option for sale on your Website.)
My prime reason for messaging:
Your Canticle scripture reference for Friday, 27Apr12 needs review/correction. The text comes from Jeremiah 14:17-21 (that concurs with the printed Liturgy of the Hours). However, your online header lists the Canticle as Isaiah 40:10:10-17.
Charles Demers
April 10th, 2012 at 09:29
Where can I find a recording of the Te Deum that you sing? I would like to download a copy to listen to.
Thanks,
Steve
April 9th, 2012 at 09:12
I apologize, it’s my ears and my eyes that don’t seem to be matching. I’m not sure how I missed that.
Very well, carry on.
Christopher
April 9th, 2012 at 09:08
Dane & community,t
A most Happy and Blessed Easter to you.
I wanted to alert you that the hymn doesn’t match the lyrics for this mornings morning prayer.
Thank you for all that you do and God bless you,
Christopher
April 9th, 2012 at 02:19
I have purchased the Divine Office app for my Android phone. Do I need to purchase another license for My Kindle Fire which is also android based? I only am using one at a time.
April 8th, 2012 at 16:41
Where can I Get the chant notation for the te deum that you sing? (Easter Sunday). Thanks.
April 8th, 2012 at 05:53
@Dane, the Easter Sunday Morning Concluding Prayer text and audio are different. Both are great prayers but not the same. I don’t own a copy of the Liturgical books, so I don’t know which is correct.
April 8th, 2012 at 01:08
@ocarm001 are you still having issues reading the screen? I believe, but am not sure, that this was corrected when we fixed a problem with the tabs not linking to the different Hours in each day. Please let me know. If you need help then you should open a help ticket on our support site at http://Support.DivineOffice.org.
April 7th, 2012 at 07:04
I am not Catholic, but I found about the Divine Office app on the iPad through SQPN and started using it about a year ago. I read the daily reading and at least one of the daily prayers (usually the night prayer) each day. Those days for what ever reason I don’t I feel lost as if I missed something important that day. So I would like to thank you for putting in the effort you do.
April 7th, 2012 at 05:09
@Dane, the Invititory link tab still does not work on the Comments page. It works on all other pages. I have reported this on at least two occasions in the past, both here and on the Get Satisfaction site. Not a complaint. Just an observation. God bless you all.
April 6th, 2012 at 22:08
Okay, this isn’t really for DivineOffice.org, but there seem to be a lot of folks out there who comprehend the General Instructions better than I. How come when I went to pray Evening Prayer this evening (by myself on a bench by the lagoon, not on-line), Christian Prayer said “Evening Prayer is said only by those who do not participate in the celebration of the Lord’s passion”. As if!!!
A similar comment appeared for Holy Thursday. I Googled and found some references that talked about Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgies beginning with Vespers implying that the are included in the liturgies celebrated in Church. Anyone know just what that is all about? Does it really mean that I SHOULD NOT pray Vespers having just come from the Commemoration of the Lord’s Passion or is it just that I NEED NOT pray Vespers? Does someone know of a discussion group where this type of question might be more appropriate than on this busy website, which seems to be attended by people who have a much better idea of the workings of the LOTH than I do?
As the Deacon said this afternoon in his homily, “This is Friday but Sunday is coming.” A Joyful Easter to all!
April 6th, 2012 at 10:36
We have corrected the problem with clicking on the tabs on our website. Thanks for letting us know about the problem everyone!
April 6th, 2012 at 09:16
I had the same problem as Kevin with the prayers not appearing when clicked. This started on Holy Thursday. I tried Kevin’s way of accessing the prayers and it worked. Thanks for the helpful hint, Kevin.
God bless all who work to keep this wonderful site available to us. I told my priest about this site and he thanked me for telling him. He said he now loves to listen to the music and readings and pray in unison. So tell your priests this site exists. They don’t all know about it. Peace in Christ, Ellen
April 6th, 2012 at 07:43
Yes that big blank box has been a bit of hindrance. During Office of Readings, it was right in the middle of the Letters to the Hebrews. I went to my USCCB bookmark for “Books of the Bible” and read it from there.
To Dane and all the wonderful volunteers, God bless you during this Easter Triduum and Season. You have been a real tool during this Lenten Season. Pax, et bonum, Sylvia
P.S. Your reflections have been very enlightening. I’m glad you are using good sources.
April 6th, 2012 at 05:22
New on this site, and happy to be accepted into this community…just wondering…is the sermons of the saints (readings by the saint of the day) included with the Liturgy of the Hours….thank you and God Bless
April 5th, 2012 at 22:36
@sfoster2997 the concluding prayers are often from the Collect Prayer from Mass and when they are we use the new English translations, which are not in your books.
April 5th, 2012 at 22:07
@Evelyn
Sorry for the confusion. I used the term ‘symbolizes literal death’ because Jesus was still on earth, eg, the Passion had yet to occur. As for ‘separating from individuality,’ my intent was to echo the 2008 homily about the sacrificial nature of service and a walk in Christ. Feedback is always helpful…thank you.
April 5th, 2012 at 19:53
I follow along fine but in morning prayer I cannot locate the concluding prayers you use. as example April4th
April 5th, 2012 at 13:42
Evelyn:
The Gloria IS proper today, Holy Thursday. We get to sing the Gloria at Mass with great energy and great joy! I have missed it and will miss it again tomorrow. Came across this tradition while I was on Google looking for an Easter bell for my Granddaughter:
At the evening Mass, after the bells ring during the Gloria, they are rung no more until the Easter Vigil (a wooden clapper called a “crotalus” is used insead). Parents explain this to their children by saying that the all the bells fly to Rome after the Gloria of the Mass on Maundy Thursday to visit the Popes. Children are told that the bells sleep on the roof of St. Peter’s Basilica, and, bringing Easter eggs with them, start their flight home at the Gloria at the Easter Vigil, when when they peal wildly.
That’s so neat. I like it much better than the Easter BUNNY! Have a blessed Triduum and a HAPPY Easter!
April 5th, 2012 at 10:44
Sorry to keep complaining but again at midday prayer we have the Gloria which is not to be sung until after the Easter proclamation.
April 5th, 2012 at 10:37
I noticed in the piece “About today. Holy Thursday” it states “Symbolizes the literal death” also “He separates himself from His individuality” There is nothing symbolic about the Eucharist. He separates His body from His blood which means death. It seems that whoever wrote this does not believe that the Eucharist is the true body, blood, sould and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
April 5th, 2012 at 07:04
This week I have been having issues with reading the screen on my pc. A big blank box shows up in the middle and I can’t see the words. Today it showed both in the Invitatory and Morning prayer. Last night it showed up in evening prayer. It is random as to where it shows in the screen. Thanks for all you do! God bless you.
April 4th, 2012 at 17:16
@jan. If that happens again, under Format in Word, select Styles/Formatting. A new box will pop-up to your right. Select Clear Formatting. This should remove the reverse type and web layout. Thanks for your comments.
April 4th, 2012 at 12:09
@Dane Thanks. Consider it done.
April 4th, 2012 at 11:11
I have a Sony Reader Wi fi and would like to be able to download your apps to it. Is this possible?
April 3rd, 2012 at 21:30
@michael thanks for asking for permission. Feel free to tweet pieces of the LOTH. It would be great if once in awhile you included a link to us.
April 3rd, 2012 at 09:50
Is it okay to tweet bits and pieces of the LOTH?
April 2nd, 2012 at 22:56
@jan you are fine to use any of our material for personal use. If you have a request or an idea that will help others then please leave your suggestion in the “Feedback & Support” area. Thanks.
April 2nd, 2012 at 22:54
Please be sure to open a support ticket using the link called “Feedback & Support” or go directly to http://Support.DivineOffice.org to get help with problems or if you have suggestions. This will give you much better results then leaving comments here and helps us focus on your specific needs. Thanks for understanding.
April 2nd, 2012 at 19:37
Never mind. It’s working better. Or I’m working better.
April 2nd, 2012 at 13:46
I have had a problems with the Kindle app and have had to uninstall and reinstall each of the last two days. Is this peculiar to me or are others having similar problems.
I’ve come to rely on the app so much that I haven’t brought my breviary with me to church for morning prayer and the app let me down.
April 2nd, 2012 at 12:31
I love the commentaries especially for Holy Week. What great challenges they offer – much more than I can digest in 24 hours! I would like to print the whole set up so that I can continue to use them but I ran into 2 problems. When I copied and pasted today’s commentary, it copied the brown background screen and I couldn’t read the print. I outfoxed it by making the type white so that it shows against the brown background, but printing it uses an awful lot of brown ink. Is there a better way? I also could not get the one from yesterday. I entered the date and it went to April 1, but it said “no content found.” Is it illegal/unethical/immoral to copy the commentaries for personal use?
April 2nd, 2012 at 03:47
Recently, a few typos were reported, all have been fixed, thank you for your support, understanding and involvement.
April 1st, 2012 at 13:47
@Cathoholic Our parish is also being challenged by the absence of our pastor on medical leave and the chaos following. My thanks for sharing such a meaningful comment and it was a message that I needed to to hear. I was moved.
April 1st, 2012 at 05:32
In response to Cathoholic, I must say Thank You! and Praise be to God! What a beautiful witness. I’ve tried over the years to commit to at least praying Morning Prayer but have always found it difficult to sustain that committment — I missed praying in community where I learned LOH. But since discovering your website I have felt as though I’ve been praying LOH in community once again. Thank you for your ministry.
April 1st, 2012 at 05:07
I hope you don’t mind a long comment:
A few posts ago someone was asking whether this website was intended for individual or communal prayer. I just wanted to tell you that although I had been raised as a Catholic, I left the Church at age 17, and became a Baptist for 27 years before reverting almost five years ago. I was raised very nominally Catholic and had never heard of the Divine Office before going to a silent retreat about four years ago. There we prayed the Office at every opportunity for a whole weekend. Shortly after this, I discovered this website and made the Morning prayer part of my daily routine.
Since reverting back to the Church, I understand fully the Communion of Saints, but it was more of a mental assent to the fact. I would pray to the saints but after so long believing that it was possible to do so, it was hard to make this transition.
Until two nights ago at my parish. After our last fish fry for the Lenten season I went into the sanctuary to wait for time to do the Stations of the Cross. I was about 45 minutes early, so I brought my Kindle and decided that was was going to do the Evening reading silently. But I wasn’t the only one who had that idea. There were a couple of other small groups there praying the Rosary in different areas.
I went over to where we have a kneeler before a beautiful painting of St. Philomena, next to a statue of St. John Vianney, our parish patron. Never have I had a so much of a sense of the presence of the saints. For so long I had been taught to never prayer to the dead. But THEY ARE NOT DEAD! I prayed the Office aloud asking St. John Vianney and St. Philomena to pray with me. Even though human eyes would have seen only me, I knew that I was not alone but surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses all praising our God together. And coupled with the other two groups praying the Rosary, it truly was a house of prayer.
After the Reading I sang, quietly (not silently) “Per crucem”, the version that is sung by Melinda Kirigin-Voss that is often posted here for Morning Readings. When I finished it was nearly time to start stations. There other two groups were also just finishing with the Rosary. The priest came into the sanctuary, not quite ready yet as he didn’t have his robes on.
Our parish has been going through a very trying time lately with a former employee who had to be terminated and turned over to the police for embezzling a large amount of cash. It has been hard on everyone involved.
When Father came into the sanctuary and saw three different groups of people all in prayer all on there own, you could see how uplifted he became. With the eyes of faith he could see all the inscence from all of our individual prayers coalescing into one and rising up to the Throne.
Praise God! This is a very long way of saying, “yes” this is a communal prayer. Even if prayed individually, the Saints in heaven are praying with you, and there are saints on earth praying with you too, even if you never meet them before we all meet together in eternity.
Let us worship together!
March 31st, 2012 at 22:43
I just wanted to alert you that In the concluding prayer, of the Evening Prayer, for Saturday, March 31, heed is misspelled head.
Thank you for all that you are doing in aiding the Body of Christ to “pray without ceasing.” I have been greatly blessed by your apostolate.
God bless you,
Christopher
March 31st, 2012 at 05:28
Please correct the last line of the invitatory psalm which currently reads “fore ever.” Thank you.
March 30th, 2012 at 03:43
I love your site and the Android App. I was wondering if you could add the text of the daily mass readings, including entrance antiphon, responsorial psalm, and communion antiphon. This would especially helpful on the mobile apps. I know that there are other apps that can be downloaded. However, if you don’t need an entire missal, it would be helpful to have the daily readings in a single app with the LOTH.
Keep up the great work!
March 28th, 2012 at 03:57
There has been no Invitatory on the download for my Android app for the past two days. Is this an intentional ommission, an unintentional omission, a technical problem, or something I am doing wrong? This has been distracting.
I love your service and it has enriched my prayer life. May God richly reward the wonderful work you all do.
March 27th, 2012 at 17:59
Please pray for my Postulancy Formation to the Capuchin this coming June.Thank you and God Bless Us All.
March 27th, 2012 at 17:33
So when will you post the results of this year’s Readers’ Choice contest? It looked like you were winning in all categories, when’s it official?
March 27th, 2012 at 15:45
If it it is a communal response then go ahead and record the Let us praise the Lord and give Him thanks
March 26th, 2012 at 22:46
@Jan we consider this public recitation because so many are reciting at that very moment with us.
March 26th, 2012 at 12:54
Wayne brought up a point that I have wondered about – but not enough to address. Is using this site praying the LOH privately or in community? My question arose when I notice we do not generally say the closing that is omitted in private recitation. It matters not at all to me – I love the site either way and I sometimes add the closing just to be ornery. Can’t possibly offend God by praising Him!
March 26th, 2012 at 12:06
@wayne I just found one invitatory where we didn’t “intone” and then repeat. This was a mistake, but then people can simply repeat it after it is intoned. We will get it fixed.
March 26th, 2012 at 11:51
@Wayne I will try to find time to answer this comment directly through email. We will be adding an FAQ section at some point and that will make this much clearer for the benefit of all. The one thing I do want to respond to is when you say “Your presentation of the Invitatory consistently does not repeat the antiphon at the start of the invitatory psalm, contrary to ancient Church tradition and current instructions.”. I don’t know of anytime that it is not repeated in the audio so this confuses me. It not correct to repeat it in the text. Are you talking about the text or the audio?
March 26th, 2012 at 10:34
Dane, kudos to you and yours for the stupendous job you all do in presenting the official daily prayer of the Church for cyber community celebration. I use your presentation daily for praying the Invitatory and the Daytime Hours. Doing so helps me stay conscious that I am with the whole Church when I am praying. I am 71 years old with health problems that inhibit me from being up and around. So this feeling of connection with the whole Church while I pray is important to me. However, I do miss the responsorial singing of the invitatory psalm during the Lenten season (my personal penance I suppose). I also use it for Lauds and Vespers on Sundays and Feasts when the psalms are sung responsorially. I regret that I cannot use your presentation for the other times and hours. Sadly, the melodramatic (in my opinion) rendering of psalms and readings by several presenters so drives me to distraction that I am unable to pray. From the many comments I have read over time I seem not to be alone in this matter. But I also realize from many comments posted that quite a few do find such dramatic readings to be beneficial for them in their prayer life. When I am unable to use DivineOffice.org I use Vatican Radio podcasts for praying Lauds, Vespers, and Compline. For praying the Office of Readings I use Pray Station Portable podcasts.
A few people have commented on your departures from the official printed edition of the Divine Office currently in use in the USA, especially the use of the new translation of the concluding prayers. Some seem to find this very disconcerting. This discussion has led me to think on your several other departures, especially how your use of psalm antiphons seems to be contrary both to ancient Church tradition through the centuries and to the instructions of the revised Liturgy of the Hours.
Both paragraph 34 of the General Instructions and the “Ordinary” of the USA editions clearly lay out the structure of the Invitatory and how it is to be said/sung/chanted:
(The Antiphon is recited and then repeated)
Strophe of invitatory psalm
(Antiphon repeated)
Strophe of invitatory psalm
(Antiphon repeated)
Strophe of invitatory psalm
(Antiphon repeated)
Glory be to the Father…..
(Antiphon repeated)
The specific instructions for the Invitatory in the Ordinary read:
“…..Psalm 95 [or its substitute psalm] is
recited with its antiphon. The antiphon is said
before the psalm and then immediatelyrepeated;
it is repeated after each strophe of the psalm.
“In individual recitation, the antiphon may be
said only at the beginning of the psalm; it need
not be repeated after each strophe.”
Your presentation of the Invitatory consistently does not repeat the antiphon at the start of the invitatory psalm, contrary to ancient Church tradition and current instructions.
Do you consider your presentation to be merely a “private recitation” by individuals accessing your website? Or, do you consider your presentation to be a form of community celebration of the various hours? What might be appropriate for “private recitation” may not, in some cases, be appropriate for community celebrations (e.g, overly dramatic interpretations of psalms and readings or the idiosyncratic use of psalm antiphons).
For the recitation of the psalms in the various hours, however, your presentation consistently repeats the antiphon at the start of the psalm, contrary to ancient Church tradition and current instructions (refer to paragraphs 123 et al. of the General Instructions). But I have yet to hear the antiphon for the Gospel Canticles of Lauds and Vespers repeated before the Canticle as is done for the various psalms in the hour, even when the Canticle is sung responsorially. Is this an inconsistency within an inconsistency? In the General Instructions, no option is given to repeat the antiphon at the start of the psalm or Canticle as is required for the Invitatory. The only option given is to repeat the antiphon at the conclusion of the psalm if desired (which seems to suggest that the recitation of the antiphon at the end of the psalm is not required). I can understand how it would seem appropriate to repeat the antiphon before the psalm when it is sung responsorially as the invitatory psalm is required to be sung/recited. But I fail to understand why you would do the repetition before a psalm on a regular basis when it is recited in directum and yet fail to do the repetition of an antiphon before a Gospel Canticle.
As an aside, in the Breviary prior to 1962, the antiphon was frequently not said in its entirety before the psalm . Rather the choir merely recited/sung a few introductory words of the antiphon and then proceeded to the recitation of the psalm. The antiphon was only said/sung in its entirety at the conclusion of the psalm. For those old enough to remember the old way of ranking feasts in the Church, a feast of the double class meant exactly that; the antiphon was doubled, that is, said in its entirety, both before the psalm and after it.
Some may claim that this is quibbling over a minor point. However, if one strives to be “The Best” among others, then one requirement of being “The Best” is to present an authentic version of the official text of the Church. To me, this is an example of how personal preferences creep into the Breviary over the years which then necessitates having to clean it up and “revise” it every several centuries.
March 25th, 2012 at 17:24
Forgive me if I am mistaken, and I certainly mean no disrespect toward celebrating and honoring a Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary…but should not the Vespers for March 25, 2012 have been taken from Evening Prayer II for the Fifth Sunday of Lent rather than Evening Prayer I for the Solemnity of the Annunciation? My understanding (from the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar) is that Sundays of Advent, Lent and Easter rank above Solemnities. Furthermore, when they occur back-to-back, as they have this year with two Sundays of Lent immediately followed by the Solemnities of St Joseph on the 19th and the Annunciation on the 26th, the Sunday Evening Prayer II takes precedence over the vigil observance of the Solemnity at Vespers and Compline. I have also looked online at some Ordos for 2012 and found that this is the correct practice, but perhaps there is a different Ordo that you are following for DivineOffice.org. Again, my apologizes, if I am mistaken.
In any event, thank you for the service you provide through your ministry at Divine Office and may the Lord continue to bless you.
March 25th, 2012 at 14:50
@KR_H It is funny you ask for a cover. We are going to offer book covers, but we are a month away from being able to do so so someone else might be able to help you.
March 25th, 2012 at 14:38
Does anyone have a suggestion as to where to buy a leather book cover for the red Christian Prayer book? One that is made for it? In other words, FITS it.
March 24th, 2012 at 20:07
@Dane, The Lenten recordings may be old content, but they are wonderfully prayerful. Prayer is suppose to be passionate. I don’t think our good Lord wants us to just read prayers to him or raise up idle words. I think he gets enough of that already.
It was this prayerfullness that attracted me to your site years ago and has held me there ever since.
May God Bless you always and may you always be passionate in your prayers and in your ministry.
March 24th, 2012 at 06:05
As a long time user of DivineOffice.org, I totally agree with Deacon William Griffin in every aspect of his comments. I know that without this service, I would pray the Divine Office much less frequently and so sincerely thank everyone involved to make it possible.
March 24th, 2012 at 04:50
I am a long time user of the Divine Liturgy site. I find it so comforting to be able to pray each of the hours with the voices of others. I also appreciate all the hard work that goes into recording and splicing the actual readings and prayers from the Official Texts of Our Holy Church. I have great Admiration and Appreciation for all who are involved in your Ministry. I many times read criticism of various modalities utilized to present the Official Prayer of the Church. Not everything in media always meets our personal needs and desires. We always view the world through our own experiences and tastes. Some days I feel I must turn down the Volume and Pray the Hours at my own pace and within my own private space – And you provide this opportunity on your site and within your many applications. I am writing this missive to THANK YOU and ALL who are involved in giving us this wonderful opportunity to Pray>
God Bless Each Of You and the Work You Do !!!
March 23rd, 2012 at 23:56
@serena07 What is your religion? I can’t get into a lengthy discussion on this site, but this is trinitarian. We publish, without alteration, the content from the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours, which itself is mostly from the New American Bible. We create none of this content, we simply republish. Take a look at section 253 of the Catechism explaining the dogma of the Holy Trinity (http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P17.HTM#-81). And, consider that the apostles confessed Jesus to be the Word, which when understood to be the Word from the first words of the old testament in Genesis 1:1 that says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” then you see the Holy Trinity in the Bible. There are lots of people here who can explain better then I, but lets not get into this discussion here because it isn’t appropriate even though your question is excellent. People are welcome to keep it short and provide you with links to lookup. Thanks!
March 23rd, 2012 at 23:20
@JustJ some of our older content was captured along with too much of our passion. I assure we were not acting, but it was only a small group of us praying together back in the day and Lent is a time that has most of that old content. We ask that you be very specific about the day, prayer, and the part of the prayer that seemed too passionate and then open a support ticket on support.divineoffice.org, which is linked to from our web site, so that we can evaluate and rerecord if needed. Thank you!
March 23rd, 2012 at 23:16
@Carmela Please make your request for help using our support system. We have a link on our web site or you may go directly to support.divineoffice.org.
March 23rd, 2012 at 23:03
Hi I used my ipod app and through the morning Office readings, it was stated that God came down as man, which I know to be wrong, as Mary gave gave birth to the only begotten son of God, and it is mentioned in the bible many time that it was Gods son, not God himself who came down to earth, so could you please tell me why this wrong thing is being added to the apps or even being taught?
March 23rd, 2012 at 19:50
I purchased the app for my ipad, but I can’t get it to load.
Please help
March 23rd, 2012 at 07:32
I am exploring the Divine Office for Lent as a way of deepening my relationship with God. I am not currently in a prayer community, so your site has been extremely helpful and welcome. I am, however, finding I get distracted by some of the dramatic reading. Perhaps it is my background in the theatre that is getting in the way. I will continue to pray about this issue, but felt the need to share my perception with you. Thank you for all that you do.
March 23rd, 2012 at 06:37
>> Use of these new concluding prayers is optional at this time, but will eventually become required. For now we are one of the only sources for the new concluding prayers aside from buying a new Roman Missal. <<
Dane, it is also offered by others as an option – usually a secondary option. The problem is that you make it required since you only have the updated prayers. While it might sound like a neat idea to have the latest, in reality those who follow along in their books will have a problem. Since you encourage folks to use the St. Joseph's book by indicating page numbers at the top of each hour in the "Ribbon Placement" section, this could be very confusing because to the best of my knowledge, there is *no* St. Joseph's edition that currently has the updated prayers. I would suggest that at least you make this widely known in an announcement for each hour for all to see the way you have the voting reminders – folks don't always come here.
March 23rd, 2012 at 05:31
I’d like to suggest to things to improve your great app:
1) I’d like to see a button when you are directly listening to an hour that allows you to move to the next hour when it is finished. For example, I know many monasteries where once they finished the Morning Hour, they directly go into the Office of Reading section.
2) I also download the podcast, which is easier to listen to on the road. I’d like to see it somehow where if the app detects you have the hours downloaded in its podcast section, it access that podcast and not have to download the recorded audio again.
March 23rd, 2012 at 02:27
@junerich
Hi, we used “Prayer to St. Joseph (Husband of Mary)” by Angelina, available from Amazon.com. Follow this link:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010VFP8A/?tag=divine-office-20
March 22nd, 2012 at 20:45
you had the most beautiful hymn I have ever heard to St. Joseph with the morning prayer on the 19th but I never got a chance to see how to get a copy of it before it was off of my phone. Can anyone help me out with this.
Deacon Richard in Missouri
March 22nd, 2012 at 12:12
I love being able to hear the psalms in the morning as I ride to work: so helpful for prayer. I have one problem; I have not been able to convince my friends to subscribe for one simple reason: two of your readers, one male and one female, are simply too dramatic in their delivery. They sound like they are doing dramatic interp of the Sacred texts. It’s distracting because it imports emphasis where none may be intended. The guy who introduces the Office of Readings is perfect: he just deleivers the text.
Could the woman and the guy just read and not interpret?
March 22nd, 2012 at 06:15
@Anna Rose, About.com answered that the limit is every 24 hours, not every calendar day. So if you voted at 8am in the morning you need to wait 8.01am of the following morning… anyway, voting is closed now
We’ll be standing by to know the final results.
March 22nd, 2012 at 04:44
Hello Dane,
I notice that the writer “catholicfocus” informed you of the problem with voting. I thought just my computer was having a problem in early mornings. (You can see I’m a Boomer who is not tech savvy!) Anyway, I would then try to vote at night before Evening Prayer because the problem would seem to be gone. If this voting irregularity took place for all individuals who tried to vote in the mornings you may have lost thousands of votes. Who knows? Did you report this problem to about.com? This really could have interfered with winning for both divineoffice.org and EWTN as you both were practically neck to neck. Thanks for all you do. My prayer life would not be as joyous as it is if it weren’t for this site. Gratefully in Carmel, Anna Rose
March 21st, 2012 at 18:41
Dear Dane:
I noticed a miss spoken word in the reading from Phillippian 2: 12b-16 which does not appear in the printed text because a short version is shown on the site but the long version is in the audio.
The reader uses the word “ruin” where the word should be “run”. I heard this before and it threw me. The last line should be “…As I look to the Day of Christ, you give me cause to boast that I did not run the race in vain or work to no purpose.”
I can see where that could easily happen if the type on the copy was broken. It could look like ruin.
I love this site, and have voted many times. I hope you win.
Teresa
March 21st, 2012 at 05:29
HI Dane and entire team,
I have noticed on multiple days recently when I try to vote for your website, it says I voted already.
I open a new browser and do it during morning prayers around 8AM EST.
Not sure what’s going on , but I suspect you’re losing some votes because of software issues.
Please look into it. Otherwise, site looks and operates great!
March 20th, 2012 at 13:50
First off let me give my thanks to God for providing a community in the world that is not of the world to pray without ceasing throughout the day in these modern times.
I have some requests I would like to make because I am devoted to the Breviary.
1. It would be extremely helpful if you would supply lyrics that match word for word the hymns you add into the office. As a firm believer that when we are singing to our Lord we are loving our Lord it would be most helpful to be in unison with the hymn that is being sung.
2. Musical notation would also be very helpful, and I know this may be difficult, but I noticed your cantors are inspired with unique melodies that have no known melody attached or meter reference so that we may be in unison.
3. Most importantly, I would ask that the suggested sacred music found in the breviary be used as much as possible so that we may be in unison with the Universal Church. It seems that the choice of hymns has been subverted entirely away from the breviary. I just feel it’s gone a bit too far, I feel it’s ok to do something different every now and then but lately I’ve noticed a distancing.
4. Please keep the prayers to those of the breviary. There is no need to update those.
5. I really appreciate all of your efforts to provide such a wonderful service to the community of the faithful, and the bell for silence is extremely nice. I hope my suggestions do not create an offense to those who work so hard for this ministry, after praying with you for a good while I’ve noticed things and during this Lenten season I’ve felt called to share them with you for the glory of God.
God Bless You,
PAX
Dustin
March 20th, 2012 at 07:45
The chanting of the Girton College Choir for thie Mornings Prayer (March 20) was so beautiful. It took me back to the days when I was able to pray the office in community and we chanted it. Thank you for taking me back to quieter, more peaceful days.
God Bless you and your Ministry.
March 19th, 2012 at 15:04
@wayne we had a short period of time where the underlying ordinary daytime prayers for Lent were visible, but we did replace them with the correct text version of the daytime prayers for St. Joseph. We had a problem with our audio so we removed the audio.
March 19th, 2012 at 15:02
We unpublished the audio files for St. Joseph for daytime prayers because they had the wrong reading. We were not able to record the reading in time. We added audio for Daytime prayers in December with the caveat that we would do the best we could to get audio for special days, but we couldn’t make any guarantees. This is one of the first times we missed having it all right so we are batting a pretty good average, but not yet good enough. Sorry about that everyone.
March 19th, 2012 at 08:08
For those who wish to pray Daytime Prayer for the Solemnity of St Joseph, here are the mp3 files for the hours that were originally posted.
divine-0319-dp1-comp.lent
divine-0319-dp2-comp.lent
divine-0319-dp3-comp.lent
Those savvy with Windows Media Player and/or Windows Internet Explorer should be able to download them with relative ease.
Laudetur Jesus Christus!
March 19th, 2012 at 07:09
I am somewhat confused and perplexed. Originally for today, Solemnity of St Joseph, you posted the correct Daytime Prayers. However, either last night or this morning, you removed them and posted Daytime Prayers for the 4th Monday of Lent., May I ask why?
According to paragraph 229 of the General Instructions, Daytime Prayers for Solemnities is structured:
1) Hymn from the current weekday.
2) Antiphon of the Solemnity or of the Common.
3) Complementary Psalmody for all three hours except on a Sunday (Psalmody from Sunday Week 1 at one of the hours).
4) Short scripture reading of the Solemnity or of the Common.
5) Versicle and Response of the Solemnity or of the Common.
6) Concluding prayer of the Solemnity.
You had it nearly correct the first time you posted these hours. (Scripture reading, versicle and response for each of the three hours are different from my copies of the LOTH, otherwise all else is correct).
Your repost of all three hours seems to be totally incorrect.
As I said, I’m somewhat confused and perplexed, and also curious why you made the switch.
Laudetur Jesus Christus!
March 19th, 2012 at 04:11
In the song for this morning’s prayer there is a mis-transcribing of lyrics. For “The One beheld the Son” it is “The one who Held the Son”
March 18th, 2012 at 05:21
I think there might be a minor problem for Monday, March 19, Solemnity of St Joseph. For Night Prayer you list that of the current day of the week (Monday) I’m fairly certain it should be Night Prayer 2 for Solemnities and Sundays (refer to paragraph 230 of the General Instructions).
Laudetur Jesus Christus.
March 17th, 2012 at 09:36
Concluding prayers of several of the Hours come from the Collect Prayer from Mass. With the new English translation of the Roman Missal these Collect Prayers have been updated. Use of these new concluding prayers is optional at this time, but will eventually become required. For now we are one of the only sources for the new concluding prayers aside from buying a new Roman Missal.
March 17th, 2012 at 07:18
Why is the concluding prayer not the same as in the The Divine Office Volume II? Do I need an additional prayer book for this? I can’t figure out where the concluding prayers are coming from.
God Bless you and all you do!
March 16th, 2012 at 17:24
It would be nice for the iPad app to also have white on black theme choice. Thanks!
March 16th, 2012 at 09:58
@jim95437 and all of you, I am so sorry that we used the first half of this canticle today. It has been fixed.
March 16th, 2012 at 08:53
For today Mar 16, Morning Prayer, you have listed for the Canticle, Jer., 14:17-21. That is what I was expecting, but that is not what I heard.
March 16th, 2012 at 02:13
@EvelynMilne. You can find Melinda’s music on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_srch_drd_B004LQ6UKI?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=digital-music&field-keywords=Melinda%20Kirigin-Voss
March 15th, 2012 at 19:18
@congforbes The concluding prayers in your books have not been updated to reflect the new English translation of the Roman Missal and they are soon to become outdated. The concluding prayer for many of the Hours comes from the Collect Prayer in Mass. Using the new translation is optional at this time, but since we are in a digital form we can respond more quickly then book publishers, which will eventually publish new books.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:42
Please counsel me … I follow the daily Office and OOR and wonder where you are getting these Lenten prayers recited at the end of the hour? They are not the ones listed and so wonder where they are coming from?
There certainly is nothing wrong in using different prayers but for those who are following the official version, please advise where we might turn to read different Lenten prayers?
May I receive an answer please
March 15th, 2012 at 10:38
I just bought three CDs at the Amazon website of Melinda Kirigan-Voss music so I know she is listed. Try itunes, as well if you have trouble.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:29
I have tried to find a CD of Melinda Kirigan-Voss at Amazon as I particularly like “Per Crucem ” and “Via Dolorosa” but she is not listed on their site.
March 15th, 2012 at 02:47
I subscribe to your RSS feed for the daily readings – thank you so much for that! It is a true blessing. Two things:
1) RSS doesn’t include the Invitatory
2) Is there any way to get the music in a separate feed/podcast? It is such beautiful music (this has really been a great addition to your prayer) that I would love to have it available easily.
Thanks again! God bless you all.
March 14th, 2012 at 20:24
I want to thank you for the website. I love to pray along at the various times of day. However, I noticed that you have not updated some of the prayers to comply with the recent changes prescribed for the Eucharist, for example, the “I Confess…”
I suggest you take the time and effort to make the necessary changes, because failing to do it gives the impression of lack of interest or neglect in keeping up with the Magisterium of the Church. In addition, the changes are meant to bring about a deeper understanding of our faith as it has been transmitted for countless generations from the beginning and an enrichment of our prayer life.
Thank you very much for your attention, and may God richly bless you and the work you do.
María Aznar +
March 14th, 2012 at 10:04
Wanted to thank you for this site. When I’m too ill to read, I can listen to the daily office & it is such a blessing. Also, when you update the podcasts, might the Psalms be read a bit more slowly? Sometimes they are so fast it’s hard to hear the words & I don’t find it conducive to praying the office (& it hurts my head). Even so, I’m so grateful for this site. God bless.
March 14th, 2012 at 07:33
Just to leet you know, on Kindle Fire there is no evening prayer for today nor tomorrow and there is no offfice of reading for March 16th. I have refreshed and redownloaded the program but they still do not appear.
March 14th, 2012 at 04:53
@AlKopp
Thank you for pointing that out, the error is corrected!
March 14th, 2012 at 03:05
I have an infection in both eyes right now and have been having a hard time seeing/reading so I’ve been praying along with the recorded pod casts. Thank-you! This has helped me appreciate the important work you are doing to help make the office accessible to people with visual impairments – truly an act of mercy.
March 14th, 2012 at 02:46
Hi I noticed a problem with Psalm 98 for 3/14. The line “His right and hand his holy arm” reads funny. I think it should read “His right hand and his holy arm” or “His right hand and holy arm.” I read it a number of times trying to figure out what it was saying ant then went to the USCCB site to look a the text there.
Thanks
Al Kopp
March 13th, 2012 at 08:07
Congratulations. This is the best Catholic Website. The Liturgy of the Hours is unspeakably beautiful especially during the Lenten season.
March 10th, 2012 at 09:18
Charles was correct. When he told us it said Napoleon we corrected it to Neapolitan. It was an auto spell check correction that we missed. Thank you Charles!
March 10th, 2012 at 07:55
Charles, please check again. That is ‘Neapolitan’, not Napoleon. There is no error.
March 10th, 2012 at 05:45
Charles, the word “Neapolitan” pertains to the city of Naples, Italy and sometimes its wider province.
March 10th, 2012 at 04:47
Just read your comment on Mar 5th, Deacon Ken, on praying the Liturgy of the Hours. I too like to hear the voices of people praying and the passion they have behind them. Many times I put my head phones on to really get into the prayers and drown out all other noises. I am also a Deacon and love this site. I have it on my itouch so I have it when I travel. God Bless
March 9th, 2012 at 21:17
I subscribe via the rss Feed and the Opening Invitatory Psalm and Night Prayer has been missing for several days including the 7th,8th, 9th and so far is also missing from the 10th all this month. Previously had not had a problem.
March 9th, 2012 at 07:47
Today’s piece on St. Francis of Rome has a serious error. In 1384 the Papacy was in no way threatened by Napoleon. 400 years too early.
March 9th, 2012 at 07:37
Hi Linda and Mikey, Good recommendation on the Mundeleine Psalter. This is what we use on Sundays outside of Lent.
March 8th, 2012 at 23:04
Hi Mikey Love,
If you like to chant the office, there is a very nice book called The Mundeleine (sp ?) Psalter. It has four different tones-one for each week of the Divine Office. They use this book at a local parish where they chant Morning & Evening prayer everyday. It is quite beautiful.
March 8th, 2012 at 09:57
Again the Gloria is the hymn for midday prayer. The Gloria is not to be said or sung during Lent. Please make changes to this. Thankyou.
March 8th, 2012 at 08:37
@Monk Jude if you scroll down the home page to “Recent Comments” you should notice on the right hand side a link to “Sbubscribe to our rss Feed” with an orange icon. Just right click on the link and click on “Open link in new tab” or “Open link in new window.” This will open up another page with all seven hours (midmorning and midafternoon included) for tomorrow, today, and yesterday. Each hour is complete with both text and an “.mp3″ audio link.
If you pray the office via the internet, this should help. If you use one of the apps available, I don’t think there is a solution.
Hope this helps.
Thanks Dane and company.
March 7th, 2012 at 07:30
Isn’t it a joy that we as Catholics believe in the Communion of Saints and the power of their intercession? What awesome power is in the prayer of the Divine Office when you consider that the Holy Father, the Cardinals & Bishops, Priests & Deacons, most Religious and many of the Laity around the world pray it each day. When you consider the time difference around the world, many people are praying it every moment of every day. Then add to that the intercessory prayers of the saints and we are truly blessed to be able to add our little voice to that powerful prayer.
God bless Dane & company for facilitating our prayer.
March 7th, 2012 at 06:00
Q? In my 4 vol LotH (402/13) the hymns that are listed do not match up with what is posted – ie for OOR today – I have “Lord Jesus Christ, be present now…” my hymn is also different for MP – can someone please advise??
March 7th, 2012 at 03:57
In reading about St. Felicity this morning, I was struck with pity for her poor pagan father. How his heart must have ached when he knew that she would die for her faith only days after she gave birth to his grandchild.
On the Catholic Answers radio program, they often say that because God works outside of time, prayer for people in the past can still be beneficial. I hope so, because my heart really goes out to Perpetua’s father and baby.
“St. Perpetua, pray for us. Pray for your father and child. I hope they are right there beside you in Heaven beholding the Lord’s Glory”
March 7th, 2012 at 01:02
I’ve consistently noticed that the verses typed/shown for “Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty” do not match up with the verses the choir sings in the recording. It would be nice if they did, because I like to sing along with.
It’s somewhat rare that the song posted in the Liturgy of the Hours is actually a hymn that most people know (as opposed to a lovely but inaccessible choral piece), so it would be great to be able to join in with that form of prayer/praise when the opportunity arises!
March 6th, 2012 at 08:19
I use this site almost daily. It makes a radical difference in my life if I can pray even part of the office each day. I’m a homeschooling mom with seven boys at home, so the podcasts are essential to my succeeding at getting anything out of the time I invest. The feeling with which the readings are proclaimed is very important for the same reasons.
That being said, today’s “hymn” with morning prayers was a bit of an unpleasant distraction with the percussion and contemporary style. I much prefer the more traditional hymns.
Thank you!
March 5th, 2012 at 16:55
Well said, Deacon Ken. I don’t even hear background music; it must be very subtle.
March 5th, 2012 at 16:49
Love the song “In the Lord I’ll be Ever Thankful. Would like to know the words of the soloists. Is that possible. Thanks.
March 5th, 2012 at 06:27
I’m surprised at the comments about how the psalms & prayers are read. The Office is not just reading. Nor is it the proclamation of the Readings & Gospel as at Mass. It’s the Prayer of the Church. Too often we pray as fast as we can and in a monotone. The Office is a conversation with God and as such should be savored. Personally I enjoy hearing the passion in the voices as they pray. That’s why I listen rather than just pray out of the Brteviary. It becomes more of a meditation.
That’s also why I don’t particularly like the music in the background. It takes away from the prayers and the pray-ers. But, that’s just my opinion for what it’s worth.
I will admit that sometimes the male voice (Greg?) gets carried away. But, it seems that he has improved on some of the newer recordings.
There are several Liturgy of the Hours sites out there. They are almost robotic in their prayer with abolutely no feeling or emotion. They should almost have a connotation at the end “This is a Recording”. I’m sure God would love that.
Keep up the good work and God Bless.
March 4th, 2012 at 10:20
I thought you’d like to know that when you are praying in a group, the antiphon before the psalm is said by one person and everyone says the final one together.
I also would like to second the people who would like psalm tones used. It would be very helpful.
rmhaliewicz
March 3rd, 2012 at 08:20
a link to psalm tones at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iz1kQKtZyE.
I hope that this will help in chanting the Office daily, and on Sundays and Solemnities.
March 3rd, 2012 at 07:09
During Advent 2011, I discovered DivineOffice.org and it became the beautiful “gift” needed for my prayer life to grow. Thank you for your tremendous work and dedication. It is noticeable that as your voice inflections tend toward conversational, it is easier for us to “pray in our own tones.” A sense of drama in your voices makes it seem like a performance. This is just my reflection and I wouldn’t want to limit your interpretation. Yes, “Per Crucem” by Melinda is beautiful. Thank you.
March 2nd, 2012 at 03:05
I really love Melinda Kirigin-Voss’ voice. THe Lord has truly blessed her and blesses us through her. Thank you for presenting her music to us. I have seen a lot of comments on this board from others who really like her singing. I just want to let eveyone know that two whole albums of her music is on Soptify. Just type in her name in the search box and they will show up. Including this morning’s “Per Crucem (By Your Cross)”.
Pax y’all.
March 1st, 2012 at 12:07
There’s a correction that needs to be made in Midday Prayer today,. The audio closing prayer says “with you” where it should say “without you”. Makes a big difference in the meaning! Also, we again have the Gloria as the hymn and I agree with a previous comment that it does not seem appropriate during Lent.
February 28th, 2012 at 23:11
YOUR WEBSITE IS WONDERFUL, BUT I HAVE ONE COMPLAINT. YOU ARE NOT READING SHAKESPEARE BUT THE WORD OF GOD.
February 28th, 2012 at 16:25
Due to unforeseen circumstances, I need to temporarily stop my monthly contribution. How do I do that??
Nancy Hood
My email is nanhood54@comcast.net
February 27th, 2012 at 05:28
I missed hearing the initatory psalms being chanted, and I wish that all of the office is chanted everyday according to degree of feasts and solemnities. I do know that there are several degrees of chantings, and yes, there are chants for lent. These chant modes are in some of the single volumes of the Divine Office. Just plain recitation of the office doesn’t do it for me spiritually.
February 26th, 2012 at 13:05
March 11, 2012 Sunday morning prayer was taken from Psalter Week IV. Should it be from week III instead?
February 26th, 2012 at 04:41
Today and the last few days I like the format you have been using for the Invitatory Psalm.
Thank you so much for all of the hard work that you and your staff have put in to make this a wonderful site for our help in praying the Divine Office.
Mahree
February 25th, 2012 at 19:33
Disregard my previous question in the comments. Silly of me, I figured it out.
February 25th, 2012 at 17:37
With God’s Blessing! Is’t possible for listing the Mid-Morning and Mid-Afternoon Prayers to the already five.
Although it’s optional, I would like to do all seven prayers.
Humble Servant,
Monk Jude
February 25th, 2012 at 14:48
Hello
I recently purchased the Second Volume of the Liturgy of the Hours after visiting this website but to my surprise I find them to be quite different. The website’s morning prayer for today is much longer in content than what I can find in the book. Am I missing something. Is this how it is supposed to be?
Thank you
February 25th, 2012 at 14:03
I just noticed that you are in need of certain hymns. I sing and play the piano, and I know how to play a few of the hymns you desire. I don’t have any fancy recording equipment, but I’d love to help you out. Is there a certain file format you desire? How would I even send you the files? Hope I can help you out.
February 25th, 2012 at 13:58
I love this website! For Lent, I want to pray the liturgy of the hours more regularly, so this site is helping me with that. I recently acquired a NOOK Tablet, and I would love to have the app. I see you provide apps for other mobile devices. When can I expect one for NOOK?
Blessings!
February 24th, 2012 at 23:53
@Father Buffer thank you for reporting the errant hymn containing an Alleluia. We will get it replaced. Thanks again.
February 24th, 2012 at 23:52
@noel the 0th week of Lent doesn’t mean anything. Our system requires a label and since Ash Wednesday and the following Thursday, Friday, and Saturday come before the first week of Lent we have to name it something and so this is what you see.
February 24th, 2012 at 21:26
I must have missed the clarification about the 0th week of Lent? I’ m thinking it has to do with Ash Wednesday being in mid-week?
February 24th, 2012 at 06:05
I want to thank you all for including the hymns of Isaac Watts in your hymnody. I am a former Baptist and I miss a lot of the old songs we sang at my old church. Watts may have been a Protestant non-Conformist, but you can tell from his writings that he dearly loved our Savior, despite his ignorance of Catholic theology. But as with many Protestant hymns (even Catholic ones), you have to be careful. They often contain bad theology.
February 23rd, 2012 at 18:02
The hymn given for night prayer for Thursday after Ash Wednesday ends with the word “Alleluia” which is not used in the Roman Rite during Lent.
February 23rd, 2012 at 15:48
@tnaves The concluding prayer comes from the new English translation of the Roman Missal because the Liturgy of the Hours used the Collect prayer from Mass as its concluding prayer on many days.
February 23rd, 2012 at 14:20
The concluding prayer for today, Thursday after Adh Wednesday is not from the Roman Breviary. where did you get it?
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:35
Dear Friends it’s seems strange that the Hymn for Daytime Prayer is the Gloria. We are in Lent and I don’t think it’s the best choice.
Blessings
February 23rd, 2012 at 09:00
Thanks for working on the bugs for kindle, I hope I dont jinks it, but I’ve had all the prayers this past 10 days. Amen, keep up the good work of helping us pray.
February 23rd, 2012 at 08:56
Is anyone else having trouble with the podcast playing? The past several days, I haven’t been able to play it even on my computer.
I also would love to play it on my new Kindle Fire, but it doesn’t seem to load at all. Does anyone know why?
Thank you for this page! I use it to pray with my book. I am a newby.
February 23rd, 2012 at 05:43
I notice you have a KINDLE app. ? Is there a NOOK app?
February 23rd, 2012 at 01:47
@TennWms, we will be porting the Prayer app to Android this year. No release date is scheduled yet.
February 22nd, 2012 at 03:33
The start of my lent would have been much better if the morning prayer for Ash Wednesday at divineoffice.org and the one indicated by the ribbon placements actually matched. I used the Android app on my Kindle Fire and I was praying with someone who has a book.
Paying for an app, and then getting erroneous content seems to be a bug to me. It does not instill confidence. Maybe it’s better to stick with a book. If only I could get my money back for the app.
February 21st, 2012 at 22:51
Is their a place to buy Prayer Apps for Android? The mini prayer site only listed iPhone.
February 21st, 2012 at 12:08
To bblalock, The Invitatory Psalm is just what the name suggests, an invitation to prayer, an opening or introduction. It traditionally precedes Morning Prayer. Office of Readings, previously called Matins, Vigils, or Nocturns, is said at night, after Night Prayer, at midnight by some. Does this help?
February 19th, 2012 at 17:09
@glplotss Thank you for your support. On our web site is a link in the lower left that says “Want to Help?” and when you click on it you will be given ways to send a check or wire funds. Thank you again!
February 19th, 2012 at 09:26
I would like to support Divineoffice.org by sending a check or money order rather than online CC. Is this possible? I have sent an email about this subject earlier but received no reply.
February 19th, 2012 at 02:45
Let me first say thanks for this service, I really love coming to the site. I have a question. when do you use the Invatatory Psalms and the Office of Reading? Is it in conjunction with the other prayers? If so, which ones? Else, are they stand alone prayers? God bless and thanks again for such a wonderful site!
February 16th, 2012 at 02:02
@Dane, Re: your message to @john matel on February 13th, 2012 at 23:33
Would it be possible to code the word “Antiphon” so that if you mouse over them they will show the correct text? Then it will still look the same and still access to the full text.
I don’t know if that would be a copyright violation, or how much work that would be to make and maintain the change (I’m not a coder).
February 15th, 2012 at 08:11
Would love to vote for the Divine Office again this year, but when I go to do that I am requested to allow Facebook to access my info. I don’t want that. Is there another way? Patti H.
February 13th, 2012 at 23:33
@john mattel I agree with you that it would be easier to place the full text of the antiphon instead of just an “Ant.”, but for the time being we are trying to match the printed books. In fact, ICEL (International Committee on English in the Liturgy) requires that in our contract with them.
February 13th, 2012 at 23:29
@melekali when the psalms are chanted or sung we will put the antiphons between each strophe. This is in accordance with the General Instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours. When we do this we also change the text to match the audio. We generally chant the psalms for most of the Hours on Sundays. You will rarely see us doing this on other days except for some Solemnities and Feasts.
February 13th, 2012 at 06:45
Thank You for this wonder gift. Now in my older years the small print in my books is becoming a problem for me, but having the Office on line is just what I need! So I am hesitant to ask for something more. Along with my eye site weakening so is my short term memory. It would be helpful to me if you could print the antiphons between the verses of the Psalm. Because I make the print bigger and forget the antiphon and to scroll up and down I weaken my prayer! I ask this with hesitation but there may be many others like me who you aid greatly in our prayer life. THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT GIFT!
February 12th, 2012 at 20:53
I was wondering why sometimes the Psalms for Morning or Evening Prayer are arranged like the Invitatory. Like tonight, evening prayer for 2/12/2012, the second and third psalm are arranged to recite the response after each strophe. That doesn’t match the 4-volume or the 1-volume. Thanks for your great work here. I use your site daily, even with my books.
February 12th, 2012 at 15:34
@pattimm Yes, you will have to change the url to get back to those dates. When you click on the yesterday or tomorrow you will see that address changes to include a date. Here is the first Monday of Ordinary Time http://divineoffice.org/?date=20120109 (2012 January 09)
February 12th, 2012 at 15:31
@DianeD We place the credits for the hymns immediately following the lyrics so you can easily find out the artist for each and you can click on these credits to be taken to Amazon.com where you may purchase the music if you like. Morning Prayer “The Beatitudes” performed by The Monks Of Glenstal Abbey. Evening Prayer was “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” by Sheffield Cathedral Choir.
February 12th, 2012 at 13:57
I would like to get the Morning Prayers for Monday through Sat of week one in ordinary time. Can I do that through this site. I love what I have seen so far. patti
February 11th, 2012 at 23:49
Thank you for your ministry. I am a lone prayer and it almost feels like community. Please let me know who sang the first hymns for Morning and Evening prayer on Friday, Feb 10th. God bless you!
February 11th, 2012 at 19:59
what happened to the daily devine office. I cant get it now?
February 11th, 2012 at 13:54
Please hit the content refresh. You will find everything is now in place. Thanks for letting us know.
February 11th, 2012 at 10:38
There are missing office of reading and morning prayer for tomorrow on kindle fire. I have deleted app and reinstalled and they are still not there. Help, oncea gain please fix this problem so that I can use it. at this time I am unable to recommend this as best Catholic app as it is too inconsistent
February 11th, 2012 at 05:39
This is a great site and has been a great help to me! I am a first year seminarian and the site helps me to double check where I’m supposed to be before going to morning prayer. that way I’m not lost. Thank you!
February 11th, 2012 at 03:29
@Kathy AE: the prayers have been retranslated for the Mass since the 1st Sunday of Advent. It’ll be a while before they come out with a updated version of the LOTH in print.
February 10th, 2012 at 23:41
I have a question. I have been using the site for a couple of years now. I love it. In the last couple of weeks, I have found that the text for the prayer is similar to, but not identical to the one (for the Readings Hour) that I have in my four volumes. Why did it change? All the other parts of the Liturgy of the Hours is identical to what I find in my book.
February 10th, 2012 at 07:42
@seekyefirst can contact me at admin@divineoffice.org
February 10th, 2012 at 03:50
I like many others have a bn nook color or tablet. We need your apps for our platform. Any chance you will open up your apps for us?
February 9th, 2012 at 14:45
Hi
I love your site so much I use it everyday. I am a Chinese pastor from San Diego. I am contemplating the ideas for a month and see whether we can create one like Divineoffice.org in Chinese language. It would be huge to the Chinese audiences not only from north America but also aboard to Asia and the world. Is there a way I can contact the divineoffie through email to explore such opportunity.
February 9th, 2012 at 04:44
@ dhsavidge
Christian Prayer contains only a limited selection from the Office of Readings. It contains the four week Psalter, but only a very limited selection of readings. The vast majority of readings are not in Christian Prayer, nor are Psalms that are used for Feast and Solemnities. A stand alone version of the Office of Readings was published at one time, but I believe it is now out of print.
February 6th, 2012 at 16:37
I am a priest of the archdiocese of Portland in Oregon visiting Dumaguete City near the epicenter of yesterday’s earthquake. I forgot my liturgy of the hours, but have been able to keep up thanks yo your site. I need to use the ‘tomorrow’ column as we are a day ahead. Thanks for your ministry. RBT
February 6th, 2012 at 07:51
Hi, Folks! I notice you say that Christian Prayer has no Office of Readings. Mine does. I know you’re working hard but please include ribbon locations for CP for the Office of Readings!! Many thanks.
February 6th, 2012 at 02:31
@DivineOfficeforKindleSeeker. I’m curious to know this a as well. I have a Kindle 3 and wold like to know if it is possible. All I have been able to do is to download news feeds, but I have found them almost totally unreliable.
The K3 can go directly to the website using either wifi or 3G, but the design of the page is not good for such a tiny browser screen.
February 4th, 2012 at 10:35
I see where the Divine Office is available on this website for the “Kindle Fire”. Is there a difference between it and the “AmazonKindle”? I’m thinking there is. The “Kindle Fire” appears to run the android operating system. I’m not sure what operating system the “AmazonKindle” has but I’m sensing that it’s not android.
My question. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the Divine Office on the “AmazonKindle”?
I’ve been searching the web and to my surprise I cannot find any evidence that it is possible. I suspect that the functionality of the “Kindle Fire” lends itself to easier navigation than is available on the “AmazonKindle”.
I appear to have fell victim to “assumption”. I purchased the “AmazonKindle” for our parish priest for Christmas with the intention of installing the Divine Office on it early in 2012. Now that I’m finally getting time to pursue it, I’m finding that it appears I made a faulty assumption.
Thanks for any direction you can provide.
February 4th, 2012 at 09:17
@frdermot When that happens, please remove and reinstall the app — we want to resolve all app bugs, which are especially frustrating on the Kindle Fire. We will be working on an update to be released in the near future.
February 4th, 2012 at 08:28
I have this App for kindle fire, and it can be great, but it really frustrates me also as it continues to have forced close, some days not all the hours are available, it builds up my hope and then shatters it. I really hope you work out the problems because it really could be a great prayer app. please, please work it out.
February 1st, 2012 at 06:21
Hello Mary,
The purchase made for an app on one platform does not entitle you to get the app for another one. Once you have purchased the app on a platform, I.e. iOS, which includes iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, then you can download it to all your iOS devices an unlimited number of times. While this is true as long as you do this using the same account you used to purchase it, it is limited to one platform. For each different platform you need to purchase the different app that was designed and developed specifically for it: these include Divine Office apps for Mac, Android and Nokia.
Thank you for your message and support!
Mauro.
February 1st, 2012 at 06:12
I love this site, I have but one suggestion to make. The people who read should pay attention to the commas and periods. It can change the meaning of things when we read creatively.
God Bless You All
February 1st, 2012 at 06:02
i bought a Divine office for my “tablet”. Do I need to buy again for my “I touch”? On the web before we click open you page it says Free Audio, but when we actually open the page there is no” Free Audio!”
Thanks.
i hope you will respond!
January 27th, 2012 at 20:28
Hi, I bought the Divine Office for my iPad from the AppStore. Do I have to buy again if I need to download it to my Android phone, and my desktop? Pls. advise. Thank you.
January 25th, 2012 at 09:05
ajwarren, I am Lutheran, and I love this site and use it every day.
I left a comment a month or so ago about how much the Office means to both my son and me. I long for greater unity among Christians, and what a joy to know that you do, too!
January 25th, 2012 at 06:16
Thanks Dane. It seemed to be fine as soon as we clicked through it the error message for the first time on each page and the automatic notice went to Microsoft.
January 25th, 2012 at 05:47
cannot get audio
January 24th, 2012 at 18:57
I find it exciting to read comments from Christians of other faith communities who are using this site. It is great to know we are praying together. Tomorrow, January 25th, is the final day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity…which falls on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Pope Benedict XVI will lead Evening Prayer at the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, with representatives of other Churches and Christian communities. At his Sunday Angelus the Pope commented: “The time we devote ourselves to prayer for the full communion of the disciples of Christ will enable us to understand more deeply how we will be transformed by his victory, by the power of his resurrection.”. It is wonderful for all of us to pray together!
January 24th, 2012 at 12:55
Our web site is safe. We moved to new servers and so this problem has occurred again because their might be a site with the same IP address, but different url, that Microsoft deems unsafe. We have contacted Microsoft and we hope the “Unsafe Website” message will soon be gone. Let us know when it is gone.
January 23rd, 2012 at 07:10
Just thought I would let you know, I am getting “Unsafe Website” messages from Microsoft for your site.
January 23rd, 2012 at 04:27
Today I received a Unsafe Website notice from Microsoft when I attemped to acces the website. Please check into this.
January 22nd, 2012 at 17:29
I have created a free LOH bookmark to help with praying the Divine office.
Would anyone be interested?
January 21st, 2012 at 15:23
I need prayer. that I may continue with my book. I have never done this before. I do not book to fail
January 21st, 2012 at 13:10
Since I have been vocal about negative criticisms in the past, I thought it only fair to post how much I love the hymn for Friday Daytime prayer, “Per crucem…” It is absolutely beautiful in its simplicity and fits the somber tone of the Friday psalmody perfectly. I pray Daytime Prayer just before leaving my office for lunch and it stays in my head until I get back to my desk.
January 21st, 2012 at 13:03
Patti Day
Don’t know about the other discrepancies, but it is a fact that the readings in the 1-volume Christian prayer are often longer than the readings in the 4-volume. Don’t know why that is.
January 20th, 2012 at 21:54
Do you have an app of the Divine Office usable on a Black Berry?
January 20th, 2012 at 18:57
Love the site, but if you’d like to expand your impact then make your apps available for NookTablet at Barnes and Noble. You have them for Kindle Fire and others. The joy of being about to join with others praying the Hours is wonderful. Any chance for us Nook users???
January 20th, 2012 at 07:02
Deacon Dick, I hope this is helpful.
Rd: Reading(s)
OOR: Office of Readings
Pr: Prayer
MP: Morning Prayer
Ps: Psalm
DP: Daytime Prayer
EP: Evening Prayer
NP: Night Prayer
I too have had a problem a couple of times locating the corresponding Psalsm, Readings, etc. to what was printed online here, or the Reading was shorter than the one in my Christian Prayer Single Volume or the pages for the feast or solemnity caused me confusion. At Christmas I needed to go to my missal to find the Collects. Sometimes my St. Joseph Guide for 2012 helps me find the difference Intercession or Responses, and sometimes I just go with whatever is written here. The Lord knows I’m trying and that’s what counts, I think. God bless you
January 20th, 2012 at 06:51
All — Peace to you!
After using your web-based DivineOffice a couple of days, I offer the following comments for your consideration. If I am covering old ground, please forgive me, but you have so many comments I don’t have time to read them all!
INVITATORY. The Invitatory should precede the first prayer of the day; either the Office of Readings or Morning Prayer (per the ‘rubrics’ of the Divine Office).
If it precedes the Office, the “God come to my assistance through the Glory to the Father … Alleluia” is omitted and we proceed directly to the hymn.
If it precedes Morning Prayer, “God come to my assistance through the Glory to the Father … Alleluia” is omitted and we proceed directly to the hymn.
In that the vast majority of folks I know and have prayed with over the past 12 years begin the day with Morning Prayer, would encourage you to add that option as: Invitatory with Morning Prayer.
READING. The specific Readings are identified in Red (as are the Psalms and Canticles), so they are not announced. For example, today is Jan 20th, and the READING is Ephesians 2:13-16 for Morning Prayer. In the Divine Office, both are Red meaning do not read the specific book. In your presentation of the reading, you have the reading in Black, which would suggest it be read. I have never seen this before.
Further, there should be a note following the reading identifying the option to add a short homily before ‘Sacred Silence’.
Thanks for listening!
Deacon Nick Nichols
January 20th, 2012 at 06:48
This is very interesting. I love your website and all the prayers here. It’s kind of ironic because I was studying on my own Renaissance art history and came across Smart History’s explanation of Andrea Mantegna’s St. Sebastian. I didn’t even know who St. Sebastian was until you wrote his bio for the feast day. Here’s the link to the video from Smart History:
http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/Mantegna-Saint-Sebastian
January 20th, 2012 at 05:27
Just another fruit of your work. I have been away from the LOTH and all fervent living of my the Faith for over a year and a half. Now, after reading the comments and listening to the prayers, God is leading me back to this life of prayer. Thank you for this ministry that edifies and positively constructs the Church. For those praying for us who are just outside the fence, keep it up. It is working. Now, to morning prayer…Thank you brothers and sisters.
January 19th, 2012 at 11:08
FACEBOOK LINK DOES NOT SEEM TO BE POSTING “RECOMMEND”????
January 18th, 2012 at 10:11
I use the Liturgy of Hours Vol I thru IV but it seems I must be missing something. Some of the prayers of the day are different then the ones I download for the Ipod? Is there a supplement I should be using and how do I find out the location of the prayers your site uses at different times?
God Bless You All!
GrandmaO
January 18th, 2012 at 00:31
I just wanted you all to know that your website is appreciated here in the north of Scotland in the town of Wick. I am a Church of Scotland minister and I have found your site extremely helpful on ordering my own devotional life. Congratulations all round.
January 17th, 2012 at 11:34
Sorry to bother you again. What are the meanings of RD, OOR, PR, MP, Ps, PR, DP, EP, Ps, NP, All.
I know some but I want your interpretation.
Thank You
Deacon
January 17th, 2012 at 11:25
My Friends;
I am confused. The nos. shown for morning prayer for instance (891 etc.) do not match the readings,psalms etc with the St. Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours. I am confused. I have been ordained for 30yrs. and have intermittenly used the Liturgy. Now I know why. PLEASE HELP ME.
Yours in Christ
Deacon Dick
January 17th, 2012 at 10:47
I really appreciate your staff’s patience with seemingly unimportant criticisms and corrections. I am in particular praying for Cathoholic. The old proverb says that if you wash the dishes you’re going to break a dish sometimes. Thank you for your service.
January 17th, 2012 at 05:29
@The Cathoholic
Thank you! A bit late and I’m sorry but I fixed it!
January 16th, 2012 at 03:09
Greetings. This site has helped me very much because I’ve always found LOTH difficult. OBTW, Ps 31 in OOR today is missing an “I” I think. Thanks so much for all your good work.
January 16th, 2012 at 02:28
In today’s (1/16) Morning Prayer, there is a misspelling in the Psalm-Prayer section. Where is reads, “So now that the surging waves of our indignation have passed over us” it should be, “So now that the surging waves of your indignation have passed over us.” The audio is correct.
January 15th, 2012 at 19:13
The closing prayer for Evening Prayer Sunday January 15 was the wrong prayer as spoken.
January 14th, 2012 at 13:26
Wayne, it is very unfortunate that LOTH is not considered important as the church tells us. In our parish we fought with our pastor and then with the bishop to allows us to pray the Divine Office. AND WE WON! One must make our clergy aware of how important this prayer is second only to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Even Pope Benedict as said that we should pray the Office daily, even only Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. THIS IS OUR RIGHT AND WE SHOULD BRING THIS RIGHT BEFORE OUR LOCAL CLERGY.
January 14th, 2012 at 13:18
It would be really great if someone would put Morning and/or Evening Prayer for Ordinary Time into music. There is nothing available for singing the psalms. We could all contribute for the composition.
What does the praying community think?
Manuel
January 12th, 2012 at 08:14
@The Cathoholic: thank you but I’m more interested in zoom text only, not text size.
January 12th, 2012 at 06:45
@Michael. Here are instructions for increasing or decreasing the text size in all browsers:
http://sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl/main/adjust.html
January 10th, 2012 at 18:45
@The Cathoholic I’m referring to the main text of the Divine Office website (i.e., the prayers and the readings).
Firefox>View>Zoom>Zoom Text Only>Ctrl+ or Ctrl- (nice)
IE>View>Text size> (doesn’t work)
January 10th, 2012 at 14:51
We pray Evening Pray in English on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and in Spanish on Thursday and Friday. We would like to sing some or all the psalms. Where can we find music (Plain Chant or otherwise) ?
thanks,
Manuel
January 10th, 2012 at 07:03
@cingball
I’m sorry for that error in the Invitatory antiphon. I went back and fixed it. Thank you for your help!
January 10th, 2012 at 05:27
@Michael. It is actually available in all of the major browsers under “View”. If you are in IE or Firefox and don’t see the Menu with “View” on it, Press the “Alt” button first and it will appear. After you select text only, you just need to press Ctrl and + at the same time, or Ctrl and – to make it smaller.
January 9th, 2012 at 11:11
I found a cool way to enlarge the text only on your website by clicking on view>zoom>zoom text only. This is available on the Mozilla Firefox browser. Enjoy!
January 9th, 2012 at 09:01
You guys rock, but your grammatical error in today’s Invitatory antiphon is driving me up a wall. I work closely with rappers and it just sounds like Lil’ Kim is in my head saying the antiphon.
You guys have–
Ant. Come, let us worship Christ, the beloved Son in whom the Father is well please.
It’s supposed to be–
Ant. Come, let us worship Christ, the beloved Son in whom the Father is well pleaseD. Pleased.
Thanks and keep up the great work!
PS: I bought the Catholicpedia and it is awesome.
January 8th, 2012 at 10:02
SUGGESTED COMMUNITY PROJECT FOR 2012
It is such a shame that I have yet to visit the webpage of a Roman Catholic Archdioce, Diocese, or parish and see a link for the celebration of the Daily Office (Liturgy of the Hours). Most of them will have a link for the daily scripture readings from the Mass and links for other devotionals. It is as if the celebration of the Daily Office is slowly disappearing from the liturgical life of the Catholic Church in the United States. Whereas almost all of the webpages for Episcopal Dioceses and parishes that I have visited will have such a link; as do most webpages for Orthodox and Maronite parishes. You do have to admire the dedication and devotion Episcopalians have to their Daily Office and their zeal in propogating its celebration.
It is so sad that the Conference of Bishops and the Ordinaries of dioceses and pastors of parishes in the United States expend so little energy and effort to promote the celebration of the Daily Offices. Internet webpages are such dynamic and powerful tools for encouraging such celebrations.
Perhaps as a community we can take on the project of encouraging the persons in charge of maintaining the parish webpage to include such links. What a wonderful and easy way to spread the word about celebrating the Daily Office.
January 7th, 2012 at 13:00
The color of the small size fonts you use is a little light for me, making the letters not quite as sharp. Any chance of using a darker color font when the letters are in the small size? Thanks, Rob
January 6th, 2012 at 11:55
Happy New Year to all of you, and thank you for your faithful and generous ministry and service. May God bless you in the light of His Love and Peace!
January 6th, 2012 at 07:32
I noticed that today was denominated in the iPhone app as the memorial of Blessed Andre Bessette. Perhaps you were not aware; Bl. Andre was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 17, 2010. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Bessette#Death_and_path_to_canonization. Just thought I’d let you know so you can update your information for future years.
God bless you for all you do; this app has been very helpful in my own life, as I have been unemployed for almost three years and don’t know how I’d cope without God in my life.
Regards, Joe Hurley
January 6th, 2012 at 04:25
@Metanoia Antoine, on the right side of this web page there is a link to “Subscribe to our rss Feed” with a bright orange icon. Right click on the link and then left click on “Open link to a new tab” (or on “Open link to a new window”, as you wish). Go to that new tab or new window; there you will find the text for all three Daytime Office (Terce, Sext, None) along with an .mp3 audio link. I too used to go to other websites for the text of the three offices until i discovered this method.
January 5th, 2012 at 23:00
@Metanoia Antoine, we do provide a free compline app in the Apple App Store. To answer your question about providing all the daytime prayers I can tell you that they are all available on our Divine Office apps for iPhone, iPad, iTouch, Android, Kindle Fire, and a few others I can’t recall at the moment. They will become available on our web site as we roll out new technology in 2012. We are resisting the urge to do a redesign on our existing site because it would be a cost that would only bring these Daytime prayers to everyone for a few months and then our new technology would replace them. So we view making all the daytime prayers available on our web site as a poor investment of our resources. We don’t know for certain when these prayers will become available, but I am guessing the April to June timeframe.
January 5th, 2012 at 17:10
@Qwatzo: Same Here! I haven’t recieved in iTunes Compline (I only automatically downloaded the Compline for January 4th) I always DL them manually from this site.
Well there is a troubleshoot there.
Every 2 weeks or every month. If this problem persist. Unsubscribe to Divine Office in your iTunes then resubscribe. If it still won’t work, if you use an Apple Product (MacBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad) there is is a FREE App also from divineoffice.org that is necessarily for Compline (@Dane, am I right? Is that Free App from this site as well?) Well the Paid Mac/Apple App has the complete Audio/Text of the Liturgy of the Hours from Invitatory to Compline
@Dane: When will be Terce (Midmorning) and None (Midafternoon) Prayer Texts be available to this site. I’m using another breviary website to get those text for free! O:)
January 5th, 2012 at 17:01
Praise God! Happy NEW YEAR to the people of divineoffice.org. . .
I’ll just ask whether the Hymn for Today’s OOR (For unto us a Child is born) is from Part I Handel’s Glorious Oratorio, Messiah??? I have heard it during the Advent-Christmas Season and it was very striking to me. O:)
January 3rd, 2012 at 21:00
Dane, never mind my earlier comment I found the reading under Common of Holy Women… whew! I was mighty lost for a while. Once again Thank you and God Bless you and your team. Ruben
January 2nd, 2012 at 17:23
After at least six months of not being able to load the audio for any of the hours, I was able to play Evening Prayer tonight. I had received for Christmas the promise of a new (to me) computer to address this very issue from my technogeek son and son-in-law but nothing had been done yet. I bought a new monitor and installed it today and in exploring it made the wonderful discovery that I have LOTH back! I would love to know whom to thank besides the Holy Spirit. Have you made any changes to the system that put me back in business? I noticed that my additional issue a couple of months back with the text running off the edge of the page was resolved although I happened on that one by chance as well. It is great to be able to listen as well as read. Thanks to whoever was responsible!
January 1st, 2012 at 06:14
QUESTION???
I SUBSCRIBE TO FEEDS, BUT NEVER RECEIVE NIGHT PRAYERS. PLEASE SEND.
GOD BLESS,
QWATZO
January 1st, 2012 at 04:41
Best WIshes to you all for a Holy, Blessed, and Happy New Year! May God continue to bless this ministry and bring more seeking souls to the constant prayer of the Universal Church!
+JMJ+ John
December 31st, 2011 at 17:43
Hello Dane and all, Happy New Year! I as going to ask the same question as in #5 below regarding the Confetior from the Roman Missal Third Typical Edition. Additionally I notice that there is no Night Prayer for tomorrow (1 Jan 2012) and during Night prayer when there is one female voice praying the Canticle of Simeon she says, “Lord now let your servant . . ” and the text says , “Lord, now YOU let your servant . . .”
I know it’s picky stuff but I pray night prayer on my drive to work at 11:00 p.m. and try to pay close attention to the prayers and readings. Thank you for all your hard work in this wonderful ministry it is a blessing to so many of us.
Again Happy New Year to you, to all who toil with you in your ministry and all whom you hold dear.
My best,
Pete
December 31st, 2011 at 15:11
Dane Please pray for Edward Hercel He Ha needs operation on his back. He is very sick.
My Wife Deanna is not doing well. Read Psalms 37 38 & 39. When I rear them My entire life flashed in front of me My book will be built around them. book is about my life
December 31st, 2011 at 09:40
FYI re: Psalmody for Daytime Prayer of Solemnities on Sundays (please refer to the General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours):
Chapter IV Various Celebrations throughout the Year
paragraph 229: “At Daytime Prayer the hymn of the weekday is used, unless other directions are given. The psalms are from the gradual psalms, with a proper antiphon. ON SUNDAYS the psalms are taken from the SUNDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK of the four week psalter, and the reading and concluding prayer are proper. On certain solemnities of the Lord there are special psalms.”
From the above directive, I would think that praying the psalms from Sunday of the second week of the four week psalter at Midday Prayer would not be in unity with the Universal Church.
December 31st, 2011 at 01:44
Could someone please update the evening prayer 1 for Dec 31 to the Solemnity Mary Mother of God instead of Sylvester I,Pope and the Night Prayer as well.
December 30th, 2011 at 05:48
On the right sidebar on any of your webpages are the links to the apps. The top one is a link to the Kindle version, but the link actually takes you to the Android app.
Could you please update it with the correct link? And I DO hope it is for other versions of Kindles, and not just Kindle Fire.
December 29th, 2011 at 18:47
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December 29th, 2011 at 07:07
A further question on the use of prayers from the new translation of the Roman Missal: Will we soon see the use of the new Confeteor during Night Prayer as well?
December 29th, 2011 at 03:56
Thanks for the explanation, this morning, on the use of the updated version of the concluding prayer in the morning and evening office. I had wondered about the propriety of continuing to use the prayer in my breviary. Seems answered now. I agree the updating the English language Liturgy of the Office will be a huge undertaking. God Bless, and thank you for this service.
December 28th, 2011 at 19:24
On the iphone we are missing the Invitatory for the 28th, 29th and the 30th. No Night prayer for today the 28th. Tried reloading doesn’t change it.
December 28th, 2011 at 18:17
Here is information on Commemorations. The numbers in [] refer to the section from the General Instructions.
1. On Advent weekdays from 17 Dec through 24 Dec, the Octave of Christmas, and on weekdays of Lent, no obligatory memorials are celebrated. Any memorials assigned to any of these days are optional memorials [238]
2. The Liturgy of the Hours assigns optional memorials that occur on these days the status of “Commemoration”. On these days, the text liturgy of the hours assigned to the seasonal day are used. If it is desired to also celebrate the office of the saint: At morning and evening prayer, the ending of the concluding prayer may be omitted, and the and saint’s antiphon and prayer are added [239b]. During the Office of the Readings, after the patristic reading(i.e. second reading) with its repository from the Proper of the Seasons, a proper reading concerning the saint (and its repository) may follow, along with the concluding prayer of the saint [239a].
So Thursday December 29th is the Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas observance of the Optional Memorial of St Thomas Beckett would be a Commemoration since it falls during the Octave of Easter. Morning and Evening Prayer for the Fifth Day in the Octave of Christmas must be used; the antiphon and concluding prayer for St Thomas may be used after the concluding prayer from the Octave; a third reading (with its repository) from the patristic reading assigned to St Thomas may be used. In most instances, however, the prayers for St Thomas would not be used at all.
December 28th, 2011 at 13:56
In the Android version, the Invititory Psalm and antiphon is missing from today’s and tomorrow’s office.
December 28th, 2011 at 02:48
Some errors in the audio portion of the Morning Reading for Dec. 28:
In Antiphon 3, there is an unusually long pause at the beginning. So much so that if it weren’t for the music playing in the background, I would have thought the sound file had frozen.
Also in Antiphon 3, the reader gets tongue-tied and says “you have found praise to foil yo enemies.”
In Psalm 149, paragraph 3, the reader says, “to dill out vengeance” instead of “deal.”
December 27th, 2011 at 18:34
The Divine Office has provided a great blessing to my prayer life and depth to my faith. My 7-year-old son requests the Evening Prayer while he’s going to sleep – he tends to have trouble falling asleep, but the sweet recitations of the Word and the prayers calm his spirit…and mine. Thank you so much for this site.
December 27th, 2011 at 06:59
Merry Christmas, and thank you for pointing that out, I fixed the text.
December 27th, 2011 at 06:24
@JSharpsteen If you removed and re-installed it should work fine. You should try restarting your device and let the app download all contents for a few hours. You can also manually trigger the download from the prayer screen through the menu.
December 27th, 2011 at 05:45
Good Morning and Merry Christmas!
I just wanted you to know that for Morning Prayer today (Dec. 27) the last Antiphon after Psalm 149 is incorrect.
Thank you and God Bless!
December 27th, 2011 at 04:32
Have you found anyone to research and write information on commemoration days?
December 27th, 2011 at 03:14
I purchased the app for my android phone last summer. It worked great for months, but now it won’t download audio for some of the hours (e.g., OOR and MP). I tried uninstalling and re-installing several times.
December 26th, 2011 at 07:23
Christmas Blessings.
I have been a frequent listener for the past year and have also recommended your website to friends.
It would help so much if you would provide a choice of BOTH the chanted version AND the spoken version each day. That way, when one version just doesn’t suit the listener, the other version will.
May God shower His abundant blessings on all.
December 26th, 2011 at 06:13
Merry Christmas!
December 25th, 2011 at 07:51
A Merry and Blessed Christmas to all.
FYI…the RSS feed appears not to be working. The last episodes posted are for Saturday, Dec 24.
iTunes is working just fine. The last episodes posted there are for Monday, Dec 26.
Also, FYI, according to Christian Prayer, page 151, “Each day [of the Octave] either form of Night Prayer from Sunday, page 1034 or page 1037, is said.” Instead, Night Prayer for the current day of the week is being posted. Just thought you might want to know.
December 24th, 2011 at 14:45
Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2011 at 06:36
A Blessed Christmas and New Year to all who make this beautiful resource possible and to all who come here to partake of it. +JMJ+ John
December 23rd, 2011 at 17:05
For the approximate English translation of the hymn for Evening Prayer, Friday December 23, “Ô Dieu de Clémence,” I believe that the translation should read: “Celestial victim, who Closes the abyss”, rather than “Celestial victim, Close to the abyss.” “Fermer” means “to shut or “to close.”
December 15th, 2011 at 19:11
av, Peace to you,
You can get the Liturgy of Hour Guides for the various volumes from the Catholic Book Publishing Company. It is easy to find online.
Pax et Bonum,
Paul
CFP Novice 1
December 15th, 2011 at 03:20
I did not know about the Divine Office until I stumbled onto this WEB site. Doing these prayers everyday deepens my faith and brings me closer to Christ. Thank you for introducing me to the Divine Office.
December 14th, 2011 at 16:26
frandy:for advent and the Christmas Season the little hours of Terce, Sext and None there is only one antiphon said at the beginning of thefirst psalm and at the end of the third psalm. that is why the office of the season only gives one antiphon for each hour. These hours follow different rules than the other hours i.e. morning and evening prayer etc. where the office of the season gives an antiphon for each psalm and also the Benedictus and the Magnificat. Whoever prints the little hours is doing it right. God bless your work.! frandy Hvae a Blessed Nativity of Our Lord Jesus..
December 14th, 2011 at 13:09
Is there anyway I can get an e-copy/online copy of the St. Joseph’s guide for the liturgy of the hours?
December 14th, 2011 at 05:35
also, can you please resume IOS 4.2.1 support for catholic prayer app and other surgeworks apps like the medjugorje messages? thanks and God bless
December 14th, 2011 at 04:54
thank you so much for resuming the ipod touch support (i read the update on facebook). I’m an ipod touch 2g user and was really disappointed when I updated the firmware and could no longer re-download divine office. thanks for bringing it back and keeping in mind that some of us still have the older ipods!
December 13th, 2011 at 11:41
Thank you, indeed correct is “known”. Typo corrected!
Monica
December 13th, 2011 at 06:25
From Dec 13 Morning Prayer:
Be gracious and bless us, Lord, and let your face shed its light on us, so that we can make you know with reverence and bring forth a harvest of justice.
Should it be “known” rather than “know”?
December 13th, 2011 at 05:01
thank you so much for the divine office ive been looking for it but now found it from ds website. before i used to listen to monastery podcast. but this one is complete. thank you so much.
December 12th, 2011 at 08:12
Dane,
How can I change the amount of my monthly contribution?
Emil
efgies39@gmail.com
December 10th, 2011 at 13:22
I do stand corrected. On November 17, 2011, the Most Rev. Gregory Aymond, Archbishop of New Orleans and and head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Divine Worship, provided clarification on the use of the new translation of the Roman Missal in services and rites outside of Mass. The guidelines included instruction that for the Liturgy of the Hours, when the concluding prayer is from the Mass of the Day, the current translation in the Liturgy of the Hours may continue to be used, “although the new version found in the Roman Missal will also be acceptable.”
December 10th, 2011 at 09:15
I have bought the program for the Divine Office for the Ipad 2 WiFi only, but I am very dissapointed as it is not a download of the Book of the Divine Office but everytime you have to have access to the internet. I could have accessed it through the website if I knew that it has to download everytime. Hope this will be solved in the near future. Thanks
December 10th, 2011 at 07:27
Good morning,
l notice that back to top does not work on my Kindle Fire. Also, for Night Prayers at the Examination of Consc ience the “I confess. …” is the old format pre Roman Missal III. Someone else had mentioned placing little red crosses in the three places in Morning. Prayers and Evening Prayers in the three places where it is to be made. This would serve as a reminder to all.
Thanks,
Deacon Jim Mellen
December 9th, 2011 at 16:16
@ajwarren, The new English translation of the concluding prayer is offered as a second choice on iBreviary. It will be the same as the one in Mass. Also, changes and updates will probably appear online before they appear in print.
December 9th, 2011 at 15:12
Michael Says:
December 6th, 2011 at 15:55
It looks like you have the new English translation of the concluding prayers. Nice.
Well, I am not sure this is strictly valid. I am not aware of any indult that permits the replacement of the concluding prayer with the new translations of the Collect from the English Version of the Third Roman Missal. The only two versions of the Liturgy of the Hours approved for use in the United States is the 4-volume Set or the 1-volume Christian Prayer (supplemented by texts for new feast days that have been added since the publication of these volumes).
Granted, the new translations in the Third Roman Edition and the current text in the LOH are based on the same Latin text. However, changes to Mass texts do not automatically carry over to the LOH. For example, the LOH continues to use the original version of the New American Bible for new testament texts, while, in the United States, the Revised New American Bible is used at Mass.
December 9th, 2011 at 14:26
Hi frandy, when we looked at the general instructions we decided it said to put the antiphons at the beginning and end of a psalm, but not parts of a psalm. Do you know for sure that the antiphon should be at the beginning of the entire psalmody and then once more at the end?
December 9th, 2011 at 08:38
[Sorry, i guess i hit enter before ending my comment ] Monica the text is right; Dane something needs to be done? I enjoy your work and pray my office with you every day, after 50+ yrs. much more meaningful. GOD BLESS YOU ALL>
December 9th, 2011 at 08:25
Great work! However, You might need to know that in Advent when at the day prayers [terce, sext and none] only one antiphon is mentioned, it is used once at the beginning of the first psalm and once at the end of the third
December 7th, 2011 at 11:03
Although I am not Catholic, I’m finding the Divine Office app to be very uplifting – not very different from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. I really appreciate that the narrators speak slowly so that there is time to digest and ponder the meaning of what is being read. Thanks!
December 7th, 2011 at 04:21
In August, I began visiting your sight and I absolutely love it. BUT…….Is there any possibility in getting one of your ‘actors/readers’ to just simply ‘pray’ and avoid interpretation?I don’t want to offend anyone but I’m finding it quite disturbing. I love this sight and look forward to it each morning but I find myself becoming irritated at the sound of it.
Bless you all in your ministry,
VMH
December 7th, 2011 at 02:07
Deacon Ken,
You are right on! Saint Nicholas of current legend and our current age needs to be connected to the past and not just lost to our present secular society. My selection of music was intentional because it mixed a modern secular theme of “Santa Clause is coming to town” with a great saint who is the Bishop of Myra and responsible for the real miracles you sited. I fully intended to bring home the message that the legacy of Santa Claus today is tied to that great saint. To me he represents Jesus in that he once came into the world, he made disciples (children), who grew up (to become parents), and taught new disciples (their children) love, faith,and charity until they themselves become and in our present day we as parents are bringing Santa Claus (and Jesus) to town (Earth).
I feel that we must reclaim our traditions and our saints so that their sacrificial and sanctified lives are not lost upon an increasingly secular commercial world who might think that Santa Clause is not Saint Nicholas, but rather Chriss Kringle.
December 6th, 2011 at 15:55
It looks like you have the new English translation of the concluding prayers. Nice.
December 6th, 2011 at 13:24
I can’t believe what I just heard. “Santa Clause is Coming to Town” as the background music for the Feast Day for St. Nicholas.
Thought you might be interested in some of the legends about St. Nicholas, least of which is that he was the forerunner of Santa Clause
•Upon hearing that a local man had fallen on such hard times that he was planning to sell his daughters into prostitution, Nicholas went by night to the house and threw three bags of gold in through the window, saving the girls from an evil life. These three bags, gold generously given in time of trouble, became the three golden balls that indicate a pawn broker’s shop.
•He raised to life three young boys who had been murdered and pickled in a barrel of brine to hide the crime. These stories led to his patronage of children in general, and of barrel-makers besides.
•Induced some thieves to return their plunder. This explains his protection against theft and robbery, and his patronage of them – he’s not helping them steal, but to repent and change. In the past, thieves have been known as Saint Nicholas’ clerks or Knights of Saint Nicholas.
•During a voyage to the Holy Lands, a fierce storm blew up, threatening the ship. He prayed about it, and the storm calmed – hence the patronage of sailors and those like dockworkers who work on the sea.
December 6th, 2011 at 11:02
@dstreit3 — You can use an RSS reader with our feed or podcast from iTunes. From there you should be able to print it out if you want. You can find the link to our RSS feed on our website in the right sidebar.
December 6th, 2011 at 11:01
@bjk55a Are you using our app or mobile safari?
December 6th, 2011 at 11:00
@drn3rd We have a prototype for the website based on google maps, but never had the good time to find a nice place for it on our current website layout.
December 6th, 2011 at 10:59
@emil, I think the only way is to cancel your recurring contribution and create it again.
December 5th, 2011 at 16:53
Thanks for pointing out the errors. They have now been fixed! When you see errors I invite you to send and email to two people as follows:
Dane Falkner
admin@divineoffice.org
Monica
monica@divineoffice.org
I fix the audio and Monica fixes text issues.
December 5th, 2011 at 10:09
Thank you for the wonderful work and the great service you are providing. I use your site daily. There are sometimes slight discrepancies between the written text and audio, usually relatively insignificant and easy enough to ignore, but sometimes these discrepancies radically change the meaning. One reader (male voice) often speaks different ‘pronouns’ which alter the meaning quite significantly, and with the words of Jesus in mind that we are not to change one ‘iota’ of Scripture I feel compelled to bring this to your attention, since the same audio files are used over and over with the same errors. I won’t list all the changes I’ve noticed in this email, but kindly ask that you please review the files to correct these errors/discrepancies. For example, in today’s Morning Prayer there are three such discrepancies between the text and audio use of pronouns.
Psalm Prayer
So now that the surging waves of your indignation -text
So now that the surging waves of our indignation – audio
Canticle – Sirach 36:1-5, 10-13
Thus they will know, as we know – text
Thus they will know, as you know – audio
Concluding Prayer
your servants may come, as they desire – text
your servants may come, as we desire – audio
God bless and keep up the great work!
December 4th, 2011 at 17:40
Where did you get the concluding prayer for the Evening Prayer for December 4th? This was not the prayer listed in vol. 1.
December 4th, 2011 at 13:55
How do I adjust the amount of my monthly recurring contribution?
December 4th, 2011 at 09:17
Dane, Can people who use the website on their computers see the spinning globe of those at prayer or is only for those who use an app. If yes, how?
December 2nd, 2011 at 20:52
I like the woman who did the first reading for the OOR for December 3. It’s a pleasure to hear her.
December 2nd, 2011 at 10:09
I had being able to access divine office with it’s daily prayers on my iphone but for the last two days i only can access the site with no prayers. Can you tell me what is happening?
November 29th, 2011 at 19:18
In regards to tonight’s evening prayer HYMN
“We welcome members of our community to contribute the lyrics for this hymn
Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus by The University Of Notre Dame Folk Choir”
Contact the Choir directly at http://www.nd.edu/~folk/contact.html
And many thank you’s for this wonderful ministry.
November 28th, 2011 at 15:14
I don’t have a cell phone, only a PDA with Windows Mobile.
Any possibility of making an HTML file available for download?
November 27th, 2011 at 17:41
Thanks again for your wonderful ministry. It is so easy to pray the breviary now when I travel on my car… with my mobile connected to my car radio…
I have noticed that one can not download daytime prayer mp3 file (I use a Nokia E5). This started to happen today on 27th November. It is not possible download it from your Webpage as well.
Is there any solution to that problem?
Thanks a million and God bless you,
November 26th, 2011 at 00:56
This, certainly, is a fantastic ministry! you are not just helping people to pray around the globe, you are accompanying millions of people to render a constant praise to God. I thank you sincerely for this great prayer help which I have become a beneficiary of quite recently.
In the midst of all the dangers and glamour that invites an ordinary user of the web you give us the still voice of God inviting us to pray. When time is virtually stolen by technology you again let technology speak the voice of God. Kudos to you all and molto grazie!
May the Holy Spirit continue to direct this ministry of yours and make it bear abundant fruit.
November 22nd, 2011 at 16:55
Thank you for this site you have been a blessing since i am so busy and everything is ready for my morning prayer and at night so tired that i can pray with voices lying down to rest my back again Thank you God Bless!!!!
November 20th, 2011 at 11:23
Thank you for pointing out for us the typo. I fixed it and please fell free to bring to our attention any other error you find, is always nice to see people close enough to the work we make, to want to help.
All text related issues you can send to monica.geana@surgeworks.com . I will be happy to fix them and also, remember to use our Support Site, http://getsatisfaction.com/divine_office
for specific feature requests or bug reports.
November 19th, 2011 at 09:47
Although it is not relevant for many these days, I still think we should spell things correctly. I’m pretty sure it was a mistake while typing the lyrics in the web page. The hymn for Nov. 18. is Via Dolorosa. The second line of the fourth paragraph reads Los saldados, it should read Los soldados, that is the correct Spanish spelling. I thank God everyday for all of you involved in this marvelous ministry!!! Thanks and God bless you all!!! Hamba Vangeli!!!!
November 18th, 2011 at 10:21
LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!!
I don’t think I can emphasize enough how much I appreciated you guys for doing the Liturgy of the hours so easy and beautiful to pray.
Praying them has help me go trough some rough times right now in my life.
In the past when I had prayed them by my self it is not the same, Just hearing your beautiful calm voices, gets me in a different mood, this is even without counting the music that makes it go to a higher level.
I have even learn to prayer slowly, not like someone is right behind me trying to beat me at the finish line
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Thank you for been here for me, and let me know that I’m not by myself that we have a big community, that we are one body in Christ, and that I’m never alone praying to God and that just like he promise when there is two or more praying on my name I’m there. He is listening to our praise and petitions, because now I’m always praying with someone and not by myselfe. With this application I know someone around the word it is praying at the same time that I am.
GRACIAS!!!
November 18th, 2011 at 09:05
LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!! LOVE IT!!!
I don’t think I can emphasize enough how much I you guys for doing the Liturgy of the hours so easy and beautiful to pray.
Doing them has help me go trough some rough times right now in my life. Praying them by my self it is not the same, Just hearing your beautiful calm voices, gets me in a different mood, this is even without counting the music that makes it go to a higher level.
I have even learn to prayer slowly, not like someone is right behind me trying to get in the line.
Thank you for been here for me, and let me know that I’m not by myself that we have a big community, that we are one body in Christ, and that I’m never alone praying to God and the is always there listening to our praise and petitions
November 17th, 2011 at 07:17
Today’s Morning Prayer was beautiful. Please have more of the chanting by the Carlow Choir.
I follow the same procedure as Bizzyh87, that is, download the podcasts from iTune to my Sony MP3 player. Sometimes only a day or two appears and on day of Night Prayer often is missing. This week it was November 16th. I can cut and paste from your website or I have saved old ones and then try to figure out what previous date is the current day of the week. Other prayer sites from iTunes do not seem to have this problem and I can download a whole week and don’t have to go back every couple of days.
Blessings & Prayers Deacon Ken
November 17th, 2011 at 06:58
To Christoper Lange. Thank you Christopher. I looked up the General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours and paragraph 122 does give three options on praying the Divine Office and one of those is praying it responsorially. I had not heard it done that way so I learnt something new. I sounds like all the psalms can be sung with the antiphon after each stanza. God bless your day!
November 15th, 2011 at 19:02
Please visit the website http://www.abcsoffaith.com and consider adding them as a link under your “Good Resources” section on the bottom right of your web page. I arrived at their site going three levels deep from here. I think it would benefit other visitors to divineoffice.org.
Thanks and God bless you,
Deacon Jim Mellen
deacon.jim.mellen@gmail.com
November 15th, 2011 at 15:25
Good evening, Many thanks for this wonderful service. But I use itunes to download your podcasts and then copy to my mp3 player. Often the night prayer is missing, and this has been so for the last four or five days now. I can download it separately from your website, which is what I am doing, but it isn’t so neat as doing the whole lot automatically through itunes. NB I dont have an iplayer, just an Sony mp3, but it has no influence on what is dowloaded as a podcast. I just wondered whether you new that this was happening. Thanks and God bless.
November 15th, 2011 at 13:43
@Sister Rita
I was taught that the Introductory Psalms (Ps 95, 100, 67, and 24) could all have the stanza-antiphon arrangement. Ps 8, 46, and 147 have also been cited as particularly suited for this arrangement as well within the LOH. I am not sure if any of those were the ones in the app or not.
Hope this is useful!
November 15th, 2011 at 09:17
Good morning Divine Office,
Your Web page on my Nokia E5 has been frozen, since yesterday morning.
I can`t see anymore days but November 14th and 15th 2011? it happened before on 9th November, and I have been told that you usually use Mac platform. Can you please solve this problem for the people like me who use Symbian on our cell phones.
Thanks and God bless you all,
Fr Jose Simionato
November 13th, 2011 at 18:05
There are three English versions of the Divine Office — one for use in the United States and Canada, and one for use in most other English speaking countries, and a third…a more recent work, for use in Africa. . All are based on the Latin version (1971 editio typica) –so the prayers and readings are similar, but different translations have been used. The US/Canada and UK/Australia versions use the 1963 Grail Psalter — so that the Psalms should be similar. The US version uses the original version of the New American Bible for scripture (other than the Psalms), while the UK/Australia version uses several different translations.
The versions of the antiphons and second readings in the Office of Readings are also rendered differently — but, again are based on the same underlying Latin texts.
One notable difference: the “Psalm-Prayers” that occur at the end of a reading of a psalm in the four week Psalter. These prayers are not part of the Latin version –and are unique to the US/Canadian version.
In 1998, the US Bishops implemented a revised translation for the New Testament readings (based on the Revised New American Bible), however the Liturgy of the Hours in the US and Canada continues to use the original New American Bible translation.
November 13th, 2011 at 07:10
Blessings on your wonderful ministry. Was wondering if in the last few weeks you’ve made design changes that would have eliminated the brown background for the old-style mobile view of the site? I have a Windows 6.5 phone so can’t use an app and thus I download your audio off iTunes. But on Saturdays I do vespers and compline with the nuns at a local monastery and like to call up text of the prayers in Opera, which I used to be able to see with white letters on a brown background in one easy-to-read wide column, rather than mobile Internet Explorer’s WYSIWYG view that is hard to zoom in on. Since two Saturdays ago the background is white and the white text can’t be seen. All I see are ads and a few thin horizontal lines in different colors. Am hopeful this wonderful feature can be restored.
November 13th, 2011 at 06:34
God bless you for this wonderful production of the Divine Office. I was blessed wathis chanted accompaniment this morning. Keep up the good work.
I had one comment — traditionally the antiphon is repeated after each stanza only for the invitatory psalm. I was wondering if the repetition of the antiphons after each stanza for the psalms during morning prayer was deliberate?
Another traditional way to begin the Benedictus and the Magnificat is with the “Sign of the Cross” to honor the recitation or chanting of the Gospel. A rubric to indicate this would be great.
Thank you again. What a wonderful work to encourage everyone to to participate in the Liturgy of the Hours in our day. I will pass this on to many of our friends.
November 13th, 2011 at 05:06
Good morning. It looks as though the text issue has been resolved. Many thanks
God Bless
j
/;-)
November 13th, 2011 at 00:53
Hi Divine office,
I want to listen Night Prayer for Wednesday 9 November, but I can’t download. Could you help me pls?
Thank you for all your help!!!
TheresaNguyen.
November 12th, 2011 at 16:46
The Australian Divine Office is in three volumes and the US Divine Office is in four volumes. Is this just a different layout, or are the readings set up differently?
November 12th, 2011 at 15:36
First of all, thank you for your wonderful ministry. I’ve been a faithful user of the divine office app for over a year now. I travel a lot, so this is extremely helpful
I am writing to get help on a problem I started experiencing this morning (not sure if others have a similar problem). I was able to play the audio files with the app, but I cannot see any of the text at all (except for the heading). Please let me know if there is a way to fix. Thanks! And have a blessed night.
November 12th, 2011 at 04:21
I have been enjoying the short explanations you have been providing of the “Saint(s) of the day or Feast. I am wondering where these are from as I would like to view the images cited at the bottom of each of these entries. God Bless You All Abundantly !
November 11th, 2011 at 07:40
Good morning. I am downloading new episodes and noticed that there is no Night Prayer for Sunday 13 November and Wednesday 16 Nov is incomplete. Thank you for all you do in this wonderful ministry.
Pax et bonum,
Pete
November 11th, 2011 at 03:56
To Mauro,
It has worked since this morning. Thank you very much indeed. It´s a wonderful application and very useful indeed for my busy day. I usually download it on my Nokia E5 and pray when I drive with my bluetooth radio car.
Thanks again
Fr Jose
November 11th, 2011 at 03:37
We will be working on the IE8/IE9 issue and will try to reproduce and fix it. Most of us are Mac users so we didn’t notice it until the first reports came in. I’ll post here when done. Thank you for your reports!
November 11th, 2011 at 03:32
@fjosephs — should be fixed now, would you try and let me know?
November 10th, 2011 at 18:23
I have just bought Divine Office for my Nokia E5 on Ovi store. It worked perfectely for a week. Now, the software is frozen, I can`t see anymore days but November 9th 2011
Can anyone help me to solve this problem. I`ve seen your recomendation: to uninstall the application and reinstall it.
How can I do that without lossing the money I have spent to buy this program on Nokia OVi Store?
Please help me,
Father Jose Simionato
November 10th, 2011 at 12:20
I can not see all the text on the right. Is there anything I can do to fix it?
November 10th, 2011 at 11:34
JaaCee-
I have the same problem (Comment 14), as does johnkay (Comment 18). I did get some advice (Comments 12 & 13). The suggestion about clearing the cache had no effect and I would prefer not to change browsers. Let me know if either solution works for you. It looks to me like the righthand column of ads etc is layered over the middle column of text. But I am no computer expert, so Idunno. It HAS to be total coincidence that we are all “j’s”. This problem is occurring on my computer at work where I have no other issues. My older, slower computer at home cannot run the audio for this website at all.
Jan
November 10th, 2011 at 07:28
any progress with the text not being shown in the center of the page? It seems to cut off the text on the right hand side.
Many thanks
john
November 10th, 2011 at 05:16
I love this site. It has been difficult to follow the prayers as the letters are cut off on the right on any PC that I log into. God bless you.
November 10th, 2011 at 04:45
any progress with the text not being shown in the center of the page? It seems to cut off the text on the right hand side.
Many thanks
j
November 10th, 2011 at 04:39
This is a very prayerful and “especially reverent” sung and recited Divine. (I am simply a Roman Catholic priest who “forgot to bring his breviary” and presumed, “correctly” that there had to be a place on the net where one could find the Divine Office. Bless you all!
November 10th, 2011 at 03:01
I am finding that in many cases, there are letters and/or words that extand beyond the right border. I find this primarily in the Readings and the Psalms.
I get through the issues,however, it tends to disrupt my thoughts while engaged in that section of the Office.
November 7th, 2011 at 23:08
New comment!
New user of App. Very impressed. Tried to use ‘Share’ option – email – today , only to find myself ‘frozen’ in email window, unable to return to Divine Office.
After several attempts, I deleted App from iPhone, and re-installed! All working again now.
Note!
I am using iTunes V10.5 & iPhone firmware IOS 5.
As the email ‘Share’ link is in fact the DivineOffice.org website, I have now saved that website in My Favorites and will not use the email ‘Share’ option for my own use again, but would love the option to work so I can send the email link to friends.
God bless.
November 7th, 2011 at 04:58
The text, in the middle of the page, does not show completely on the right hand side. Perhaps it is a mater of expanding the margins.
Thank you
j
November 7th, 2011 at 02:22
@Marlene: you need to connect your iPod Touch to iTunes in order to upgrade your iOS to a newer version. Please note if you have an iPod Touch 2nd generation or older: it only runs iOS up to version 4.2.1 so it is not currently compatible with the latest versions of our apps. Be sure yo keep your current version safe (make a backup from your iTunes Library to some safe place in case you need to restore it on the device). Thanks! Mauro.
November 6th, 2011 at 21:06
@frtonyc St. Martin de Porres had an optional memorial on Nov 3 and we do not provide optional memorials and commemorations. We do provide Memorials, Feasts, and Solemnities in addition to the ferial office.
November 6th, 2011 at 16:37
Why did the website, on Nov4, 2011, have the ferial office, instead of that for St. Martin de Porres?
November 6th, 2011 at 15:19
I downloaded the divine office Audio Prayer Liturgy of the hours on my iPhone a few months ago. It works great and I have had no trouble with it. When I tried to download the 2000 prayers app it tells me I need an upgrade to iOS 4.3. I decided to see if I could download it on my ipod touch and got the same message. What is this upgrade and how do I get it?
November 6th, 2011 at 12:26
@the cathoholic, we disabled a number of plug-ins while troubleshooting some css/js issue with IE. The threaded comments now works without plug-ins in wordpress, but needs to be implemented in the theme. We will come back to work heavily on the site to improve it significantly next year.
November 6th, 2011 at 04:09
I’ve been noticing lately that I can no longer reply to individual posts except for Dane’s. It doesn’t matter which browser, or if it’s on a Windows-based PC, or on a MacBook. Is this a design change?
November 6th, 2011 at 04:07
@DeaconAl, do you have your text set to zoom? If so, go back to the default text size, and go to View in your browser and select “Zoom Text Only.” This will make the text larger, but none of the graphics or tables will resize. This can get really sloppy though if you zoom too much.
November 5th, 2011 at 09:07
Good morning, I too have the word wrap problem when in IE9 but just tried today’s in Firefox and no problem, wish I were smart enough to help with suggestions, God bless for making this available to esp. the Catholic Christian community.
November 4th, 2011 at 02:21
I doubt the browser version has anything to do with the word wrap issue that some are having. I am using an older browser and so not have this problem. I think it is more likely that they need clear their browser cache (temporary internet files).
November 3rd, 2011 at 13:01
Would you try to update to IE9 or try with FireFox, Chrome and Safari? Thanks!
November 3rd, 2011 at 12:57
I have the same problem with word wrap as Johnkay. Sionce I am listening as well as reading it hasn’t been too much of a problem.
November 3rd, 2011 at 00:15
If you are experiencing the Android bug that puts the prayers off by one day then please get our free update from the Android Marketplace or Amazon.com. This has been corrected.
November 2nd, 2011 at 22:49
trying to let someone know at your office that my daily prayers are off by one day on my android cell phone down here in south louisiana… i was hoping someone could fix this.. thank you..
November 2nd, 2011 at 12:20
I appreciate the long excerpt by Fr. Alban Butler for All Saints Day.
Thanks.
November 2nd, 2011 at 08:22
what’s up with the word wrap? end of line cuts off instead of wrapping to the next line. mostly effects the reading …. but sometimes there’s a long line in the psalms and i lose all or part of a word. maybe it’s my browser. i’m on IE8. please advise. thanks.
November 1st, 2011 at 06:30
Oct 31, All Saints
Nov 1, Monday of Week 31 (which is the same as Week 23) in Ordinary Time:
Invitatory,
Morning Prayer,
Evening Prayer,
Night Prayer
Nov 1, Monday of Week 31 in Ordinary Time Office of Readings
Wow, what happened?!
November 1st, 2011 at 05:12
God moring. The text still does not stretch arcoss the slot it is in..PLease advise.
thanks
j
October 31st, 2011 at 09:44
You can access any day you want by changing the date in the web site address. If you click on a link for tomorrow you will see http://divineoffice.org/?date=20111101 and you can change the date to http://divineoffice.org/?date=20111109 to get to November 9.
October 30th, 2011 at 20:03
How do I download Evening Prayers (week IV) for 9 November 2011 use? I have a task to teach my area group of Catholics, mostly seniors how to use and recite or pray the Divine Office on the evening of 9 Nov 2011. Would appreciate if I could get a little help from here. Some of them may not have purchased the Divine Office yet, so I need to prepare a few sheets on standby. There will also be several young people joining us.
October 30th, 2011 at 16:21
Thank you for fixing the problem; I was able to download the Hours through All Saints Day. Thank you for all you and your fellow do in this ministry! God’s blessings on all of you
Pax et bonum,
Pete
October 30th, 2011 at 14:55
Hello,
Sorry to bother you again, but I note that some of the text recently (the text at the right margin) has been getting cut off. This is displayed on IE9.
Jim
October 30th, 2011 at 11:47
I haven’t been able to do the DO for over a week here on the website! My browser keeps saying that it’s “waiting” but I’m not sure what’s going on. Please help! I use IE8.
October 29th, 2011 at 17:57
Sorry, I mean to say the prayers for Sat and Sun have NOT been available. Tx
October 29th, 2011 at 17:56
Hi, I have not been able to download from Itunes since Oct 28th. The prayers for Sat and Sun have been been availble for some reason. I wonder if there is a technical problem so I thought I would report it as well. Thanks!
October 29th, 2011 at 14:47
Hi,
Is there a technical problem where you are? I have not been able to update the podcast for 2 days now. The last episode I got was Night prayer for the 28th Saints Simon and Jude. I tried to get readings for Saturday and Sunday from the iTunes store but they aren’t there either.
Pete
October 28th, 2011 at 08:38
@JaaCee Please remind me again about what browser you are using. Was it IE 8?
October 28th, 2011 at 05:12
JaaCee here. Yes i do have audio. However, it is a script issue that come this AM..Please see my post below.
thank you
j
October 28th, 2011 at 05:09
Today I have noticed that the script, on the right side of the page, is cut off in the middle of some words…please advise.
thank you
j
October 28th, 2011 at 02:44
Please update to 1.1.7 — this update should solve your issues.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:47
Your choice of the Gloria as the hymn for daytime prayer was bittersweet considering the coming changes in the Mass. I haven’t heard the new Gloria set to music but it doesn’t seem as lyrical. Do you suppose we will be able to keep some of the old settings for use as hymns outside the Proper of the Mass?
Haven’t been around much since my home computer is not able to load your audio. I was surprised (and pleased) to find you have added audio for daytime prayer and (at least so far) my computer at work will play it. It is good to be back.
Jan
October 27th, 2011 at 06:07
I have the same glitch on my Droid as well; the date doesn’t match the day. The app occasionally won’t load, in which case I have to uninstall and reload the app. This is inconvenient!
October 27th, 2011 at 04:22
I updated my Droid version this week and the date doesn’t match the day anymore – its a day ahead
October 26th, 2011 at 02:31
Bless you in divineoffice, audio is back working this AM. Smiles from New Jersey.
October 26th, 2011 at 01:48
The player is functioning properly now. Thank you again for all the hard work you put into this wonderful service.
God bless!
October 26th, 2011 at 00:47
A suggestion. On the audio pop-up window, add an option to keep the window on top of other windows. It’s awkward switching back and forth between windows in order to scroll and to pause the audio. I usually pause longer that the provided pauses in the audio.
Using Windows XP Pro with SP3 and Chrome 15.0.874.102 m
October 26th, 2011 at 00:45
@Dane, Using Windows XP Pro with SP3 and Chrome 15.0.874.102 m, not getting any errors.
October 25th, 2011 at 18:02
@jimpalestine, please check to see if the issue with seeing javascript(void) is gone. I made some adjustments to the player that should increase compatibility with Windows browsers.
October 25th, 2011 at 18:01
@JaaCee, please check to see if your Internet Explorer is working better for listening to audio. I made some adjustments that should increase compatibility.
October 25th, 2011 at 18:00
@catholicfocus, I made a few changes to our player. Anyone getting the javascript(void) message should see if it is fixed now. Please let us know.
October 25th, 2011 at 02:42
@divinewordone2b, According to my Pastor, yes it will have all the new updates.
October 24th, 2011 at 08:05
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo, I am so thankful of this coming in a day in which our website update made the Android app show the wrong prayers for the day and we got a bunch of complains from the community. It really feels like God’s taking care of our motivation as we renew our efforts to deliver our service.
October 24th, 2011 at 04:41
My continued prayer for your Ministry and for each involved in helping to make this possible!
October 24th, 2011 at 04:37
I continue to be in admiration of the work of your efforts on behalf of the making available the Prayer of the Church for all to pray together. Your work and dedication is highly evident in the the prayerful attitude of those who give of their time to your Ministry. I also appreciate the writings you have included of The Saint or Celebration of The Day to help us to increase our knowledge and form an improved prayerful attitude. Abundant Blessings an be assured of my continued daily prayer!
October 23rd, 2011 at 13:32
On a completely different line of comment, does anyone know whether or not there is a new missal that would contain the new liturgy .The one I have is now out dated with the changed liturgy.I cant seem to find one?Any information?
Im not talking bout the one used by the priest at mass Im talking bout the missal the laity would use during mass.
Thanks
October 22nd, 2011 at 05:47
good morning. I inquired about the system yesterday and not being able to hear the prayers. I am having the same problem this AM..please advise
jaacee@centurylink.net
thank you
October 21st, 2011 at 16:10
Sorry folks I cannot seem to get things to PLAY…even the set up seems different….please advise
thanks
j
/;-)
October 20th, 2011 at 09:55
@steve, We have an issue with the Divine Office iPhone & iPad app on iOS 4.3 but we already submitted a fix and it should become available in a matter of days now. The app works great on iOS 5. Everything else looks fine on our side.
October 20th, 2011 at 09:55
@irishgranny, We have an issue with the Divine Office iPhone & iPad app on iOS 4.3 but we already submitted a fix and it should become available in a matter of days now. The app works great on iOS 5. Everything else looks fine on our side.
October 20th, 2011 at 09:08
@mar, We have an issue with the Divine Office iPhone & iPad app on iOS 4.3 but we already submitted a fix. The app works great on iOS 5. Everything else looks fine on our side.
October 20th, 2011 at 09:08
@uemcan123, everything works. We have an issue with the Divine Office iPhone & iPad app on iOS 4.3 but we already submitted a fix. The app works great on iOS 5. Everything else looks fine on our side.
October 19th, 2011 at 20:30
I love the Divine Hours app but since updating it yesterday, it no longer works. I have the ios4.3.5 versions of ipad and iphone. When I try to open it – the title page appears and then the app immediately closes. I’ve tried to reinstall it but that hasn’t helped. There are several others who are experiencing this same problem. Do you have any idea when this will be fixed. Thank you very much.
October 19th, 2011 at 16:36
As prompted, I updated my divine office and ended up losing the office. DO prompt suggested to delete and re-install the apps but this didn’t work either. Please tell me what to do!!
October 18th, 2011 at 22:08
It’s been great to have the opportunity to pray the Office! Thanks to all who are part of this wonderful ministry!
ps: Cannot view the mid-morning / mid-afternoon prayers??
October 17th, 2011 at 21:34
Enjoying LOTH but it is now late 10/17 and still no content update for 10/18 with the app. Can you help me?
October 17th, 2011 at 09:20
Enjoyed the reading this morning. Dane and all the prayerful voices do beautiful work. Just wanted to mention that Chris reads the prayer with lovely emotion, and it is good to listen to her as she read today. The other lady is easier to recite with, as we did today. Thank you all for your incredible gift to us.
October 15th, 2011 at 01:35
@JosefJr, Thank you, we made a note for that.
October 15th, 2011 at 00:25
Your missing one Antiphon in the Invitatory for today.
PAX – Josef
October 13th, 2011 at 18:37
Check this out! A list of readings and downloads for the 2-year cycle for the Office of Readings:
http://www.centreforcatholicstudies.co.uk/?page_id=765
October 13th, 2011 at 14:24
I cannot thank the people who have put this wonderful website and the audio files together enough. I am an Aspirant in formation for the permanent Diaconate, and Divine Office has made the Liturgy of the Hours come alive for me.
I just discovered this site a couple of weeks ago, and I wish that I had known about you a very long time ago.
Some have mentioned that they don’t like the organ music in the background…while I respect that opinion, I find that I love the music-it helps deepen my state of prayerful reflection.
October 12th, 2011 at 06:49
@Metanoia Antoine, iTunes just uploaded their software updates however it couldn’t get podcasts to update…Oh well, we’ll just have to wait then…
October 11th, 2011 at 16:21
@Dane, I guess spitster0877 was right. iTunes have a problem in it’s podcasts of the Divine Office. Today is already October 12th in The Philippines and Today is my Birthday. There is no MIdmorning Prayers for today! I tried to do what you have advised to spitster0877 of deleting the Podcast of Divine Office in my iTunes but when I re-subscribed I still cannot see the Midmorning Prayers for Today. I have already vowed to do this Daily Prayers regularly as a part of daily routine but I guess I cannot do it in time since I need to wait either after noontime or evening to download the podcast that I have missed. Unless I bought really a complete set of The Liturgy of the Hours or a 1-volume Christian Prayer (Which cost a lot in this country! And I was advised to wait for the revised edition of 6-volume of The Liturgy of the Hours and 1-volume Christian Prayer. Any news about it?) or Buy an Apple Product (iPod, iPhone, iPad, and MacBookPro) and Buy the Divine Office App to the iTunes Store I cannot complete my Divine Office experience without problems. I’m doing the Divine Office for more than half of a year already and I have been active in your comments section since then. Please do something about it and more power to your website! May God Bless YoÜ Always!
M. A. S. Casamorin
Philippines
October 11th, 2011 at 14:22
@qwatzo, there is an rss feed on our website that you can subscribe to.
October 10th, 2011 at 08:55
Is it possible for you to email me daily readings of
The Liturgy of The Hours?
Either by email or through a feed?
Thank you,
Qwa Tzo
Qwatzo@hotmail.com
October 10th, 2011 at 08:01
Thank you for the beautiful prayers on the Memorial of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary.
Evening Prayer was especially moving with the chanting of the Cistercian Nuns. That truly is the way the Office should be prayed.
Are you still planning to eliminate or quiet the music in the background? It appears you you have done so in some cases. I find that it is really distracting especially when an organ is playing a hymn in the background and my mind wants to sing the words. I find that this old mind really wonders from prayer when there is music playing loudly. Sunday Night Prayer is particularly troublesome as the music overpowers the spoken word.
Pardon the ramblings of a grumpy old Deacon. You are doing wonderful work and undoubtedly brought hundreds if not thousands to prayer. I include you and your team in my Morning Prayer. May God Bless You Abundantly.
October 8th, 2011 at 09:55
@Chad CfP, I own the book “The Divine Office for Dodos” and it is very good. I also support the Confraternity of Penitents and you will see their link on our home page in the lower right hand corner.
October 8th, 2011 at 05:47
@av,
A great book called, “The Divine Office for Dodos” is available through the Holy Angels gift shop. You can find them by going to http://www.penitents.org. You will also find information on this site about the Confraternity of Penitents, an association of the faithful dedicated to Franciscan spirituality in there own homes.
October 8th, 2011 at 05:24
is divine office out of order
October 8th, 2011 at 04:57
@ av,
Do you have the little white ‘St. Joseph’s Guide for the Liturgy of the Hours’?? That helps also! It *is* indeed confusing at first! Don’t give up though! Try dividing your book up with your ribbons from first to last (ribbon) and NOT necessarily by COLOR. I use the 4 volume set so I can’t remember how the single volume is set up….I’ll check it and try to explain better what I mean. Try not to get discouraged though! God Bless!
Lindy
October 7th, 2011 at 06:56
@av, click on morning prayer or office of readings and you’ll see page numbers listed for the day. Good luck.
October 6th, 2011 at 19:20
Just bought Christian Prayer Book.
It is so confusing, it is all mixed up. How do I divide the book with the ribbons and know which page to read each day?
October 5th, 2011 at 18:00
Thank-you so much for this podcast service you provide…I have been praying the Divine Office for more than a year now and it is totally due to the careful and considerate way you arrange the music with the psalms and canticles, the way they are read and sung, and the caring motive behind it all. In todays Oct.5, 2011 Midafternoon prayer, in the podcast version, you include a wonderful slow hymn that is not the same as the printed version on the Divine Office website. Could you post the title and choir and possibly where the album might be purchased? It’s a most wondrous piece.
Again many thanks and blessings for the support you provide to all of us.
Warmest wishes,
Pat MacKenzie
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
October 5th, 2011 at 12:24
@spitster0877, Night Prayers are available. If you are having problems with podcasts then the best thing to do is delete your podcast from iTunes and search for Divine Office an subscribe again. You may find you need to do this every 4 to 6 weeks. It is a problem with iTunes because of the large numbers of items in our podcast and because some podcasts intentionally repeat.
October 4th, 2011 at 06:26
Are there no podcasts for Night Prayer for Wednesday and Thursday (October 5 and 6) for the week? I haven’t seen them included in the podcasts that can be downloaded for the respective days…Just asking…Thanks!
October 3rd, 2011 at 05:25
I noticed this morning that Morning Prayer directed us to Vol III, even though we’re currently in Vol. IV. (Week 27 of Ordinary time is in Vol. IV.) I have found this to happen a lot, that Morning Prayer lists page numbers for Vol. III even though we’re in Vol. IV.
Why?
October 2nd, 2011 at 22:56
I could not understand the hymn for night prayer. It did not seem to match that which was listed as the hymn. Please explain my confusion.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:58
@spitster0877, memorials for St. Francis are working. Please try again and let us know if you continue to have problems.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:57
@spitster0877, no. Sunday does have a higher priority over the memorial for Guardian Angels. We leave the “About Today” in place so that we are aware of this date, but the offices do not celebrate this memorial.
October 2nd, 2011 at 11:54
This office has been part of my life. I just spent a week in Rome ai a Bendictine monastary. it was the best week of my life I shall nener forget
October 2nd, 2011 at 01:18
Notice: I can’t download the Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for the Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi…I hope this gets fixed…Thanks!
October 1st, 2011 at 22:02
Is the memorial for the October 2 still permitted even if it falls the Lord’s Day? I asked this question because in the Phils., we usually use the the Proper for the Sunday concerned as it is the Lord’s Day. Pls. clarify this for understanding. Thanks and more power!
October 1st, 2011 at 21:57
I am Arvin, a Filipino, and I find your podcast wonderful…It’s maklng me re-connect to the days when I was regularly praying this as a former member of a religious congregation…I’m now a teacher at a Catholic institution in Quezon City…This is helping me to re-connect with a God at some points of the day…Is this a diocese (or USCCB)-initiated or an initiative of a lay ministry?…Either, this is a blessing in my life…More power to your ministry! God bless!
October 1st, 2011 at 14:40
@Julia, thank you! It is fixed.
October 1st, 2011 at 06:02
The page for today said “Theresa of the Child Jesus, virgin”. Theresa of the Child Jesus is also a Doctor of the Church! Please upgrade the title “Theresa of the Child Jesus, virgin and doctor.”
There are three women who are doctors of the church. These include Theresa of Avila and her namesake Theresa of the Child Jesus.
September 28th, 2011 at 18:32
@Yu (哈利於), The concluding prayer for Sunday liturgy of the hours are from the Opening Prayer used at Mass for that Sunday. Each Mass has two versions of this prayer, labeled in the Sacramentary as the Opening Prayer and the Alternate Operning Prayer. (On rare occasions, even more version exist, such as the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord). Either then Opening Prayer or the Alternate Opening Prayer may be used as the Concluding Prayer for Sunday Liturgy of the Hours.
The prayer that begins “Father of Our Lord Jesus…” is the Alternative Opening Prayer for the 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time. The prayer that begins “Father, you show your almighty power…” is the Opening Prayer for this Sunday. At Evening Prayer I on Saturday September 24th, either prayer may be used as the Concluding Prayer.
Tony
September 28th, 2011 at 18:19
@machdohvah, Latin has never been abolished and no special permission is required to say Mass in Latin. “Priests are always and everywhere permitted to celebrate Mass in Latin” [Redemptionis Sacramentum No .112]
The Second Vatican Council merely permitted the Mass to be celebrated in the vernacular. Unfortunately, most parishes stopped using Latin once this permission was granted.
A distinction should be made regarding the celebration of the Tridentine Mass. Pope Benedict XVI, in his motu propio Summorum Pontificum addresses the celebration of this Mass using the Missal of 1962 promulgated by Pope John XXIII. This Mass may always be celebrated privately by a priest without any special permission; and allows public celebration of this Mass “under the guidance of the bishop.”
In addition, Spanish is an approved liturgical language in the United States so celebration of the Mass in Spanish is always permitted as well. The Bishops of the US have recently approved a Spanish translation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal for use in the United States.
Tony
September 28th, 2011 at 04:05
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo, The Scripture is taken from Ephesians 4:30. I found a beautiful musical setting of this on the internet which may enjoy. I used to sing this setting years ago. You can find it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0YM8-n8QeE Hope the link works. Blessings to you and All Who Bow Before the Lord in Prayer and Thanksgiving !!!
September 27th, 2011 at 23:11
@Irishquad,
Hi.
It could be that the vernacular in the Vatican State *is* Latin
“All” is a huge word, but the decree was for most people and for most of the time to be provided with the universal liturgy in their own tongue so as to permit them to fully understand it and most fully participate in it – to act out the priesthood of all believers
Those who were obsessionally stuck to the old ways of Latin were to be accommodated in their frailty and weakness out of self-sacrificing love
September 27th, 2011 at 20:39
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo, I love that scripture. If you know where it is then please post it so I can look it up.
September 27th, 2011 at 04:26
@Dane, i too have often read the comments on this web page and interpreted them through my own experience and values. I usually do not comment on these as I do not know the experience of others nor do I understand where the person is living and the quality of their life experience. I pray each day for all who utilize this site to pray the Hours. I am also many times drawn to remember the words of Scripture:
”Grieve Not the Holy Spirit of God…Let all bitterness, and wrath and anger, and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, Even as God, for Christ sake, has forgiven you.”
September 26th, 2011 at 19:04
@machdohvah,
1. John XXlll did’t abolish Latin from the Church.
2. Benedict XVl and John Paul ll has always allowed Latin Masses
3. Bishops are to allow a Latin Mass wherever and whenever there is a demand for it
4. I grew up with the Latin Mass but I also studied Latin in high school. Latin doesn’t mean a lot if you don’t understand it.
September 26th, 2011 at 18:37
No obligation, just a genuine query.
I have the 3 volume set of the Divine Office published in the UK which is official for the churches of UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and various African churches.
Can it be arranged that the 3 volume set be also made available through Amazon and so improve your income from those of us who do not use the 4 volume US version
September 26th, 2011 at 12:47
Pope John XXIII abolished Latin from the church and declared that vernacular be used instead. Yes, Latin has a long tradition in the church. I grew up with it, but in 1969 it ALL changed. Please tell me that the current Pope has not changed this and declared that Latin may be used. That would not be right. I have searched for Latin ever since and was tempted to attend the Latin Rite services in a church that is outside the blessing of the Vatican. But, I felt that it would be wrong. I am now in a Methodist church allowed to sing in the choir and play hand bells. My life is better now, but I still miss the Benedictine Monks in Valyermo, CA, where I stayed for two weeks.
September 26th, 2011 at 08:21
Dane,
I seem to remember the Office Of The Dead on the site, I can’t find it toad today I wanted to pray it for the repose of the soul of a family member who died this weekend. Thanks.
Pete
September 26th, 2011 at 07:24
@Irishquad, your comments are very much appreciated. I used to take comments very personal, but now I try to find the truth behind the comment and when it is something we can improve then put it on our queue, but when it is a rant then I just treat them as my brother or sister in prayer who needs some cathartic outlet and as long as they are respectful to others I let them have their outlet.
September 26th, 2011 at 06:21
Why is that the concluding prayer for Evening Prayer for Saturday of the 25th week of Ordinary Time goes like this:
“Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
in your unbounded mercy
you have revealed the beauty of your power
through your constant forgiveness of our sins.
may the power of this love be in our hearts
to bring your pardon and your kingdom to all we meet.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
– Amen.”
while in my book the concluding prayer for this hour states likes this:
“Father,
you show your almighty power
in your mercy and forgiveness.
Continue to fill us with your gifts of love.
Help us to hurry toward the eternal life you promise
and come to share in the joys of your kingdom.
Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Amen.”
is their any problem with that thing?..thank you!:)
September 25th, 2011 at 23:28
By the way, I think the evidence that the Pope has never decreed that “it should all be in the vernacular” is the fact that he personally and publicly celebrates the Mass in Latin.
September 25th, 2011 at 23:24
Dane,
I would just like to once again tell you how much I appreciate your website and all of the hard work that you and your community obviously put into it. It feels like such a privilege to be able to join my prayers with yours and all of the other people around the world who pray the Liturgy of the Hours everyday. So, thank you very much for this gift.
As a member of the “Latin Rite” of the Catholic Church, I very much appreciate the Latin hymns as well as the wide variety of other hymns you’ve chosen to help elevate my mind to the heavenly throne room. So thank you for that as well.
I would also like to thank you for your patient witness in these comment boxes. Unfortunately, so often it seems that people use these boxes, not to give constructive comments to help you in your ministry but, as a tool to vent all of their negativity. I very much miss the old adage “if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” I don’t know when it happened but, it has definitely vanished from both conversation and practice.
Anyway, God bless you and your community, you are in my daily prayers.
Your Brother in Christ,
Christopher
September 25th, 2011 at 07:40
@Metanoia Antoine, we are adding new daytime prayers all the time and sometimes we are not satisfied so the left hand will make and update and the right hand won’t know about it. This is the wonderful thing about our ministry members in that they are passionate for improvement. All of Paul’s (Amis41) comments are correct, but then we also have this new content and lots of simultaneous and un-synchronized work going on.
September 25th, 2011 at 07:32
@machdohvah, our faith has a strong tradition in the Latin language. Via Dolorosa is latin for “Way of Grief” or “Way of Suffering” and is an appropriate song for the Daytime hours because they are particularly associated with hour Lord’s passion.
September 24th, 2011 at 13:30
Today’s daytime prayer shocked me that there was a hymn not in English. I am tired of Spanish all around me and would like my prayer time to be in my language. Do you not follow the Pope’s decree that it should all be in the vernacular? And, why are comments allowed anyway. Shouldn’t it all be in respected in silence?
September 24th, 2011 at 10:52
@amis41, thank you for reminding it to me. Well I guess this website really still have technical glitches specially the synchronization of this website and to the applications so I guess I pray it will be fixed. Thanks for reminding me that this is just a guide and that the true thought is that you need to have a very intimate relationship with OUR GOD in prayer. God Bless YoÜ Always!
September 24th, 2011 at 07:17
@Metanoia Antoine,
Peace to you Metanoia,
I believe that this is due to not being able to get a hymn exactly with the lyrics of the hymn we may be use to. For example, if sung by a choral group in England, different phrases are used.
I just sing along in my soul with the words on the page, or listen to the hymn, and follow along the best I can. Don’t let it be a distraction to your prayer.
)
Not speaking for the team, they try to do the best they can, but copyright, and cost, are factors too. Hope this helps.
Pax et Bonum
amis41
September 23rd, 2011 at 21:35
What happened to the midday Prayer??? Why the Hymn is different in text from the Audio???
September 22nd, 2011 at 20:20
Please add this information to your Liturgy of the Hours.
How about including this Indulgence as prescribed in Liturgy of the Hours, Vol I, p 92, Rule 266
Making the Sign of the Cross.
The sign of the cross is made on the mouth at the beginning of the Invitatory, at the words – “LORD, OPEN MY LIPS.”
All make the sign of the cross, from forehead to breast and from left shoulder to right:
(a) at the beginning of the Hours, when “GOD, COME TO MY ASSISTANCE” is being said.
(b) and at the beginning of the Gospel Canticles of Zechariah, of Mary and of Simeon.
I suggest just a Cross with a brief explanation would be appropriate.
PAX – Josef
josef@isp.com
September 22nd, 2011 at 20:19
My last comment should have read “cool it” not “cook it.”
Sorry. PAX – Josef
September 22nd, 2011 at 20:13
Bravo – Night Prayer – 22 Sep – Excellent.
Now I can rest and sleep knowing you do have the idea I have been trying to express with my other comments. Please continue in telling the piano player to cook it. HA!
PAX to all – Josef
September 22nd, 2011 at 15:29
I do understand all this hard work that has been done to get this site working but now you must fine tune it and make it a prayerful site – not a race to see who can read the fastest. Psalms are songs – not stories!
Also can the piano player – let him practise at a different hour.
I’ll still pay my dues and listen however – patience is something I must strive for here.
PAX – Josef
September 22nd, 2011 at 09:42
@newsfo, the only advantage to being registered and logged in is so that you can leave comments. Now that your first comment has been approved you may leave them without my moderation.
September 22nd, 2011 at 09:12
Reading of Psalms to me means reading w/o pauses -just one line after another in the 4 line stanza. It is very musical in itself. Then, a slight pause to allow the point to settle in and on to the next stanza w/o pausing in a line – 4 lines and then a pause. Etc.
I must be of the old school but this present set up is bugging me to no end. Sorry.
PAx – Josef
September 22nd, 2011 at 08:10
I registered on the Divine Office site. However, when I attempted to ask a question it does not recognize me as registered even though the home page shows me as “logged in.”
The question I had was “what is the advantage of registering; what do I have access to that I didn’t have as an “unregistered user”? I find it very frustrating trying to communicate with this site.
So,
1. How do I fix the log-in problem?
2. Why bother?
The app is wonderful!!!
Thanks,
September 21st, 2011 at 21:16
I really hate to sound negative and know that the comment I am about to leave might sound that way. There is one femaie and male among the group who seem to ‘act’ the psalms or readings, I find this very disturbing. So disturbing in fact that I’m sorely tempted to log out. I decided, when it gets bad, like today for instance that I can turn the sound off. But it does tend to interrupt the prayers…
Is there any possiblity in getting these ‘actors’ to just simply ‘pray’ avoiding all temptations at interpretations? I know a lot of this will be pre-recorded so any other suggestions to help me in this would be of great value. I am the only Christian in this area, so I value the Christian Community online. Again, I don’t want to offend anyone.
yours in Christ,
Catherine
September 21st, 2011 at 13:22
Since when do we have to hear a musician practising in a room next to where the prayers are being recorded? The Psalms are musical enough in spirit . They do not need background music to distract one from prayer or to try to enhance them.
The natural rhythm of the verses are written in such a way as to emit a musical feeling. If read slow enough this is apparent. Many of the Psalms this week have been “off to the races” and a hurry to get through.
SLOW DOWN READERS – PAX – Josef
September 21st, 2011 at 10:01
One more minor thing: the General Instruction reads “The hour concludes with the prayer and, at least in recitation in common, with the acclamation, Let us praise the Lord. R. And give him thanks.” which is NOT at all the same as your notation “Acclamation (only added when praying in community). It’s only mandatory when the office is prayed in community, but seems to be optional otherwise.
September 21st, 2011 at 09:55
I love the app, BUT: (1) text of Psalm 122 is garbled at Terce; (2) music lyrics provided often do not seem to match the selection played; (3) it would be nice if there were a way to easily skip the introduction to an office if you’ve said the Invitatory immediately before.
September 20th, 2011 at 18:31
@robtor, I mean “Lost your password?”
September 20th, 2011 at 18:29
@robtor, I think you click on “forget your password?” and go from there. Good luck.
September 19th, 2011 at 04:12
How can I change my pass word?
September 18th, 2011 at 13:30
@JosefJr, yes, please report issues you find. It is best to send notice to monica@divineoffice.org.
September 18th, 2011 at 02:36
You all have taken on a tremendous challenge and have accomplished it well. Occasionally I notice a mis pronounced word or two or a mispelling. Do you want us to notify you of these mishaps?
I shall keep you all in my daily prayers and look forward to many more enjoyable listening moments.
PAX – Josef Orosz
josef@isp.com
September 16th, 2011 at 23:26
@Randy Sullivan, Let’s wait for the new website of divineoffice.org in the next 6 months. First the website needs to be overhauled since the Terce and None Prayers would be included in the Daytime Prayers. Lets include this in your suggestions.
@Dane, I guess he is right. let’s work on it!
September 16th, 2011 at 23:24
@rlvankirk, Isn’t iit the Terce (Midmorning) and the None (Midafternoon) Prayers you are saying? Sext (Midday) Daytime Prayers have already been shown in this website. Hopefully let’s pray in the next 6 months for the new divineoffice.org website where those prayers using the Complementary Psalmody be included! God Bless!
September 16th, 2011 at 23:20
@ajwarren, Praise God! Honor to the Venerable Servant of God Blessed John Paul the Great! Patron of the World Youth Day. May His Holiness Benedict XVI elevate you as a saint with Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta very soon!
September 15th, 2011 at 20:08
Thank you for all your hard work.
Trudy
September 15th, 2011 at 19:09
@uemcan123, thanks for the heads up. We had week 1 audio when it should have been week 4. It was only in Midday Prayer and now that is fixed.
September 15th, 2011 at 12:40
I check this site to double check the readings for the day:
http://www.universalis.com/USA.Sunday/-700/today.htm
September 15th, 2011 at 10:51
Dane ck daytime prayer
September 15th, 2011 at 06:54
@Hemphill, Thank you so much!
September 14th, 2011 at 17:00
Pope Benedict XVI announced that the feast day of Blessed John Paul II would be October 22nd.
The celebration of a “Blessed” is not extended to the Universal Church but only where the Blessed lived or preached. For Blessed John Paul II, this feast day has the rank of Memorial in the Diocese of Rome and all the Dioceses of Poland. By special indult, it can be celebrated as Optional Memorial. I am not aware of any diocese in the United States where this has been granted.
Nonetheless, for those who are interested, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has published the liturgical texts for the Mass and Office of Readings for Blessed John Paul II. These texts can be found at http://usccb.org/about/divine-worship/newsletter/upload/newsletter-2011-03-and-04.pdf
For those who wish to pray the Office of Readings for Blessed John Paul II on October 22nd, as an optional memorial, either the normal texts for the day can be used, with the exception of the Second Reading, its Repository, and the Concluding Prayer (which is the same prayer as the Collect from Mass) — which would all would be proper to the feast Alternatively, the psalms and First Reading can be taken from the Common of Pastors: For a Pope along with the Second Reading and Concluding Prayer for Blessed John Paul II.
Tony
September 14th, 2011 at 11:56
Shouldn’t there be a search feature for your site? I’m going to ask a question that I know has been asked a zillion times, but I can’t search for an answer.
On my iPad app, I only get the written text for the first part of each service. Any way to get the whole thing?
September 13th, 2011 at 15:30
Lyrics to Sept 13th Evening Prayer Song:
Happy Those Who Feast On Wisdom
By: Rev. Chrysogonus Waddell, OCSO
Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge She will nourish and refresh them
Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge She will nourish and refresh them
She feeds her people with food of angels, heaven’s bread
Her bread is insight her drink is understanding
Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge She will nourish and refresh them
Come eat her bread and taste wisdom’s sweetness
Her Bread is insight her drink is understanding
Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge She will nourish and refresh them
Your word alone, not the fruit of the earth sustains and refreshes your faithful ones
Her Bread is insight her drink is understanding
Happy those who feast on wisdom and savor her knowledge She will nourish and refresh them
September 13th, 2011 at 10:06
Apologies for my 07:32 and 07:51 comments – I see there is a “support” area and I see this problem is known and being addressed. Sorry folks.
September 13th, 2011 at 08:35
@Ave Maria Ora Pro Nobis, good question about praying in community because “community” is a matter of perspective and depends on your definition. Anytime we are praying the Liturgy of the Hours we certainly know that many others are praying with us so this is one perspective on the meaning of community. However, we have made a decision to interpret “praying in community” to be when we are physically located together and praying. This is only a decision we made for the purposes of our audio. It is also a “safer” call that keeps people from nit picking us and tying up our team members responding and defending our choice.
September 13th, 2011 at 08:29
@av, the single-volume Christian Prayer is used year after year. No need for a new one each year. It has everything you will need to pray Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Night Prayer. It does not have Office of Readings and a few other things that are in the four-volume set.
September 13th, 2011 at 08:25
@rlvankirk, the apps on our mobile devices are much more advanced and flexible then our web site so on Nokia, iPhones, iPads, and on our Mac OS X App they can display the new daytime prayers we have added. Soon our Android app will also have all of them. Our website will require much more work before it will display them. You can locate them in a browser by clicking on the RSS feed and scrolling down to find them. I know this isn’t ideal. We are about six months away from a complete upgrade of our web site and until that time we may not be able to show Midmorning and Midafternoon Prayers. We wish we could.
September 13th, 2011 at 07:51
FYI, downloaded/installed Lauds app for iOS and it’s working just fine.
September 13th, 2011 at 07:32
Has anyone reported problems with the Divine Office iOS app? Since the last update the app simply freezes and eventually crashes after about 30 seconds or so. If I delete it and reinstall the app it appears to let me make the WiFI Only/WiFi-Cell choice but then freezes.
Thanks and God bless you all!
September 13th, 2011 at 04:00
My wife’s iphone app has the Sext and Terce prayers, but my computer doesn’t. Is there something I need to do? Thank you
September 12th, 2011 at 15:32
@av, No! The Christian Prayer (The Liturgy of the Hours) is just like a Lectionary or Sacramentary that would need a Decree from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (The Official Body of Church that tackles the liturgical and para-liturgical activities of the church like the Holy Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours) to be changed. It only means that once you buy a copy of the 1-volume Christian Prayer or the 4-volume Liturgy of the Hours (or the Revised 6-volume recently) it would be used for long until there would be some change coming from the Vatican to change the text or republish a new Liturgical Material. . . . .
September 12th, 2011 at 15:22
@av, There would be a difference between the Daily Mass Readings (which is found in the Lectionary and the Book of Gospels) and the Liturgy of the Hours. I suggest if you want to have daily mass reading, have a liturgical calendar guide (In the Philippines, our Episcopal Commission on Bible Affairs give it to the faithful for free!) Or buy some devotionals which would be changed every year. Or find a Copy of the Holy Bible (Chrisitan Community Bible I suggest) where there would be the 3-year cycle of readings in the back. There is a big difference with the readings in the Holy Mass and the readings of the Liturgy of the Hours. . . . .
September 12th, 2011 at 15:17
@uemcan123, (+) Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine. Et lux perpétua lúceat eis. Requiéscant in in pace. Amen. Anima eorum, at animæ omnium defunctorum per misericordiam Dei requiescant in pace. AMEN (+)
May she rest in peace. . . . .
September 12th, 2011 at 15:13
@Nancy Berube, Well also have difficulty in this matter especially on the time I have to repair my spectacles. I guess if zooming and zooming out on the web browser screen is still a problem to you. I would suggest you better by the complete set of the Liturgy of the Hours. I believe like other Liturgical Books (The Holy Bible, Lectionary, Sacramentary, etc.) there is a large print version which people who can hardly read can use in convenience. . . . .
September 12th, 2011 at 15:09
@MikeyLove, Well I have no idea yet since ICEL haven’t released anything yet regarding this. Well let us pray that they have the same price with the 4-volume set. Well I guess you can still use the 4-volume set even the 6-volumes is released already until ICEL or the Vatican would give the decree to use the 6-volume set already like what have happened in the new Roman Missal that have been released by ICEL recently. . . . .
September 12th, 2011 at 14:29
Do you need to replace Christian Prayer: The liturgy of the Hours book every year?
September 12th, 2011 at 14:18
@av,
It does NOT include the Office of Readings – - just a selection. Daytime Prayer, Morning and Evening, and Night Prayer are included in their entirety.
The Gospel is not read at any hour, as it is read in its entirety at the mass over the 3-year cycle.
September 12th, 2011 at 14:15
@Ave Maria Ora Pro Nobis,
Actually, in both the 4-volume and the 1-volume books, the notation for daytime prayer and the Office of Readings dismissal says (especially when praying in community.) I’ve never particularly understood why here the especially became an only, but there’s no prohibition to saying “Let us praise the Lord and give Him thanks.” even if you’re just reading the prayers alone. At morning and evening you ALWAYS say the final blessing “May the Lord bless us . . . ” unless you’re praying where a priest or deacon are presiding at which times the priest or deacon gives a blessing and dismissal as at mass.
September 12th, 2011 at 11:15
Re “ACCLAMATION (only added when praying in community)”:
I’ve always assumed that at divineoffice.org “praying in community” includes praying along with the audio versions. Whereas NOT “praying in community” refers to me just following the text.
Is this correct? Or do I have to be praying in along with another person to be truly ‘in community’?
September 12th, 2011 at 04:04
@av, No.
September 11th, 2011 at 18:21
@uemcan123, may she rest in God’s love.
September 11th, 2011 at 17:35
The first book on the left; Christian Prayer: The liturgy of the Hours, does it contain everything (daily reading & gospel and morning,noon, evening and night prayer)?
September 11th, 2011 at 15:12
Dane
My sister in law Nancy McCann died around 10:00 last night
She is now at peace with our lord
Gen
September 10th, 2011 at 19:00
@Nancy Berube, Ctrl + as many times as you like and Ctrl – for smaller sizes and Ctrl 0 for default.
September 10th, 2011 at 12:09
Is there any plan (or is it possible) to make the text of the prayers larger & bolder? Or perhaps to give more contrast with the background? I have some difficulty reading the prayers in the evenings (when my eyes are tired) especially on my kindle–even if I enlarge it.
As always, I am grateful for this site and all your efforts.
Nancy
September 9th, 2011 at 18:28
@Metanoia Antoine, …Any idea of what the cost will be for entire set, and individual volumes? I think others here would also like to know this.
September 9th, 2011 at 10:01
@MikeyLove, Regarding your question to my post. . .
Yes! the Midwest Theological Forum have received Vatican approval to publish the Liturgia Horarum, editio typica altera, but complete in six volumes:
Volume I: Advent & Christmastide
Volume II: Lent, & the Sacred Triduum
Volume III: Eastertide
Volume IV: Weeks 1 to 14 of the Year
Volume V: Weeks 12 to 24 of the Year
Volume VI: Weeks 21 to 34 of the Year
Well we are waiting when this will be published and to be available around the world.
September 9th, 2011 at 08:51
@Metanoia Antoine, 6 Volumes!! Then I’ll have to purchase an entire set all over again, and I’m too poor financially.
September 9th, 2011 at 08:46
My friend and Landlady now has your app on her android phone, and is enjoying praying in this manner. When she uses the books, she gets distracted, and now she is free of the distractions.
September 8th, 2011 at 23:00
@Dane, Thank you very much! Well in the meantime if you would still post iTunes podcasts of the Midmorning and the Midafternoon prayers please give the ribbon guide for it on the daytime prayers tab please. . . I would buy a hard copy of the liturgy of the hours for me to be guided while waiting for a change in the website.
One more thing, The ICEL have already revised the Liturgy of the Hours right? from the 4 volumes to 6 volumes as I have researched. When will be the time it will be released to the public specially to the Philippines. Any news about it? Thank you very much and more power!
September 8th, 2011 at 11:19
@Metanoia Antoine, the website won’t be redesigned for at least 6 months and at that time it will be able to handle the additional daytime prayers. For now we will post only Midday Prayer and if we can find a workaround we will also post the others.
September 7th, 2011 at 21:28
Praise God!
I have downloaded the Midmorning and Midafternoon Prayers in Podcast!
When will be this two prayers be available @ the Divine Office Website!
Thank you very much! Now I can pray the whole Liturgy of the Hours with Love and Guidance!
September 7th, 2011 at 04:25
@Littleflower518, Yes, you are right; it’s volume 4.
September 6th, 2011 at 07:59
Are there any updates or revisions planned for the Liturgy of the Hours in the near future?
September 5th, 2011 at 05:54
Sorry, I was looking at OOR! But, it’s still Volume 4 not 3! Thanks!
Lindy
September 5th, 2011 at 05:52
Shouldn’t we be in Volume 4 if using the four volume set??? St. Josephs guide is different for today than what you have posted. Thanks!
Lindy
September 5th, 2011 at 03:15
Android App – This will only show up in Android Market on my mobile and not on my Android Tablet (Haipad). I cannot transfer from my mobile to my Tablet either, or include it in my backup facility for reinstallation if something goes wrong as the App registers, unlike any others, as “Private”. Not at all helpful !
If you can get these problems fixed please, I would be most grateful.
September 4th, 2011 at 22:33
Good Day Divine Office Team!
I have been using the divine office ever since I have seen this website almost half a year ago. In this I find my new way of devotion and through this website I have passed my application to the Confraternity of the Penitents. So much thank you for this.
I was also glad because we have already an audio for the daytime prayers. This really helped me specially the podcast subscription because of my slow internet connection during peak times.
Well I just realized that you are also including Daytime Prayers in the Midmorning or Midafternoon Using the Complementary Psalmody. It also helped me since I’m praying that I can pray the whole Liturgy of the Hours in all of it’s Minor Hours. Maybe I would suggest to make it regular by changing the interface including midmorning and midafternoon daytime prayer in the tabs of the Divine Office.
God Bless and More Power to you!
M.S. Casamorin
Light of Jesus Family, Philippines
September 3rd, 2011 at 15:58
This rendition was performed by our own ministry member, Melinda Kirigin-Voss, who recorded this over ten years ago so we don’t have the music. Sorry.
September 3rd, 2011 at 15:57
@melekali, the hymns are one place where we are given the flexibility to vary from the printed text. According to the general directions the music must glorify God and prepare participants for prayer. There are also times when there are copyright issues or the hymns are not available and at other times we find something more appropriate.
September 3rd, 2011 at 09:30
I noticed the Office song for the Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, Pope & Doctor is different from the printed version of the office, which would be from the Common of Pastors, “The Earth is Full of the Goodness of Christ.” Just wondering if these differences happen often, is there copyright or other reasons for this?
This is not a complaint. I was just comparing what you have here with the Breviary.
September 3rd, 2011 at 05:08
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo, I found it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004LXJLIE/ref=dm_dp_trk2
September 3rd, 2011 at 04:52
Dear Wonderful People, I would very much like to purchase the Sheet Music for the beautiful rendition of the “Lord is my Shepherd, sung today for Morning Prayer. I have written before about this but have not received any response. This is a most beautiful setting of this psalm. Blessings !!! Deacon Bill
September 2nd, 2011 at 21:01
@vwLorie, The Liturgy of the Hours does not make use of the Lectionary Cycle (there are no changes based on Year A, B, or C). Thus, the antiphons are the same each year.
On Sundays, the Gospel Canticle Antiphon at Evening Prayer I will generally be from the corresponding Sunday Gospel for Year A, the one at Morning Prayer will be from the Gospel assigned for Year B, and at Evening Prayer II will be taken from Year C.
September 2nd, 2011 at 14:06
To DANE FALKNER, who replied to my question this afternoon: THANK YOU, DANE!! You were a HUGE help.
Rev. Robert J. Sayer
Our Lady Star of the Sea
North Myrtle Beach, SC
September 1st, 2011 at 22:06
Peace Lorie,
The Intoductory antiphon is the one that differs. I an sure Dane will make a change. We have to all be patient as this team works hard to perform the wonderful work they do. Some errors may occur, but Jesus is not offended by a simple error in prayer. Our prayer is not voided.
Thank you and I hope you continue praying with everyone.
Pax et Bonum,
Paul
September 1st, 2011 at 21:51
Peace to you, Lorie,
The antiphons for Sunday Aug 22nd, as the online text goes, were all correct according to the Guide for the Liturgy of Hours 4 vol edition, and in the Four volume book Book IV.
The only confusion I could see were the Cantical antiphons, but both the Canticle of Zacharia, and Canticle of Mary, Luke 1:46-55, are from the Proper of Seasons pages 190, and 191 respectively.
If there was an error elsewhere, please be specific, so a correction can be made by Dane. It is good to learn of these.
I believe the team tries to match the music but in some cases a different version of the song is used as it is the only one available. We just have to sing along the best we can using the American verse to an English version.
Hope this helps answer your question.
Pax et Bonum,
Paul
Novice1, CFP
August 30th, 2011 at 02:27
@kat_bet, Yes, it would be helpful. Please send it directly to me, at monica.geana@surgeworks.com. Any other matters concerning our text, you can send to me.
Thank you for your help!
August 29th, 2011 at 03:30
Hi, I came across your site this morning and thought it was very good. I have an Iphone so will probably get round to downloading the app. Just a point on the pronunciation of St. Bede in the office of readings. It is pronounced Bede as in ‘bead’. Having said that it does make a change listening to the readings rather than reading them myself.
August 28th, 2011 at 20:33
Sunday, August 28th, you used ant. For year C instead of year A. Why? Also the hymn sung was not the one printed.
August 28th, 2011 at 18:45
@Dane,
Thanks. Android it is.
August 28th, 2011 at 12:11
@Dane,
the antiphon for the invitatory for the 22nd Sunday of the Year
You have a wonderful ministry please keep it up it helps so many people
August 28th, 2011 at 11:30
@melekali, we do not have an app for Blackberry.
August 28th, 2011 at 11:29
@jsphwilder42, I would be interested in knowing where you think we differ. To my knowledge we are 100% in compliance with the four-volume LOTH. If you see something different then let us know.
August 28th, 2011 at 09:17
God bless you for all you do! I found this site over the summer and have been using it since then. I’ve shared it with family and friends and several of them have begun daily prayer.
I have noticed that when the hymn “Holy, holy, holy” is used, the second and third verses have been sort of merged. I have typed out the correct lyrics and could cut-and-paste it to you, or attach, if there is a way, if you would like the correction. I don’t know how big a deal it would be to correct, so I don’t want to give you any unnecessary work. Just let me know if it would be helpful.
Kat
August 28th, 2011 at 09:07
I love your site and recommend it to all my friends who might be interested in praying the office but may not want to spend the $145 or so for the full breviary. I am considering my next phone purchase based on availability of your app. I know you have apps for iPhone & Android devices. Do you have an app for Blackberry devices?
Thanks for your great ministry work.
August 28th, 2011 at 08:47
Why do you not follow more closely the Liturgy of the Hours. You are changing antiphons and wording constantly. I am going to go back to my private recitation.
August 27th, 2011 at 12:17
Dane I just need to share Saying not only daytime prayer. I now the meaning behind f the Devine Office I really get its meaning like I never before, Jesus does speak to me more then ever. I really do know Jesus in with me, Thankyou for allowing me to share,
Pax Gene McCann OLB OSB
August 27th, 2011 at 07:36
Peace to you,
Thank you, Dane, for adding the Daily Mass Readings to the Good Resources links. Also for the many positive comments for it. It was well worth the wait.
It will definitey enhance praying the LOTH, and having the daily Word to meditate upon it.
I hope that everyone will make use of the Daily Mass Readings in your prayer time.
Pax et Bonum,
Paul
Novice 1, CFP
August 26th, 2011 at 04:33
@Malou delos Santos, You can rely on our content for this Feast. I made a quality check, the future changes, if any, will not affect the content.
August 25th, 2011 at 19:23
Thanks so much for adding Midday prayer this week. I was so excited to find this on I Tunes. You folks are amazing!
August 25th, 2011 at 14:51
Thank you for this site. It has allowed 12 people to begin the recitation of MP and EP as well as the OR. Join us as we pray that ourr group will grow.
August 25th, 2011 at 12:20
@Malou delos Santos, you are welcome to access this content by using the url http://divineoffice.org/?date=20110908 to go to this date. We have not done a quality check on it yet so you should look over all the content carefully before depending upon it.
August 25th, 2011 at 10:16
I have been truly inspired over the years by the Divine Office but many times I am unable to pray it because I do not have my books close at hand. I only discovered this site today. Now I have greater opportunity to praise my Lord.
May God bless you all for the wonderful opportunity you have presented to me and others as I will be sharing this site with others.
August 24th, 2011 at 20:39
hi, I am Malou delos Santos and im from the Philippines.
Would it be possible to request a copy of the Sept. 8, Birthday of Our Lady, complete Liturgy of the Hours with podcast? I am spearheading a catholic community to pray this in our Diocese.
Would appreciate very much your soonest reply.
Thanks and God bless
With Christ,
malou
August 24th, 2011 at 17:54
Dear Dane,
After a long time I used your inspirational website to pray the Divine Office and noticed that the Midday Prayer can be prayed with audio. thank you very much for the new improvement.
mayGod bless you and your TEAM.
August 24th, 2011 at 10:21
It’s so nice to have the audio available for the midday prayer. Thanks.
August 24th, 2011 at 05:37
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo,
Good morning, the mistake is corrected. Thank you!
August 24th, 2011 at 03:33
Good morning – in today’s Morning Prayer the opening “God come to my assistance is followed by the wrong response. It should read “Lord make haste to help me”. Just noticed this and wanted to note it for you. Thank you for all your hard work.
August 24th, 2011 at 01:26
Bro and Sis,
Pax Et Bonum!
I am requesting your approval, for i have copy/paste the “2nd reading” of the office in my blog as my daily reflection.
I am starting to create my own blog for fellow Catholics and non Catholics about our faith. In this blog i will include catechism of the Catholic faith, Personal life story where God touches their lives.
Thank you.
Fratello
August 21st, 2011 at 03:30
Thank you so very much Dane!!!
August 20th, 2011 at 22:36
@mm54mm, Thank You for the info. I will pass it on.
August 20th, 2011 at 08:11
@Patti, You may go directly to a date by changing the url (web address) to use a date. e.g., http://divineoffice.org/?date=20110817 with the date being YYYYMMDD
August 19th, 2011 at 19:22
@mauro, I am having this same problem for the last 2-3 days on my iPhone 3G. App crashes closes anywhere from 15-60 seconds into update. I am using the latest iPhone version. I have tried all the basic techniques including deleting the app and downloading the latest version. I have shutdown and restarted the iPhone numerous times. Since this started only once in about 50 tries was I able to get through the update stage and join the prayer. Haven’t been able to since.
August 19th, 2011 at 14:07
Is there a way to review past second readings in the Office of Readings? For instance I would like to review Augustine’s comments from this past Wednesday 8/17.
I do not see anywhere on the site that there is an archive where these might be.
I only get a limited amount of readable info via the podcast on my iPod.
August 19th, 2011 at 13:17
@anna rose, You should post this info to our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/divineoffice
August 19th, 2011 at 07:45
@FrNateHarburg, it is on our list for the next major update, but we do not foresee any additional major release for the Android App in 2011. We’re focusing on bug fixes and optimizations.
August 19th, 2011 at 07:43
@brahier, We clearly have a problem with 4.2.1… We will look into this and submit an update ASAP. If you happen to have the old version on iTunes, you can remove the app from your device and synch it back from iTunes to the device.
August 19th, 2011 at 05:46
Hello Dane,
I contacted you in June letting you know that I am offering a Discalced Carmelite Pilgrimage to Spain in April, 2012 in honor of the 500th upcoming anniversary of the birth of St. Teresa of Avila. I am working with Casterbridge Tours on this event. We have the Provincial Delegate from the Midwest accompanying us as chaplain and spiritual director. You told me to let you know when I was ready to send you the website and info. You would post the info for me on divineoffice.org I am ready to do so now so please let me know the next step.
Thank you for all you do to bring this electronic community closer to God.
In Carmel,
Anna Rose (OCDS in 5/2012)
August 18th, 2011 at 12:12
@mauro, Yes, it’s up to date. I’m running iOs 4.2.1 in my iPod Touch, which is the latest, and I downloaded version 2.3 of the Divine Office app. Every time I try to open the app, I get a “checking for updates” message, then it freezes and crashes. I can’t get anything to download. Again, for over two years I’ve never had that problem until downloading this newest version 2.3. I’m not sure what else to try. By the way, I also have the app on my iPad, and it runs like a charm there, so it’s only a conflict on the iPod Touch.
August 18th, 2011 at 11:16
@brahier, can you check your iOS version and make sure you have the latest?
August 18th, 2011 at 09:24
for Beverly-you can buy a card called money pac and use it in paypal- walmart has them- I do not know what other stores sell them I live in a small town.
Thank You for the wonderful website
mm54mm
August 18th, 2011 at 08:29
My phone has an LED display, which consumes battery slower with black than white. Could you please add the option to have a black background with white text?
Thanks in Jesus,
Fr. Nate Harburg
August 18th, 2011 at 01:21
@Deacon Ken, did you try to unsubscribe and subscribe again from iTunes?
About the other issue, I do see download links for MP3 files from the website, so I’m not sure what’s wrong.
August 17th, 2011 at 19:49
I seem to be having a problem lately downloading itune podcasts. just now 9:45 pm CDT, 8/17 the only ones that came thru were Aufg 18th – OR, Aug 19th – MP & EP, Aug 20th – About, Inv. & EP, Aug. 21st – About, Inv. & EP
They had been coming through great in the past. Other download s from itunes coming through fine.
Some time ago I stopped being able to download directly to my Mp3 player so itunes podcast was my only to access the broadcasts. Any suggestions?
August 17th, 2011 at 18:29
I noticed Bob’s post about Divine Office crashing. I’m having the same problem on my iPod Touch. I have used the software with no problems for a couple of years, but something about this latest update didn’t agree with my iPod Touch and it now crashes every time I launch it. I have tried re-installing it and even restarting the iPod. Something is wrong.
August 16th, 2011 at 06:30
Thank you so much for this ministry. I am Protestant, but I love these prayers and I find them inspiring and comforting. I am trying to pray the Morning and Night prayers as part of my daily devotions. Prayers for you, and God bless you!
August 15th, 2011 at 15:10
I too would like to support your site, but I refuse to use Pay Pal.
August 15th, 2011 at 15:09
Thank you for this site. I live alone and find praying the office with you comforting and more prayerful.
I have one question, is there a reason for not using Evening Prayer 1 or is it that I just haven’t found it yet.
God bless,
August 13th, 2011 at 08:55
Desire to support your website financially but cannot do so through your current method of PayPal. Is there another means of doing so. This is my second request. Your mission is vital and needs to be sustained by those of us who benefit the most.
August 12th, 2011 at 06:49
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that since the last update I have been getting a lot of Forced Closed events. The version that is on my android is 1.1.1
Thanks,
bob
August 10th, 2011 at 13:34
@Michael, thanks for the help with pronunciation.
August 10th, 2011 at 08:54
re: 1st reading from Office of Readings, August 10
Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus of Antioch,
Prochorus sounds like PROK-uh-ruhs
Nicanor ” ” ni-KAY-nuhr
Timon ” ” TI-muhn
Parmenas ” ” PAHR-mee-nuhs
Nicolaus ” ” nik’uh-LAY-uhs
August 10th, 2011 at 03:15
In my opinion your divine office online is gourgeous! The audio part makes it complete. I wanted to make an – alas!- extremely symbolic one-time contribution due to financial difficulties, but your system was not open to Europe. Please let me know. I’ll use a credit card – I guess in euro. God bless you all.
August 9th, 2011 at 09:36
Bashan is pronounced like bay-shun.
August 9th, 2011 at 06:58
On August 9, the Office of Readings closing prayer says “Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, our Son.” this should say “Your Son” rather than “our Son.”
Thanks!
August 6th, 2011 at 19:59
Need help. Is this free. If not why wasnt my payment received. Can I get 30% off then today for divine office for droid.
Sasha
August 6th, 2011 at 09:31
@Beverly OSSM, You missed my message completely. I have been encouraging the use of this website to everyone. It is excellent. I am in complete support of the team. May peace be with you, as well … amis41
August 6th, 2011 at 08:38
@Beverly OSSM,
Peace to you Beverly.
As a user of this blessed website, I beg to differ with the ideas that try to destroy the efforts made by this very wonderful, and gifted lay ministry team. You can dig into the rules and regulations, and hundreds of variations used by various orders in reciting or singing the LOTH, and criticize this web site for it’s work.
If one wants to pray the LOTH silently, then do so, and go do it. There is no need to complain about that here. There are over 37,000 downloads weekly, and the majority like the use of this ministry to help them pray to Jesus Christ.
Causing a disruption with variations and “personal” preferences is not helping. Maybe Pride is the motivation for these comments, and personal gratification. They do not help the majority of “lay people” learn to pray the LOTH here, and continue to pray it daily.
Thank you and ajwarren, for your comments, but enough said. I apologize for having to make this comment, but the Holy Spirit prompted me to bring peace of mind, and thanks to the DivineOffice team for years of development, nights of volunteer work producing this wonderful and top rated LOTH website. Someday the Church will use it more fully, in the quest to have people pray unceasingly. There are many other plans in the future, as the Producer has told me, for variations. So give it time and prayer.
My prayers are for the continued success of the DivineOffice website to grow and prosper in the ministry and may the Lord, through the Holy Spirit, continue to guide it in its mission. God be with you. Amen.
Pax et Bonum
amis41
Novice 1
August 5th, 2011 at 06:54
@Beverly OSSM, Further thoughts. the 4 vol set is used by fewer people. Why is it that the majority of users denied the fuller meaning of the Scriptural Readings contained in the 1 vol edition? I know this does not happen often but it is very confusing to some of the laity trying to include the Divine Office into their private prayer life. Personally, I feel the readings should be the same regardless of which vol/vols you use. Where and why did the difference occur in the first place?
August 5th, 2011 at 05:52
@Dane, This change saddens me. We have just started a LOTH prayer group and were using the website as an educational/instrustional tool. The Christian Prayer is the only affordable Divine Office available to us. Now we are faced with the same support nightmare you faced. It has added some confusion to our group. Any suggestions?
August 3rd, 2011 at 15:57
@tgsuarez, you are correct. It is interesting that the single-volume Christian Prayer book has slightly longer readings occasionally for Morning and Evening Prayer. For awhile we used them, but it became support nightmare assuring everyone that we were not taking editing liberties so we have stopped doing it sadly.
August 2nd, 2011 at 18:46
@Mary, For those who are interested, the Holy Father has recently published an Apostolic Exhortation, Verbum Domini, “on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church” (http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20100930_verbum-domini_en.html). There is a section entitled “Proclamation of the word and Ministry of Reader”. Although the focus is on the Mass and not the Divine Office — the Holy Father stresses the need for adequate training (both biblical and liturgical) of those who exercise the Ministry of Reader. Readers should have”some grasp of the meaning and structure of the liturgy of the word and the significance of its connection with the liturgy…” I believe the intent is to make sure the Word of God is proclaimed as ” living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. ” (Heb 4:12)
August 2nd, 2011 at 09:01
re: ajwarren Reply:
July 21st, 2011 at 13:20
Thank you for the tutorial on how the psalms are meant to be read. Not everyone who uses this website is an “expert” in the LOTH. Bring able to address an issue or express one’s opinion freely is an integral part of what makes this website wonderful.
August 2nd, 2011 at 07:11
@Mary, I too have absolutely no problem with the rading being strongly and meaningfully articulated. And it is truly a “PROCLAMATION” and therefore should be read accordingly.
I urge you to explore what this strong reaction on your part may truly mean for you.
God be with you!
August 2nd, 2011 at 03:55
I have listened to your podcast while following using the Christian Prayer version of the LOTH. I noticed that for morning and evening prayer your readings are often abbreviated from that which appears on Christian Prayer. I was wondering why that is?
July 29th, 2011 at 21:34
@MikeyLove, I will have someone with an Android investigate this. Thank you for telling us about it.
July 29th, 2011 at 18:30
Thank you for the marvelous work you do. It is deeply appreciated by many who have not commented here. I know your products have helped my prayer life and faith tremendously! Thank you, again. It is easy to tell yours is not a labor of economics, but of love.
July 29th, 2011 at 15:44
@MikeyLove, I just now noticed the same goes for Vespers.
July 29th, 2011 at 15:42
There’s an error….Sunday psalms on android, and weekday psalms on website page for july 29 which is today…what’s happening here?
July 28th, 2011 at 19:45
@BobinMo, we just posted it so you can now find it. We had to rework a few things.
July 28th, 2011 at 13:15
Hi, I just noticed that there is no Office of Readings for July 30, this coming Saturday. Is that correct or did my download get messed up?
Thanks,
bob
July 25th, 2011 at 13:19
I was wondering if we might be able to get the Liturgy of the hours on Kindle. I get daily newspapers on it and would really appreciate The Office. Any chance it might be soon?
Deacon Tony Cuseo
July 24th, 2011 at 12:31
@worldofwin, please send us an email to free@DivineOffice.org and we will instruct you on how to get your app free.
July 24th, 2011 at 07:07
DivineOffice.org Team:
This entire Sunday Liturgy of The Hours worship, as devised and provided by the Team, is a most inspiring example of your extraordinary skills and achievements.
The continuum of singing the psalms and other prayers is sublime –most conducive to deeper worship.
Sung prayer does take longer –it challenges us all to make the time, find the time, to pray more slowly, attentively, reverently, joyfully.
These are the very aims of the tradition of LOTH!
To enable us all to participate fully, the approach of alternating a male voice and a female voice, in choir, can ensure that, by the voice, we can follow more closely in singing or reciting alternatively each verse –as is customary in praying in choir.
You are in our prayers of thanksgiving.
May the Lord continue to bless you and keep you, and provide you His inspiration, strength and serenity.
Garrett Patterson
Ottawa, Canada
July 22nd, 2011 at 18:59
Good Evening
I would appreciate your assistance as I am waiting for your reply. I am a Deacon and was informed I could use your services in my new Android phone as I travel quite often and that would be something I would use. I did get one while I was on the road and tried to reply to but I was unable to send.
July 22nd, 2011 at 11:50
Although the title is changed, daytime prayer is the same for yesterday and today.
Rose
July 21st, 2011 at 19:58
@ajwarren, Bravo! Your insights are in keeping with how I believe the Office should be said … “our minds [do need to be] in harmony with our voices. Prayer should always be reflective and meditative.
July 21st, 2011 at 13:20
@salosf, This comment is made from time to time – and I would urge everyone to review the General Instructions to the Divine Office. I have posted on this before, so I apologize for the repetition, but I believe there are some key points:
1. The psalms are not readings or prose prayers, but poems of praise. Thus even when a psalm is recited and not sung or is said silently in private, its musical character should govern its use. [No 103]
2. In praying the psalms we should open our hearts to the different attitudes they express, varying with the literary genre to which each belongs (psalms of grief, trust, gratitude, etc.) [No 106]
I believe of communal reading of the entire psalm should be avoided — as these tend to be done in a “monotone” which obscures the poetic nature of the psalm.
3. ” [A] psalm is a different kind of prayer from a prayer or collect composed by the Church. Moreover, it is in keeping with the poetic and musical character of the psalms that they do not necessarily address God but are sung in God’s presence. Thus St. Benedict’s instruction: “Let us reflect on what it means to be in the sight of God and his angels, and let us so stand in his presence that our minds are in harmony with our voices.” [No 105]
July 21st, 2011 at 05:30
Will Divine Office.com be available on the Amazon Kindle and other ebooks soon?
July 20th, 2011 at 14:34
@mauro, It’s okay now. Thanks again.
July 20th, 2011 at 14:33
@mauro, It’s okay now but I don’t know how to send a screenshot anyway.
July 20th, 2011 at 14:32
@Dane, Thank you. It’s now working okay.
July 20th, 2011 at 14:08
@Michael, would you please email us a screenshot of the reported issue?
Send to: apps at divineoffice dot org
July 20th, 2011 at 14:07
@Michael, would you please email us a screenshot?
apps at divineoffice dot org
July 20th, 2011 at 10:26
Thank you for telling us. Our site is completely safe, but it might be reporting it because our software version is not current as it should be. We will investigate, but don’t be concerned.
July 20th, 2011 at 08:16
“This website has been reported as unsafe” on my Internet Explorer browser with AVG anti-virus software.
July 20th, 2011 at 08:08
Some kind of attack is being reported on Internet Explorer for this website!?
July 20th, 2011 at 06:23
It would be a great service to me if the Divine Office website were available on my Kindle. Is there any chance of that soon?
July 19th, 2011 at 14:10
Good Afternoon
I never received a response on the letter I sent to you concerning my ability to download your app on my phone. I was informed that clergy do now pay for this, I think what might have been the problem was my mobile phone as I have been having problems with it. Please try to reach me at 803-794-3388. worldofwin@sc.rr.com
Peace of Christ
Chuck
July 19th, 2011 at 08:58
@Mary, Thank you for your comment. I, on the otherhand, enjoy the readings as they are currently done. It offers one a much more reflective/meditative way of praying the Divine Office. While it is a participatory prayer, it is not just to be just a recitation. I do agree with you that the pauses between Antiphons and readings are too long. It would be better if they followed one another. The Hymn for the day should not be an elaborate chorale “performance.” I would like to see the hymn sung more in plain song chant. I hope this comment offers you some input from “the other side of the fence.” May your days be bright and joy-filled! Peace be with you, … always.
July 19th, 2011 at 07:13
It was quite a blessing to find this audio divine office online. I currently live alone and miss praying in common with my sisters. Using this website gives me a sense of communal prayer. I know everything is prerecorded (not live) and making changes would be difficult. That said, I find one pray-er very distracting. She prays the psalms in a dramatic reading style which leaves me feeling like I’m part of an audiance rather than a participant in the prayer. Many thanks for this wonderful service.
July 18th, 2011 at 11:05
@ejduncker, Hello Edward,
Thank you for your message. Here is what we usually suggest to restore full functionality of Divine Office apps if your app is not behaving correctly.
1. Go to the settings screen and do a Factory Reset.
2. Restart your device (shut it down by keeping the stand-by button pressed for a few seconds, swipe to switch off and then turn the device back on pressing the stand-by button again).
If this doesn’t solve all your issues, then please try this:
1. Remove the app from your device.
2. Download the app again. The download of an app you already own form the App Store is FREE as long as you use the same account you used to purchase it: you won’t be charged again!
To uninstall applications from the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch:
1. Tap and keep pressed the app icon in your home screen until the red badges appear,
2. Tap once on the red X badge and confirm removal.
Please let us know if this fixes your issue.
Thanks!
July 18th, 2011 at 08:09
I am having problems with the downloaded version that I purchased for my i-pad. Please direct me on how to resolve my issues.
Sincerely,
Edward
July 18th, 2011 at 06:19
Greetings in Christ! One of your readers in particular reads in a very dramatic fashion and my experience is that I find it to be very distracting. There is a lot to be said for a beautifully smooth reading and it would be my preference to have the readings be read without so many pauses and heavy inflection.
Were the LOTH not so much of a participatory prayer, it would be a different case. I, as well as others, have offered this suggestion previously. Thank you for your consideration. Mary
July 18th, 2011 at 05:53
Wow – What a great way to pray the office. Music and readers add such a dimension. And no flipping of pages is a great help in focusing on praying… instead of on the prayer book! Thank you.
July 18th, 2011 at 02:25
@Sheri, Hello!
Thank you for your message. I’ll reply point-to-point.
Please let me know if I get too technical and if you have any additional question.
1. When we loaded it, noticed that it drains our iphone batteries quite a bit (have the latest iphones). Checked the double click home button solution, sometimes it is on? and sometimes it is off? or is it that the program itself is energy heavy?
I assume you downloaded one of our “lite” apps, such as Lauds, Vespers or Compline. These apps are based on an older code base and are still iOS 3 compatible. The Divine Office app is optimized to run on the latest iOS 4.3.x.
All our apps download contents either via WiFi or 3G and lock the screen to stay on all the time. This results in heavy battery usage: it’s not about how the app is written or compiled, it’s just what happens when you use the phone screen and connectivity. Try running the YouTube app and playback a 60 minutes video: you’ll get the exact same battery usage. 3G downloads require more power then WiFi downloads.
You can disable automatic downloads and lock the screen (or reduce the brightness) to save on battery life.
About multitasking: Divine Office apps do not run any process in the background. The next version of Divine Office iPhone will allow playback of the audio in the background, but the app won’t download or use the screen lock while in “freeze state”. So no heavy battery usage in that scenario.
2. There is a still an audio not available issue sometimes with your app – is this going to be fixable?
The audio production is a huge work-in-progress and some days recordings still have to be produced or need to be updated or improved.
We strive to publish all contents in time for you to pray with us. Sometimes Dane and the team only manage to do this a few hours before the prayer time. In these cases the mobile apps might not get the content for a few additional hours since they only check a few times a day for updates automatically. However, you can trigger for a contents update manually using the “refresh button” in the top-left corner of the screen in the Divine Office iPhone app app or from the Settings screen in all other apps.
You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook: Dane posts updates on his post-production status and usually warns if any issue occurs that could delay the availability of the prayers.
Our ministry hasn’t yet produced the daytime prayer audio, so you’ll only get the text for that.
3. Updating – no auto update anymore and when we try to reset everything:
a) it resets to the day before?
b) nothing happens?
Deleted app, reloaded, still same thing occurring ?
Does this happen with the full version?
If you removed the app and installed it again then you should not have any issue. Try restarting your iPhone.
Please refer to this post for some basic troubleshooting tips: http://surgeworks.com/blog/how-to-close-quit-and-restart-apps-on-ipad-and-iphone
As I said the full version has been completely rewritten and optimized for iOS 4, so it’s more stable and uses overall less CPU power.
The next version of Lauds, Vespers and Compline will also be based on the same code.
Hope this helps!
God bless you,
Mauro.
July 18th, 2011 at 02:02
@PaulC, hello! The app is compatible with Android 2.1, we have about 5% of our users successfully using the app on this OS version.
We have 4% of our Android users in the UK. I don’t get why you can’t see the app in the Android Market. I just checked and the app is marked to be available worldwide.
I can reach the app in the italian Android Market at this URL: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.surgeworks.divineoffice&feature=search_result
July 17th, 2011 at 20:21
Peace to you!
I am now using your website to pray the Divine Office. It is an excellent site and has saved me the added expense of purchasing the 4 volume set. However, how do I financially support you when I will not open a Pay-Pal account. I have had numerous problems with this in the past and will not venture into re-establishin it. TY
July 17th, 2011 at 14:24
Hi
am an avid listener to your audio divine office in the UK using a computer.
However I have just bought an android phone with plans to buy your android app for mobile listening. However your android app appears not listed on the UK android market place. Also we cannot yet use amazon in the UK to download apps.
Various online android help pages have suggested I check with you, that your android app is actually available for download in the UK. I am using Android version 2.1.
Be grateful to hear if anyone has successfully down oaded the android app in the UK
thanks
keep up the good work
Paul C
July 16th, 2011 at 06:26
Today, the Feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, is the 34th Anniversary of Our Wedding. I have always kept this Celebration and Devotion close to my heart and have consecrated our Family to her intercession. Today I returned to my Four Volume Liturgy of the Hours to Pray the Office in Her Honor. Blessings to YOU and The Work YOU DO to allow more individuals to Pray the Wonderful Prayer of the Church !
July 15th, 2011 at 12:42
Hi Dane:
All of us here have been testing out your App …really love it! Noticed some what we hope are fixable issues prior to downloading the full version:
1. When we loaded it, noticed that it drains our iphone batteries quite a bit (have the latest iphones). Checked the double click home button solution, sometimes it is on? and sometimes it is off? or is it that the program itself is energy heavy?
2. There is a still an audio not available issue sometimes with your app – is this going to be fixable?
3. Updating – no auto update anymore and when we try to reset everything:
a) it resets to the day before?
b) nothing happens?
Deleted app, reloaded, still same thing occurring ?
Does this happen with the full version?
Really hope that these issues can be looked at because honestly – you really have a wonderful app.
Have a small comment – (take it or leave it now!
Sometimes having three people respond at once is a lot to HEAR in a podcast or otherwise via earbuds etc. it almost starts to sound robotic. (this is typical podcast/app sound etc. issues)
You hear that third voice echo that happens sometimes when recording. I wonder if you have ever thought to just have two voices responding at once to decrease the load on the ear?
All of us were listening together the other day and we thought, lets just tell Dane!
Otherwise … WE LOVE YOUR APP!
Sheri
July 10th, 2011 at 12:12
@worldofwin, yes that is true. We offer it free to priests, deacons, nuns and anyone under religious orders and from any faith tradition. Please send a quick email to free@divineoffice.org and someone will help you get it free.
July 10th, 2011 at 11:56
I just purchase a new smart phone and I understand being that I am a Deacon that your services are free, is that so.
Shalom
Deacon Chuck Di Russo
July 10th, 2011 at 05:17
@Jan,
1. Try it with you virus scanner turned off. If it works, you may need a virus scanner update, or you may need to pause it while you are downloading the podcast. Only do this if you absolutely trust the download.
2. Are you using iTunes? Make sure you have the most recent version installed.
3. If you are still having trouble, you may need to reset your library. Make sure you back up your files first. Instructions are here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451
July 9th, 2011 at 13:14
A couple of months ago I e-mailed with the problem that when I try to play the podcast, it plays the first three or four minutes (possibly to the end of the first track?) and stops, says “buffering” but never resumes. You suggested that the problem is with my computer and to try refreshing the page and if that didn’t work to clear the cache. I tried refresh and that just went back to the beginning and stopped at the same place. Clearing the cache had no effect. I agree that it is probably me/my computer but I don’t know where to go for help. Any ideas of other things I could try or websites that might have info? I miss being able to listen.
Thanks.
Jan
July 9th, 2011 at 08:07
I recently posted a comment suggesting that it would be nice to have the divine office in an e-reader format for the amazon kindle, or other e-reader devices. I got a reply suggesting that I use the experimental web browser feature of my kindle. The reply totally misses the point. An e-reader subscription would be convenient and easy to use. The experimental web browser feature is so cumbersome that one could actually pray the entire office from the Liturgy of the Hours book in the time it takes to jump through the hoops to get it on a web browser on a kindle. The Kindle is intended for reading books and newspapers. It is not primarily intended as a web browser.
The on-line divine office ministry makes it easy and convenient to pray the office from my home computer, and I really appreciate that. If it were available in an e-reader subscription, then I could take it with me, easily and conveniently, throughout the day. That would be a very nice asset, and I would be willing to pay a subscription fee, as I do for my New York Times, in order to carry it with me on my kindle.
In the mean time, when away from home, when I need a book to assist me in my prayers, I have the newest New American Bible on my Kindle.
July 8th, 2011 at 16:35
@Damaco, it is difficult for us to fix problems that occur on your own machine, however, you should try the following things and stop when one works for you:
1. Quit your browser completlely and restart it.
2. Clear the cache on your browser.
3. Reboot your computer.
4. Make sure you have the latest version of your browser by checking for updates and installing them.
5. Try a new browser. You can get Firefox at http://getfirefox.com
July 6th, 2011 at 19:54
@Julia Robinson, Depending on what sort of internet connections you have on your Kindle, you can go to “experimental” on the menu & then put in divine office.org & you can get that day’s prayers. If you have 3-g you can get it from about anywhere, if only Wifi you can only get it when near a Wifi that you can connect to. If you are having trouble connecting, try a reset. I hope this works for you. I enjoy being able to get Divine Office on my Kindle. (You can only get the text–not the audio). Good luck!
July 6th, 2011 at 15:34
For the past few days i have been unable to get the text or audio on your website. I can get audio from iTunes but not the text for the prayers. I have had this problem once, for a day but this is much longer. I am up early to say the office which has been a real blessing for me.for almost two years. I have the Christian Prayer but the text is sightly different. What can I do. My location is Grenada W.I.
July 5th, 2011 at 19:32
@mmejias, Actually, the General Instructions encourage the singing of the Liturgy of the Hours, especially Morning & Evening Prayer: “The sung celebration of the divine office is more in keeping with the nature of this prayer and a mark of both higher solemnity and closer union of hearts in offering praise to God. . . . Therefore the singing of the office is earnestly recommended to those who carry out the office in choir or in common” [No 268]. “. Hence, in celebrating the liturgy singing is not to be regarded as an embellishment superimposed on prayer; rather, it wells up from the depths of a soul intent on prayer and the praise of God and reveals in a full and complete way the community nature of Christian worship.
” [No. 270] Instruction No 271 encourages singing on the Sunday celebrations as a way of recognizing the solemnity of the occasion.
The current practice is to have singing only on Sundays — during the week, everything is recited. This is completely consistent with the instructions. If anything, some additional singing would be appropriate on Feasts, and even more on Solemnities.
Tony
July 4th, 2011 at 07:08
Thank-God, and thank-you for creating such a wonderful site. You have made it easier to follow and understand the liturgy of the hours. I was introduced to the Liturgy of the Hours by my affiliation with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal. Although I always loved to hear the religious sing the Liturgy of the Hours, I had great difficulty learning it. The Prayer Channel (NY), helped to solve that problem, however, when it was dissolved, I was heart-broken. I complained to a friend who suggested this site, needless to say, I was presently surprised. Praise God!
July 3rd, 2011 at 07:54
I would like to get divineoffice on my amazon kindle (in a no-page-flipping format, similar to the online divineoffice). I do not have an iphone or ipad or android phone, and I have no intention of getting one, but I do have an amazon kindle. For reading text, I prefer the amazon kindle to a computer screen because of the absence of back-lighting. Also, the kindle fits in my purse and I usually take it with me.
Is there any chance that you could make the divineoffice available for e-reader devices such as an amazon kindle?
P.S. I have the 4-volume set, Liturgy of the Hours, and the one-volume set, Christian Prayer, and the one volume set Shorter Christian Prayer. The reason I use the on-line divineoffice is because I like to not have to flip pages.
July 3rd, 2011 at 05:32
After being with you for about 2 years, I’m finally regestering. I have only one comment or request. I always thought certain prayers were meant to pray and others to sing. I love to hear it being pray and not singing. Is ther an option to hear the Divine Liturgy of the Hour being pray instead of singing?
Love your work. God always Bless you
Mark
July 3rd, 2011 at 03:50
@GH, But those are the correct lyrics, and those are the lyrics that are sung in the recording. Elizabethian English is common in older hymns.
July 2nd, 2011 at 10:35
@GH, We have never tested this site on Opera Mini so I imagine it is just incompatible. You may want to try a different mobile browser. If you don’t mind a paid app and your phone is Android based then you might try using our Divine Office app, which can be found on the Android Marketplace or on Amazon.
July 2nd, 2011 at 10:32
@bill.brown, try using this link http://divineoffice.org/wp-admin/profile.php to login and change your password.
July 1st, 2011 at 21:12
@The Cathoholic, Isn’t this simply a grammar issue? “Which wert” doesn’t register in my brain as meaning anything, but “who was” does. God’s peace to you.
July 1st, 2011 at 21:07
Hi. what am I doing wrong? I have regular internet on my phone via Opera Mini, but can only access the Invitatory. When I select “Evening Prayer,” it still comes up Invitatory. I travel often in my ministry, and I would LOVE to be able to access the Office through your site. Thank You! for everything !
July 1st, 2011 at 20:32
please email me with instructions on how i can change my password for this sight. can find no link except forget your pass word and ya all have sent me something i can never remember
June 30th, 2011 at 18:21
Last Night, I purchased the Divine Office Application for my Android. Enjoying the set up, and ease of use. I hope that in the near future that all Sundays and Solemnities are Chanted or sung, not recited.
June 29th, 2011 at 08:22
Thank you for your wonderful ministry. I look forward to my prayer time more than ever. Even though I’ve prayed with Magnificat magazine, I feel so much more connected to the Lord when I listen and pray the Divine Office on my iphone.
I love the selections from the Madeleine Choir School.
June 28th, 2011 at 02:58
I have noticed recently that if you are on the comments page and click on the link to the Invitatory page, nothing happens. This appears to occur daily, but only from the Comments page. It work fine from other pages. Using Windows XP Pro w/ SP3 and Firefox 4.0.1, and just upgraded to FF 5.0. It occurs in both versions of FF. It also occurs in Internet Explorer 8, and in Chrome 12.0.742.100.
June 27th, 2011 at 18:26
@manuel421,
Thank you for your help.
June 27th, 2011 at 15:38
@manuel421, The text of the Divine Office in Spanish can be found using the following Web Site:
http://www.ibreviary.com/m/breviario.php
Click on the option (More..) and you will find a few different languages listed…among them is Spanish. There is also a Smartphone version of this app (Blackberry, Android, iPhone) that also support Spanish. However, there is no audio provided.
Paz de Christo!
Tony
June 27th, 2011 at 15:30
@catholicfocus,
The Te Deum is not used during Morning or Evening Prayer — only during the Office of Readings.
Refer to the General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours, Chapters II-III, the Office of Readings:
68. On Sundays outside Lent, on days within the octaves of Easter and Christmas, and on solemnities and feasts the Te Deum is said after the second reading with its responsory but is omitted on memorials and weekdays. The last part of this hymn, that is, from the verse, Save your people, Lord to the end, may be omitted.
So we will be using the Te Deum during the Office of Readings this week on June 29th (Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul) and on July 1st (Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus).
June 27th, 2011 at 14:05
Regarding Te Deum Hymn,
I have not found any rubrics to tell me when it is appropriate to use this hymn in morning or evening prayers.
I would appreciate knowning when it is appropriate to use this prayer and where the use is defined in the single volume Christian Prayer book.
June 27th, 2011 at 08:03
Where can I find the Christian Prayer in Spanish?
June 27th, 2011 at 04:39
Please note that in the Monday morning hymn, the last line of the second verse that reads, “Who was, and is, and evermore shall be.” Should be, “Which wert, and art, and evermore shalt be.”
June 27th, 2011 at 02:26
@aidearukami, hello! Please note that:
1) you can disable “automatic downloads” from the settings screen in all our apps, this leaves only the text part to be downloaded and updated automatically. You may then download only the audio you want using the download button for each prayer.
2) Our apps have a few days of contents cached. We can’t make it too far in the future right now because: the RSS feed has size limits; the text currently needs to be reviewed weekly.
3) If I understand you correctly, all you have to do is to put your iPad in portrait (vertical) you’ll get the full focus on text.
Thank you for your message and God bless you!
Mauro
June 26th, 2011 at 11:40
@Garrett Patterson, thanks for the note about the Te Deum. I will use a chanted version more appropriate next time. Thanks for letting me know.
June 26th, 2011 at 05:43
In Morning Prayer on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, I thought the excellent recording of “Alleluia! Sing To Jesus,” performed by the acclaimed Choir of Norwich Cathedral, was most prayerful –very conducive to worship by all!
Alleluia, indeed!
Many thanks to the DivineOffice.org team!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
June 26th, 2011 at 05:24
To the DivineOffice.org team:
Thank you for providing us, once again, this morning, leadership in prayer on the Feast of Corpus Christi.
For me, unfortunately, this rendition of the sung Te Deum this morning was incomprehensible.
For me, not conducive to prayer!
Nevertheless, thank you for trying and seeking to select a recording that was intended to inspire.
Peace!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
June 25th, 2011 at 09:22
Dane, I think my donation problem was due to not selecting the amount I wanted to donate.
The audio is not an option for me most mornings and evenings. I can click on the link to download the player, but noting comes up except a blank page – http://hw.libsyn.com/p/6/b/4/6b469a3bd3dabbdb/divine-ip-ord-w02-w04-sat.psalm100.mp3?sid=e419505b719c56cb6ebb2ad4771461f3&l_sid=18602&l_eid=&l_mid=2378207. The podcast link doesn’t connect either. Sorry to take so much of yhour time. I probably need to change a setting on my computer; Dell Studio, Windows 7, Internet Explorer 9.
June 24th, 2011 at 16:34
@demers47, Thank you so much. Yes, Great Tip!
June 24th, 2011 at 06:42
@gordonocds, Hello! Can you please be more specific on the process you followed to get to this error? I just checked and there’s nothing on our account about the transaction, while all the options on our form in the sidebar should be functional. Thanks! Mauro.
June 24th, 2011 at 06:40
I like much Divine Office which I use both on iPad and iPhone.
Yet I would like also to suggest some ideas for further improvements (as in my opinion).
1) To contemplate the possibility to exclude audio downloading somewhere in the settings, leaving only the text part as to make faster the process of downloading especially when you are not interested in the audio part…
2) To allow the liturgy of more days to be downloaded in advance (which if n. 1 is a reality downloading more days would be much easier). This would be useful especially when for some days there is no chance of connection via Wi-Fi.
3) Especially in iPad it would be fantastic when you pray on the text of the liturgy to have it in full screen as with an ebook.
Thanks a lot and God bless you.
GianJap
June 24th, 2011 at 06:06
@Dane, There seems to be a problem witgh online donation. I got this error message: “PayPal cannot process this transaction because of a problem with the seller’s website. Please contact the seller directly to resolve this problem.”
June 24th, 2011 at 06:03
@Dane, Thank you for your reply. I guess I need to donate in order to help the cause; awesome is the God whose ears are attentive to the prayers of the littlest of flowers on the forest floor.
June 22nd, 2011 at 23:03
@gordonocds, we do not yet provide audio for the daytime prayers, but we do for all Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, Night Prayer, and Office of Readings.
We do provide the proper content for all memorials, except when I am asleep at the switch
, which is what happened for once this month. We don’t provide prayers for optional memorials or commemorative celebrations. The celebration for St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More where optional memorials.
We wish we could do it all and someday we might be able to.
June 22nd, 2011 at 14:58
A beautiful site and very helpful. Will you be giving us the option to pray the Memorials and other feasts on the Roman Calendar? Today was the Memorial for St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More, martyrs.
Also, sometimes the audio version is not given as an option. Is the problem with me or is it a case of not having it available. I think it is marvelous and appreciate this gift to me and others who find a deep peace and joy while praying the office here.
In Carmel,
Gordon
June 22nd, 2011 at 04:10
@lisafcc, Praise the Lord Lisa! I am quite sure that the Lord will reward you for your dedication and service to his priest. God Bless you and him.
June 21st, 2011 at 15:07
Dane, you may not remember me, but I’m the person who prays the Offices very often with an 81 year old priest using an iPad via Skype! When I made a donation to support your excellent work, you asked if there was anything you could do to help Father use the Divine Office more easily. I said, “Bigger type!” Well, I just got a new iPad and loaded the Divine Office. (I’ve used the iPhone app up until now). Fr. happens to be visiting me in Chicago and yesterday, we sat next to each other and shared my iPad to pray together. I discovered that it is now possible to make the type GIGANTIC! I blew the type way up and we easily prayed every office yesterday together. He was as happy as a little kid! I told him, “They did this for you, you know.” He said, “God bless them, God love them. I have always prayed that I die in bed with my breviary in my hand, except now it may be an iPad.” Thank you for acting on a customer comment and for making a precious man with horrible eyes very happy. I say, “God bless you, too!” Lisa
June 21st, 2011 at 13:32
Hi, Team.
I am so happy to find this amazing site, makes me feel more close to God even at work. I love reciting office readings, and joining the podcast. I usually use my spare time here in the office and make sure to spend it in reading prayers. It gives me joy and strength throughout the day. More power and God bless you now and always!
Mylene
June 20th, 2011 at 05:02
@demers47,
Great Tip!
I didn’t know about this particular very handy method of resizing with a couple of instant strokes!
Now I use it all the time!
June 20th, 2011 at 04:51
DivineOffice.org Team:
This morning’s hymn, “I Sing the Mighty Power of God,” is an excellent example of your inspired thought and deed in selecting greatly varied and prayerful music for Divine Office.
It reminds us all of the dedication and care required to produce a new act, every day, of the ongoing pageant of prayer that is the centuries old –ever new, ever inspiring, ever prodding– Liturgy of the Hours.
Thank you for bringing it alive around the world as never before.
You are in the prayers of all who, in joy, pray with you daily.
God Bless!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
June 18th, 2011 at 21:46
@demers47, many thanks for your help
Judy
June 18th, 2011 at 20:46
@KokoSam, hold ctrl key down and press the + key as many times as you like to enlarge the text. I press twice for mine. If you want to go back to the original size, hold ctrl key down and press 0 (zero).
June 17th, 2011 at 20:23
I am truly thankful for your site, but please is there any way to enlarge your text
Blessed Be, Judy
June 14th, 2011 at 02:40
The Morning Prayer Hymn for 6/14, “Sing Praise to Our Creator”, has a couple of slight errors. The second line as sung is “Redeemed of Adam’s race;”. Also the apostrophes at the end of every instance of “Undivided Unity” should be changed to commas.
June 12th, 2011 at 19:25
I like to here the voices
June 12th, 2011 at 08:17
I would love to have this Divine office in my Kindle. It does not matter the audio. I take my Kindle everywhere. I will not miss this wonderful prayers daily. Thank you.
June 10th, 2011 at 15:20
@jmoblcam, If you make sure your wifi is enabled & connected with a computer, you can get to Divine office.org through google. You can only get the text on the Kindle, but it’s better than no LOTH. Often I get the audio on my Ipod & listen along with reading on my Kindle. Hope this helps.
Nancy
June 6th, 2011 at 21:27
@jmoblcam, Universalis is text only and we provide text and audio. Audio doesn’t work on Kindle so we are not planning on implementing anything special yet. We aren’t saying no, but we don’t have a technology to publish ebooks and if we did it could not handle audio.
June 5th, 2011 at 18:35
Good evening,
Will there be a way to get Divine Office on the Kindle soon? Something similar to what Universalis has would be good.
Jim MacMath
June 5th, 2011 at 08:21
I am not all that computer literate and don’t understand most of the application adds I read. Is there a Divine Office app for an ereader?
June 5th, 2011 at 00:13
@Marianne Johnpillai, Both prayers are correct, I just chose the other one for the text. Now the audio and text are a match. Thank you for your contribution.
June 4th, 2011 at 21:03
Just to say… The Concluding prayer in the Office of Readings for June 5th is different to the one read out. Thanks once again, for this absolutely wonderful source to help us lift our hearts to God each day and night! God bless
June 4th, 2011 at 10:12
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo, “Relax, God accepts your prayers as you say it, even with mistakes” is something worth keeping in mind. Blessing to you from Utah!
June 3rd, 2011 at 04:36
Dear Dane et al., I personally want to again Thank Each of You for all the time and effort you put into assuring that those of us who utilize this wonderful site to participate in Liturgical Prayer of the Church have a valid resource. I am reminded of early days in the 60′s when I began to say the office how I struggled with what to say when and where to find the right prayers and psalms etc. My Spiritual advisor told me “Relax God accepts your prayer as you say it, even with mistakes” Blessings from Massachusetts !!!
June 2nd, 2011 at 13:41
@Robert Peter Ross, Actually — this is not correct. Please see this publication from the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston ( http://www.archgh.org/default/prayer-worship/office_worship/Year_of_Grace_2011_rev%203_.pdf). Texas is divided into two Ecclesiastical Provinces: Galveston-Houston and San Antonio. Both provinces have elected to transfer the celebration of the Solemnity to Sunday June 5th.
June 1st, 2011 at 20:42
As always,Thank you !!!!!!!!!!
pax vobiscum..
June 1st, 2011 at 20:17
@Wayne, The Dioceses of Texas, all 119, are celebrating the “Ascension of The Lord on, Thursday, June 2, 2011, tomorrow.
June 1st, 2011 at 20:13
My wife attempted to follow using Voulme II of her Liturg of the Hours 4 volume set. We could find nothing that matches your presentations for today, June 1, 2011, St.Justin, Acts of Martyrs.
June 1st, 2011 at 18:48
@Wayne, My diocese, the diocese of Worcester, MA, does not celebrate this solemnity on the following Sunday. It’s Ascension Thursday, as God intended it, not Ascension Whenever it’s Convenient. (Just being snarky–no offense intended)
June 1st, 2011 at 16:43
@Wayne, Your statement “since the Solemnity of the Ascension is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States” is not accurate.
The Solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord remains a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States. However, the United State Conference of Catholic Bishops has decreed that any
Ecclesiastical Province may transfer the Solemnity of the Ascension our Lord from Thursday to the following Sunday provided two-thirds of the bishops in the Province vote for this. (Canon 1246). This was approved by Pope John Paul II in 1999. (http://usccb.org/norms/1246.htm)
Most Provinces in the US have subsequently voted to transfer the feast to the following Sunday. Some provinces that have not include: Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Omaha, and Philadelphia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ascension)
The dioceses in these provinces, and as well as many countries continue to celebrate this Solemnity on Thursday. Since this is its rightful place in the calendar, and that this site is accessed by people all over the world, I am assuming this is the reason why Dane has chosen to celebrate this Solemnity on June 2nd.
June 1st, 2011 at 16:06
@Dane, Thanks so much. I guess this is mostly a time zone issue as I am in China. I will just check for the files on the morning of each day.
John
June 1st, 2011 at 14:34
@Dane, the rule is: If the Solemnity (Epiphany, Ascension, Corpus Christi) is a Holy Day of Obligation, then it is celebrated on the calendary day. If it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, then it is celbrated on the following Sunday. Since the Solemity of the Ascension is not a Holy Day of Obligation in the United States, I am curious as to which diocese in the USA does not celebrate the Solemnity on the following Sunday..
June 1st, 2011 at 11:06
June 2 is the Solemnity of the Ascension. In many diocese this solemnity is moved to Sunday. On this site we will be celebrating the Solemnity on Thursday, June 2, and we will try to provide instructions for those not wishing to celebrate on this Solemnity on Thursday.
Being that Thursday is the Solemnity the Evening Prayer for Wednesday begins the celebration. The audio for this Evening Prayer is now posted.
May 31st, 2011 at 20:50
Does anyone know the name of the piece of music used at the end of the Night Prayer for May 31? Thank you!
May 31st, 2011 at 05:12
Today, on the Feast of the Visitation of Mary, the DivineOffice.org team leads us beautifully in sung prayer, including the Te Deum. Alleluia! Alleluia!
May 31st, 2011 at 03:22
the Invitatory antiphon is posted as “Come, let us worship Christ, the Son of Mary”. In my breviary 4 Vol on pg 1844 it is listed as “Let us sing to the Lord as we celebrate the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.” with notation all from the common of the Blessed Virgin Mary except the following: (then lists the exceptions)
May 29th, 2011 at 01:09
@Marianne Johnpillai, Morning Prayer and Office of Reading audio has now been posted. I am sorry we can’t get it out early enough to serve all time zones, but we are reworking all of our Easter content and the work load is simply overwhelming. You will find that everything is much much better during Ordinary Time.
May 28th, 2011 at 21:57
@Marianne Johnpillai,
Dear Marianne, Due to circumstances of the website manager
for wmichael@classicalliberalarts.com , he has had to have people pay a small fee to have the bulletin available. I do not know why the Morning Prayer and Office of readings were omitted. His wife prepares the list. It usually is for the Ordinary Office reading and not so much for the Feasts, etc.
You can contact him, and he will reply to you. He is a very nice person, and works hard to encourage the Catholic faith.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 28th, 2011 at 19:41
Hi, Morning Prayer and Office of Readings are not recorded. Guess I must be ahead of the you all because of living in Sri Lanka, hence the delay.
God bless
Love and prayers
Marianne
May 26th, 2011 at 09:17
@Wayne, These audio files had some errors. We work to solve this problems, hopefully in proper time. We apologize for the inconvenience.
May 23rd, 2011 at 18:16
I purchased the Android App today! So far so good! Thanks for your hard work and dedication to make all this happen!
May 23rd, 2011 at 15:57
Evening Prayer audio for today is now available. We found a mistake and had to remove it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
May 23rd, 2011 at 14:08
I have to admit I have fallen in love with the hymn for today’s Office of Readings (Monday, May 23, 2011). Here is my dressed up version of the Google translation:
1. Creator of all things
who rules the heavens and the earth,
you dress the day with light,
comfort the night with sleep.
2. The day is almost over,
sing a hymn of thanksgiving.
From you we ask for rest:
restore our limbs and minds.
3. Dark night covers the earth,
and with confidence we pray:
Protect, O Lord, your children;
rescue us poor sinners.
4. I sing to you with heart so full,
exalt you through the voice of hymns;
in the dark of night
turn on a light of faith.
5. With somber minds we adore you,
with great affection your love embrace:
in the dark of night
lies quiet dormant sin.
6. You free our hearts from evil,
you calm our minds of dreams;
and watch us sleep safe from all
‘tacks of the enemy.
7. We call upon Christ and the Father,
the Holy Spirit, Trinity,
Three in One, God and Lord,
protect us, we pray! Amen.
Perhaps as a community we can edit a good translation of this most excellent hymn.
Here is the link to the Vatican website for the hymn and the MP3 audio file.
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/liturgy/cap-mus-sistina/documents/creatore_di_tutte_le_cose.htm
May 23rd, 2011 at 13:31
To hear the evening prayer for Monday 23rd, I figured out if you change the URL slightly it will load fine.
The link is as follows, just copy and paste into a new window:
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/a/f/5/af516daeca1e0fed/divine-easter-w05-mon-ep.mp3
(I changed the last part from …or.mp3 to …ep.mp3)
Regards,
David.
May 23rd, 2011 at 13:19
@Wayne, Thank you, I updated with your version.
May 23rd, 2011 at 11:54
Here is a translation of the hymn for monday’s (May 23, 2011) Office of Readings–through the “magic” of Google translator. I think it is somewhat better than the one provided on the web page.
1. Creator of all things
who rules the heavens and the earth,
you dress the day of light,
comfort with sleep at night.
2. The day is almost over,
sing a hymn of thanksgiving.
From you we call the rest:
restores the limbs and minds.
3. The night covers the earth,
and we confidently invoke:
Protector, Lord, your children
and succor us sinners.
4. You sing the bottom of my heart,
you exalt the voice to the hymn;
in the dark of night
turn on a light of faith.
5. The more sober mind you adore,
affection affected your love:
in the dark of night
quiets dormant sin.
6. You free your heart from evil,
you calm the mind dreams;
and watch you sleep away from
the attacks of our enemy.
7. We call upon Christ and the Father,
the Holy Spirit is God;
Three in One God and you
protect us, we pray! Amen.
May 22nd, 2011 at 12:27
I am glad I purchased the 4 volumes. Before I never understood the structure of the prayers or why they were included or the order. It took me years to afford them, and I can not get to them everyday, but they are a blessing. They seem to give a feel for the Old Roman Church before the Vatican Councils.
May 22nd, 2011 at 08:26
@vince85, what follows is my humble opinion and is _not_ an official answer from DivineOffice.org.
We do not currently provide an “ebook” for the Liturgy of the Hours. If you need the full content available to you anytime and without an internet connection, in the original format, even if the light goes down for several hours, then you need to go for the 4 volumes book set (and some candles and a lighter).
What we provide is the daily prayers already “put together” from different pages of different volumes depending on the liturgical calendar and we follow mostly the US ordo.
With the 4 volumes set of the Liturgy of the Hours books and a local liturgical calendar you can assemble the LIturgy of the Hours for any english speaking country for any day.
That said, if you are like me, you don’t need the books: what I want is an easy way to join the universal Christian prayer for the Roman Catholic Church, anytime and anywhere I am — and having my iPhone (or Android or Nokia smartphone) always with me, the mobile App is the best way (for people like me) to be able to pray the Liturgy of the Hours.
I know I surely would not be praying the Lauds if Dane, Greg and the rest of the team would not have put together this wonderful production.
May 22nd, 2011 at 07:45
Someone ask me a question as to why should they buy the four volume set of liturgy of the hours when they can just simple get a phone app for it. I didnt know how answer ? I guess theres no need for the actual books anymore ? Anyone have an input ?
May 22nd, 2011 at 00:45
@Glorybe2God, Thanks so much for this.I was thinking of making use of the office intersessions but they seemed to me too general and non specific.I am happy for your guidelines as they will help a great deal in formulating them.
We will be without our priest for the next 3 weeks so are trying to put together a daily prayer service etc.Hope it works!!
Brendan
May 21st, 2011 at 19:39
@divinewordone2b, I am not sure specifically about a prayer service, but in regards to the petitions (Prayers of the Faithful) during Mass, the GIRM says, #70. “As a rule, the series of intentions is to be
For the needs of the Church;
For public authorities and the salvation of the whole world;
For those burdened by any kind of difficulty;
For the local community.
Nevertheless, in a particular celebration, such as Confirmation, Marriage, or a Funeral, the series of intentions may reflect more closely the particular occasion.”
You can find this at http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/revmissalisromanien.shtml
I have recently read an article by Father Lawrence Mick where he said that all the other prayers of the Mass are written for us, but these are meant to be written locally, in order to reflect local needs, within the framework and categories given by the GIRM. Hope this helps…
May 21st, 2011 at 12:09
not sure if my request fits here or not…but I’ll ask anyway.Does anyone know of a web link which offers example prayers of petition that might be used during a prayer service??Hope someone can help.
Brendan
May 21st, 2011 at 11:20
@Wayne, We do have an audio file now. I removed it initially because we have an error that needed to be fixed and for which I apologize in the name of the team. This issue will be fixed and I thank you for your understanding.
May 21st, 2011 at 04:59
@Androscan, As @Wayne says, you can rename the files. But may want to change the name in the metafile tags too. I’ve tried the name changing before too, but some players, notable iPod, plays by metatag name first.
You can do this in Windows by right clicking on the filename and go to Properties, then the Summary tab. Look down where it says “Title” and either change it there, or delete it.
May 21st, 2011 at 04:06
There is no audio file for Saturday Evenng Prayer (Sunday Evening Prayer I).
Thanks
May 20th, 2011 at 04:44
@Androscan, when you download the mp3 files, why not simply rename in whatever way suits you best. It is very easy to do. This would seem a much simpler solution to your problem.
May 19th, 2011 at 14:28
@Garrett Patterson, This is now fixed, please fell free to send me am email as soon as you see something wrong with the text. It is our duty to be faithful to the written word and our desire to bring everyone closer, together in our humble prayer to the Lord.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:16
@deaconchris, corrections here are fine. The best way to let us know about corrections is to drop an email to monica@divineoffice.org so that she can get it fixed quickly. Thanks for helping us make it as perfect as possible!
May 19th, 2011 at 11:51
Can corrections be submitted here?
For Evening Prayer on May 19, 2011, the reading from 1 Peter 3:18, 22 uses the word “ram” where the word “realm” should be. Also, the intercessions use “Here” our prayer instead of “Hear” our prayer.
May 19th, 2011 at 04:19
I enjoy immensely the classic hymns selected by the tream at divineoffice.org., performed by leading cathedral choirs!
I equally enjoy those prayer-filled hymns you have selected from other traditions, such as What a Friend We Have in Jesus.
Thank you for your ontinuing new initiatives, creative efforts at providing variety . . . and your catholic tastes in sung prayer!
Praise the Lord! Alleluia! Alleluia!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
May 18th, 2011 at 20:17
Could there be a better day than to participate in the Night Prayer?
May 18th, 2011 at 08:40
I have four shortish (15 mins) drives each day, and what works for me is to download the mp3 files for three days and put them on my USB stick and play them in the car. Unfortunately, things seem to be played in alphabetical sequence – which means that the hours are badly mixed up. Maybe it’s not easy to change the naming convention for the mp3 files, but I wonder if it could be considered. The additional little comment would be that the car environment works best for normalized audio files… Thank you for all the work you do! Andrew
May 16th, 2011 at 07:17
As I celebrated the Hours this morning I couldn’t help but think what an honor it must be to record these and to know that throughout the world, people are constantly praying with you over and over again. I believe that if singing is praying twice, that you who record the Hours pray a thousand fold. I can’t tell you how wonderful it is to pray with you daily.
May 15th, 2011 at 15:45
Gene McCann OLB OSB
Dane The Divine Office brings me closer to Jesus, I now really know what it means to seif and to die for your brother
May 15th, 2011 at 04:08
Final prayer in today’s Morning Prayer has a typo. It reads:
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
(through) your people walk in the valley of darkness,
It should read (though)
May 15th, 2011 at 03:51
I am wondering if you could advise me where I could purchase the sheet music for Psalm 23 by Melinda Kirigin-Voss. I have studied voice at New England Conservatory and would like to be able to sing this prayer. Blessings to YOU !
May 14th, 2011 at 20:36
@Jan, you should try refreshing your browser or exiting the browser completely and restarting it. If you know how to clear the cache then also try doing that. I tested this Evening Prayer again and I am experiencing no problems.
May 14th, 2011 at 19:31
There seems to still be a problem with Evening Prayer for May 14. It all went well until 4:44 when the audio stopped. It said “buffering” but it never came back on.
May 14th, 2011 at 08:08
@Rheanrs, it is now posted. We are reworking all of our Sunday content and Saturday’s Evening Prayer is actually Sunday Evening Prayer I so it was included. Thanks for alerting me about this error because it could have happened that I didn’t know.
I am now working on posting the rest of Sunday’s content and will have the audio posted over the next few hours.
May 14th, 2011 at 07:47
Evening prayer May 14 podcast file not found error 404, Get satisfaction reported. Thanks for any help.
May 14th, 2011 at 05:57
CherryB says:
” . . . what joy I have received in this gift!”
What more can any of us say!?
The sung psalms and sung Te Deum —beautiful, prayerful, inspiring . . . and we each must vow . . . provocative and stimulating to action!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
May 14th, 2011 at 05:51
CherryB says:
” . . . what joy I have received in this gift!”
May 11th, 2011 at 21:10
Thank you so much for allowing my Lenten promise, to learn how to pray the Divine Office, become a reality. I can’t begin to tell you what joy I have received in this gift! I am amazed day after day at how Our Lord speaks to me through this wonderful liturgy.
I’ve tried many times to learn how to pray it, but ended up confused and discouraged, thinking I just wasn’t intelligent enough. But following where the ribbon placement is to be and then praying along with the audio, I finally can do it.
Thank you for your beautiful ministry!!! I’ve recommended your site to a number of people. May God reward you for your devotion to self-lessly assist others, who you will never meet this side of heaven.
May 11th, 2011 at 17:16
my site is blank and says jul9. I keep pressing the button for “today” and it cycles but goes back to jul 9 but it doesn’t play anything and the text section is blank. problem?
May 11th, 2011 at 08:45
@Dane, I am sounding out! I love this site and believe that we are blessed by the time and love the team puts into every day. It has made a great difference in my life. There have been times when I was able to join others in church for the office, but now I cannot. But, I can join others at Divine Office. Thanks!
Mahree
May 10th, 2011 at 22:22
Psalm 98
His right and hand his holy arm
should read
His right hand and his holy arm
Have a nice day!
May 9th, 2011 at 22:20
@Nancy H., I wish all would have such a seamless experience as you have had and I wish even more that those who did would sound out like you did and say when all is working. We usually here our failures so your “all works fine for me” is nice to hear.
May 9th, 2011 at 22:18
@FadaDon, it is not our option to remove the antiphons between strophes even if they sound monotonous because the General Instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours advise that this is the preferred form for sung psalms. Perhaps it is monotonous because you are not participating interactively or not hearing/saying the antiphon in the way you should? There is wisdom in the history and methods of praying the Liturgy of the Hours. We are not winging it…we are following the rubrics
May 9th, 2011 at 22:12
@mjdvike, we are happy to make all fixes. We only ask that you, or anyone, notify us of the defects in a form actionable. Many people are satisfied with pointing out that we make mistakes, but don’t provide us with enough information to locate and fix the problems. If you are willing to help us then we welcome the assistance. If you see problems with the text or hear problems with our audio then send an email to admin@divineoffice.org and we will get it in our queue to get fixed. I hope you and all of our community will help us find issues so we can fix them.
May 9th, 2011 at 20:41
Am concerned, as others have expressed, that sometimes words of the Office are omitted or added.
Example: Night Prayer Tuesday 3rd week of Easter.
Ps 86 second strophe, second line:
‘for I cry to you all [the] day long’….[the] omitted
third line: ‘Give joy to your servant, [O] Lord’….[O] omitted
fourth strophe, first line: ‘In the day of distress I will call YOU’….YOU added
Seventh strophe, first line:
‘[I will praise you,] I will praise you, Lord, my God…’ [I will praise you,] added
The antiphon of the Gospel Canticle: the ‘Alleluia’ at the end of the antiphon was omitted before the Canticle and after the Canticle. According to the Ordinary, Vol III Page 1070, the antiphon ends with ‘Alleluia.’ This is shown in the text on Vol III Page 1637/1638. My understanding – the Alleluia is added during the Easter Season to all the antiphons. In this case, the text on the site does NOT have the antiphon.
First line of the Canticle: ‘Lord, now [you] let your servant’… [you] omitted.
I understand how this happens. As a lector at liturgy, this has happened to me. However, it should not happen during the Divine Office when the audio is recorded and broadcast. Thought I would let you know that when the recording is edited, attention should be given to the fidelity to the actual words.
Hope that you understand that I offer this information to you in the hope that I am being helpful to you – and not just ‘legalistic’ or ‘fussy’ or ‘extremely picky.’ To me the words of the Office are powerful – and they are all there for a reason. The clarity, cadence, tempo, proper silences (usually overlooked) are important – just as important as the words themselves. It is, after all, the prayer of the Church lifted to the Lord in praise, petition and thanksgiving.
Your ministry – this site – is extremely valuable to all of us: you by producing it so lovingly and tirelessly so that we, the recipients of your work, can then lift up our voices and our hearts to the Lord in worship.
Thank you for all that you do for the Lord and His Church.
Pax et bonum!
May 9th, 2011 at 07:27
@konti, Fixed!
May 9th, 2011 at 06:08
Canticle of Mary
Ant. THIS is what God asks of you: trust in the one whom he has sent, alleluia.
(wrong word)
May 9th, 2011 at 05:07
@mjdvike, Thank you for pointing it out and we apologize for the conflicting posts. This issue is now fixed.
May 9th, 2011 at 04:24
@Dane,
We can all hope and pray that the many of us who receive the daily untold divine benefits of the the ministry of DivineOffice.org, can increaingly grasp, understand and appreciate the uncounted hours, energy and profound thought devoted by the DivineOffice.org team to this ongoing, awesome and challenging play, with a new act produced every day!
One long sentence to convey one simple prayer.
Praise the Lord! Alleluia! Alleluia!
GarrettPatterson@sympatico.ca
May 9th, 2011 at 03:53
Daytime Prayer – Monday 3rd week of Easter
The page for ribbon placement, etc. indicates that it is page 970 and that – in red- this is the Monday of the 7th week of Easter. The page for midday of Monday/3rd week is 707 – and this is the Monday of the THIRD week of Easter.
May confuse persons who are just beginning to pray the Little Hours. I know that it almost confused me and I already had my ribbons in place!
May 8th, 2011 at 22:59
@konti, You are very helpful to me, to us all, thank you, this is now fixed.
May 8th, 2011 at 22:27
Word missing in today’s Office of readings:
I will free YOU and you shall honor me.”
May 8th, 2011 at 20:28
Nancy gets ten points! Before I read her post I discovered through sheer serendipity (aka the Holy Spirit) that the date on my computer clock was indeed wrong. No idea how that happened, but my computer was telling you that today is May 20! Now that I have fixed it, I expect everything will be fine. I will tell you if it is not. Sorry for the false alarm.
Jan
May 8th, 2011 at 17:55
As I said earlier, this website is amazingly very helpful and edifying! Keep it up!
I have this little suggestion to make: for the Psalms and Canticles you usually sing, especially for Sundays and Solemnities, it is quite welcome and interesting to blend such days with nice melodies. But it becomes monotonous and boring when you keep on repeating the antiphon after each stanza of the Psalm or Canticle, rather than just at the beginning or at the end. Plesase, do check on that.
Thanks for all you do and God bless your efforts.
Happy Easter!.
Donald Anyagwa.
May 8th, 2011 at 15:27
Jan, maybe your computer is set to a date ten days ahead.
I have not had any problems at all with this site. Thank you to the team for doing a splendid job!
May 8th, 2011 at 07:37
@Jan, we have not heard of this problem before. I would be interested in hearing if others are having the same problem. Would you tell me what browser you are using (Internet Explorer 6 or 7, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, etc) and where you are in the world? We will see if we can resolve this because this is not the way the site is programmed to work.
May 8th, 2011 at 03:53
I don’t visit regularly so his may have already been addressed, but when I come on to the site, I am greeted with the prayers for a date about ten days in the future – for example earlier today when I wanted to say Evening Prayer, it gave me May 19. I couldn’t get the format right to enter today’s date (forgot the “?”); clicking on “Today’ took me to the correct date, but then when I clicked on “Evening Prayer” it took me back to the future. Tonight I wanted to pray Night Prayer and it came up May 20. Entering the date (correctly) got me where I wanted to go this time, but when I use your site it is often because I have limited time, so having to remember how to do the extra step is not working out very well.
Thanks for your dedication to the Liturgy of the Hours.
Jan
May 7th, 2011 at 22:32
@Wayne, the audio for Sunday, May 8, is available now and was available at about 10:30 PM Eastern time. 95% of our community resides in North America so our target was always to post before the day the Office of Readings would be used based on USA time zones. I am aware that the Office of Readings was celebrated as a night office historically, but not aware people celebrated it that way these days. Knowing this I will try to get it done a little earlier, but honestly that is difficult to do while we rework it. It was only one year ago that we introduced the Office of Readings on a daily basis so reworking it already has created a lot of unplanned work and we have found that it is better to post nothing but text verses having audio with anything people dislike. This is simply fact. Should we have too modern of a hymn or antiphons recited between strophes in the psalms we are overwhelmed with complaints. So unfortunately, when we think we have something of issue in the audio then we take down the existing audio file until it can be improved wether it has a flaw or it is just going gather complaints. And it is not that we are bending to every whim, but rather, it takes so much of my time to respond that my work queue lengthens and posting the offices slips behind schedule. So it is just a matter of practicality that we take down audio files if we think it will give people any reason to complain.
I do hope you wont feel slighted. I would post it earlier if humanly possible, but I dedicate 10 to 14 hours on Friday and about the same on Saturday to this ministry. Monday through Thursday I have to do ministry work after my normal work hours. Since I feel it is very important to keep this service free I have no option to stop working my day job; me and my family need to live. For this reason, when major rework and recording is necessary I have set times when it can be done and that means I am getting it out as quickly as possible already. The good news is that once it is done this time it should only need work on memorials. I believe Ordinary time is already up to our new quality standards so you will only have four more Saturday evenings to be concerned about.
We offer this service free to all, but in doing so it is a great personal cost in commitment of time, energy, and money. I hope you can understand and wont feel slighted. Just know that my heart is in it and I am doing all I can.
May 7th, 2011 at 13:24
Again, there is no audio file for the Office of Readings for Sunday, May 8, 2011. Has the Office of Readings become a text only hour as Daytime Prayer is? I hope you can fix the problem for those of us in the Eastern time zone who celebrate the Office of Readings as a night time office. Thanks for your help.
I sometimes think we celebrants in time zones other than yours get slighted. By the time you fix a problem which is timely for the celebrants in your time zone, the need for the hour has come and gone for others in different time zones, including English-speaking celebrants in Europe who use your website to pray the hours.
The constant problems with the Office of Readings is frustrating. Surely a website that has been voted the BEST catholic website could have solved the problem by now so that it is not a recurring problem.
Laudetur Jesus Christus
May 6th, 2011 at 15:30
I recently discovered your site and I think it’s wonderful! Thank you so much. May God bless you mightily in your efforts and may you continue to go from strength to strength.
May 5th, 2011 at 09:27
@cingball, Thank you, this is now fixed.
May 5th, 2011 at 08:51
Hi!
There’s a typo in today’s Morning reading, Psalm 80.
“You brought a vine our of Egypt;
to plant it you drove out the nations.”
It should be:
“You brought a vine OUT of Egypt;
to plant it you drove out the nations.”
May 5th, 2011 at 08:11
@konti, The use of punctuation in the translation of scripture is always problematic — especially the Old Testament. Also same versions of scripture use () or [] to indicate translations that may be question. For example, any citation that includes John 5:4 would be included in brackets, since the authenticity of this text is highly uncertain.
The Divine Offices uses the 1963 Grail Psalter for all psalm texts (except for Psalm 95). In checking the Grail Psalter, it does contain the parentheses. [http://www.athanasius.com/psalms/psalms2.html#72]
But, I am not sure of the meaning of them in this context. Checking other translations, I don’t see where there is any uncertainty with these verses. I would not consider these to be typos since the original text does contain them.
Psalm 95 (used in the Invitatory), the Gospel Canticles and the Canticle of the Lamb are original translations from the International Committee on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) and not from a specific translation of the Bible.
May 5th, 2011 at 06:38
Re: Evening Prayer for Thursday of the 2nd week. Psalm 72,
Part 1 …(and crush the oppressor).
Part 2 …(Long may he live,
may the gold of Sheba be given him.)
I wonder, is this a typo? Are the brackets supposed to be there? My book does not have any brackets.
Not trying to pick mistakes. It’s just that I have been praying the LOH for so many years that the slightest deviation catches my eyes. Sorry; I can’t help it. If you would rather I don’t point these minor typos, please do not hesitate to let me know and I will stop bothering you.
Thank you and all your dedicated staff. May God bless you.
May 4th, 2011 at 23:04
@The Cathoholic, It has been temporarily removed while we update the audio file.
May 4th, 2011 at 04:32
In iTunes, I cannot download May 07, Evening Prayer for Saturday of the 2nd week of . It says it is not available on the server.
May 4th, 2011 at 03:44
@Peter, I am sorry, but I just found that the files did not get put in place, but they are now.
May 4th, 2011 at 03:31
@jubear113, you are no bother. We expect our Android version to be available within 3 weeks time. We are testing the release candidate now.
May 4th, 2011 at 01:17
I hate to be a bother, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen any info. Is an Android App still forthcoming?
May 3rd, 2011 at 16:47
@ajwarren, I think you misread konti’s comment. The fact of the Invitatory was not in dispute. However, the title at the head of the invitatory page was garbled. It did not make sense–the content of the comment. I myself did a double look athe wording to figure out what was being said. The typographical errors have since been corrected.
May 3rd, 2011 at 12:46
@konti,
Today’s Invitatory sounded perfect to me. What a beautiful way to begin this great feast day!
May 3rd, 2011 at 07:43
@Peter, I likewise had the same problem in downloading Night Prayer for Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Since Dane & company download the entire week starting with Sunday of the week, for May 7, 2011, liturgically, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer belong to next week, Week of May 8, 2011, the Third Week of Easter. This week ends with Mid-Afternoon (Daytime) Prayer on Saturday.
May 3rd, 2011 at 06:26
Good morning,
I had the same problem downloading Night Prayer for 04 May and Evening and Night Prayer for 07 May 2011. Thank you again for all your hard work in this ministry.
Pete
May 2nd, 2011 at 22:40
May 03, Invitatory – Apostles for Philip & James, Ap
doesn’t sound right to me.
Perhaps…
May 03, Invitatory for the Feast of Philip & James, Apostles.
May 2nd, 2011 at 11:56
02 May, 2011 14:56
Received the following Error Message:
There was a problem downloading “May 34.Night Prayer
for Wednesday of the 2nd week of Easter”.
The URL
“http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/divineoffice/~5/W2jbKvLmk sY/divine-eas…” could not be found on the server.
Repeated attempts failed. Not sure if the error is ‘here’
or ‘there’ Thought you might be interested in knowing.
God Bless!,
littlehermit
May 1st, 2011 at 20:52
Re singing the psalms. I read the citation from the Instruction and could not find the answer to my question there, so I will pose it here. Are the psalms to be prayed the same way when they are sung as when they are recited, meaning is the community meant to sing them or just the cantor(s)? I pray on this site once in awhile because I want to join my prayer with others, but the arrangements of the psalms that are used are so complicated that without the sheet music, I cannot follow and I am relegated to being an observer. It would be helpful if simpler melodies could be used or at least if something that is repeated like the allelulia could be the same throughout the entire Hour’s psalms instead of changing from psalm to psalm as it does tonight (Evening Prayer, May 1).
May 1st, 2011 at 10:16
@Wayne, We will produce Morning and Evening prayers also.
May 1st, 2011 at 04:50
Dane & Company:
Praise the Lord for your most prayerful singing of the psalms –bringing us all closer to the ideals proclaimed for the Liturgy of the Hours.
You are bringing new joy and inspiring renewed Faith throughout this long celebration of the Easter season.
As you have mentioned, may more and more Christians around the world, through DivineOffice.org, come to know, embrace and enjoy praying, singing and praising the Lord!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Garrett Patterson
Ottawa, Canada
May 1st, 2011 at 04:24
Good Sunday Morning to you all. I look forward to the singing of the Psalms. But today I am so missing the download of the Office of Readings. Please help me find it soon. Thank you.
May 1st, 2011 at 00:56
@derfdoc, I am so sorry you find the singing of the psalms so horrendous. However, it is well to remember that the correct way of praying the psalms is to sing them and not to recite them. Reciting the psalms is considered second best. Mother Church prefers the psalms to be sung, I refer to Cahpter III of The General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, especially paragraphs 103 and 104.
I think Dane’s community does an admirable job of praying the psalms by singing them for Sundays, Solemnities, and Feasts. I only wish they were able to pray the psalms by singing daily and not just on high holy days. The psalm tones chosenn are in accordance with the directives of the Church in the General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours.
It is when the community prays the psalms by reciting them that I feel some improvement might be needed. I quote from the Instruction:, paragraph 103: “When a psalm is recited and not sung, its delivery must still be governed by its musical character”. Dramatic recitation of the psalm, at times even melodramatic, impedes this musical character. The Grail translation of the psalms that is used in the Office, took great pains through the lilt and candence of words and syllables to maintin this musical quality even when the palms are recited. This musical quality can be destroyed by how the psalm is recited. Paragraph 103 of the Instruction” says “….all the psalms have a musical quality which determines the correct way of delivering them”.
Your criticism is appreciated. However, your delivery of said criticim could possible have been more Christ-like.
Laudetur Jesus Christus.
May 1st, 2011 at 00:28
Good morning Dane:
For Tuesday, May 3, 2011, Feast of Sts Philip and James, Apostles, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer are those for Tuesday of the 2nd week of Easter. Should they not be of the Feast. The Invitatory, Office of Readings, and Daytime are of the Feast, but not Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. Should this not be corrected?
Laudetur Jesus Christus.
April 30th, 2011 at 20:54
please stop singing the psalms! It sounds just aweful! A hideous cacophony that would probably test the patients of Jesus himself!
April 30th, 2011 at 10:06
@Deacon Ken, it is very nice to hear that we are hitting the mark. We can always do better and we wont stop trying until we get everything as good as possible.
April 30th, 2011 at 10:03
@Wayne, we are reworking all of our content for Easter and we do morning prayer, evening prayer, and lastly office of readings. That is why office of readings is not available until after the others and it is often the case that we get it done just in time for Sunday, but then we role out the entire week.
April 30th, 2011 at 06:49
He is risen, Alleluia! Just a quick comment on the beautiful hymn this morning (MP, Sat., April 30) That would be a great one for Evening Prayer as it is calming and prayerful. You have done a wonderful job on the Morning Prayer all this week. With the repetition, it was really important that it be good and it was.
Thank you so much for your dedicated ministry.
As always, Blessings and Prayers, Deacon Ken
April 30th, 2011 at 06:34
Good morning Dane & company:
The audio file for the Office of Readings for Sunday, May 1, 2011, Sunday of the 2nd week of Easter, is NOT available for download. Hopefully there is time enough to fix it.
This seems to be a recurring problem that the audio file for the Office of Readings is frequently not available. The problem does not seem to exist for the other hours of the Office. Any ideas why this is so?
Thanks for what you do.
Laudetur Jesus Christus.
April 30th, 2011 at 03:33
@konti, Yes, the typo is corrected. Thank you.
I had some trouble finding it because I assumed it was in Tuesday’s post, April 26.
April 29th, 2011 at 22:18
Did you see my April 26th comment?
April 29th, 2011 at 13:44
@Deacon Bill, This is now fixed. Thank you for your help.
April 29th, 2011 at 12:14
@Deacon Bill, thanks for your help locating typos!
April 29th, 2011 at 10:43
oops! I made a typo also, there should be a space between “you have”
This proves we are all human!!
God bless, Your work is truly marvelous.
Deacon Bill
April 29th, 2011 at 10:21
Typo in Psalm 63:2-9
On my bed I remember you.
On you I muse through the night
for your have been my help;*********s/b for youhave
in the shadow of your wings I rejoice.
My soul clings to you;
your right hand holds me fast.
God bless you all and your Ministry
April 29th, 2011 at 01:27
I appreciate this website. In the evening when the lights are out and I don’t want to disturb anyone, I can turn on my computer and pray. I am new to this site so as I pray with it I will be able to help the longer I use it and see all its features.
God bless, Debadeb
April 28th, 2011 at 15:52
@Littleflower518,
Sorry…now it’s working for me! Thanks!
April 28th, 2011 at 15:50
Today’s Evening Prayer (Thursday) shuts off after the bells ring…right after the ‘God come to my assistance….”
)
Just so you are aware!
April 28th, 2011 at 03:52
Good Morning and may the Blessings of this Holy Easter Time be yours ! I am wondering what site you are utilizing for the beautiful hymns you are using in the Liturgy of the Hours. I was especially moved by those you have used this week but am always inspied by those you choose. I wish each of you a wonderful day.
April 28th, 2011 at 03:27
@The Cathoholic, “it seems to be getting worse all the time”… I will dare to answer to this since I know Dane and the team have been working to replace the “overly dramatic” readings and psalms that were recorded in the “early days” of production.
You may have some times in the year in which the older recordings are more frequent because Dane and the team did not get to record them again yet.
It might feel like it “gets worse” but if you looked at our databases, you’d see these are decreasing as we produce more and more audio and record again what needs to.
Dane and the rest of the team still need to produce (and post-produce) the parts we miss for the LOTH each week and keep up with the service before we can get back and re-do these recordings systematically.
However, please note that if any of the readers is “adding words to it not in the text”, we do consider this as an error and so, please report it as such with as much precision as you can (day, prayer, and audio file time would be great) so that Dane can correct this and next year you and the whole community will benefit of a better service.
Thank you!
April 28th, 2011 at 03:14
@The Cathoholic, you may use “feedback and support” provided by Get Satisfaction for everything related to issues, bugs and suggestions with our website, podcast, and apps.
This comments area is hosted on our website instead, it existed before we got Get Satisfaction and we welcome comments and notes not necessarily related to problems using the service or bugs in the software we use.
We just provide different ways for you to keep in touch with us as different people will naturally use different means of communication.
The main advantages of using a support system like Get Satisfaction is that you get to: 1, file bugs by product and 2, vote for issues, ideas and feature suggestions that you like so that we see what is most relevant to the community and 3, keep separated discussions about software issues coming form the apps from the majority of the prayer community comments.
April 28th, 2011 at 01:55
@mjdvike, I agree wholeheartedly. I’ve pretty much given up on the audio. I can’t concentrate on the readings at all. Either the one guys reads it so fast for a few words that he stumbles over them then inserts a dramatic pause, and adds words to it not in the text because he begin interpreting while reading; or the one woman who reads so slowly that I just keep thinking “get on with it.” I just can’t focus as soon as I hear them start to speak. And it seems to be getting worse all the time.
April 27th, 2011 at 19:50
@congforbes, I would like to say that I agree with you. This site is very helpful to me – praying with others is so important but has not been possible for most of the years that I have been praying the Office. I also find it extremely distracting when certain psalms become so dramatic that the breathlessness of the ‘actor’ becomes an issue – as do long pauses that are NOT indicated by punctuation marks. A couple of times I have had to literally turn OFF the audio – for my peace was at stake. That was the case today in the OOR (Wednesday of the Octave of Easter). After turning off the audio for the first reading, I turned it on for the second reading: the second ‘actor’ was also dramatizing the reading. I could picture both of these being on stage, instead of praying in church! Very distracting. The psalms – and readings – may be used in theatrical productions, and then dramatic interpretation is appropriate. But not as liturgical prayer. As a lector of many years, I know that we are to bring the words to the people in a clear way – and not to get in the way of the Word! Love your work – and am most grateful for all the effort that you all put into this. I know that it is hard work. Blessings to all for we know that you do it for the love of the ministry and the Lord’s Church!
April 26th, 2011 at 21:58
TYPO in today’s Office of Readings:
and the plants to serve man’s our needs,
should read…
and the plants to serve man’s needs,
April 26th, 2011 at 21:27
I am a regular use of the divineoffice.org. It is excellent. Thank you so much for this service. God bless you all! Easter Greetings!
Here’s the lyrics for the hymn “Easter Carol” of Evening Prayer for Tuesday in the Octave of Easter
EASTER CAROL
On that bright joyful Easter Day
The sun arose with brighter ray,
When Christ, to earthly sight made plain,
The glad apostles saw again.
Alleluia! Surrexit Christus hodie!
His wounds to them Christ then did show,
Which from his risen body glow;
And they aloud declared and said:
“The Lord is risen from the dead!”
Alleluia! Surrexit Christus hodie!
First witnesses to Easter morn
Were women three who came forlorn;
Then Magdalen did cease her sighs,
When Christ she saw with joyful eyes.
Alleluia! Surrexit Christus hodie!
All glory, Lord, to you we pay,
Arisen from the dead today;
O great Creator be our guide
Throughout the days of Eastertide.
Alleluia! Surrexit Christus hodie!
Text: Ambrosian Hymn, 5th Cent.; tr. John Mason Neale
April 26th, 2011 at 19:18
Thank you Dane! Easter blessings to you, all who work with you in this wonderful ministry and all your families.
Pete
April 26th, 2011 at 18:22
@mjdvike, thanks for finding and accurately reporting this problem. I am not sure what happened, but there was no way for us to rerecord in time so we will have it fixed before it comes around again next year. Thanks for reporting it!
April 26th, 2011 at 18:20
@Littleflower518, sorry I got to it too late to fix it. It will be fixed for next year.
April 26th, 2011 at 18:19
@Peter, Night Prayer for the Octave of Easter is the same each night. It is the same as Easter Sunday Night Prayer. To reduce confusion I have reposted it for each day now so that you will find the right thing without searching for it. Thanks for asking the question.
April 26th, 2011 at 14:31
A slight problem with the OOR for Tuesday with the Octave of Easter. In the second reading, the audio skips at about 15:24 – “This salvation…..” abruptly stops and all of a sudden at 15:25 we have the Responsory. About 16 lines of the text are missing. Tried it a couple of different times – very disconcerting to hear it each time. There definitely is a problem with the audio.
April 26th, 2011 at 12:59
Good afternoon,
Is Night Prayer supposed to be Night Prayer for Easter Sunday during the entire Octave of Easter? The only episodes I have had come across the RSS feed are Sunday, Monday which was the same as Sunday Friday which didn’t download and Saturday. There are no other episodes of Night Prayer at the iTunes store either. Just wanted you to know
Peter
April 26th, 2011 at 05:51
This mornings Office of Readings, stops in the middle of the second reading. (Discourse by St. Anastasius of Antioch)
)
Just wanted to let you know!
April 26th, 2011 at 05:46
To the Estimable Divine Office Team:
Praise the Lord! Alleluia! Alleluia!
May you be blessed both, by the members of the community who faithfully inform you of, shall we say, anomalies; and by the members of the community who faithfully, silently, praise the Lord for your meeting so spendidly the formidable daily challenges of your generously provided –and so vital and precious– worldwide ministry. Alleluia! Alleluia!
Garrett Patterson
Ottawa Canada
April 26th, 2011 at 05:05
@konti, Each day in the Octave of Easter has the rank of Solemnity and therefore has precedence over any feast of lesser rank. For the 2011 Liturgical Calendar published by the US Bishops Conference, see http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/current/2011cal.pdf.
St Mark (April 25) has the rank of Feast and therefore is not celebrated this year. It would also not be celebrated if it fell on a Sunday. (Only Feasts of Our Lord take precedence over the nominal Sunday liturgy. For example, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Our Lord is celebrated on August 6th, even when it falls on a Sunday.)
April 25th, 2011 at 08:27
@Dane,
Today, April 25th, is the FEAST of Mark the Evangelist according to my LOH. I cannot figure out why Monday within the octave of Easter should take precedence. Obviously you know better than me. But please explain. I have always found it difficult to interpret the order of precedence – one reason why I am so pleased to have discovered this web site.
April 21st, 2011 at 23:49
@cingball, Thank you, it is now fixed!
April 21st, 2011 at 09:08
Typo in today’s Morning Prayer, Psalm 80:
You brought a vine our of Egypt;
Should be
You brought a vine out of Egypt;
April 21st, 2011 at 04:14
Can you please tell us what is the difference between when we should use this “Comments” section, and when we should use the “Feedback and Support” button that links to the “Get Satisfaction” page? It seems redundant.
April 21st, 2011 at 04:13
Re: the morning reading for Apr, 21, the New Testament reading. The speaker introduces it as “Paul’s letter to the Hebrews.” In fact, the author of Hebrews is unknown. It is generally thought to be from Paul, but we don’t know that for sure.
April 20th, 2011 at 09:10
@cingball, thank you for telling me. It is now fixed.
April 20th, 2011 at 08:45
In today’s (april 20) Invitatory prayer, typo. Forever or for ever, not fore ever. see below:
“Ant. Come, let us worship Christ the Lord, who for our sake endured temptation and suffering.
Glory to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit:
as it was in the beginning, is now,
and will be fore ever, Amen”
April 20th, 2011 at 05:43
Thank you so much for this ministry. It has enabled my husband and I to pray the Office together. Needless to say that has been a great blessing in our marriage.
April 19th, 2011 at 22:54
@uemcan123, the Divine Office does have that affect on all of us. It has changed my life and my business. It has become a change agent in people’s personal lives and more importantly it has become a change agent in the world.
April 19th, 2011 at 22:51
@apl, we do have someone who has volunteered to help us build an app for Windows. It is a kind and generous offer that will require so much work that I almost can’t accept, but we might. I would really like to see Windows and Nokia have a successful launch and if they do then we will be on their platform.
April 19th, 2011 at 21:24
@MikeyLove, all are welcome here. I don’t know why you would suggest otherwise. The only thing I ask is that people who join us do so humbly and respectfully. It is not for any of us to judge. The only negative comments I will allow are those directed constructively at me. ALL are welcome here as long as they treat their neighbors with dignity.
April 19th, 2011 at 16:02
Attention To all Members here; I am making note that I know of many Gay Men and Women, including myself, who sincerely want to pray the Office, so, please welcome them without all the negative feedback. I ask that all of you be reminded to read the Catechism of the Catholic Church concerning them, and me, as I am one of them too. We get enough of the Negative feedback from the World out there. Being Gay isn’t a choice.
April 19th, 2011 at 15:14
Is it possible to get the morning prayer for a few days ahead? It appears I am only able to access one day at a time.
Thanks
April 18th, 2011 at 14:41
@Peter, Something that is very typical of these podcast catchers is that they wont download content a second time and Night Prayer repeats every week within a season so last week’s Lent Night Prayer will be the same as Holy Week up to Good Friday.
April 18th, 2011 at 06:04
Good morning, I subscribed to the rss feed and the fifth week of Lent downloaded in full (Invitatory, Office, Morning, Evening and Night) But when Holy Week downloaded there is no Night prayer and when I went to the iTunes store and downloaded them they went to a new podcast. Did I miss a step?
My best wishes to you all for a blessed Holy Week.
Pete
April 18th, 2011 at 04:55
The audio files will not download, it seems like it ismin a constant cycle? Help!
April 18th, 2011 at 03:29
I pray that all who frequent this site and each of those involved in this ministry are abundantly Blessed, as we celebrate the pascal mysteries, and in the days to come.
Blessed be Our Lord and Our God !!!
April 17th, 2011 at 14:08
Thankyou the Divine Offine has and is a major part of my lofe
Pax
Gene
April 17th, 2011 at 14:00
Dan I really know whai it means to die to self and to die for a friend. Jesus is really in me.. like never before. I am not kidding this time it is not a joke
April 17th, 2011 at 12:46
@Deacon H, You can turn off the auto download and that will stop fetching the audio files, but will still provide you with the text.
April 17th, 2011 at 12:45
@The Cathoholic, thanks for your help with these lyrics. You can see why there are times when we just can’t do it all ourselves because of the dozens of listens it occasionally takes. Thank you!
April 17th, 2011 at 12:28
Do you have app for a Window Phone?
April 17th, 2011 at 08:06
The Morning Reading for 4/17 has “Our soul is waiting” by Taizé as the hymn. SOme of the lyrics are wrong, and two lines were missing. I corrected the errors, and supplied one of the two missing lines. I’ve listened to this track about a dozen times and absolutely cannot figure out what the remaining line is, along with one word in the following stanza. I don’t know what the stanza is, but it is not “and each morning give You praise” as listed on the page.
I am supplying the corrected lyrics here, with the missing line and word represented as three question marks.
My soul is waiting for the Lord
I count on God’s word.
I trust in the goodness of God forever and ever
Lead me O God. I take refuge in You.
???
You will show me love
As for me I will sing of Your strength
and each morning I bring You ???.
I trust in Your mercy O Lord. My heart rejoices in You.
The Lord is my strength, my song, my salvation.
In God I trust I’m not afraid.
Give thanks to the Lord, proclaim God’s deeds, cry out for joy.
April 17th, 2011 at 07:04
can you turn off the audio portion of the app?
April 17th, 2011 at 04:59
iTunes will not download The Office of Readings for Apr. 18, 20, and 21. It says that the files were not found on the server.
April 16th, 2011 at 13:01
@ajwarren, ahhhhhh, okay: the antiphons are translated from the Latin. So that is why I couldn’t uncover that particular translation for 10:32. Thanks!
April 15th, 2011 at 13:55
@RolleBolle This quote is from today’s Gospel at Mass (Friday of the 5th Week in Lent). The verse is John 10:31 — the RSV translation is: “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?”
The text of this response from the Latin Breviary is “Multa bona opera operatus sum vobis, dicit Dominus; propter quod opus vultis me occidere?”
The scripture texts used in the Office are from the original version of the New American Bible (this is a different New Testament translation than is used in the Mass). The antiphons and responses are translations of the Latin text –and therefore not always exactly the same as the scripture text. (The Psalms, of course, all use the Grail Psalter.)
April 15th, 2011 at 09:00
In Friday’s (15th) Morning Prayers, is this phrase, toward the end:
The Lord said: I have done you many acts of kindness; for which of them do you want to kill me?
I am trying to find out what reference and translation that is. The closest seems John 10:32 but I don’t see that exact phrasing in NAB/NJB/NRSV etc etc. Can anybody help me out here? Thanks!
Dan
April 15th, 2011 at 06:58
@cingball, The typo is noted and will be fixed in the next release. Thanks for taking the time to let us know about it.
April 15th, 2011 at 06:58
@Deacon Ken, You don’t need to ask forgiveness from me. I am thrilled that you found something and reported it. I rather have false alarms then no alarms.
April 15th, 2011 at 06:08
Dane – Mia Culpa! Mia Culpa!
Evidently last night I had the best Senior Moment yet.
Your right, the Psalms and Readings are correct.
This is scary, again Mia Culpa! Mia Culpa!
I’ll shut-up and pray now (including praying for your forgiveness)
April 15th, 2011 at 06:06
In the Divine Office Prayers App, under the Chaplet of St Michael, there’s a typo in the 6th prayer (celestial choir of Virtues). It says “may the Lord preserve us from evil, an suffer us not to fall into temptation. Amen.
Should be AND, not an.
You guys rock.
April 14th, 2011 at 23:45
@Daria Sockey, in February of this year we participated in the Southwest Liturgical Conference and all knowledgable sources expect the changes to the Liturgy of the Hours to occur between 7 and 10 years from now. It is far too early to be concerned with future versions of the psalms used in the Liturgy of the Hours.
April 14th, 2011 at 21:53
@Deacon Ken, What you say could happen at anytime so I did panic and started checking, but I think we are still OK. If I understand what you are saying it is that we are using the wrong week of the psalter. I only checked today so far and I don’t see an error. Note that our page numbers are more precise then St. Joseph’s Guide because we give the specific page number where the named office starts, not just where they all start.
I will keep checking because this is entirely possible, but your help checking on the actual psalms and antiphons would be appreciated. Then if you find something let me know. I hope you are wrong
April 14th, 2011 at 20:26
Dane, There appears to be a problem with the selections for today through Passion Sunday. In fact going back it appears all week was off.
According to my Ordo (St. Joseph Guide)
Thurs. 5th of Lent should be: All 373, psalm 1158
Fri 5th of Lent : All 381, psalm 1176
Sat. 5th of Lent All 390, Psalm 1194
EP1 Passion Sun: All 413, Psalm 1208
Passion Sun.: All 416, Psalm 1214
Also, in the Breviary itself it states that the “Psalms and Canticle for Passion Sunday should be Week II”
I’m sure this just made your day. I didn’t notice it until tonight, as all week I have not been following in the Breviary, just listening as I usually do.
Sorry for the bad news, but in spite of this, have a Blessed Holy Week. We will be praying with you and the whole Church of course.
April 14th, 2011 at 11:45
Does anyone know whether and/or when new breviaries using the New Grail Psalter will be published? You can buy the psalter by itself now, and from what I read this will eventually become the version of the psalms for the entire liturgy. But I haven’t seen anything about plans for a new breviary which uses this.
April 14th, 2011 at 07:28
@Deacon Ken, I know you have been with us for a very long time; perhaps years now. So I really appreciate hearing this from you
April 14th, 2011 at 06:20
For what it’s worth. I think the women do a wonderful job of praying. It’s prayer and not just reading.
I assume that today’s (Thurs. 4/14) Morning Prayer was newly recorded, as the male reader for the psalms was great. He was less dramatic, slower and even lower pitched voice, which was refreshing.
I truly appreciate all your efforts to strive for perfection. I don’t know of any other podcast that does as much, is as good and is as receptive to suggestions.
Good Bless all of you.
April 13th, 2011 at 22:08
@bobmounger, we have recorded all of the office of the dead, but we have not been able to post it because of the heavy demands of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter. I am so sorry that I just can’t get it all produced because I know how important and meaningful it would be for those who want to pray for your co-worker. Please know that my prayers are with you and the family of your co-worker.
April 13th, 2011 at 22:06
@Justin Legault, typically we role out the entire next week on Saturdays. There will be some in place already, but we can’t guarantee anything better then that because we are reworking most of our content to meet our new quality standards. Please send me an email directly at admin@divineoffice.org to help you directly.
April 13th, 2011 at 14:45
When will the readings for next week be on line? I need the readings to prepare a presentation to our parish youth group. I intend on using the evening prayer for tha day. I wish to copy, paste,re-format and print. Thanks in advance.
April 12th, 2011 at 11:04
Greetings. I got to work this AM & found that a co-worker had died & wanted to read the office for the dead. When will this be ready? Thanks, Bob
April 12th, 2011 at 10:19
Dane and friends, BTW … please know that I absolutely love the site, thank our Lord for your generous heart and ministry and realize that it is a labor of God’s love. So please do not misunderstand my constructive suggestion. The Holy Spirit is alive and witnessed in this work. Thank you so very much. May His divine mercy and love be with all.
April 12th, 2011 at 09:45
Please take this is the prayerful, genrous spirit in which it is offered:
I love being able to access Divine Office/OOR and be able to pray with brothers and sisters around the globe. It has been a God-send, a gift. I am grateful for having this online. However, I must heartily agree that the dramatization of the readings runs counter to what we are taught — present the Word of God without drawing attention to oneself. The “acting” used in reading by both men and women — God bless them for doing this — is most distracting and intrusive as we pray Divine Office. Please please please may I join with so many others and request your stafff do a normal reading of Divine Office that does not draw attention away from the prayer?
If you might be sensitive to this request, made on behalf of so many who do find the dramatization distracting, and ask your folks to use a normal reading voice … you will have multitudes of happy, satisfied devotees in praise of this endeavor.
God bless all there and thank you for seriously weighing this need.
April 11th, 2011 at 14:34
@Michael Paul Heart, as Wayne pointed out. During Lent this St. has a commemoration. We do not provide offices for Optional Memorials or Commemorations. We do include Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials because these are required. We wont have another St. memorialized until May 2 with the Memorial of St. Athanasius.
April 11th, 2011 at 06:20
@Michael Paul Heart, Good morning, Michael:
If I may presume to answer your question regarding celebration of memorials during privileged seasons (i.e., Lent), I quote from the “General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours: Congregation for Divine Worship,”
Chapter IV: Various Celebrations Througout the Year,
Chapter IV-II The Saints,
3. ARRANGEMENT OF THE OFFICE FOR MEMORIALS,
Memorials During Priveleged Seasons,
239. During privileged seasons, IF it is desired to celebrate the office of a saint on a day assigned to his or her memorial:
a. in the office of readings, after the patristic reading (with its responsory) from the Proper of Seasons, a proper reading about the saint (with its responsory) may follow, with the concluding prayer of the saint;
b. at morning prayer and evening prayer, the ending of the concluding prayer may be omitted and the saint’s antiphon (from the proper or common) and prayer may be added.
The operative words in #239 would be “IF IT IS DESIRED”. It would seem that a commemoration of St Stanislaus for April 11 was Not desired by the editors of this web site.
I hope this clarifies matters for you, Michael.
You will find “The General Instructions” at the beginning of Vol. I of the Complete Liturgy of the Hours. Christian Prayer has only an abridgedd version of the General Instructions
As an aside, the Celebration of Lauds from the Vatican on Vatican Radio (http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/on_demand.asp?gr=ltg) does NOT commemorate St. Stanislaus for April 11 2011. I would assume said commemoriation was NOT desired by the liturgists at the Vatican.
Glad to be of help, Michael.
Laudetur Jesus Christus
April 11th, 2011 at 06:17
Good morning, Michael:
If i may presume to answer your question regarding celebration of memorials during privileged seasons (i.e., Lent), I quote from the “General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours: Congregation for Divine Worship,”
Chapter IV: Various Celebrations Througout the Year,
Chapter IV-II The Saints,
3. ARRANGEMENT OF THE OFFICE FOR MEMORIALS,
Memorials During Priveleged Seasons,
239. During privileged seasons, IFiit desired to celebrate the office of a saint on a day assigned to his or her memorial:
a. in the office of readings, after the patristic reading (with its responsory) from the Proper of Seasons, a proper reading about the saint (with its responsory) may follow, with the concluding prayer of the saint;
b. at morning prayer and evening prayer, the ending of the concluding prayer may be omitted and the saint’s antiphon (from the proper or common) and prayer may be added.
The operative words in #239 would be “IF IT IS DESIRED”. It would seem that a commemoration of St Stanislaus for April 11 was Not desired by the editors of this web site.
I hope this clarifies matters for you, Michael.
You will find “The General Instructions” at the beginning of Vol. I of the Complete Liturgy of the Hours. Christian Prayer has only an abridgedd version of the General Instructions
As an aside, the Celebration of Lauds from the Vatican on Vatican Radio (http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/on_demand.asp?gr=ltg) does NOT commemorate St. Stanislaus for April 11 2011. I would assume said commemoriation was NOT desired by the liturgists at the Vatican.
Glad to be of help, Michael.
Laudetur Jesus Christus
April 11th, 2011 at 04:42
Why is not St. Stanislaus Martyr memorialized here today? Complete Liturgy Hours Vol. II, Invitatory ant. and hymn page 2015. 2nd Reading page 1768. Prayer 1770. Morning Reading Lent page 2027. Cant. Zech. ant. page 2028. Prayer 1770. (et cetera Hours). Is it perhaps because this is the week before Palm Sunday? I did not find directive excluding Memorials of Martyrs in the General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours Vol. I page 88, b) Choice of Office nn. 244, 245. I hope this is helpful.
April 9th, 2011 at 03:04
Yes, you can subscribe to our podcast through iTunes or some other podcast client. If you have a Mac or an Apple mobile device such as an iPod Touch, and iPhone or an iPad, you can purchase one of the Divine Office apps. You can find links to the podcast and to the apps on the right sidebar of the website. –>
April 8th, 2011 at 12:42
is there a way to link a banner from this site to my personal blog?
April 8th, 2011 at 11:10
Is it possible to have Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer and Night Prayer automaticaly downloaded to my pc on a daily basis? If yes, how?
Andrew
whipple.andrew@gmail.com
April 8th, 2011 at 11:07
Divine Office -
I was unable to download today’s Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. Saturday come down just fine.
Comment says “unable to download….” Unable to open this internet site…..”
Andrew
April 8th, 2011 at 06:00
Tomorrow’s morning prayer has a “404 File not found”
April 8th, 2011 at 05:13
:00 am Friday April 8, 2011 Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer have no audio files. Daytime Prayer has to texct posting. Snowstorm??? Regards
April 8th, 2011 at 04:34
There is a message “File not foound” on the web site. This happened a few days ago…any thoughts?
j
April 8th, 2011 at 02:34
Pax Vobiscum!
Re: The Grail Gelineau Psalter:
Here is the publication information I have from my own copy:
Complete Edition G-1703
THE GRAIL / GELINEAU PSALTER
150 PSALMS AND 18 CANTICLES
Text and music copyright The Grail (England), 1963.
Reprinted by special licence agreement.
Copyright 1972 by G.I.A. Publications, Inc.
7404 So. Mason Ave., Chicago, IL 60638
International Copyright Secured
All Rights Reserved
Printed in U.S.A.
–also–
G-1247
GUIDE TO GELINEAU PSALMODY
A Fully Illustrated Explanation of the Method of Rendering the Gelineau Psalms
J. Robert Carroll
G.I.A. Publications, 7404 So. Mason Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60638
Text of the Psalms, and the psalmody of Joseph Gelineau Copyright c. 1963 The Grail (England). All rights reserved.
This edition Copyright c. 1979 G.I.A. Publications, Inc. All rights reserved.
I pray Our Lord that this will be of good help to you. Amen.
April 8th, 2011 at 02:16
Audio is missing for today’s Morning Reading, 4/08.
April 6th, 2011 at 10:39
@Mary of St. Dominic, Morning Prayer was missing and is now fixed, but Night Prayer works fine for me. Did you mean Morning Prayer?
April 6th, 2011 at 10:38
@Wayne, The audio is there now. Sorry, I fixed something in the audio file and changed the name, but did not update the web site with the new name. It is there now. If you hadn’t reported it I would not have known so thank you!!!
April 6th, 2011 at 09:08
@The Cathoholic, I agree.
April 6th, 2011 at 03:48
Good morning. 6:44 am Wednesday 04/06/11 no audtio file for Morning Praayer. Had to move over to Pray Station Portable. Perhaps there is time enough to fix the problem for our West Coast members of the community. Regards.
April 5th, 2011 at 22:27
What happened to nighttime Prayer, it says file not found?
April 5th, 2011 at 21:52
@Michael Paul Heart, We have been working on new chanted psalms from the Mundelein Psalter, but I would like to know about the Grail Gelineau Psalter so I will be researching it.
April 4th, 2011 at 04:42
As soon as realistically possible use The Grail Gelineau Psalter “a cappela” musical forms for all 150 Psalms and 18 Canticles of the Divine Office. It might take up to two years to fully prepare, to practice, and then to begin, but it would increase for the faithful here the beauty of this prayer of the Church.
April 3rd, 2011 at 14:48
This is how I pray. Thank you.
April 1st, 2011 at 06:04
Thank you for the beautiful hymn, “Per Crucem” in today’s Morning Prayer. What a wonderful hymn to begin our prayer, especially for a First Friday in Lent.
It would be a wonderful hymn to use as background for the “Examination of Conscience” in Night Prayer. It is so reflective. Just a thought.
April 1st, 2011 at 01:48
@demers47,
Hi Mike, it was a text error and my fault. It is fixed now, Thank you!
March 31st, 2011 at 18:59
Oops! the Magnificat is missing from the evening prayer!
~Mike
March 31st, 2011 at 17:04
I must agree with the other comments, This a prayer not a broadway show. They are going over board with their voices. Just remember it is a prayer. But keep up the great work. God Bless.
March 31st, 2011 at 12:52
Thank you for allowing us to say the Divine Office on line. I really appreciate it. It is nice to hear tohers saying it with me. God Bless
March 31st, 2011 at 11:17
@demers47,
Mike, thank you, the error was corrected.
March 31st, 2011 at 07:43
From the hymn for today’s Office of Readings:
My soil fleeth unto the Lord:
before the morning watch,
I think “soil” should be soul.
~Mike
March 31st, 2011 at 06:01
A couple of examples would be from this morning’s reading, 3/31, the Canticle from Isaiah 40:10-17. The woman is OK, but the guy doing the reading is, at least in my opinion, being so dramatic that he keeps losing his place in the reading.
Another is from the morning reading of 3/28. Psalm 96 especially beginning with “Let the heavens rejoice and earth be glad…” It would be great if the reader would just read it and let us decide for ourselves what to emphasize and drop the dramatic pauses.
March 31st, 2011 at 05:20
I very much agree with @Moni. Sometimes the readers get so dramatic it’s very distracting. They use inflection in places that I would not if I were doing the reading, so it comes off as being corny.
March 30th, 2011 at 15:06
@Matt, Thanks for the catch. By giving me the exact time it is very easy to fix. This was my fault on two counts. I missed it in the original post production and then this error was caught by Monica, who does our QA, and after I fixed the mistake I failed to put the file in the correct location.
Thank you for reporting it. It is now fixed.
March 30th, 2011 at 14:53
@elrondaragorn, Sorry that happened to you. We are actively replacing all old content and that had to be from 3 years ago. Perhaps you were using our podcast, which may not have the advantage of our website and mobile apps because they wont have the latest content unless you happen to synch after the new prayers are posted.
I would like to mention that for the right community that the rock or even hip-hop might be appropriate as long as it praises God and brings people together prepared in mind and heart to pray the liturgy. But, I know that rock music is not appropriate for this community so please accept my apology that we didn’t get the update out in time for you and your friend to benefit.
March 30th, 2011 at 03:43
Dane: At approximately 18.50 in the Office of Readings for today (March 30), the reader flubs his reading and asks to start over.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Matt
March 29th, 2011 at 19:01
What happend to the Office of the Dead. Is this a future work or did something happen to the text and audio files. I would like to download this to ITunes so as to pray for my deceased Mother and other family members. Thanks for your attention and bless your ministry.
Mike in Jax, Fla
March 29th, 2011 at 04:59
Christian rock music is not appropriate to the Liturgy of the hours. You had such a hymn for the Office of readings yesterday and a friend I introduced to your site was scandalized. Please stick to the hyms in the Breviary, or the hymns recommended by the Church for divine worship. If you don’t know them, learn them so you can teach them to us.
March 29th, 2011 at 00:43
It has been the experience of many developers that lower prices on their iPad apps can greatly help to spur sales. Having just gone through some sticker shock after looking into the Divine Office app for my iPad2, I can personally attest to the dampening effect your pricing had on my enthusiasm. I didn’t buy it.
March 28th, 2011 at 04:20
Just want to thank you for your most precious Podcasts. I download the following day’s Office of Readings and Morning Prayers the previous night. The following day as I am slowly jogging in a nearby high school athletic field at 5:15am, I listen, pray, jog. I am an American Vincentian working in Taiwan and have been for over 37th. I find that listening to Divine Office — instead of reading it — allows me to meditate more deeply. I love the way you guys read the Psalms so prayerfully and I love the Hymns you use before both the Office of Readings and Morning Prayers. Thank you so much for helping this over 60 priest in his prayer life. God bless you and your service for people like me. Fr.Richard Preuss, CM
March 27th, 2011 at 15:08
@Glorybe2God, No. The Publication of the English Translation Roman Missal, 3rd Edition does not include any changes to the Liturgy of the Hours.
According to the November 2010 Newsletter of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Divine Worship: “Having completed the translation of the Roman Missal, the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL) requested input from the English-speaking Conferences of Bishops on what ritual texts should be
translated next. Committee members suggested the following order for translation projects: Rite of Marriage, Rite
of Confirmation, Rite of Baptism for Children, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Rites of Ordination, and
Order of Christian Funerals. They also suggested that ICEL pursue a new translation of the Liturgy of the Hours.”
(http://www.usccb.org/liturgy/innews/Nov-2010.pdf). For those who are interested, the New Translation of the Order of Mass (the common texts used during each Mass) is available at http://www.usccb.org/romanmissal/order-of-mass.pdf.)
March 27th, 2011 at 05:43
Does anyone know if the texts of the Liturgy of the Hours will be changed as part of the new Liturgy for the Mass reform?
March 26th, 2011 at 06:48
Thank you so much for your ministry of bringing the Liturgy of the Hours to us through the air waves. I know it is not an easy thing to do. I have been to several cloistered and enclosed community of nuns who pray the Divine Office and yours is very close. The only critique I have is we lay people tend to over-dramatize when we read. The nuns do not. When they read they keep it simple and clear. How I wish we could do the same- clear, simple, medium pace. I know of one community of monks who had the difficulty of the readers being too dramatic so they decided to chant all the prayers and readings, even the readings during mealtime.
When a reader is being dramatic It disturbs your flow of prayer and meditation. At those times I just turn off the sound and pray by myself, which I had to do today at Morning Prayer. I’m sure its just me and due to my experience of listening to how beautifully the nuns pray the Office.
Thank you & God bless!
March 26th, 2011 at 05:05
@Kathy AE,
Thank you Kathy for pointing out this website. It has the text for several hymns performed and written by Mary Oberle Hubley.
For the Feast of the Annunciation we used Mother of the Redeemer (Ave Redemptoris Mater) from the album “From Gate Of Heaven, Part I: Gate Of Heaven”, but the lyrics for this hymn are not there.
Anyway, thank you!
March 25th, 2011 at 23:44
Here is the website where I found the lyrics for the wonderful hymn you presented for the Liturgy of the Hours on the Feast of the Annunciation. It is a wonderful hymn from the Eastern Orthodox church: :
http://www.nicholasmaria.com/hymn_o_theotokos.html
O Theotokos
Text: Mary Oberle Hubley
Verse 2, l. 1: Revelations 12:1
Verse 3, l. 1-2: Luke I:38; l. 3: John I:14
Verses 4, 5, 6: From The Akathistos Hymn to the Holy Name of Jesus
Translation by Melkite Archbishop Joseph M. Raya (1916-2005)
Text Ed.: Mary Oberle Hubley
1 O Theotokos, O Mother of God!
Mary Immaculate, Mother of us all:
All Christendom calls on you, singing your praise!
Defend your people through the end of days.
2 O Theotokos, of creatures alone:
Clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath your feet!
Be Light on our journey to Heaven, true home.
As with a child, lead our weak and stumbling feet.
3 “Behold the servant of the Lord.
“Be it done to me according to Thy Word.”
The Word was made flesh and with us dwelt.
O Theotokos, alleluia!
4 You, Tabernacle of God the Word;
Ark of the Covenant, Tower of the Church:
We honor you, Space of the Spaceless Lord:
O Theotokos, alleluia!
5 Mary, O Beam of the Mystical Sun,
Radiance and Light of the everlasting Day;
O Pillar of Fire who lights our way:
O Theotokos, lead us we pray!
6 Great holy Icon, Mother of God;
Image of Christ and Image of His Church;
O Mirror of Justice, Mirror of Truth:
Mary, Godbearer, alleluia!
March 25th, 2011 at 15:10
@gillysuiter, we feel very blessed already, but your wishes are warmly appreciated. We feel blessed for having the opportunity to be part of this ministry and praying with so many wonderful people around the world.
March 25th, 2011 at 15:09
@rjjthomas, not yet. We have to be sure that the Blackberry will have a long future before investing our limited funds into building an app for it. Blackberry is rapidly losing market share and although we wish we could provide apps for every mobile platform we must focus on providing apps for platforms that will reach the most people now and into the future. I hope you understand.
March 24th, 2011 at 21:26
I like your winner’s ribbon in the upper right corner;
you all deserve it for your efforts!!!!May the Lord bless you richly!!!
March 24th, 2011 at 14:12
Are you working on an app for the Blackberry?
March 24th, 2011 at 09:12
There is a typo in Psalm 81
Let there be on foreign god among you.
no worship of an alien god.
I am the Lord your God,
who brought you from the land of Egypt.
Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
It should be:
Let there be no foreign god among you.
March 24th, 2011 at 00:34
@patti, it shouldn’t do this for more then 5 minutes. If it does then I suggest you reboot your iPhone. You can kill the Divine Office app, but rebooting your iPhone cures many more ills for our app and for others. Try it and then make sure you are in a good wifi connection when you start the app again and all should be good again for you.
March 23rd, 2011 at 19:23
Thank you for a very beautiful Morning Prayer on Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent (March 22nd). Although I have heard these psalms and readings many times before, it was as if I was hearing them for the very first time. Morning & Evening prayers during Lent have been a wonderful virtual experience for me.
March 23rd, 2011 at 16:44
Hi Dane,
On my Iphone the note is “Waiting for March 23 content update”
Don’t know what to do. Does that make sense?
March 22nd, 2011 at 22:33
@Wayne, thanks for alerting me to this. This is something I will try to do better.
March 22nd, 2011 at 21:10
Thank you for this site.. It is been such a blessing! I really enjoy the hyms. God Bless you all!
March 22nd, 2011 at 19:25
I noticed that for the Solemnity of the Annunciation on Thursday you celebrate Night Prayers for Thursday instead of Night Prayer 1 for Solemnities and on Friday you celebrate Night Prayers for Friday instead of Night Prayers 2 for Solemnities. Perhaps there is still time enough for you to correct the error. I have noticed that you consistently do not celebrate the correct Night Prayers for Solemnities. Is there a reason for your changing of the rubrics? The problem is easily fixed by by-passing your incorrect posting and using the postings for Saturday/Sunday Night Prayers, thus being more in sync with the whole praying Church.
March 22nd, 2011 at 06:59
@Rheanrs, Here is the link to Pray Station Portable in the event you need to use it …..
http://psp.libsyn.com/2011
March 22nd, 2011 at 06:40
@Rheanrs, Office of Readings for March 22, Tuesday in the 2nd week of Lent is also not available. Pray Station Portable is an adequate backup in situations such as this.
March 22nd, 2011 at 06:31
Please note the following:
Rather than sayying a reading g from ” The Book of James” ,say ” A reading from The Letter of James”
The “”g” in Prodigal is pronounced in the slender form as in “go”
Rather than saying “a reading from The Book of Romans” say ” A reading from the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans”
Sincerely
, Kevin Hehir
March 22nd, 2011 at 05:26
@ajwarren, Thanks! Ah so Sundays OF LENT take precedence over feasts and solemnities but do normal Sunday’s in ordinary time? It’s kinda weird that ya gotta jump to Sunday evening prayer on Saturday but then go back to Saturday Night prayer, or maybe the setup actually has Sunday night prayer on Saturday. Weird. Thanks for your time in answering.
March 22nd, 2011 at 04:29
@Tone, Sundays and Solemnities have an Evening Prayer I and II. Evening Prayer I is said the evening before (Saturday or the Vigil of the Solemnity) and Evening Prayer II is said on Sunday evening or the evening of the Solemnity. Occasionally, there is a conflict — and there are rules to determine which celebration has precedence. For example, normally on the evening of March 19th, Evening Prayer II for the Solemnity of St Joseph would be said, but since this was a Saturday, Evening Prayer I for the Second Sunday of Lent also applied. Sundays of Lent take priority — so that is office that was used.
Friday March 25th is the Solemnity of the Annunciation of our Lord, so Evening Prayer I for this feast will be used Thursday evening, and Evening Prayer II will be used on Friday evening.
March 21st, 2011 at 16:41
Please help: am I the only one out here in cyber land that cannot download today, March 21 Office of Reading, Error 404, file not found, all day? I have tried it both on Mozilla and IE and get the same message.
March 21st, 2011 at 12:52
Thanks again for all you are doing! I usually listen to the office of Readings on my way to work each morning (it usually gets me exactly “door to door”
However, I am receiving an error when I try to download the files for the 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th using iTunes… is this a known problem?
The file for the 25th downloaded just fine today, however the other 4 are still not working.
March 21st, 2011 at 04:47
I am having a hard time having all the divine office download to my itunes. I do not receive the night prayer and sometimes I receive lauds, etc. and sometimes I do not receive vespers, etc. I wrote about this before and perhaps you did answer. Can you tell me what name you will answer my question with….I do not open email’s unless I know the sender because of possible scams….so perhaps you answered this question before and i did not open it. Thank you….Sr. Maryan
March 20th, 2011 at 14:39
Dane, you know I’m not bashful in critiquing your site. Even though some don’t think so, I have always intended it to be positive input. Your ministry means so much to me and others. I was reflecting the other day about what your site was like when you first started and where you are today. Thank you so much for the tremendous effort that it has taken and continues to take.
With that in mind, I want to jump to the defense of the way all of you pray the Office not just read it or recite it. The girls in particular are so prayerful. They pull one into prayer. There are other sites where the readers race through the Office in a monotonous monotone. To me that is not prayer.
With that said, I believe it’s Greg that could be a little less dramatic at times (not all the time). The psalms are to be prayed not proclaimed. Greg, I don’t mean to be critical, but maybe all you have to do is relax a little more and enjoy the prayer.
I don’t know who it was that posted something about some of us having prayed the Breviary for a long time and therefore are more sensitive about the details. In my case, I’ve prayed it for 44 years and am probably stuck in rut. I’ll try to loosen up a little.
Question. Who is the male voice that does the second reading occasionally? He has a wonderful voice.
Please forgive me if my past comments have seemed to be offensive. They were never meant to be that way. I have the utmost respect for all of you and your beautiful ministry.
You are touching so many hearts and bringing them closer to our Lord.
Blessings & Prayers – Deacon Ken
March 19th, 2011 at 21:20
So what is the difference between Evening Prayer I and Evening Prayer II. I notice Evening Prayer 1 is before morning prayer on this feast of St. Joseph. So does that mean that prayer is said the day before his feast or the Evening of March 18th? and the Evening Prayer 2 is the one said for the Evening of the Feast day on March 19th (his Feast day)? It is all listed on March 19th so I’m assuming it’s considering the day before evening as the start of the next day. I’m tired.. lol. and Thanks
March 19th, 2011 at 08:06
@Lorraine, we have to leave advertising in place or we have to pay $350/month to keep ads off. When we start using the streaming service regularly then we will pay to remove the advertisements.
March 19th, 2011 at 06:00
@RolleBolle, I agree as well – Heb 4:12. Not all the readers are proclaimers. To read the Word of God without emotion provokes little or no connection to it. It becomes rote.
March 19th, 2011 at 05:48
I was so pleased to see that you had video streams from the SWLC; however, there are commercials that pop up — even one advertising the Mormon Church! Is that the way you planned it?
March 18th, 2011 at 18:09
@RolleBolle, I agree completely. The word of God should be proclaimed: “For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Heb 4:12).
Also — I do applaud the decision to have the antiphon repeated when the Psalm is chanted, but not when it is recited. This is fully consistent with the General Instructions (115) “When a psalm may be divided because of its length into several sections within one and the same hour, an antiphon is given for each section. This is to provide variety, especially when the hour is sung, and also to help toward a better understanding of the riches of the psalm. Still, it is permissible to say or sing the complete psalm without interruption, using only the first antiphon.”
March 18th, 2011 at 17:41
Thank you very much for directing me to the proper site in order to change my password. All is well.
March 18th, 2011 at 13:36
I got your compline and lauds app for my iPod touch 3G about 6 months ago. It has opened up a whole new way for me to pray. I had heard about LOTH but didn’t quite understand the concept…I am a convert from the baptist denomination. I very much love the prayers in the evening, and appreciate the hard work that you and your readers put into this.
With that said, I wanted to let you know with the last iTunes update (3/14/2011) that these 2 apps no longer work, I am not sure if it’s because of my touch being a 3G or somethings up with the app software. I open it up, it starts to download then shuts down.
March 18th, 2011 at 12:35
@Mary, try going to http://DivineOffice.org/wp-admin to change your password. If that does not work then let me know what password you want by sending me an email to admin@DivineOffice.org.
March 17th, 2011 at 18:42
I would like to go on record as saying: I am aware of a number of very good web sites which offer Liturgy of the hours, but I always find myself drawn to this one. I think it is the best, the most pleasant, the most beautiful, and a source of comfort and rest. Thank you for being here for everyone.
March 17th, 2011 at 18:26
I hadn’t noticed overly dramatic reading. I DID notice that the reading from James for Mar 17th’s evening prayer was especially meaningful. If that is an example of over dramatic reading–I vote to keep it. Perhaps the Fr. is referring to other readings. I have sometimes thought that the communal readings a bit distracting with people a bit too much out of sync with each other.
That said, MAN, I LOVE this service and hope to buy the app when money starts flowing a bit more again for me. It will be hard to make everybody happy on style. Impossible, in fact.
March 17th, 2011 at 16:33
I forgot my password. I was assigned a new password. On other sites, sometimes, if you forget your password, they assign you a new password, and then you can give yourself another password you might be able to remember.
Is it not the case here?
The password they gave me is one I would have to have posted on my desk, in order to use, it is so intricate and hairy. What? Does 007 really want to hack into my version of Liturgy of the hours??? Is there another way for me to get a password that is easier to remember? AND EASIER TO TYPE I might add.
March 17th, 2011 at 15:41
Greetings,
Re Fr. Ben’s comment: “And another bee in my bonnet – those who read the psalms pay far too much emphasis on certain words and put too much emotion into it and is very off-putting. A normal, clear speaking pace is what is directed at the front of the Office book.”I offered the almost identical comment some time back and I continue to mirror Fr. Ben’s sentiments.
I have stopped using sound when I use your site because of the distraction caused by readers who are so dramatic. Also, could we have a nice, smooth pace in reading?
Thank you.
Mary
March 17th, 2011 at 05:33
Hi Dane, just was browsing through some of the comments and one mentioned that the prayers on this website have been recorded a while ago. So it would be unfair of me to ask you to include a Hymn other than the one already there. I would therefore appreciate you just turning on the volume if possible and that would be just fine. Would hate to burden you with more work. God bless you all who work in this wonderful ministry.
March 17th, 2011 at 05:26
The hymn today at the Evening Prayer. Just finished praying it, but the volume was low. The readers of the Psalms and prayers come very clear and strong. Just one thing., do we not have particular hymns to be prayed in Lent? I join the Benedictine Monks in the morning in our parish, before Holy Mass, and pray the Invitatory Psalm, Office of Readings and the Morning Prayer with them. They pray a Hymn from the Hymns for the Season section ie one for Lent. Maybe including a Hymn for Lent might be a better option to have than a choir sing unfamiliar hymns that cannot be heard well! Just a thought. I am sure you will rectify the volume level on the Hymns. God bless you all.
March 17th, 2011 at 03:22
As a priest that uses this App on my iPad, I’d like to make a few suggestions, if I may.
Firstly, the text of the hymns isn’t always what is sung through the recording. It would be good if this was rectified, as although I don’t normally sing along, I do tend to the follow the words as an aid to prayer.
Sometimes, the doxology at the beginning of the Office isn’t followed by an Alleluia (and certainly shouldn’t be in Lent).
The singing of the antiphons is extremely distracting, especially if one cannot sing along due to not knowing the music. It would be helpful if the antiphons are sung. Also, the verses in the psalms should be read antiphonally, i.e – the congregation reading one stanza, the leader of the Office the next.
Also, sometimes antiphons aren’t repeated at the end of either psalms or the Benedictus/Magnificat.
And another bee in my bonnet – those who read the psalms pay far too much emphasis on certain words and put too much emotion into it and is very off-putting. A normal, clear speaking pace is what is directed at the front of the Office book.
I would be grateful for a reply,
Fr Ben
March 17th, 2011 at 00:15
@Dane, I tried both of your suggestions, and am still experiencing the “bug” I described. Hope that this follow-up is helpful to you in ascertaining whether it is, in fact, a bug. Thanks for the prayers. Oh, and I forgot to mention one of my favorite aspects of the podcast! The music!!! I am a cantor at my local church, and find myself singing along with many of them – personal favorite is “Let All Things Now Living”; I love the way the male singer pronounces “Hosanna”! In case you’re interested, the Music Issue put out by Oregon Catholic Press has a different arrangement of “Father, We Thank thee Who hast Planted” which is a bit more modern (it was originally done by NALR, and OCP acquired all the music when NALR went bankrupt).
Again many thanks for the wonderful production – if you ever need another reader, I’d be more than happy to help out. (Before being a cantor, I used to be a lector, and still do that sometimes at daily Mass.)
God bless.
March 16th, 2011 at 22:50
@Irishquad, if there is something we can do to make it more accessible to you then please let us know. It is wonderful that we have brought you into prayer with us.
March 16th, 2011 at 22:49
@mje, thank you for saying so. I thought they were too loud so I reduced their volume. You are not the only one to mention this so I will be increasing the volume.
March 16th, 2011 at 20:41
I too find the volume of the hymns extremely low and difficult to hear.
March 16th, 2011 at 18:45
Dane and Community,
Congratulations for all of your, “Best of,” wins, you certainly deserve accolades and I hope that this recent contest will draw many many more people to this most blessed website. For myself, your website is the first one I see in the morning (because it’s my homepage) and the last website I see before I go to bed, not to mention the three other times during the day that I pray along with you.
As a quadriplegic, I don’t have the ability to turn pages of a book, so your ministry has opened a whole new world of prayer for me and I will be eternally grateful. When we meet in our heavenly homeland, you and your whole community will be receiving a huge bear hug.
Again, congratulations and God bless you!
Christopher
March 16th, 2011 at 09:59
@Marianne Johnpillai, I can rectify this, but I am guessing this is not in all cases so I would appreciate it if you let me know exactly what day and what prayer has the volume to low. Then I will make sure it is adjusted properly the next time you hear it.
That would be very helpful. Thank you!
March 16th, 2011 at 09:58
@joehurley, I will add you to my prayers that you might find productive employment. Thank for reporting the possible bug. Every time Apple pushes out a new update to their devices we get presented with new bugs to fix. To make sure it is a bug, please be sure to kill the app and start it again. You kill apps by double clicking the home button to reveal apps that are multitasking and then you hold your finger on one of the icons until they jiggle and display the red minus sign, which when pressed will remove the app from memory. The easier way might be to restart your device, which is done by holding the top button down until you get the swipe to power off message. Turn the device back on by pressing the same top button. This defragments the memory and makes more efficient operation.
March 16th, 2011 at 06:37
I appreciate this website. Just one thing I would like to draw attention to. I find it difficult to listen to the hymn as the volume is extremely low. Is there a way this could be rectified? Maybe some others have mentioned this before. Not read the comments to find out! God bless you all for this wonderful ministry.
Yours in Christ
Marianne
March 16th, 2011 at 06:27
Hey Dane, is it true?! Are we winners of the best website and podcast on About.com? That’s wonderful. Congrats to you and the wonderful staff and all my fellow Pray-ers.
March 16th, 2011 at 05:31
I think there may be a small bug with the iphone app. Here is what has been happening of late. Everytime I open the app, it automatically begins playing (from the beginning) the last item I played (e.g., in the evening, I open he app and the morning prayer automatically starts playing). This is so even though I don’t go to that prayer nor click the play button, and the play button doesn’t even change to a pause button. I have to hit the play button and then the pause button before I can start playing the thing I wanted to play. This is happening all the time, so I think it may indicate a bug. Thought you’d want to know so it can be fixed. Otherwise, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this app and am happy to see you won that about.com voting thingy.
On the content of the site, it is wonderful. I don’t know how I would have gotten through the past year I have been unemployed (save for some short-term temporary jobs) without this prayer program to give me little respites each day from what I am starting to call the never-ending job search (a reference to a movie I liked, “The Never-Ending Story”).
God bless you and your work – you are truly 21st century evangelists.
March 16th, 2011 at 03:52
@Giovanna,
I also agree. This site, put together with such patience and love, has allowed me to participate again with others while praying the Divine Office.
Mahree
March 15th, 2011 at 22:16
@GrandmaOchsner, You are not bugging us at all. If this is happening we need to know because we are not uploading the wrong offices, but perhaps our technology is scheduling things wrong.
March 15th, 2011 at 15:31
Once again the Office for the LOH today on itunes was not for the 1st week of lent. I did find it though and it was the Office for Holy Week. I’m guessing the wrong recording was put in itunes for this week. Sorry I seem to be bugging you about this but I really love the work you do and enjoy praying with you all via my iPod.
Grandma Ochsner
March 14th, 2011 at 09:53
I tried doing some searches to find the full list of approved hymns (by the USCCB) but I’m lost. Does anyone know where to find the full list of Hymns (not already in the Breviary) to sing in the Divine Office?
March 14th, 2011 at 09:17
I’m sorry I misstyped. I meant to say I was following the St. Joseph Guide to LOH and I was in Volume II for todays reading. The Invitatory and Morning prayers were the same it was just the Office that was a different reading.
Thank you for your quick response.
Blessings!
GrandmaOchsner
March 14th, 2011 at 09:11
@GrandmaOchsner, you are not confused. We should not be in Volume I. During the entire season of Lent and Easter we will be in Volume II. If our page guide says something different then it is our mistake or the content may also be found in that volume as well. Occasionally we list multiple volumes when the content is the same or very nearly identical.
When I checked our page numbers for today I did not see any volume I so I suspect Barbara or Monica, two of our wonderful elves
, updated them.
March 14th, 2011 at 07:23
I’m confused. The Guide to the LOH for today was indicated to be in Vol !! for the Monday of the 1st week of lent, but the prayers that were recorded were from a different place and I couldn’t find those. Am I reading my guide wrong?
Thanks and God Bless your mission!
GrandmaOchsner
March 13th, 2011 at 19:09
@Dane, Thanks but how do I print the whole prayers?
March 13th, 2011 at 19:04
@litojc, You will change the date of the web browser address bar. You can enter it as http://divineoffice.org/?date=20110316 and this will take you to the date according to the form YYYYMMDD. We often rework things so you can’t always go very far into the future, but this does appear to be there.
March 13th, 2011 at 18:36
how can I print free evening prayer on Wednesday, March 16, 2011?. We have a prayer service(lent) in our church.. Thanks
March 12th, 2011 at 22:16
Morning and Evening Prayer links still not working well. When will they be fixed?
Thanks!
March 12th, 2011 at 19:37
@broth,
Thank you so much for this suggestion. I tried it and got everything I was missing!
Thanks again,
Janet
March 12th, 2011 at 19:26
Dane and group,
Thank you so much for this ministry, provided free to those who use it to deepen our prayer and connection with God. I have listened to your podcasts off & on over the past year or so and they are a tremendous gift to those who strive to deepen our prayer and faith experience. I have been especially grateful for you this Lent.
I have read the comments below and agree that nit picking about alleluias, or pointing out that a particular prayer is not there at the given time is not helpful to the spirit of this ministry. I also really like that there are both male and female readers and do not care if any of them sound like David did. Who knows what he sounded like anyway.
There is however one element of the criticism I have read that I must share in and that relates to what I believe is an over dramatic reading style by some readers in some of the prayers. I find it distracts me from prayer and at times, I simply need to stop listening because I can not pray with this. I think I have read in the comments below that there is an effort being made to re-record elements of the prayer and to use a less theatrical style. I support this and do not worry that any of you will be montonous or not use clear diction and proper inflection for the style of writing. You are a very talented group and it is just a gentle redirection into a less dramatic approach that is needed.
Thank you for the wonderful work of God that you are doing,
Janet
March 12th, 2011 at 15:25
@Giovanna,
Very well said, Giovanna. I couldn’t agree with you more. Dane is very patient, and this nitpicking really needs to stop.
God bless all of you who love this wonderful work that these dear people do for us. It is such a blessing. Without them, I could not be so faithful to my daily duty praying the Divine Office
Thanks be to God, and for His many graces to this ministry,
Patti, OCDS
March 12th, 2011 at 12:02
I just wanted to say thank you…I live in a rural area with no access to daily mass or liturgy of the hours in community. I have felt such great peace, hope, and community this Lent from your podcasts. Praised be Jesus Christ…
March 12th, 2011 at 09:57
@mobigfoot, we expect a new beta build of the Android app this Monday and after one week of testing if we find it good enough then we will put it into the marketplace. In short, 8 to 17 days I hope.
March 12th, 2011 at 07:02
You have a great site. I use with my Android Phone daily.
One thing that would make it easier to pray on the phone would be to repeat all antiphons after each verse for all prayers so that you do not have to scroll up to re-read (for those of us who can’t remember the antiphons) You are doing this in the Intercessions and it is a great help.
When do you anticipate the Android App will be ready?
Thanks again. Keep up the good work.
March 12th, 2011 at 05:54
Dane: The antiphon on the third psalm for Morning Prayer today (Saturday) was repeated twice following the psalm.
Thought you’d like to know. Keep up the excellent work.
Matt
March 11th, 2011 at 23:33
@Peter, we (I) am so dissatisfied with some of our very old prayer that I am determined to rerecord and reproduce as necessary to improve these old prayers so I took the audio files down and will work feverishly to get them updated and put back in place. You will be in good shape if you use our website, but people using our apps will need to hit the content refresh buttons often (sorry).
March 11th, 2011 at 23:28
@Nancy Berube, perhaps I do say “just shut up & pray”.
In truth, I understand that my harshest critics are the servants who have dedicated their lives to God such as priests, deacons, and nuns and I have to acknowledge their contribution far exceeds my own. These people are true heros worthy of praise. These folks treasure the Liturgy and understand its importance even more then I do so I totally cut them slack. There are not enough of them and we are indebted to them and I love them. BUT, please never stop standing up for the work we do because it is incredibly important and I wouldn’t want to scare away a single soul that might be dissuaded by a negative “sounding” comment. I say “sounding” because text is so flat and people may misunderstand that what comes across rather harsh in text would be delivered very differently if made to me in person.
Lest you think I am an angel, I admit I still say under my breath “OHHH COME ON, LETS JUST PRAY!” But then I admit to myself I love all of you and all rolls off my shoulders!
March 11th, 2011 at 23:10
Oh dear – I have been through this so many times. I am 50 years old, and a practicing Catholic all my life. I cannot tell you how many attempts of the Holy Spirit to touch God’s people I have seen undermined by those for whom religion is primarily about themselves and their own power. I totally agree with ajwarren’s sentiments but not their conclusion. Unfortunately I am not surprised by the type of people who use (and use being the operative word) this type of site not to contribute to the work of the Holy Spirit but to force their own power and position and ego onto others. This site is one of the most blessed gifts of the Spirit. It touches people around the world daily and brings us together united in prayer and in the love of God on a daily basis. Does it matter whether there is an Alleluia in the hymn or prayer? Only to people for whom living in Christ is not about love of God and love of their brothers and sisters, but about love of their own positions. Does it matter that “a female reader doesn’t sound like David at prayer on the lute and the harp in Israel” Yes if half of the Catholic church is to be patronized with a comment like “She would sound fine for the part of the intercessions or for the readings from female saints.” Really? No – I am not a feminist – I am just tired of people whose only function is to tear out the roots of God’s plants and dig up the dirt, and erect yet another marble statue to themselves and the rules appear to love above all else except the sound of their own voice holding forth. Please, please, please Dane and all of you who work in this magnificent ministry ignore the nit-pickers, the complainers, the stick wielders and stay true to the Spirit.
March 11th, 2011 at 18:11
@Alison37, Amen brothers & sisters! I had tried to post something earlier today but it didn’t go through, but anyway you all said it better than I did. This wonderful site is such a powerful opportunity for us all to deepen our prayer lives & relationships with God, it is such a gift, it seems sad that its creators should meet with such savage criticism for miniscule inaccuracies.
Alison, I’ve been a practicing Catholic most of my 57 years, & and agree wholeheartedly with your comments.
God bless Dane & his team for all their work, and for their graciousness in receiving all comments.
March 11th, 2011 at 15:26
@ajwarren, I, too have been surprised and disappointed by the tone of some of the comments posted with the purpose of “correcting” those who are devoting countless hours to the task of providing this ministry to anyone who wishes to participate and at no charge. Not being a Catholic, I sometimes feel at a disadvantage when trying to pray using the Divine Office but, on the other hand, I am ignorant of a lot of the tiny details that seem to bother and irk others who (I guess?) know better. I am not troubled by a stray “Alleluia”, an “over enthusiastic” reader, or the “wrong” prayer at the “wrong” time. “Ignorance is bliss”, is true in my case. It makes me happy when the readers stumble or hesitate or make some mistake because it reminds me that they are REAL people , just like me and I feel like I am in fellowship with them. I am just free to enter in to prayer with a humble and open heart and enjoy the peace, comfort and joy that it brings. I do understand that those who are practicing Catholic are concerned about these details and so I want to respect that but it is not reflective of the grace of the Lord Jesus when some are so harsh and unloving in their comments.
March 11th, 2011 at 05:58
Dane,
Thank you, I had the same difficulty downloading Morning and Evening Prayer for 15 Mar 11 as well. I guess I need to practice patience for Lent this year.
Regards,
Pete
March 11th, 2011 at 04:51
@ajwarren, Amen! I am a relative neophyte to the site, having only been addicted since 10/10 but I find it indispensable. I have long wanted to make the LOTH part of my day but I have an insanely busy life & even had difficulty incorporating time for the truncated morning & evening prayers in the Magnificat publication. Now being able to listen to the prayers while driving or walking has been an amazing blessing & nourishment for which I am completely grateful.
I agree that the amount of time & effort involved in producing this site is staggering & I can only pray for the team’s perseverance in this endeavor.
I, too, like the variety of reading styles and music. Like any other real community, that of this site is made up of people of different tastes & no one style or thing will be everyone’s favorite. This is true when doing the LOTH in community.
And this site is free for the clicking! I tell everyone that I think might be interested in it . If a word here and there, or a style rattles us, we can surely focus on the overall intent & content of raising our hearts & minds to God. In choir, when we complain about a certain song we might not love, I say to myself “shut up & sing”, in the same manner I can say to myself “shut up & pray”. Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater. Dane is actually amazingly gracious in accepting criticism & suggestions & would never say “shut up & pray”.
God bless divineoffice.org & all who pray in her!
March 11th, 2011 at 04:21
@ajwarren, I second your post. I’ve used this website to order my own prayers for quite some time, and the negative commentary gets irksome, but never quite like the ones below.
Seriously, some of you need to see a spiritual director.
Dane, et al: Keep up the excellent work.
March 11th, 2011 at 04:18
@Wayne, Wow. Just … wow. There’s so much I’d like to say in response to this, but none of it would be edifying. Satisfying, yes, but not edifying.
March 10th, 2011 at 20:26
Recently discovered your site. It ia awsome. I will henceforth gladly share this blessed site with others. God bless and keep up your efforts in this endeavor. Thanks loads.
March 10th, 2011 at 19:20
I am very shocked by the harsh tone of some of the commenters. This is an amazing site — offered through much hard work and dedication (and free of charge). I now pray morning & evening prayer daily; this site has been of enormous benefit for me. While I am sure constructive comments are appreciated, I don’t understand the harsh, at time cynical nature of some of the comments.
The reading of the Psalms with emotion and feeling is one of the best attributes of this site — and is completely consistent with the General Instructions. Number 103: “The psalms are not readings or prose prayers, but poems of praise. They can on occasion be recited as readings, but from their literary genre they are properly called Tehillim (“songs of praise”) in Hebrew and psalmoi (“songs to be sung to the lyre”) in Greek. In fact, all the psalms have a musical quality that determines their correct style of delivery. Thus even when a psalm is recited and not sung or is said silently in private, its musical character should govern its use. A psalm does present a text to the minds of the people, but its aim is to move the heart of those singing it or listening to it and also of those accompanying it “on the lyre and harp.” And Number 106: ” In praying the psalms we should open our hearts to the different attitudes they express, varying with the literary genre to which each belongs (psalms of grief, trust, gratitude, etc.) and to which biblical scholars rightly attach great importance.” In my opinion, the psalms should never be read with a staccato, monotonous tone.
The chanting of the Psalms on Sundays and Solemnities is very moving.
I wish to thank everyone who has contributed to this site. You have made a difference in my life; I have drawn closer to God and look forward to praying the hours each day. Dane, I can only imagine the countless hours you have spent in producing and maintaining this site. I am very grateful.
March 10th, 2011 at 18:10
Allow me to compliment you on your distinct pronunciation of each word and phrasing of sentence parts. I appreciate that I do not need to have the text of the prayer and can close my eyes and still follow. I am grateful for the production and editorial policies you made when recording these prayers.
March 10th, 2011 at 15:35
@Peter, You are just getting a little ahead of the audio files we have in place. I decided to reproduce them because they were almost 4 years old and exhibited many of our early mistakes. I should have everything in place by Friday evening.
March 10th, 2011 at 12:49
Please note the same difficulty with Morning and Evening Prayer for 14 Mar 11 as well.
Regards,
Pete
March 10th, 2011 at 12:47
Good day. I have been unsuccessfully trying to download the podcast for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer for 13 Mar 11 for two days. IAm I the only one with this problem? Thank you so much for your wonderful ministry!
Pete
March 10th, 2011 at 09:48
@andrewjv, Two sources independent of each other. The Ordo or Order of Prayer in the Liturgy of Hours and Celebration of the Eucharist 2011 for the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Biloxi, Birmingham, Charleston, Charlotte, Jackson, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Raleigh, Savannah: Publisher: Paulist Press, Nihil Obstat: Rev. Msgr. Charles Gusmer, S.T.D., Censor Liborium; Imprimatur: +Most Reverend John J. Myers, D.D., J.C.D., Archbishop of Newark. Reference: Page 65: “Alleluia is not SUNG or SAID from the beginning of Lent until the Easter Vigil; nor is the Te Deum sung AT OR ON the Sundays of Lent.
Second Source: The ORDO of the American Cassinese Congregation of the Order of Saint Benedict: Collegeville, Minnesota, The Liturgical Press: “Season of Lent: “Alleluia is never said or sung during Lent. Before or after the Gospel, the “alleluia” is replaced by one of the alternate verses.
Finally, a liturgical explanation, We, too, are on a spiritual journey, toward the Second Coming and our future life in Heaven. In order to emphasize that journey, the Church, during Lent, removes the Alleluia from the Mass. We no longer sing with the choirs of angels; instead, we acknowledge our sins and practice repentance so that one day we may again have the privilege of worshiping God as the angels do. If we’re going to have an “alleluia” in one place during Lent, and not in another place, it makes no sense at all. I have been a priest for 25 years and I have never seen a variation on this rule until today when I saw it in Divine Office. I was also a monk for 15 years and we never sang “Alleluia” in the monastery from Ash Wednesday until Easter Sunday in any of the psalms, canticles or hymns in the Divine Office and we met for 5 of the Liturgy of the Hours, including hymns as well as for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament including the verse “You have given them bread from heaven” which in ordinary time would have had an “alleluia” added to it. But it did not during Lent.
March 10th, 2011 at 09:39
I hope you all realize that these are not LIVE prayer sessions. They were recorded months and months ago, probably when Dane and company were finding their way in creating a valuable prayer resource for the modern Church. The editor of the daily web page simply cuts and pastes from the audio/text files the appropriate sections relevant to the day’s liturgy. Thus, when we find glaring errors and omissions, the only solution is for Dane to gather his staff from the four corners of the globe and re-record the prayer session, an expensive operation I would gather. Therefore, we will always have the “alleluia” after the doxology at the beginning of Complkine. We will NOT have the “alleluia” after the doxology at the beginning of the other hours, where there should be one. We will continue to have the wrong Compline for Solemnities. The over-dramatic and sensationalized psalm-readings will continue to plague us most probably until the Second Coming. And so on and so forth. The season of Lent instructs us to be “patient.”
When there is one of those hymns which someone on the staff “just simply loves” and wants to share with the rest of the community,– [No lyrics are provided, the audio is indistinct and almost unintelligible (e.g., the Marian antiphon at the end of compline which goes on for ever and ever)]– I simply click off the sound and pull up one of my .midi or .mpg or .mov files with one of the hymn suggested by the “Big Book’. These files are all over the inbternet, easy to downloadf, and very valuable for prayer-time.
On a personal note to Dane: “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is NOT a a lenten hymn. It was originally composed to be a Christmas/Advent carol. It frequently is used as a Eucharistic hymn. But don’t sweat it, the history of the liturgy is based upon inviduals imposing their personal likes and dislikes and preferences on a public liturgical function, by-passing and disregarding rubrics and tradition and even common sense. This happened for over 1,500 years with the pre-Vaticn II Office, which I still am quite fond of. The Novus Ordo Office has only been around 40 or so years, but it has changed already and will continue to do so over the centuries. Therefore, the re-interpretion of a hymn to be a Lenten hym, with Alleluia’s, rather than a Christmas carol, will continue to happen.
Regards and peace….
Laudetur Jesus Christus
Wayne
March 10th, 2011 at 07:08
@Dane, You need to remove the Alleluia in Night Prayer. I would suggest that in some cases the rubrics are not specific and Catholic tradition is used. It has always been Catholic tradition to omit the Alleluia and the Gloria from the Lenten Liturgies. You might prefer to use the Alleluia, but realize that you are reaching 10′s of thousands and need to be faithful to the rubrics and traditions of the Catholic Church.
Your work of guiding Catholic prayer over the media is wonderful. However, you need to be true to Catholic tradition, not just try to be popular and get votes.
God Bless you and your ministry. Have a Blessed Lent.
March 10th, 2011 at 00:01
I just want to thank God for people like you who work hard to make this Divine Office Prayers available. I just came back from the intense celebration of Ash Wednesday and I needed to pray Evening Prayer. I just went to the divineoffice.org website (who is on “My Favorites”), reclined my head on the table and pray with all of you. Thanks. My prayers for all of you. I myself have a small home studio and I know that what you do requires a lot of time and perseverance. God bless you all.
Fr. Jose Luis Muro, Diocese of San Diego, CA
March 9th, 2011 at 22:54
@jeronimo, it took me a little while to figure out that you were talking about the text being incomplete. I appreciate you letting me know and I have already fixed it. I also took the music bed out of the psalms for Saturday and Sunday because less is more during Lent. Thanks!
March 9th, 2011 at 20:24
@andrewjv, would you show me where “alleluia” is forbidden in a hymn? I understand that “alleluia” is explicitly removed from the invitatory, psalms, canticles and such, but the the hymn, “Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is specifically intended for Lent and one of its verses does include “alleluia”. I have found no mention in the General Instructions for the Liturgy of the Hours to even suggest that “alleluias” are forbidden in hymns. Alleluias are specifically omitted or included in the invitatory, psalms, and canticles and the instructions are clear where to add them and where to omit them. I have not seen any mention of a general statement saying “alleluias” are forbidden anywhere they may show up outside of the specific places they are implicitly added or omitted.
“Let all mortal flesh keep silence” is a powerful Lent hymn. I would hate to have to throw the baby out with the bathwater because we are overreaching the intent of removing “alleluia” during Lent. I am not always right, but I would like to see authoritative documentation and if you can help me find it then I would appreciate it.
March 9th, 2011 at 19:55
As a Catholic Priest, I was horrified at the hymn selection for Evening Prayer for Ash Wednesday that had not 1 but 2 “alleluias” in it. The Ordo clearly states that “alleluia” is never said in Lent. If Divine Office is to be a success it MUST be faithful to the simplest of rubrical guidelines and this is one of them!
March 9th, 2011 at 19:44
Usually the audio readings are uplifting. Occasionally a male/female reader adopts a hesitant, broken, chopped up delivery full of sudden pauses that distracts from the text and draws attention only to the speaker and away from the Holy Spirit. A smooth respectful reading would be best. Example: the reading of the intercessions by both readers at the Morning Office for Ash Wednesday–the female reader overcame the distracting broken-up delivery of the male reader. As for the Psalter, a female reader doesn’t sound like David at prayer on the lute and the harp in Israel. She would sound fine for the part of the intercessions or for the readings from female saints.
March 9th, 2011 at 18:59
Night Prayer for Ordinary Time has been great the last few months.
However, some old version of “Night Prayer for Lent”
is showing up for March 9, 11, and 12.
As I understand it, Night Prayer during Lent is the same as Night Prayer during Ordinary Time, and that is the way it is showing for March 10.
Could we get back the complete version as we had during Ordinary Time?
Thanks! Keep up the good work!
March 7th, 2011 at 18:21
@soppo, thank you so much for your votes. It is the intent that one person = one vote per day, but we have several people working in three different offices and no matter how many that vote in the day it only registers one vote. I would say it isn’t strictly legal, but what is legal doesn’t technically work, so I will not condone, but I will say thank you for putting forth much more effort then most. Thanks!
March 7th, 2011 at 18:18
I am sorry we missed morning prayer. We had it all put together, but I was the wink link, I simply forgot to click a button that would send the audio file to be published. I wish computers knew what we wanted them to do and would finish the job
March 7th, 2011 at 14:57
I am not sure this is appropriate but some time ago I dsicovered that when one votes from a different computer it registers as a separate and additional vote. I am trusting that since it works it is “legal;) like being able to vote daily. I have voted for Divine Office some three to six time a day for the past many weeks.
March 7th, 2011 at 08:09
@Deacon William Griffin, sfo,
I had the same problem. If it is not available in the morning it really isn’t worth trying to correct. Just for grins I checked in the afternoon and it was available. That may have been OK for our West Coast brothers or someone in Hawaii. It didn’t do me any good since I had used other resources.
Deacon Al Kopp
March 7th, 2011 at 04:48
@sawilla, I have had the same problem but have another work around. If you right click on the podcast and select the option “Show all available episodes”, it will display those that are not automatically displayed and will download these. Be sure that in the Properties settings for the podcast that you have selected “Download all” for the selection “When new episodes are available”
March 6th, 2011 at 13:17
I am wondering if there is something wrongly if it is just my equipment because I could not find Morning Prayer on your site this morning?
March 6th, 2011 at 13:13
Dane, On this rare instance when the morning hour was not available, I read aloud from my breviary, and actually enjoyed that for a change. Thank you for all you all do for us.
March 6th, 2011 at 09:46
@Donna, Isn’t it amazing and wonderful? I love the support our community has for each other. We are an incredibly diverse group and yet you can see we are all one.
March 6th, 2011 at 09:16
I just went and voted again for this site and saw that you have some not only intensely loyal users, ( I’m one), but active interested in keeping you available users. I want to thank you as I have used this site for years and recommended it to those I thought would enjoy it, Thank you. -D.
March 6th, 2011 at 08:49
Thanks Wayne, I have been so frustrated lately. I do not know how many others this effects but it really makes my day difficult. Especially with Lent coming up and my self commitment to increase my time with the Word.
March 6th, 2011 at 08:02
Today is Sunday, March 6, 2011, 11:00 am ET, and Morning Prayer is still NOT available, neither audio NOR written. Please advise how this problem can be avoided. It seems to happen quite frequenty where the hours, one or several, are not available until very late in the day, if at all. Thanks and regards……
March 5th, 2011 at 20:53
Further to my previous comment, I would like to add that I am referring to the written Word not the audio podcast.
March 5th, 2011 at 20:44
I live in a time zone which, I believe, is six hours ahead of yours. My difficulty is that the readings are not always available until later in the day. I realise that there’s a lot of typing involved in copying all four volumes. Am I right to assume that not all readings have been imputed yet?
March 4th, 2011 at 07:35
@RonaldAltrui, thank you for sharing this with so many and for your vote of confidence in doing so. I expect many people from your parish will soon be joining us and you in prayer daily.
March 4th, 2011 at 07:27
@sawilla, the reason you can’t get all the podcasts is a problem with the quantity, but it is also a problem with iTunes and rss feed readers because they try to avoid duplicates and they get confused by our podcast. The best solution is to delete and resubscribe every month. We have considered separating each prayer type and it is something we plan on doing not to far off. Thanks for the feedback!
March 4th, 2011 at 03:30
@Dane, I’m sorry I took your response personally, thank you for your honesty! I didn’t know if you were seeing my comments.
On that note, todays Invitatory is different from what’s written. The voice said “Come let us praise the Lord, in whom is all our delight” instead of “Come, Let us give thanks to the Lord for his great love is without end.” as written.
Blessings!
March 3rd, 2011 at 14:17
Well Your site is in my parish bulliten this weekend. I teach a John course and showed the site to my students, adult Catholics in my Scripture class. They LOVE IT.
I have three Masses this weekend in the parish out of our 5, and plan to mention it in my sermon…. about a way to “build that house on the rock!”
I pray to expands your ministry.
Father Ron Altrui
March 3rd, 2011 at 12:43
I very much appreciate your ministry, and in particular, the podcast. I have two problems and a suggestion. The first problem I have is that often, some of the prayers do not download (or even appear) in iTunes. To rectify this, I must search DivineOffice in the iTunes store and then click to download the missing episode. I wonder if this is happening because of the quantity of episodes? The second problem I have is that I usually only want to download the “Office of Readings”. Have you considered separating each prayer type (i.e., Morning, Evening, Office, etc.) into its own podcast subscription? That would allow a finer-grained selection of podcast syncing and would save bandwidth for your servers too. Note that the full podcast subscription could still be kept available for people who find it more convenient.
March 3rd, 2011 at 07:48
@kentuckyliz, thank you! It is fixed now.
March 3rd, 2011 at 05:43
Re this morning’s office of Readings, on this line:
It is higher than the heavens; what can you do?
The reader misreads the line, then mumbles recognizing her error, then says the line again…this needs to be edited out if you save the programs for future use.
(If they’re done fresh each time, then, never mind!)
March 3rd, 2011 at 01:26
I love the Divine Office and was so thrilled to find it here and as an iPhone app. It brings it so much more to life because I work at a remote Arctic site, and I love the sound of the beautiful music and the lovely virtual community that you provide. You have done a magnificent job of creating this for us all. Thank You!
March 2nd, 2011 at 16:30
Why does Divine Office use a different Glory Be…than the traditional Glory be to the Father…in there Liturgy of Hours?!
Michesmi
March 2nd, 2011 at 16:24
@Dane,
Thanks you so much for your prompt, gracious and comprehensive reply to my question regarding the Office of Readings. Your response was very helpful and really not confusing in the least. Most of what I have read online and from other sources was much more difficult to understand. Now, I am looking forward to incorporating this office into my schedule, as the Lord allows.
Let me also take this opportunity to mention how much I appreciate the service that you and the other volunteers continue to offer to us all, and, of course, to God through this site and the phone applications. May you be blessed and encouraged as you labor together for His name’s sake.
March 1st, 2011 at 22:54
@Alison37, when to pray the Office of Readings is a common question and the answer is simply that you can pray the Office of Readings anytime. Most religious orders pray it before dawn and most laity get to it whenever it best fits into their day.
Now, if you want to know more then prepare for some confusion.
The Office of Readings, originally called Matins, derived from the monastic custom of rising during the night to pray before dawn. This practice, in turn, probably stemmed from the earlier tradition of Christians holding all-night prayer vigils.
While the Office of Readings retains this character of nocturnal praise, it is permitted to pray it at other times during the day. It is also possible to anticipate it on the evening before. It is also possible to join it with other offices, especially Morning Prayer.
If prayed the evening before, it should follow Evening Prayer of the day. Thus, if I wish to anticipate Tuesday’s reading on Monday, I should first pray Monday’s Evening Prayer.
If, on some occasion the Office of Readings is united to Evening Prayer, both offices must be of the same day. That is, I may not join Tuesday’s Office of Readings with Monday’s Evening Prayer. It is possible, however, to pray both Offices of Readings on the same day.
The Office of Readings may be prayed either before or after Night Prayer. All the same, unless one wishes to celebrate Readings as a nocturnal office, liturgical sense would prefer to pray it before Night Prayer so as not to obscure this office’s role as a conclusion of the day and a preparation for the night.
March 1st, 2011 at 19:07
Hello good people,
Please forgive such a basic question but I am not a Catholic and have only just started to pray using the IPhone App for the Liturgy of the Hours. I can figure out when to pray all of the prayers except the “Office of Reading”. When am I supposed to use this? I have tried to find out by reading the general instruction and search the web and haven’t found a simple answer. Thank you for opening up a whole new world of communion and community.
March 1st, 2011 at 15:25
@Lynn, I am sorry if my message sounded negative, it wasn’t meant to be, sometimes I am just rushing. My point is that I am very happy when people give me enough detail to locate and remove the inclusive language. If I do sound “sensitive” it isn’t at you, it is because I am a little embarrassed that this language is still there. I just need help finding it and your help is fabulous.
March 1st, 2011 at 03:37
Dane, Here is one of my specific comments
March 1st, 2011 at 03:36
@Dane, I’m surprised at your reply because I have left 3 comments about this and you haven’t responded to any of them yet, and now it sounds like you are annoyed that people “just complain” about it…the first time I was just trying to find out if that’s truly what this was all about, and I had no idea that you were trying to remove these prayers. I would certainly have let you know where I found them had I known you were wanting that information. The next 2 messages I left DID give the exact prayer that was “inclusive” (though I didn’t use that term, because I was giving you the benefit of the doubt and not assuming that was why they were changed).
February 28th, 2011 at 12:06
Hi,
Quick question, I reqistered a while ago on your wonderful website, but since then my email address has changed. How do I go about changing my email address? I am feeling really silly that I can’t seem to figure it out.
Thanks & may God Bless you & your Ministry!!
–Lori Horton
February 28th, 2011 at 07:04
I absolutely LOVE this!! I would love to hear the hymn of the hour sung by yourselves or by a smaller, or more contemporary choir, perhaps a choir of nuns or brothers. The old choir hymns don’t blend with what you all do. Also, the sound quality is not good of those hymns.
February 27th, 2011 at 06:29
@divinechildhomeschool, the inclusive language we did a very long time ago and we know some of it remains, but it is difficult to find and no one will tell us where or when they hear or see it. Instead they just complain about it. We have asked that when people find it that they let us know what office, what day, and where they found it. This is the only way we can remove it.
February 27th, 2011 at 05:15
Praised be Jesus Christ! I too have been noticing the inclusive language and have been awaiting a reply to Lynne’s question. I have been enjoying using this app but ask that you remain faithful to the wording and not politicize our prayer. I am a third order Carmelite and love the ease of use this app brings but I have to say that if the inclusive language continues, I will not continue. It jumps right out at me and is distracting.
Sincerely in Christ,
Monica
February 26th, 2011 at 13:31
If there is nothing available on this site, you can go to ebreviary.com and print a booklet for daytime prayer. There is a charge to subscribe to their site, which is fair, but you may be able to get a trial subscription and if you are unable to pay, they will work with you.
February 25th, 2011 at 14:04
Yesterday I had the pleasure of voting on my Kindle. I was able to access the site through the “About….”.link but I can’t through the icon at the upper right hand of the page. Since I’m trying to vote early & often from all my devices don’t want to miss opportunities. This morning I didn’t see the “About…”section, so my Kindle couldn’t vote. I just want to do what I can to help other Kindle users vote through theirs to help Divine Office to victory.
February 25th, 2011 at 07:57
@Wayne,
Thank you Wayne!
Lindy
February 25th, 2011 at 07:25
Today’s Invitatory is another good example, why do you say “for God’s love” instead of “for His love” as in the book?
February 24th, 2011 at 13:38
JMJ
I am very happy to see everyone voting for the Divine Office website. And I hope it continues through the March deadline.
And it is a blessing to see so many come to pray together, and we are, this most important prayer of the Church. The world is in much need of prayer.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
February 24th, 2011 at 10:37
I bought the app for the iPhone. I redowloaded it twice because I have yet to have audio. I get it for the iPad. What is the problem.
February 24th, 2011 at 10:16
@Littleflower518, It’s good to see OCDS aspirants using this great website. I’m a Temporary Professed OCDS, and use it daily. Best wishes to you, and Welcome to the Secular Carmelite Order!
February 24th, 2011 at 04:33
@ocdsaspirant,
I agree!! I also am an ocds aspirant and this has really helped me….especially on those days when I have to flip over to several different pages!! Keep up the great work!! Oh, and
ocdsaspirant, my email is littleflower518@yahoo.com if you would like an Aspirant “pen-pal”!
Lindy
February 24th, 2011 at 03:42
@Dane, actually today’s Invitatory is a good example! should have done that first before asking the question…
February 24th, 2011 at 03:37
@Dane, thank you, I will check that out…just looking at my Christian Prayer book, it seemed to indicate the readings from a Sunday but the regular daily ones were used…anyway, it’s confusing
I understand that you are busy! I had asked why some of the language of the antiphons was changed, to “let us worship God” instead of “let us worship Him” (as an example off the top of my head)…
The other question I was referring to was asked a few weeks ago, so it’s not that I expected an immediate response
Thank you for your kind explanation!
February 23rd, 2011 at 22:21
Hi, Thank you for your wonder ministry!! I love your itouch app but recently I got a new Android phone and I remember reading about the possibility of signing up to do beta testing. However the next morning when I went back to read the message again again it was gone because the days shifted and the day dropped off the itouch app. Would you be able to send me the email address do that I can apply to be a tester if it is not to late.
Thank You & God Bless You All.
–Lori Horton
February 23rd, 2011 at 15:10
Thank you so much for reply. But the problem is our church would like to make a little book for Wednesday’s daytime prayer liturgy for Lent. Is there any way that we can look in advance from March 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30 and so on?
If there is a book for it, we would love to purchase it.
Please let me know. Thank you so much!!
February 23rd, 2011 at 07:06
@Lynn, not a touchy subject at all. I just can’t answer questions 24×7 because it takes several hours of work to create each day’s prayers, my day job requires time, and I ned to sleep
so I may not respond for up to 24 hours.
To answer your question, each day has a priority of Solemnity, Feast, Memorial, Optional Memorial, and no priority. Solemnities and Feasts provide all the content under the Proper of the Season or Proper of Saints and pulling from the Commons.
All Memorials and Optional Memorials use the psalter that is proper for today.
Memorial Office of Readings use the versicle from the Commons, first reading and response that is proper for the day, second reading and response and concluding prayer proper to the saint being celebrated.
Morning and Evening Prayer memorials use readings, responses, gospel canticle antiphons, and intercessions from the commons unless there is content proper to the saint celebrated.
There is more detail to this, but for that you should look at the General Guidelines for the Liturgy of the Hours, which is available on this site using the link in the upper right corner.
February 23rd, 2011 at 03:26
@annagrammatica, Is there a difference between “chant” and “intonation,” musically?
February 23rd, 2011 at 03:25
I’m confused this morning…I saw the Antiphon for the Invitatory under the Common of One Martyr, but the Morning Prayer is not the same as the Common of One Martyr in my book…unfortunately the page numbers are “TBD” (I’m using the 1 volume).
How are you supposed to know which one to use if it’s not a regular weekday?!
Thank you!
Lynn
PS I take it from the lack of response to my last question, that that is a touchy subject?
February 22nd, 2011 at 19:24
@shakyjon, I have wondered myself how come the complementary psalmodies are not available yet. They only need to be done once for the whole year (all 3 Little Hours). Even if the Daytime Hour for a specific day is not done, it would be helpful to have one (or all 3) link for the comp psalmodies for those that do not carry their books with them. The only times I use this website is when I am at my work or home ‘puters (am not planning to have the www on my cell or any other device – am way too connected to the techy world as it is – at least for the foreseeable future).
February 22nd, 2011 at 19:18
@rgabel25, Do you mean a link to the “Mass” daily readings? That is available already from the USCCB site -http://www.usccb.org/nab/ as well as they are linked from most diocesan websites that I have visited (I have the USCCB site on my favorites for that reason). There are other websites that also have that available at this time.
February 22nd, 2011 at 19:11
@ocdsaspirant, I wondered the same thing when I first started to pray the Office. Found out – after inquiring of several liturgists – that the ‘Glory’ in the Office is the LITURGICAL form of the Glory in the USA. Check the Ordinary in your copy of the Liturgy of the Hours and you will find that the ‘world…’ ending is NOT the format used. The addition of the ‘world without end’ is used for personal devotion. When I thought about it, I wondered why we ever added the ‘world without end’ when we know the ‘world’ will end – it is the Triune God that will always BE. (Incidentally, the “Glory” is not followed by the the word ‘be.’)
February 22nd, 2011 at 14:03
@yonam325, yes you may use it. You can go directly to any date on our web site by changing the address. If you click on tomorrow or yesterday you will see that the address changes to look something like http://divineoffice.org/?date=20110223 and you can change the date to another date by simply using the format of date=YYYYMMDD. If you see that we don’t have the day posted then let me know and we will get it in place.
February 22nd, 2011 at 12:11
Our church would like to use this format of daytime prayer during Lent this year and I would like to know if you can share the lyturgy for Wednesdays during Lent with us. Or if there is any website that we can look for it, could you let me know please?
February 21st, 2011 at 12:56
Is there a way to get the same hymns as they are published in the 4 volume and Christian Prayer? I try to use DivineOffice.org with others who are using the print version and can not follow during the hymns.
February 21st, 2011 at 07:58
A hearty congratulations on being a finalist. Your team has done a fabulous job to serve the church in this way. As one studying for the diaconate, you have helped me move from not knowing how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, to being a daily companion on my vocation journey.
I pray for God to bless your ministry, continue to provide you the technical skills to adapt to this fast changing world of technology, and give you the consolation that you are making an important difference in the prayer life of the church.
February 21st, 2011 at 05:13
@konti, By you example you may bring them to understand the love of Christ. The burning coals could be remorse or embarrassment that enemy would experience for the harm done or increased punishment they would feel for refusing reconciliation. See Proverbs 25: 21-22.
February 19th, 2011 at 21:55
To enlarge text: on your PC, look at the menu at the top: FILE, EDIT, VIEW, FAVORITES, TOOLS, HELP.
Click on VIEW, go to ZOOM, click, then select the size you want (I use 200% all the time) or 150% is fine. You can use this tool for any websites and reverse the process any time you like.
February 18th, 2011 at 22:49
I use this podcast frequently as part of my daily spiritual practice. I appreciate the variety, including the occasional chanting of prayers and Scripture. As a musician, I am a bit perplexed by the chanters’ vibrato, surprised that the chanting is not done in the usual straight tone…. I’m not complaining, just making an observation. I am so very grateful for this website… and I’m not even Catholic! Thanks to all…. M
February 18th, 2011 at 21:39
But “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; by doing this you will heap burning coals upon his head.”
Please explain what is meant by: you will heap burning coals upon his head.
Thanks.
February 18th, 2011 at 13:23
Hi -
Is it possible to download a week’s worth of prayer? I am living in a desert, literally, and am away from internet for longer than two days….Also, is it possible to use your prayer on a Kindle? Sound and text?
Thank you.
Best to respond to whipple.andrew@gmail.com
Andrew
February 17th, 2011 at 19:19
The iPhone application for the Divine Office is helping me to keep my committment to pray Morning and Evening prayer to become a member of the secular order of the Carmelites. We are contemplatives in the world, praying for the salvation of souls. If it were not for this app, I doubt that I would be as faithful to this requirement for membership as I am! I love the voices and the hymns are great. I do wish you would use the old “glory be” which says “and ever shall be, world without end, amen” but no complaints. Keep up the great work! God Bless.
February 17th, 2011 at 09:49
Where do I find the complementary psalmodies for daytime prayer on this site?
February 17th, 2011 at 05:28
How to enlarge the text. If your browser is mozilla firefox go to the tools menu, options, then content there you will be able to change the size of the text. If you ues Explorer go to the page menu and select the text size.
How about adding a link to the daily readings.
Deacon Ray Gabel
February 16th, 2011 at 06:14
That’s DON’T FORGET to vote daily.
February 16th, 2011 at 06:11
Don’t forge to keep voting for Divine Office daily in all categories.
February 15th, 2011 at 17:27
@Alfonsus,
I have to agree with you. It is MOST important to pray the liturgy. This is primary. It SHOULD be prayed appropriately, as well.
One of the things that the Reform of the Liturgy did was to stress the overall importance of the 4-week psalter. When Memorials, etc., were added early on (in the first millennium, even) the psalms almost always turned out to be proper.
As a general rule, we are to keep to the Psalter, as given. We take ANTIPHONS (if they’re proper), from the memorial. Other things we can take are the Hymn, and the prayers. What we do NOT take are the psalms – - except on solemnities and feasts.
Even when we see “from the common” we still stick to the psalms in the 4-week psalter rather than the common. Why does it say “from the common”, then? Well, we DO have options. We can take the Invitatory antiphon, the hymn, the antiphon for the Gospel Canticles, and the responsorial prayers from the current weekday or the common. But NOT the psalms, themselves.
The idea, as I’ve always understood it, is to do our best to pray ALL the psalms (or all but the 4 of them that aren’t included in the psalter) in as complete a manner as possible. Therefore, on a day that isn’t a Feast or Solemnity, or is not one of those VERY FEW memorials with proper psalms, we stay with the psalms in the psalter. We can take the other things from the commons if we want to. But not the psalms and their anitphons.
I also want to thank Dane, as always, for spreading the word and the practice of Praying the Office throughout the English-Speaking world through the Internet. May God BLESS him, and keep him.
I usually hesitate to correct, because I don’t want to discourage. The fact is, there’s a special place in Heaven for Dane and this ministry.
February 11th, 2011 at 23:07
I was not able to follow up because I was transferred in the convent without internet. thank you for your response.
I want to share with you some insights about some corrections of the readers and your responses. I hope I will not offend you or anyone working with you doing a great job for us.
Many people do some corrections and they are right. On your part you are also right in your own way. The reason of misunderstanding is that you are taking what is written in the Liturgy of the Hours as it is written, which should be. Let me explain what do I mean. First, the Instructions are like a labyrinth of thought but they are not contradictory. Let me take as an example no. 235 which consists of a, b, c, d. You cannot take b for justification by setting aside a. In interpreting Liturgical Instruction it is not either or i.e. b and not a. Instead it is b in accordance to a. It is logical order of interpretation. 235 is under the preceding thought of 234, 233, 232 etc. Take note the thought of logical precedence of 220 over 235.
The indication ex. Oct 15 From the common of virgins, 1791 etc., are ususlly indicated only to the memorial celebration but not for feast ex. Oct. 18 Feast of St. Luke. After the caption Office of Readings is written Antiphons and Psalms from the common of apostles which in the case of memorial is not indicated that way. WHY?
Taking again Oct. 15 as an example, after a short hagiographical note is written FROM THE COMMON OF VIRGINS, 1791, or …. Is that an instruction? How about Oct. 18 (1493) ANTIPHONS AND PSALMS FROM THE COMMON OF APOSTLES, 1675. Is that an instruction? The answer to both is NO. they are indications but not per se an Instruction.
How are we going to understand those Indications? The indication FROM THE COMMON OF VIRGINS is like the greeting GOOD MORNING which is a part of the whole greeting which says I WISH YOU A VERY GOOD MORNING. The indication From the Common of Virgins etc., is a part of a pastoral alternative of GILH 220. If the presider opted to use the commons (without proper) then he may use those indicated. In this case you are right if you use it with 220 in your mind. However, it is not proper because of the question of the presence of immediate and concrete congregation.
You may notice that reading Liturgical Instruction is reading a complex reality (hirtory, logic, scientific presumptions etc.)
KEEP ON GOING. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. YOU ATTRACT US THAT’S WHY WE REACT.
Thank you.
February 11th, 2011 at 14:07
@Nancy Berube, we would love it if everyone voted everyday and voted from every computer they own each day. For those who do this they should send me a message at best@DivineOffice.org so that I enter them in our drawing for the iPod Touch.
Thank you for asking and voting
February 11th, 2011 at 14:05
@jmoblcam, Kindle does not play our audio files, but people say that they have been able to download our web site. We will look at doing a Kindle ebook before long.
February 11th, 2011 at 07:36
@Dane, so we should vote early & often?
February 11th, 2011 at 06:02
When will there be a way to download daily to the Kindle?
Jim
February 11th, 2011 at 04:55
For rgabel25. If you are talking about on a web browser on a Windows-based machine, all you have to do to enlarge the txt is is to press CTRL and the + key at the same time. I’t gets larger every time you press it. Works for any browser. I don’t now about on a Mac, or on the cell phone apps.
February 11th, 2011 at 00:25
@Peter John, thanks for noticing so quickly. Yes, we have been nominated thanks to so many of our community voting for us. Now I hope everyone will vote for us every day so that we can win and greatly expand our prayer community.
February 10th, 2011 at 23:29
@rgabel25, there is a way on the web site depending on what browser you are using. I use a Mac computer with Safari or Firefox and the text gets larger each time I click command and the plus key. If you are using a PC then we need to ask someone in our community that can tell you.
However, if you are using one of our mobile devices then there is no way to enlarge the text yet, but we will allow much greater text sizes in our next version.
February 10th, 2011 at 22:22
Congratulations for being nominated as Best Catholic Website, iPhone App, iPad App, and Podcast. Did I miss anything?
February 10th, 2011 at 06:48
Is there a way to enlarge the Print for those with poor eye sight?
Thanks Deacon Ray Gabel
February 10th, 2011 at 06:11
@Monica, thank you so much for the kind and very prompt response. I am blessed each day with this ministry.
May Jesus and His mother, Mary, continue to bless you and this ministry.
thank you
j
/;-)
February 10th, 2011 at 05:42
@JaaCee,
Hi, I hope this was not too unseating for you. I am responsible with the content for divinoffice.org. I try my best to have everything done on time and sometimes I don’t succeed.
I just wanted to apologize and let you know that the content now, matches the text.
God bless,
Monica
February 10th, 2011 at 05:33
GOoD morning all..Could anyone let me know what happened today. THe script on the web site did not agree with what the pod cast played..
Thanks a bunch
jaacee@charter.net
j
February 9th, 2011 at 18:12
Kindly advise are the web pages on your website for “Office of the Dead” under construction? I tried opening its sub pages for the office of reading, morning and evening prayer but they display blank pages only.
I have the DivineOffice in my iPhone apps and is a wonderful companion for daily prayers when I am not using my computer. Thank you and keep up the good work! God Bless all of you at Divine Office Org.
February 9th, 2011 at 09:03
@Dane, Thank you, I will continue my support.
February 8th, 2011 at 06:26
God bless your beautiful ministry. Your lectors proclaim the Word, not just read it. Thank you. For a year now, I have tried to ignore one of the consistent mis-readings. There is a difference between the prayers, “Glory BE to the Father” and the “Glory to the Father,” and you have only one reader who keeps adding the word BE. This week especially. Even when someone else reads the passage, she is the one who reads “Glory BE!” It’s such a small correction to make, but it is distracting.
February 7th, 2011 at 22:25
Thank you again,for your many efforts.May the Lord best blessings be upon all of you.
February 7th, 2011 at 15:29
Help. I can’t read the text because of the brown background in the website.
Rick
February 7th, 2011 at 14:01
I’m a Franciscan priest. Your work is so precious and I have passed on your site to fellow friars our order, to friends, to couples, to anyone who (wisely) wants to get close to God. I must admit, at times, when alone, praying the office can get challenging. Not anymore!
Not with the work you are all doing… with such love and generosity. I pray through and with ‘your voices’ and ‘rejoicing’ always. Prayer, as we should well know by now, is the key, the secret, to drawing nearer our Lord (Matt 26:41). Proximity to Him is always accompanied by numerous and most sublime benefits. This is what your work is strengthening. I will continue to spread this amazing ministry to the so many people I encounter through ministry. May God always bless your beautiful voices, and may his graces and blessing rain down from heaven upo…n you and your loved ones for having thought it important to make him more known, loved, considered, spoken and listened to in the world. Thanksgiving and blessings, Fr Pierre.
February 7th, 2011 at 05:02
Recently I have found that 80% oif the time I have to click on Morning prayer twice to get to theMorning prayer. Any thoughts or suggestions?
j
February 6th, 2011 at 09:52
@patti,
Hi Patti, We appreciate your contribution to our ministry and I hope you wont be disappointed but we are not filed as a non-profit because the cost and overhead of filing and operating are not, as of yet, within our ability. The Divine Office Ministry has all of its needs for accounting and operating done by Surgeworks, which is my company and since it is commercial enterprise we can’t file as a non-profit while we need Surgeworks for support.
February 6th, 2011 at 09:48
@poll_ogor@aztec-net.com, I have registered a new user id for you and that is KarenO. Your new password has been sent to you. You should change it.
February 5th, 2011 at 19:09
Please change my user name. Also I am no longer at this e-mail address. To send me e-mail is: xxxxxxxxxxx
from Karen O’Gorman
February 5th, 2011 at 09:11
Thank you for the blessing of this beautiful ministry.
I am a monthly contributor. Can I get a 2010 statement of contributions for tax purposes?
patti
February 5th, 2011 at 06:34
Just a quick question! I noticed that sometimes the words that are sung are different from what is visible on the page; for example the Antiphon from the Invitatory this morning was sung as “Let us listen to the voice of THE LORD, let us enter into GOD’S rest.” This happens consistently so it seems intentional. Is this an attempt to use gender-neutral language and avoid saying “his” or “him?”
February 4th, 2011 at 03:35
@Lynn, It did not work yesterday. Today, it is OK. Thank you very much.
February 4th, 2011 at 03:29
@cipriano, I don’t know if this is exactly what you are seeing or if someone already replied to you directly somehow, but what I find is that sometimes I have to click on “Today” (under the date on the left) and then on “Invitatory Psalm” (or whatever prayer you are doing) on the tab next to the date. Sometimes just the information for the Saint of the day comes up at first.
HTH!?
February 2nd, 2011 at 23:53
Hi,
I can’t see the Daily Prayer in your website (I see some ads instead). How could I resolve this problem?
Thanks.
Regards.
February 1st, 2011 at 08:37
I am sorry, have to ask a stupid question, but how do I confirm my subscription, when I go to the subscribe to feed thing it tells me the webpage has moved.
February 1st, 2011 at 07:52
How do I get to the life feed, I seen it before I did morning prayer, now it is gone. I love your ministry, I listen to morning and evening prayer on my I phone on my way to work and home.
Thanks, AstridGod bless
February 1st, 2011 at 07:18
@stjoanmay, Which book are you using? Generally, for Morning and Evening prayer, the page numbers are listed here, on this site, for both the 4-volume set (published by Catholic Book Publishing Company) and for the 1-volume Christian Prayer, by the same company. Daytime Prayer is not listed in full in Christian Prayer. Nor is the Office of Readings – - although the 4-week psalter for the Office of Readings IS in Christian prayer – - it’s just that not all the readings are there.
So – - Let me know what you want to know and I’ll try to help. Remember – I only have my copy of Christian Prayer with me – - the 4-volume set is annotated here.
February 1st, 2011 at 04:37
I notice that you said you were trying to have audio for the daytime prayer. Is this going to take place? I certainly hope you do work it out/ because it would be a great blessing. God bless
January 31st, 2011 at 23:47
Feb. 2 is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. I checked it out on my LOTH.
January 31st, 2011 at 06:59
Can anybody help? I have been trying to figure out how to pray the office for years – still confused. Can anyone just give me page numbers or is there anywhere on the web that has the actual sequence with page numbers so I can get started. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
January 30th, 2011 at 06:25
Dear Dane,
Very often, I pray the Divine Office using this wonderful web, Divine Office Org. Thank you very much for the wonderful Apostolate you have initiated.
When I prayed today’s Evening Prayer (Sunday II), I noticed that instead of the Magnificat, Benedictus was sung. If it is possible, please try to correct this error, so that the people of the west, may be able to pray it correctly.
Thank you and May God bless you!
Fr. Sidath Wilegoda.
Sri Lanka
January 30th, 2011 at 04:23
I have the Divine Office app on my Mac, and appreciate it very much and use it each day.
When the psalms are chanted, I like to chant too!
Is there a ‘written’ source for the music so I can follow along?
Thank you!
Anneclaire
January 28th, 2011 at 14:20
@Deacon William Griffin, thank you for asking. The Divine Office app for Mac and Divine Office app for iPad are different. They are very similar, but the app for Mac is not yet as mature so it does not yet have the global view. They are the same otherwise. The app for the iPad also runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch.
January 28th, 2011 at 04:09
I am wondering if there is a difference between the MAC App Store and IPad Applications. I noticed there is a cost difference and wondered if there was a difference in each of these applications? I want to purchase one of these applications to support your work but have not been able to decide which I should utilize. Thank you for all the work that you are doing to provide this ministry for each of us. Blessings !
January 24th, 2011 at 17:45
@ Dane It plays the website. It can’t do the audio of the podcasts, but one can play the podcast on the ipod & read along on the kindle. So cool!
January 24th, 2011 at 09:13
@bjgk55a, I am not aware of Kindle 3G’s capabilities. Does it play our web site or is it used for podcasts?
January 23rd, 2011 at 22:58
@Nancy Berube,
Found my problem I have Kindle v2 and need to purchase Kindle 3G or a later generation of Kindle than v2
January 23rd, 2011 at 20:16
Monday is the Memorial of St. Francis de Sales and this content will be posted over the next hour or so.
January 23rd, 2011 at 15:38
@bjgk55a,
Most exciting discovery of the weekend! Doing what you described I was able to get to the site on my Kindle both last night & this morning & now. I can’t tell you what happened to your connection, but access to the site is there. Is your wifi turned on? That’s the only thing I can think of, but you’ve probably already thought of that. Good luck!
January 23rd, 2011 at 15:17
I’d like to make a comment on the liturgy for Jan.24, It is suppose to be for St. Francis de Sales & Jan.25 is suppose to be for the conversion of St.Paul. I checked it out on my LOTH. thanks.
January 23rd, 2011 at 15:12
I want to comment on your liturgy. It seems that the prayer for Jan.24. The one that is posted is not for St. Francis de Sales & I checked on Jan. 25. It is not the liturgy for the conversion of St. Paul. I hope you can check on this. thanks.
January 22nd, 2011 at 15:38
@swolfe, I have the same question. I was able to get the divine office on my kindle by going to google but suddenly I have not been able to do so in the last few days. Can anyone tell me what happened and how can I again obtain the divine office by going into search, typing in divine office.org and then to search in google. See my comment below
January 22nd, 2011 at 06:04
Can I receive The Liturgy of the Hours on my Kindle, Latest Generation e-reader? Are there step by steps instructions to do it? I am unsure, as I have tried different ways to get the Hours from Universalis without success.
January 21st, 2011 at 08:02
@Alison Jenne, I was disappointed that this memorial was not observed. I went to St. Agnes School and have a special devotion to her.
January 21st, 2011 at 07:57
I really appreciate the chant. It is beautifully done. Thanks for including it.
January 21st, 2011 at 07:37
@Lynn, Peace be with you.
You are correct that the Inventory Prayer Psalm(s) should be recited, it so states in the General Instructions:
“95. This psalm invites the faithful each day to sing God’s praise and to listen to his voice and draws them to hope for “the Lord’s rest.” [1]
In place of Ps 95, Ps 100, Ps 67, or Ps 24 may be used as circumstances may suggest.
It is preferable to recite the invitatory psalm responsorially as it is set out in the text, that is, with the antiphon recited at the beginning, then repeated, and repeated again after each strophe.”
The authors of the LOTH must have a reason for this. It is a simple invitation to sing God’s praises, and can be omitted under certain conditions.
It would be good to have it read, and the antiphon inserted in the strophes. So your personal preference is in line with the intent.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
January 21st, 2011 at 04:57
@Lynn,
It’s in the General Instruction – - – which is way too much for almost anyone to want to read. But don’t worry about it. Do what feels comfortable. Nothing about this should be oppressive to you, or in any way uncomfortable. The idea is to join with the Church in Universal Prayer. Start with one hour – - do it every day. Don’t worry about perfection. Just pray. Then, if you want to add more, do so. As you become more involved, and perhaps more interested in the way it’s done elsewhere, by others, you can read up, or visit a convent/monastery and pray with the religious.
At St. Dominic’s Church in Denver, they prayed Morning and Evening Prayer daily at set times, with the public. A few people attended – - not many – - but it was a nice way to get the community involved in their prayer life. Go and observe, if you’ve got a congregation nearby, and it’s not too out of the way.
Just relax and be comfortable with God.
January 21st, 2011 at 03:56
@Mary, I just wondered if you found it hard to follow, if it seems to take longer, or something like that. Everyone has their preferences, of course! That’s what makes it difficult for Dane
January 21st, 2011 at 03:54
@dcnstephe, oh my, I’m not doing any of that! How are we supposed to know this?!
January 21st, 2011 at 00:21
Today is the obligatory memorial of St. Agnes, but your site does not contain the special prayers for her day.
January 20th, 2011 at 16:40
I’m in love with the hymn setting of “O Radiant Light ” that is sometimes in night prayer. I saw that it is from the Cathedral of the Madeleine Choir School, & have combed the site, & the listings of the available CDs & didn’t find it. Is there another way to get access to this lovely hymn?
January 20th, 2011 at 16:36
@Dane, That would be so marvelous! The amount of work going on at this site must be staggering: from organizing the readings, to doing the readings, creating & finding musical settings of psalms & hymns & then coordinating the interconnecting technologies. You all seem so committed to using all available means to share the prayer. May your strength & purpose be blessed.
January 20th, 2011 at 16:29
@Mary, I also really enjoy hearing it sung. It’s short & the antiphon is easy to pick up & sing along.
January 20th, 2011 at 10:28
I was able to pray the liturgy of the hours on my kindle until recently like two days ago. Can you tell me why I am not able to do so now. I found it very helpful when I am on a trip. Keep up the good work. God bless. My e-mail is ronc@colcpa.com or choor001@hawaii.rr.com. I would appreciate a response to my e-mail.
January 20th, 2011 at 06:43
@Lynn, Intonation, it is. Thank you. There is no other reason but personal preference. Mary
January 20th, 2011 at 06:18
@Lynn,
When praying the office alone, it can all be prayed silently. Alternatively, you can sing the hymn, intone the psalms and canticles, and pray all or some of the parts aloud or silently as you prefer.
There are some rubrics which apply whether you’re alone or with others – even one other – in which case it should always be aloud.
You should always make a cross on your lips at the “Lord Open my Lips” at the beginning of the invitatory. You should always cross yourself at the beginning of a Gospel Canticle and at the Final Blessing. You should always make a slight reverence (bow of the head, or of the body) at the mention of the Godhead (The “Glory to the Father. . ” mention of the Father, the Son, or the Spirit).
In community you should stand for the Invitatory, Hymn, Gospel Canticle, Lord’s Prayer, Intercessions, and Closing Prayer.
Alone, the standing and sitting is all optional. The other rubrics apply.
January 20th, 2011 at 03:53
I have one more question, sorry! If I am doing the Office by myself (other than listening to you), am I supposed to say certain things out loud (besides the antiphon when it is repeated and the Our Father)? I know there are some requirements and other things are flexible; just wondering if I should be saying parts of the Psalms (alternating with the reader) or even all of the Psalms?
January 20th, 2011 at 03:31
@Mary, why don’t you like it? I love it! (it’s actually intonation, isn’t it, Dane?)
January 19th, 2011 at 20:21
@simmer, thank you for asking us to do this. We didn’t do well with making our site accessible and I apologize for that. I will ask our developers get educated on accessibility and implement it on our site.
January 19th, 2011 at 12:46
I use an iPhone and also a Pac Mate which is a Braille notetaker for blind people. I am unable to get the audio on the iPhone app, but managed to use the Itunes store to hear it. I am unable to enter any of the links on your page, either with my regular desk top computer or my Pac Mate. I would like to read along in Braille.
Can you put alt tags on your site to make this work? When I press enter or tab to the link and press enter, nothing happens.
I am grateful to have the Divine Office which I have always wanted, but if you fix these problems, this will be available to more blind people who do not have access to an iPhone.
Alco Canfield
January 19th, 2011 at 08:54
Question: Are you going to be chanting the invitatory from now on? Personally, I do not prefer it. Thank you.
January 18th, 2011 at 22:48
@lostsheep1996, that is something we are considering, but we are not very close to doing this. It will take significant new technology to make this work reliably because we have content that will be different every year so it needs to be republished every year. We are thinking about how to handle this and it might be a side benefit of technology we are working on now.
January 18th, 2011 at 16:24
I imagine the files would be rather large, but would it be possible to download the hours as an e-book?
January 18th, 2011 at 08:02
@Elizabeth Foss, I just want to check. Is your Mac running OS X 10.6.6? The Mac App Store is not the same as the iTunes Store. It is added to your Mac when you update to OS X 10.6.6. When I search on the Mac App Store I find our app immediately so that is why I think you might be searching from iTunes. Is this what you are doing?
January 18th, 2011 at 05:27
I’ve tried to get to the Divine Office app in the Mac app store with no success. A search Of “divine office” takes me to two Harry Potter links. A search of “Liturgy of the Hours” takes me to Universalis. The link on your sidebar goes to to the app preview page. When you click the link on that page to view the Divine Office Mac app in the Mac App Store, it takes you to the front page of the store, where searches keep dead-ending.
January 18th, 2011 at 04:03
Thanks, dcnstephe, I think I understand what’s required and what’s flexible (mostly)!
Dane, thank you, I do tend to dive in and get overwhelmed. For now I’m trying to do the Morning, but I may have to get up at 5:30 to fit it in (I already get up at 6 and run out the door to get my daughter to school at 7:15)! Evening is just too variable, and I say a Rosary before bed so Compline would just mean staying up later. Hmmmm.
January 18th, 2011 at 03:51
@Mary, I agree!!!
January 17th, 2011 at 21:18
Peace be with you!
Actually, I was making research on other subjects but Praise God I was able to log on your Divine Office site. As a Lay Associate I used to pray the Liturgy of the Hour and honestly, sometimes I still find it confusing. But now with the help of your Divine Office -Liturgy of the Hour, I find it more convenient and I can even join and participate in the singing of the hymn and prayers. Am sure I will no longer be confused with the help of your well organized prayers. Thank you and more power to your group. God bless us all.
January 17th, 2011 at 10:47
@Patti Day, if you are talking about a female reader then perhaps that is my wife, Mary Jo, but if you are talking about a male reader then that would be Randy Sly from Catholic.org.
January 17th, 2011 at 10:46
@Patti Day, I did receive it and I appreciate the contact. With this message I was reminded to contact her so I did. Thank you!
January 17th, 2011 at 10:40
@Lynn, you should not feel obligated to pray all the offices in a day. If you can even commit to one of the major (Morning, Evening, or Office) offices each day then you are doing great. In special seasons, like Lent, you may want to change the office you pray or add one on some days of the week. But, you should never feel that you need to pray all of them. Do as much or as little you feel is best and then let it grow on you.
January 17th, 2011 at 08:03
@Lynn,
Yes – - it can be confusing as there are so many options. In most situations, antiphons are said at the beginning of a psalm/canticle, and then not repeated until after the Glory to the Father . . following the psalm/canticle. They MAY BE REPEATED between strophes, but it’s an option. In fact, the repetition at the end is an option. It’s basically what you want to do.
Dane generally does the repetitions in between strophes when the psalms are intoned – - but when they’re not, he omits them.
So don’t let it overwhelm you. There are LOADS of options you can decide on, and vary according to your taste.
The office is NOT personal prayer, though, so just as in the Mass, while there are things that are optional, some things are not – - and you can’t add or replace things willy-nilly. Antiphons are only obligatory at the beginning of a psalm/canticle. OK?
January 17th, 2011 at 07:55
@dcnstephe,
Thank you for your kind explanation! That explains my confusion, as it seems inconsistent to me. I have finally figured out that you (meaning here) usually repeat the first 2 antiphons, but the one for the Canticle of Zachary isn’t repeated until the end of the canticle. At our Church for repose of the Blessed Sacrament, they have the Evening Prayer, and they don’t repeat any of the antiphons (until the end of the psalm).
I guess it’s also different if you are alone vs with a group. I don’t have the book yet but I was just wanting to try this out before I bought it.
I had never heard that the laity (in ministry, such as I am a lector) should be saying part of the Office, until a friend suggested it to me and I went looking for the information on it. I have to admit it’s a little overwhelming (time wise, and figuring out how to do it) so I understand why most people don’t say it! Right now I listen to part of it while I eat breakfast, and say what I can.
January 17th, 2011 at 07:03
The new reader’s voice sounds familiar, but I just can’t place it. Very nice addition. Dane did you ever receive my email regarding Sister Margaret Mary at Catholic Distance University?
January 17th, 2011 at 06:47
My compliments to the new reader. His voice and cadence has added a wonderful new dimension to the prayers.
January 17th, 2011 at 05:28
I just sent in my vote for the award.
Good Luck and thank you for this ministry.
JaaCee
January 17th, 2011 at 04:11
Thanks Dane for your prompt reply again!!
I can really use the files but there are a lot of them missing. If it can be done, I would greatly appreciate it.
My project is to have mp3 players with the Liturgical Year as my background. For instance, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ordinary time 1-9 and so on!
Again, God Bless you and your ministry!
January 16th, 2011 at 21:14
@newfiecatholic, OK, now I understand. To conserve space on our hosting service we remove files that are unique to that year shortly after the time passes. Every year Dec 17 through 24 are unique to that year because the combine specific readings with the psalter for that day. These files have already been removed. They wont be of any use in 2011, but if you really want them then I can find a way to upload them again.
January 16th, 2011 at 09:49
@Dane,
I always use the date to go to the days that I want. But for some reason, for the 4th Week of Advent, all I get is an 404 error. I emailed support the way it suggested and they sent me back to this site. The files are not playing at all. This is the only one that missed during the time it was posted and now, I can’t get it at all. The audio files are missing it seems.
Thanks for your prompt reply. God Bless!
I am downloading the files and using an mp3 player for a clery friend of mine whose eye sight is just about gone, and this is an awesome way for him to continue with his Divine Office.
January 16th, 2011 at 09:22
@mjdvike, I agree with you that on whole the Church could do much more to promote the Liturgy of the Hours and it should. The Catechism and Vatican II make it very clear that the LOTH IS the prayer of the [whole] Church and it is a liturgy that is second only to mass and compliments and extends the mass. It is all of us who must spread the word about the LOTH and until it is commonplace for laity to understand and pray the LOTH.
January 16th, 2011 at 09:16
@newfiecatholic, the best way to get the files is to use our web site to take you to those days. By adding a date to our web site like http://divineoffice.org/?date=20101219 it will show you that day. This example takes you to Sunday in the forth week of advent. It is in the form of YYYYMMDD. All you have to do is increment the 19 on the end to navigate each day.
January 16th, 2011 at 07:57
Dear Dane!
Again many thanks for this wonderful ministry!
I was wondering if there is any way you can help me with my inability to get the missing audio files for the fourth week of Advent. I have posted twice here but no answer yet.
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.
January 15th, 2011 at 14:39
Would like you to know that I went to the workshop on Praying the Liturgy of the Hours which was presented by our Diocese for lay people. There were over 20 persons there. And they would have had more if they did a better job of advertising. All they did was send it to the clergy of each parish for distribution! As if!!! Anyway, it was a 4-hr introduction – basically background, why pray the Hours, and how to pray the hours (not how to manage the breviary). At the end we prayed Evening Prayer – using the 3 main ways of praying the Psalms. It was very good. They talked about using the Ordo to find out what/when to pray – I piped up about the St Joseph Guides and this site. Also told them – how the site works, the podcast and apps. Everyone was very interested – and the presenter already knew of your website, so that lent it more credibility. I still think that, on the whole, the Church does not do a good job of making this form of prayer accessible to the laity. I found out about the Office over 20 years ago – have lived in about 5 different dioceses (and about 7 parishes) during that time – and this is the first time anyone has even mentioned it as a prayer option for laypeople. Actually heard a priest recently say – in a homily – that after the Mass the most important prayer of the Catholic Church was the Rosary! He later said that he meant to include the Divine Office as part of his statement on the Mass (he did not say ‘liturgy’ – he said Mass). Later he denied saying anything about the Rosary- unfortunately he denied it in front of a group of people that had heard him say it!!! You would think we were still in the times when only the clergy and religious were permitted/required to pray it and it was removed from the ‘public’ Cathedral office. It is slowly but surely rightfully returned to us. It took me 15 years – on my own – to figure out how to pray it because I knew that it really is for me as soon as I discovered it. Not an easy road. With this site it will be easier for others. So glad you are all here – praying with the community – the Church!!! I am so grateful to the Lord!!!
January 15th, 2011 at 07:11
@Lynn,
There are things that are in the rubrics and things which are traditional. Sometimes they’re the same.
Typically, the Antiphon for the Invitatory Psalm, when said in choir or in a group, is repeated after each strophe (verse) of the psalm, which means once at the beginning, between each verse, and at the end, both before and after the “Glory to the Father . . .”. Then, the rubrics say that the antiphons for the psalms for the hour are said at the beginning of the psalm, and “may be repeated” (optional) at the end of each psalm (after the “Glory be”. The tradition is to repeat it, after the “Glory be”, but it is not mandatory. Antiphons are also said before the canticles, and optionally are repeated after the “Glory be.” This includes the Gospel Canticles.
At some seasons, particularly around Easter, the Responsory, after the reading, is replaced by an Antiphon. It is said once.
Optionally, as well, particularly when praying in community, antiphons may be repeated after each strophe of a psalm or canticle.
So – - Antiphons are said AT LEAST once for each Psalm and Canticle, and may be repeated, optionally, either after the “Glory be”, or after each strophe AND the “Glory be.” Most repetitions are optional.
Does this help?
January 14th, 2011 at 13:03
Thank you for the reconnect. Its a great service.
JF
January 14th, 2011 at 12:57
Dear Dane,
Re Erika Provinzano’s work, I thought that the reason you removed the song was because ‘some’ people were unhappy. But I think everyone would agree that we are all so incredibly blessed by your amazing work, and that the reason we are blessed is because of your vision and wisdom, and that the delicate line you walk must be led by that, and not by individuals’ preferences (including my own). So thank you again Dane, for staying true to your heart and to the Spirit, above all else.
January 14th, 2011 at 09:47
@Catechist, As far as I know there are no specific ways to set ribbons based on color. Different book publishers use different colors.
We all establish our own way. My only rule is to leave the golden (yellow) ribbon in the ordinary and then I use the left most ribbon (any color) in the Proper of Seasons and the next to the right in the Psalter. Then I place any of the other ribbons I need depending on the day.
January 14th, 2011 at 09:44
@mjdvike, I agree that it would not look good if things were actually as you described, however, I believe the issue is somehow local to you. You should certainly try restarting your browser. I assume you are using Internet Explorer or FIrefox on a PC. If that doesn’t work then reboot your PC. If that doesn’t work then let me know you have done these steps and we will investigate further.
If the prayers were actually blank then I would have been notified by many people, but yours is the only one so far. For this reason alone it is best to assume it is a local issue. But I want to help with that also, if needed.
January 13th, 2011 at 21:19
hello, first time here, wonderful site.
question: is there a site i can find the proper use of the colors of the ribbons. i know invitatory is green i think saints is purple. i use red for psalms and yellow for ordinary and blue for night prayer. any infor would be greatly appreciated, or does God really care, just as long as you pray?? God bless you
January 13th, 2011 at 15:19
This is the first day in months that I am having difficulty with the site. Clicking on any of the Hours produces no result at all. Am on my pc from home – which I have used routinely. I think it is related to the fact that when I came on this morning, the first thing I saw was a link to a wikipedia article about St. Hilary – and started to have problems. Finally got Morning Prayer. Have tried to get to Evening Prayer – or any of the other hours this afternoon, with no luck at all. All I can see in the space that should be occupied with the title, audio podcast, pagination, hymn, and the text is NOTHING except for a small arrow that says: Back to top. Going to yesterday, today or tomorrow produces the same results. NOTHING. I can see everything else – comments, ads, etc. Just not the HOURS! Help would be appreciated. [Have been telling a lot of people about your site - and we are having a Diocesan workshop on Saturday for beginners - planned to advertise your site to everyone there. It would not look good for you or for me if your site is not working when those persons try to access for the first time.]
January 13th, 2011 at 12:46
I just want to say BLESS you for this site! I wanted to say the Office but it is so confusing to me, and this enables me to say it along with you. I love the music I have heard so far, and I love how the prayers are said with some feeling (I don’t feel they are overdone at all)!
I am still confused about when an antiphon is repeated and when it is not, but I suppose that is of minor importance!
Have a great day!
January 13th, 2011 at 05:11
I have enjoyed being able to download LOTH from ITunes. I am unclear about the advantages that might come from purchasing an APP (as opposed to accessing the website for Daily Word online). Thanks for your marvelous efforts to provide such rich and affirming prayer aids. God be with you.
January 12th, 2011 at 22:26
Dane – thanks. that was the problem. Once I unsubscribed, the missing parts started pouring in from the iTunes store to my iTunes program. Thanks for your help.
January 12th, 2011 at 17:05
@Mazz, Thank you for the link. God Bless
January 12th, 2011 at 15:17
@Dane,
I would LOVE to…I was looking for a badge or button…do you have one??
January 12th, 2011 at 13:54
@Littleflower518, please do add a link. That is one of the best ways to help grow our prayer community.
January 12th, 2011 at 13:40
@Dane, I would never think you are lifting something from me, this is all the Lords work.
January 12th, 2011 at 13:07
Can I add a link to this site from my Blog??
Thanks!
Lindy
January 12th, 2011 at 11:25
@mwestorca, I just checked and I can see podcasts through to Jan 15th. What you may need to do is delete your podcast subscription and then add it back. You may find that you need to do this regularly because iTunes occasionally sees that our content has been posted previously and thinks it shouldn’t do it again thinking its a duplicate. We have tried everything we can think of to overcome the way iTunes handles this, but the best we can suggest is delete the podcast subscription and subscribe again. Sorry I couldn’t make it easier.
January 12th, 2011 at 11:21
@kccursilloman, we are testing our Android version, but it still has some bugs to work through. We are getting very close.
January 12th, 2011 at 10:37
It’s now Wed., Jan 12. and still no podcasts available on iTunes after Jan. 10.
January 12th, 2011 at 10:18
Does anyone know if there will ever be an app for the droid?? I know a lot of people with droids that would really like this app. Thanks!
January 12th, 2011 at 08:36
@Mazz, Your site looks nice and it should serve our community well. I will add a link, but we will be adding functionality to allow people to add prayers to our intercessions. We have been “planning” this for along time and it may never happen, but I just wanted you to know that we intend to do it at some point. I tell you this so you don’t think we are lifting something from you
I do appreciate that you have a link to our site. That is very helpful.
January 12th, 2011 at 04:58
Dane
I love this site, thank you for all your hard work. I do the Office every day. I would like to know if you would be willing to put an App on your sidebar for your members to request prayer from my web site http://www.theprayergroup.org . Its all Catholic and is free. Thank you for your consideration. May God Bless You and Mary Keep You. Nicholas Mazzola
January 11th, 2011 at 23:36
There is still nothing on iTunes past Jan. 10—is there anything I can do.
January 11th, 2011 at 22:51
Is there any other way to get the podcast to my iPod other than via iTunes?
January 11th, 2011 at 19:29
iTunes has always been problematic. It has a difficult time with all our postings every day and so we never know why it works and the why it doesn’t.
The content on our website is what gets pushed to iTunes so if you see it on our web site it should show up in iTunes, at least in theory.
January 11th, 2011 at 15:43
What’s up – it’s Monday evening on the west coast and there’s nothing up after yesterday’s readings on iTunesNo prayers at all for today and into the future on iTunes. . Is there something wrong?? (Is there something wrong with my iTunes program that I’m not seeing the current day’s stuff?)
January 11th, 2011 at 07:05
Good idea.
January 11th, 2011 at 07:04
I was disappointed that the podcasts for January 11 were not available this morning via iTunes. But I logged on here and found Morning Prayer so that helped. Usually, I do not have my computer available for hearing/sharing the podcasts, though. I know you are working hard to get all this smoothed out. Thanks for all you do.
January 10th, 2011 at 00:34
Thanks for telling me about this Fr. Wilegoda. I have now fixed it. It was my fault. I did it while working very late in the evening by accident.
January 9th, 2011 at 06:49
Gene McCann OLB OSB
Dear Dan Divine Office has brings much love, compassion,and caring for others.. I have epilepsy. My siezure disoeder helps others. They do not have to go through ehat I did. I can fine value in everything good or bad. the office brings me this too.
January 9th, 2011 at 03:53
Dear Dane,
When I prayed today’s evening Prayer II, (The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord),I noticed that instead of the Canticle of Magnificat, the Canticle of of Benedictus was sung. The Text was correct. I think something must have gone wrong technically.
Thank you for your online Apostolate.
May God bless you all.
Fr. Sidath Wilegoda.
January 7th, 2011 at 10:19
Nice to hear from you Susan!
That is an interesting idea. However, it would be difficult to secure and pay for the licenses in a way that could make such an endeavor possible.
What I did manage to do is use Pandora. I put names of artists we use (mostly Cathedral Choirs) and found some. What I found most was Christmas music, but that can get you started. I will do a little more Pandora work and see if it can’t be tuned to what you want because I would also like to listen to it in hopes of discovering new hymns.
January 7th, 2011 at 07:45
Since I got my iTouch for Christmas, I’ve been looking for apps that play Catholic music and have found none. Your site does such a great job choosing music – would you ever consider issuing an app that just played the music? Is it possible logistically since you’d have to secure permissions from the artists?
January 6th, 2011 at 23:30
I really like the voice of Helena Buscema. It is very prayerful to me. I respect that people have different likings in music, so i appreciate the variety you offer. I like both the traditional and the contemporary styles, so I hope that combo would continue. Thee are some pieces of music for which I do not like, but I know others do, so I pray my own way during that time.
I like choir music very much, for I have sung in choirs myself. However, often I have difficulty understanding the words of a piece I do not know. But I would not suggest cease playing it.
Thank you for this wonderful ministry.
January 5th, 2011 at 08:26
I wish I was techy enough to write code and make you one (both a badge and an android app). Right now I subscribe to the podcasts and have them updated to my phone with a podcatcher. But, I can’t wait for the app
Thank you for all the work you are doing here. I found you through http://www.elizabethfoss.com
January 5th, 2011 at 07:50
Further to my comment about the 404 error, I contacted support@libsynpro.com as instructed and they replied to me that the reason for the 404 error is that the file actually does not exist on their account that she could find. She suggested that I may wish to contact the site owner for further information as it doesn’t appear that it exists on their account here.
I hope the files are somewhere……
January 5th, 2011 at 05:04
I definitely would give this a 5 star. Excellent manner of worship allowing both quality variety of audio experiences/ and allows those who are visual learners to also view the text as it is delivered audibly. God bless.
January 5th, 2011 at 04:03
I would very much like to hear this setting of the Canticle. Would you let me know when it is again utilized to pray this beautiful prayer.
January 5th, 2011 at 00:13
I love it also. Her style is not traditional and so I often get kicked around by those who don’t like it, but I will put it in upon occasion. Its the right thing to do because her work is inspired by the Spirit for a reason.
January 5th, 2011 at 00:11
A badge is a great suggestion and we really need to get one. I would appreciate it so much to have people linking to us and especially ones with a domain name like yours.
We are working on an Android app and it is just taking soooo much longer then we thought. I just can’t project when it will be done.
January 4th, 2011 at 14:33
Is there a badget/widget I could put on my blog to link to you? Also, are you going to have an android app soon?
Wonderful site. LOVE IT.
January 4th, 2011 at 01:52
Dear Dane,
Thank you so much for letting me know. Please pass onto Erika my great admiration and respect for her beautiful work: I cannot pray the Canticle without hearing her music and voice in the background. It was such a joyous way to start the day, and one which stayed with me, and I am sure others, all day. Even if you run it just once more as part of morning prayers, at least I can keep it on my iTunes file. Thank you again.
January 3rd, 2011 at 23:07
The Canticle of Zachariah was arranged and performed by Erika Provinzano. She is a member of our ministry so it is not available anywhere else. I will try to make our originals available at some point, but I haven’t figured out how to do it yet.
January 3rd, 2011 at 22:41
Thank you all at Divine Office for your blessed work. I just wanted to ask two things: last year you had a sung. modern version of the Canticle of Zachariah which was lovely. Unfortunately it was taken off before I could note down by whom it was sung. Could you please let me know? Thank you.
January 3rd, 2011 at 20:55
I was looking back today to find one of the MP3 files with chant after telling a friend about it. I got the same error 404, and assumed that those files had been removed. I really enjoyed the chant.
January 3rd, 2011 at 18:16
Thanks so much!!! I think that’s the problem…It came with the large edition St. Joseph guide, but I have the regular books, so I have a feeling the pages are NOT the same!! Thanks so much because this was REALLY frustrating me until I just read your post!! I’m going to go and see where I can purchase the correct one!
Thanks again!
Lindy
January 3rd, 2011 at 11:15
That’s wonderful. Now that the weather is a little better here in not-so-sunny Florida, I could pray Morning Prayer along with my walk. For the other offices, the not-so-technological book is fine. I’ve been able to get the occasional MP3 file, but a subscription that actually works would be super. Looking forward to it. Peace.
January 3rd, 2011 at 09:23
You should have audio for Morning and Evening Prayer, but a problem with our hosting provider wont allow us to provide Office of Readings. We are working to resolve this issue and the audio will become available as soon as our provider gets things fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience.
January 3rd, 2011 at 09:07
Do not receive audio on today’s, January 3rd., readings.
January 3rd, 2011 at 08:10
Greetings in Christ, light of the New Year!
Re your comment of Dec. 31 on “reworking so much content to better suit the needs of our Community,” It is my hope that you have given some consideration to the vocal standard. In my heart I feel that a smoother flow to the reading, without so many pauses and emphasis, would help those who are reading aloud with the reader(s). I believe it would better serve the needs of the many whom I feel certain do real aloud in order to feel that true sense of community in praying the Divine Office.
January 3rd, 2011 at 05:46
I am not recieving audio for Office of Readings ,today Mon.Jan.3,2011
January 1st, 2011 at 12:52
a blessed new year to all!
mea culpa for having been out of the loop for some time now. we seem to have no audios for some prayrs, and the hymns, both audio and text, seem to be missing, too.
i’d appreciate the enlightenment.
still, may God’s graces continue to fill your hearts as you perform this unique and sanctifying mission!
January 1st, 2011 at 10:37
Hi!
I am having trouble with a lot of the audio files for the 4th Week of Advent, getting an Error: 404 Not Found.
Anyone else experience while trying to put the files on an MP3 player? Would appreciate any help!
Thanks!
January 1st, 2011 at 05:57
Deacon John Reed, Diocese of Duluth, MN. Thank you for this great service. It is frequently easier to go on line for the Office, especially when on the go. I look forward to your expanding access. My PDA is too old to handle the needed program so I use my computer. Thank You and God Bless You and your ministry.
January 1st, 2011 at 04:32
Jan, As Dane has said this forum is one that WILL honor your opinion. I also believe that many do not find some settings of prayer “in concert” with their musical tastes. I am of the those who remember the Mass in Latin before Vatican II and I sometimes have difficulty with contemporary music, the rhythms, or renditions of these prayers or familiar words to songs. I have realized however that many others relate to these contemporary renditions and it allows them greater opportunity to pray in “these Modes”. The Vine of the Body of Christ is very much a Diverse Population and The Love Of God Welcomes all Praise and Thanksgiving given. Blessings for the New Year to YOU and to ALL !
December 31st, 2010 at 21:12
I am amazed and embarrassed by the reaction to my comment on the jazz version of “What Child is This?” I went back and listened to it again and I stand by my opinion that the version used was not appropriate for the LOTH but, folks, that is only my opinion. I certainly had no intention of raising so much controversy at this most peaceful time of year. I only wished to cast a vote, figuring that it would be listed in a “con” column somewhere for future use. The responses to my post have contained a lot of worthwhile advice and I will try to temper my preferences with humility in the future. I initially felt so ostracized that I thought I would not come back to the site, but this community is important to me and I do want to continue to be part of it. I think the best thing to come out of this “discussion” is the agreement to move the comments away from the text of the prayers – I thought I was the only one that vulnerable to distraction. I will keep my opinions to myself in the future, and if there is something I do not care for, well, that is why I have a little red box with a white X in the upper right corner of my screen. A blessed and PEACEFUL New Year to you all.
December 31st, 2010 at 19:00
There are actually for guides for the liturgy of hours:
ST. JOSEPH GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN PRAYER 2011 (LARGE TYPE EDITION)
ST. JOSEPH GUIDE FOR CHRISTIAN PRAYER 2011
ST. JOSEPH GUIDE FOR THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS 2011
ST. JOSEPH GUIDE FOR THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS 2011 (LARGE TYPE EDITION)
Catholic Book Publishing Co.
I am not sure the page numbers are the same for the Large Type, and regular type. If so, no problem.
I am sure that once familiar with the “calendar” the proper page numbers can be found in the guides. Having a copy is highly recommended and inexpensive. The suggested page numbers will put you near the exact page too. It takes a bit of time to learn but it is not that difficult.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
December 31st, 2010 at 04:06
Please know that there are two versions of the St Joseph Guide. One is for the four volume set of the Liturgy of the Hours and the other is for the One Volume of Christian Prayer Liturgy of the Hours. There are also versions for the Roman Franciscan Version of the Liturgy of the Hours. Can check the outside cover of the St Joseph Guide you have and see if this is the problem. Usually you can purchase the Guide from a Religious Book store or on line. Blessings !
December 31st, 2010 at 00:07
You are the second to mention this this week. It will take some time, but we will do it. Originally we needed to show that our site was active so we place the comments prominently, but know there is no doubt about the liveliness of our community so we could move it to a more appropriate location. It will take a few weeks or perhaps a couple months before we can make this big of a change, but we will. Thank you!
December 31st, 2010 at 00:04
We usually manage to have all of the office out at the latest 12 hours before they are needed. We aim to have them completed a few days ahead of needed, but we are reworking so much content to better meet the needs of our community that we are cutting it very close and so we can’t get it out as early as we would like. It is now 1:00 AM for the Dec 31 and all of the content is published for today.
December 31st, 2010 at 00:02
Yes, we are working on an app for the Android platform, but it is probably four to five weeks out at least.
December 30th, 2010 at 23:16
Please again I am back as no has helped me yet, i’ve again got nothing available for my morning prayer on my ipod, are they being stopped or something? please I’m finding it upsetting, someone must have an answer!
December 30th, 2010 at 15:08
Hi,
I am wondering if there are any plans to offer an app for the Android phone. Thanks for all your hard work. I’ve found a few other versions here and there for the Droid, but yours are so complete and lovely.
Blessings in the New Year.
December 30th, 2010 at 06:57
I’m a little confused! I just got the 4 volume set for Christmas, so I’m in the learning process, although, I’ve used the single volume for a few years….I notice that the St. Joseph little guide, does not match the pages here…is that only because it’s Christmas week??? It’s been very difficult for me to follow since Christmas…as the ribbon placements are not always up and showing here… Any help or suggestions??? Thank you so much and God Bless and Happy New Year!!
Lindy
December 30th, 2010 at 06:09
Technical problem:
Many listed podcasts are not downloading to itunes.
ie: Dec 31, Evening prayer
Dec.31 morning prayer
dec. 31 Office of Readings
and some more in the future. Jan 1,2…
Hate to miss any. Your podcasts are wonderful and I so enjoy praying “with you” each day.
December 30th, 2010 at 05:55
Hi Dane, thank you for the efforts you and the team put forward to make this service available. It is wonderful.
Is there any way you can place the comments/blog away from the body/text of the Divine Office, I realize it is important to build community, but seems like there are other places of real estate to place that. It is very distracting to me and some of the comments are not necessary for everyone to read
God Bless Katrina
December 30th, 2010 at 05:49
Dane, I want to thank you and your team for all of the time and effort you put into this ministry. Over the last couple of years having your site has given me the discipline I needed to pray the liturgy daily. I do have a problem hearing the words of some of the hymns, when they aren’t provided,but I praise the Lord for you all and your ministry.One more thing sometmes the audio and script have the same title, but are different songs. Thank you and may God continue to bless you, Mike
December 29th, 2010 at 21:58
Kaya,
You make a good point. When we are praying we shouldn’t see the comments because of the distraction they create. We will work on adding a forum for that purpose.
December 29th, 2010 at 21:13
Hey what is going on, during this Christmas holiday, over the evenings I’ve had problem with my evening prayers, one time there was no audio and now for the past two morning i’m getting nothing come up for my morning prayer and to go online on my lap top instead, it’s just I also paid for these apps on my ipod, and find it frustrating when I can not praise God with these issues! I look forward to a response, God bless
December 29th, 2010 at 19:13
This site can be one of the places on the internet where we can experience peace and Christ’s tender virtues.
It is so badly needed. I pray that we use other places to opine and this place to feast on Christ’s presence, adore Him and lift one another up.
December 29th, 2010 at 16:36
Oh dear! I’m sorry the song won’t be used again. Just because it wasn’t my personal favorite, that didn’t mean it wasn’t just the thing to reach someone else. I was trying to compliment the musical variety, not set limits on it.
Thanks again.
December 29th, 2010 at 11:20
I appreciate the work and time expended to serve the Church in this incredible way. The ongoing comments to the left of the actual office readings are very distracting and the font is so big its hard to miss.
This last bit of comments on a hymn which was not appreciated, was most distracting and I actually lost the whole experience as a result.
Is there any other location the comments could be posted.
I understand that you would like everyone’s comments, and we do hope that all will be in a spirit of encouragement, however …well enough said.
Thanks for this beautiful ministry which has enhanced my feeling of community in my daily prayers.
December 29th, 2010 at 09:56
I’m sorry, but I loved this version. There are so many different types of music and not everyone may like everything it should never keep us from community. Tradition changes with each generation and includes and builds upon all gifts – otherwise we would not have the technology to pray the Office in this manner. Praise be to God for diversity and tradition — enriching the face of the Earth.
December 29th, 2010 at 09:52
Dane, I love the Office, I loved the version of “What Child is This” and I trust your liturgical judgement. I have been using the iPod version since this ministry began and I aprpeciate the different forms of music that are utilized. I miss the Te Deum that was used over the summer – I can’t remember the name of the singer but it was so beautiful and, for the first time, I was able to sing the Te Deum — the concert versions are very nice and lofty but you really can’t particpate in the singing unless you are a trained singer. Anyway, thank you and know you are in my prayers!
December 29th, 2010 at 02:52
I know that I have thanked you before for this Wonderful Ministry but I again want to tell you how much I appreciate all the effort you make in creating this site and bringing to each of us The Liturgy of the Hours each and every day. I know the difficulty and time that must be expended to update each of the Hours and record the tracks that are necessary to create what seems like a continuous flow that does not give evidence of the work that goes into creating it’s entirety. I Bless You each day when I join with you and those who pray the Office and I ask God To Bless Each of YOU and Those You Love Abundantly and provide you with His Many Gifts to Continue this Ministry!!!
December 28th, 2010 at 22:52
Nancy and Jan,
I should have mentioned that your preferences have been noted. I really love the Helena version, but it might be because I know here in person. I was going to use this hymn a few more times, but wont now because you have stepped forward and been heard.
December 28th, 2010 at 22:49
Nancy,
Our strategy has been to stay 99% traditional in our choice of hymns. I would like to complete the entire year of the Liturgy of the Hours with all content in great shape and with traditional hymns, but once that is done we really want a way of accommodating our universality by offering the option of having music that is better suited to culture, gender, and individual taste. We feel that we can eventually do this while keeping the universal church praying together.
December 28th, 2010 at 18:32
Like Jan, I found that version of “What Child Is This” was not my cup of tea–not my favorite genre–but it was interesting & reverently done. Just as the tune Greensleeves was originally not a hymn tune (by a long shot) but now has become comfortable in the sanctuary, the jazz genre needn’t be forever exiled to the cocktail lounge.
No one is going to be able to please everyone with musical choices. I enjoy the variety of musical styles in the hymns included in the prayers. I like some more than others, & I assume my list of favorites wouldn’t match anyone else’s.
I am so grateful for this site. It made my Advent & Christmas so much more centered & peaceful.
God bless those who create & maintain this site, & the other members of the community who pray with it.
December 28th, 2010 at 17:07
Jan, you may have misunderstood. We do like to hear what people like and don’t like and you are welcome to post it. Other people will just express their opinions. I do like to hear the good and bad.
I also want to publicly acknowledge that you often contribute financial support and make various recommendations that are all very beneficial. I personally value your participation. You are a wonderful member of our community. I want everyone to know that I cherish you participation.
December 28th, 2010 at 12:52
First of all, my comment seems to have been posted several times. That was not my intention – I was not trying to bombard you with negative comments – I just have a hard time with e-mail.To the subject, I have no overall objection to contemporary music. I love this hymn in lots of settings, but not this one. I share the difficulty mauro has with the chants – having the music to read would be helpful but I don’t imagine that would be practical. I certainly do appreciate the work that goes into the website. I have posted several favorable comments and expressed my appreciation in the past and I contribute what I can to support this ministry. I understood that the website was interested in hearing what people like and do not like. I was apparently mistaken about the “do not like.”. Sorry about that.
December 28th, 2010 at 12:13
Christopher, your words are wise and kind. We appreciate people’s constructive criticism, but few remember, as you did, that we also need encouragement.
December 28th, 2010 at 12:09
I am sorry that this hymn is not to your liking. It comes from Helena Buscema and is used at St. Monica’s in Santa Monica California. I find it to be beautiful and meaningful, but I understand and accept that I wont be able to please everyone, but it is not for trying.
December 28th, 2010 at 10:51
Merry Xmas and Happy 2011 to all in this wonderful community, all over the world.
Be assured that our prayers “hold the fort”, much more than we suspect.
God’s peace to all.
December 28th, 2010 at 10:49
Christopher,
AMEN!
Tomaz
December 28th, 2010 at 02:43
Personally, I liked the hymn. Actually I have the exact opposite problem: I am unable to pray following the chants.
I recognize the tradition ties the Divine Office to the Gregorian chant. However, I have a hard time understanding why many people feels that music in the liturgy is required to be in line with the Gregorian chant. If any artist decides to give his or her best talents back to the Lord by doing a service to the community, and in doing so produces a fine piece of contemporary music, what’s wrong in using that in prayer?
There might be a specific guideline I’m not aware of that goes beyond the tradition (if so, please point me to it), though I still think the bible encourages artists to create renditions that come straight from their hearts (think of Psalm 150 or 2 Samuel 6:5).
I recognize the artists need to be respectful and aware that they are actually leading a community in prayer, and as in contact as possible with the Holy Spirit to be guided themselves in their ministry. Starting with this assumption, correct me if I’m wrong: traditionally, the role of leading the worship singing and dancing to the lord has been demanded to talented musicians… Why should it be different today?
Should we always scale back to “traditional chanting” just because it feels simpler to follow? Honestly, my feeling is that nobody can really master Gregorian chanting anyway.
I’m sure I’m missing something here.
Note: while I am a proud contributor to this ministry and I may reply to support questions related to our iPhone apps, I am here expressing my own opinions which do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Divine Office team.
December 28th, 2010 at 01:16
Jan
Dane and his Community do an amazing thing for us by offering this website in order to help us draw nearer to the Lord in prayer. I’m sure they are well aware of the fact that unfortunately, their choices for music are not necessarily going to please everyone all the time. During these opportunities to lift our hearts to the Lord, if you happen to find a particular piece of music not to your liking, might I suggest offering up that time to God as penance.
Please also keep in mind, you may not have liked her version of that hymn but, she was offering her worship to God by singing it which I would imagine pleased God immensely. I for one, was quite pleased at their selection of tonight’s hymn. I have been singing this song in my head for the last couple of days and was pleasantly surprised tonight.
As members of the Body of Christ, we should always make attempts to engage in the Ministry of Encouragement instead of being critical or complaining when things don’t turn out exactly the way we like them.
Grace and Peace,
Christopher
December 27th, 2010 at 20:40
I really DID NOT like the hymn for Evening Prayer for 12-27, to the point where I closed the page, came to post my objection and will now go start over WITHOUT audio. “What Child is This?” is a beautiful, simple piece of Early Music. It ‘s true it started out as the secular “Greensleeves,” but now that we have it, let’s leave it alone. This version sounds like it was intended for a cocktail lounge.
December 27th, 2010 at 17:24
Are not the Psalms quite dramatic in themselves? The profound statements, and heartfelt expressions of the writers are not mere conversation tones, which would take away from the themes of each. The joyous ones are joyous, and the woeful ones are woeful. So far the comments have been few regarding this.
Thanks to people who give their heart and volunteer their time to create this wonderful site. Our prayers are with you and I know they are doing their best. Eventually the Psalms will be sung and if we have a tune we can sing along. Peace and goodness be with you.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
December 27th, 2010 at 06:46
Two such examples: You do not follow the guide regarding Night Prayer 2 & 2 for Solemnities, e.g. Dec 8 and Dec 25.
December 27th, 2010 at 06:43
I too am very distracted by this needless “dramatization.”
December 25th, 2010 at 17:46
Merry Christmas!! My sons got me the 4 volume set for Christmas!! I’ve been using the single edition for a few years and have been wanting to switch to the 4!! I’m very excited, but it looks a bit confusing!
December 25th, 2010 at 03:39
Hail and blessed be the hour and moment in which the Son of God was born of the most pure Virgin Mary, at midnight, in Bethlehem, in piercing cold. In that hour vouchsafe, O my God! to hear my prayer and grant my desires, through the merits of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of His Blessed Mother. Amen.
I especially ask Our Lord to Bless You and Your Ministry and thank you for the Wonderful Singing of the Te Deum today !
December 24th, 2010 at 23:48
Hello:
A new Christmas season and anew we celebrate this joyous event! Even in these difficult times the happiness of this celebration of Christ’s birth never ceases to inspire me and I’m sure everyone, bringing with it such a unique peace.
I send to you fine people every good wish for this day and pray your ministry continues to thrive and grow!
Brendan
December 24th, 2010 at 05:06
May I take this opportunity to thank all of you who provide this excellent service and to wish you all a truly
Happy Christmas
December 20th, 2010 at 21:02
Would you like the text only or text and audio? Is there a special event? We may be able to accommodate special uses.
December 20th, 2010 at 18:45
Would it be possible to get a copy of the Divine Office prayers for January 8th and 9th 2011?
thanks,
Vince
December 20th, 2010 at 08:07
I also have an Android phone. My podcast manager, Doggcatcher, does not work well with the DivineOffice.org feed. Will you share what you are using? Thanks.
December 17th, 2010 at 08:44
I am able to read and play the Divine Office on my Smartphone powered by Android, and anyone who has this can also do the same.
December 17th, 2010 at 03:24
I have been using DivineOffice.org for months to support my own faith as a Lutheran. It is a wonderful site. I especially enjoy the singing of Ms. Kirigen-Voss. Unfortunately, like others, I must report a volume problem. Although I use a very ordinary arrangement of an iMac with Sennheiser headphones, I find that the volume on the podcasts is the highest by far of any website that I use. I typically have to lower the podcast volume to just above mute, then lower my iMac volume to less than 25%. If I use the higher settings appropriate for many other sites (Yahoo, for instance), I am blasted off my seat. Good luck in trying to resolve this seemingly intractable problem.
December 15th, 2010 at 22:23
The General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours give flexibility in selecting hymns. We often match the exact hymn, but occasionally we can’t locate them or there are copyright issues so we will just as often select an appropriate hymn for the season and theme of the office.
December 15th, 2010 at 03:53
Why is the Hymn for today Dec. 15, not one from the Liturgy of the Hours book? It should be Hymn 4 or 5 as in the Advent/Christmas vol. I like staying with the prayer of the Church. Thank you in advance for your comment.
December 14th, 2010 at 19:35
Hi Dane
How will we know when the Andoid app is available? Will you have a general broadcast message?
Terry
December 13th, 2010 at 18:41
J’ai trouver un lien pour le breviere en Francais. Il n’y a pas de piste somore, mais nous avons acces a tous les textes de chaque jour.
http://www.aelf.org/office-messe
Dans l’amour du Christ, Justin.
December 13th, 2010 at 16:51
Today, August 14th, is the Feast of St. John of the Cross and uses a few special readings.
December 13th, 2010 at 10:35
There are no advantages to being logged in except that you can leave comments and after your first comment is approved then all future comments will be displayed immediately without moderation. Aside from commenting there is no advantage to being logged in.
December 13th, 2010 at 05:57
Are there any advantages/reasons to be logged in when you use the site?
December 12th, 2010 at 15:19
I am appreciative of your site, most especially for the music. I have tried praying using the site. I find that one of the women reads so slowly and which such emotion that is is very distracting to try to pray along. If this “dramatization” could be modified, I believe this site would be perfect. Thank you reading.
December 11th, 2010 at 19:32
It is wonderful to hear you say so. We are all one body in Christ.
December 11th, 2010 at 19:21
I am French but understand a bit of English. I do not know of any other web site that ressembles your site. You have a terrific way of reaching people. We do feel united in prayer.
December 11th, 2010 at 19:12
No, we only have the English version. I would really like to know about this French version, would you provide a link?
December 11th, 2010 at 19:10
Is tuer a french version of your site? I realy enjoy your web site. Thanks for thé excellent work. Truly work of God.
December 11th, 2010 at 19:04
Can you provide and example of something that does not match the St. Joseph Guide? Without an example I can only say that you might be looking forward in time and we have not added content to this particular liturgical year yet. We will match the St. Joseph guide about 99% of the time.
December 11th, 2010 at 17:34
Hello,
I just have a quick question, why does the office on here not correspond with the 2010 Saint Joseph Guide for the Liturgy of Hours? What are you using to determine the office? Love what you are doing by the way. I often look at the guide and it does not match up with what is on here. Thank you for your help.
December 10th, 2010 at 03:45
Madeline’s Book is a Wonderful Way to learn more about the Liturgy of the Hours. I purchased her original publication and have found it very useful in helping others to Learn how to understand and pray this “Universal Prayer of the Church” to the Glory of God ! Blessings to All !!!
December 9th, 2010 at 23:41
dcnstephe, ty for kindly providing a link. The seminar fee depends on whether it’s for credit toward a BA or MA, or audited as a no credit course. There was great interaction and sharing of thoughts with students from diverse backgrounds, mostly working professionals, military chaplain, a couple of doctors, nurses, teachers, numerous members of Knights of Malta. It’s a great course for someone who would like to ‘try out’ online education before signing on for an advanced degree. There were 70 very committed students.
December 9th, 2010 at 17:06
Dane:
I can’t tell you how much I love the hymn that you had for the OOR today!!! It’s not one of the more common Christmas/Advent songs that we’re inundated with this time of year – - in fact I’ve rarely heard it performed outside a Medieval Choir Group . . .but it’s been one of my very favorites for years. Unfortunately, it’s also not one of the hymns included in Christian Prayer. Thank you so very much for including it today. I’m going to be humming it for the rest of the season – - of that I’m sure.
God bless you and yours.
December 9th, 2010 at 16:58
The GREAT thing about Catholic Distance University is the fact that nearly ALL their courses are web-based. There are a few courses which can be conducted through the mail, based on paper, but they are more expensive – - and the only bad thing about CDU is that it’s NOT cheap. However, they do work with parishes and church groups to arrange special rates for groups of people taking the same course or slate of courses. You can check out their offerings at http://www.cdu.edu
Blessings
December 9th, 2010 at 15:24
Patty the LOTH seminar is wonderful. I’d like to ask if it is available on the web. I’d like to log on & to listen & learn on what they “re going to teach. Thanks Patty!
December 9th, 2010 at 12:55
I typed a comment, however the screen changed before I clicked the submit comment. Did you receive my comment.
Peace & Good,
Chiara
December 9th, 2010 at 06:21
Dane, I sent an email with info on LOTH seminar and contact there. I hope you received it.
December 8th, 2010 at 15:46
Also recommended for new Liturgy of Hour devotees is a book
The Divine Office for Dodos (Devout, Obedient Disciples of Our Savior): A Step by-Step Guide to Praying the Liturgy of the Hours (third printing). By Madeline Pecora Nugent. Self help instruction manual on how to pray the Divine Office. Gift shop at Confraternity of Penitents, http://penitents.org/giftshoploh.html
Optional Ribbon and book marker set used in the teaching aid, are available with the book. Pax et Bonum Paul
December 8th, 2010 at 11:13
I have noticed several times for Solemnities that Night Prayer 1 and Night Prayer 2 are the Night Prayer for the specific day of the week rather than Night Prayer After Sunday/Solemnity Evening Prayer1 (Saturday) and Night Prayer After Sunday/Solemnity Evening Prayer2 (Sunday). Have the rubrics changed? For the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception you used Tuesday and Wednesday Night Prayers instead of what the rubrics require for Solemnitiexs and Sundays. Please advise if the rubrics have changed. Thanks
December 7th, 2010 at 03:30
Patti, I am Most Grateful for your praying the rosary with Mother Angelica and the her sisters for my intention. Our Mother Mary has always been my refuge and the power of the rosary asking for her intercession is a powerful gift given to us. Thank You !
December 6th, 2010 at 23:02
Patti,
That is absolutely wonderful to hear about. I wonder if enrollment in such courses are increasing, would you ask?
December 6th, 2010 at 14:21
I just completed a 3-week online course on the DO/LOTH through Catholic Distance University. This website was credited by several of the 60+ students as playing an important role both in learning to pray the hours and in their ongoing commitment to the DO.
December 3rd, 2010 at 18:34
Deacon Griffon, I am praying the rosary with Mother Angelica and the Nuns for your intention.
December 2nd, 2010 at 07:45
I received the RSS feed and the morning prayer for this Saturday (12/4) is only a draft. Will the completed one be sent. Thanks for your webisite!!!
December 1st, 2010 at 04:05
I ask for prayer for a very special intention and for the family who bears this need. Thank you
December 1st, 2010 at 04:04
You might consider purchasing a download for your friend of this office from the applications available. This would allow your friend to download the office each day and play as he drives to work. What a wonderful gift ! Blessings to You !
November 30th, 2010 at 15:50
We have considered creating CD’s, but we don’t know how to adjust to the changing liturgical calendar and we wanted to get everything finished to a quality level acceptable.
November 30th, 2010 at 15:18
Have you ever thought of making these podcasts into a set of CDs to sell? I am trying to find a CD set for a friend of mine for Christmas who wants to pray the Office in the car on his commute.
November 29th, 2010 at 06:53
I miss them too but I am sure it is because this ministry is so busy. I have become so used to praying with my Ipod dowloads, feeling like I was with a group to pray and trying to “go it alone” was unfulfilling to a point, and not sure I was reading the LOH correctly, but I have Faith things will catch up. Thank you all for your hard work at such a beautiful way of prayer!!!
November 28th, 2010 at 23:22
I find that Day time prayer for the past two days and office of the readings for 29 and 30 are missing for these days. I really miss them
November 28th, 2010 at 19:18
I ‘m sorry bec. I’m here in the Philippines. Right now we are Nov. 29. It must be the time difference. Thank you for your comment.
November 28th, 2010 at 18:39
The feast of St. Andrew is the 30th. Tomorrow is the 29th.
November 28th, 2010 at 15:40
tomorrow is the feast of Saint Andrew & I saw your liturgy for tomorrow. It doesn’ t follow the church calendar. will you please check it. Thanks.
November 28th, 2010 at 08:53
Thanks for your patience ,Dane,should have used my common sense .Of course we start at Week I at the start of every liturgical season – it figures.God bless.
November 28th, 2010 at 07:27
The reason we use week I today is that we have entered the season of Advent. Today is Sunday, Week 1 of Advent and we begin using Week 1 of the Psalter. We will continue through the four week cycle through Christmas and then again reset to Week 1 when we enter Ordinary Time. When Lent begins we will reset to Week one on the Sunday following Ash Wednesday.
Does this make sense?
November 27th, 2010 at 23:42
This site is great and especially for those who have to travel a lot and no need to bring along with them this ‘heavy’ book. But, a suggestion, for those living in Asia, maybe there’s a time difference in this part of the world, for we have to wait until very late of the day to receive the daytime prayer or morning prayer. It would be nice to have it a day before. Thank you very much.
November 27th, 2010 at 22:29
Hi, Dane, I’m using the Christian Prayer book (published in the Philippines by St. Paul’s) and in it the instruction is to use the antiphons, psalms and canticles for the current week . Since we were in Week II last Saturday, the current week I thought will be Week III. I noticed though that you are using Week I of the Psalter,Could you enlighten me about this?
I use the Christian prayer book because I want to go at my own pace, prayerfully meditating and savoring the psalms and other prayers but I always check the site in case a Saint’s memorial is not included in my prayer book. Of course I always use the Office of Readings as my prayerbook does not contain all the readings. I would like to thank you all for the great work you’re doing for all of us who are striving to follow the Lord’s command to pray always.The Lord bless you always and everyone involved in his ministry.
November 27th, 2010 at 18:55
Our apps run on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and we will soon have apps for Android and Mac OS X. We don’t plan on having anything for other phones at this time. These apps are expensive to create otherwise we would put them on every device.
November 27th, 2010 at 18:53
Your prayer book is correct. We follow the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours books and we have found that the single volume Christian Prayer book uses longer readings from time to time. We started to include the longer readings, but it confused so many people and they complained thinking we were taking liberties so we removed the longer version used in Christian Prayer and now use readings from the four-volume exclusively.
November 27th, 2010 at 18:50
Thank you. It is now fixed.
November 27th, 2010 at 18:08
Would like morn./eve. prayer on my Sidekick LX.
Your site comes up on my phone but hard to see screen and can’t hear it.
Was told I can’t purchase your Prayer App. by my TMobile carrier for this phone.
Is there a way?
Sasha
November 27th, 2010 at 15:30
There are some optional prayers for the MASS for Thanksgiving, as well as for national holidays such as Independence Day and Labor Day, but the liturgy of the hours does not observe them. Even though Thanksgiving Day has a religious overtone, it is a secular holiday, and is not, therefore, even an optional memorial.
November 27th, 2010 at 09:32
To the volunteers of this ministry, thank you for the work that you do. You have made it easier to follow the Divine Office after so many years of not touching my copy of the Christian Prayer book. I have been trying to follow the format to the letter and have been pleased to see it makes much more sense than when I went at it alone. I do have a question on today’s evening pray 1 reading, for the first Sunday of Advent. On my copy of the Christian Prayer book it is Thessalonians 5:19-24 and in the your format it is Thessalonians 5:23-24. I was wondering if my book is out of date printed in 1976 and if there have been some revisions since, do I need to update? Continue the great work.
Rafael
November 27th, 2010 at 07:34
I am thoroughly enjoying this site.
I noticed that there is a misspelled word in the closing prayer of morning prayer. It is the sixth line down and you have “au” which should be “all”.
God bless you!
November 26th, 2010 at 06:54
Dane;
I just discovered this site and am very glad. This is what I had been searching for to aid me with the Liturgy of The Hours. I have been praying the liturgy of the Hours for the last five years but never in the this setting. I find it most beautiful and inspiring.
Thanks
November 25th, 2010 at 20:45
Hi Patrick,
We do follow the American calendar. The content we have for Thanksgiving Day is correct as far as we know. If you know of what would be different then please provide us with specific rubrics.
November 25th, 2010 at 11:54
To Dane and Community,
I hope you have the happiest and most blessed Thanksgiving today. May God richly bless you by pouring out every spiritual blessing in the heavens upon you.
I’m thankful for you today, you have greatly enriched my prayer life by providing this website and I thank you very much.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Christopher
November 25th, 2010 at 00:10
A short write -up on the Saints each day would be helpful. Thank you.
November 24th, 2010 at 23:08
I found some great short videos teaching about the LOTH on SACRED TIME [ a video program on Catholic TV]
LITURGY OF THE HOURS – DAILY STRUCTURE
http://www.catholictv.com/videos/videos.aspx?videoID=394
LITURGY OF THE HOURS – PART 1
http://www.catholictv.com/videos/videos.aspx?videoID=402
LITURGY OF THE HOURS – PART II
http://www.catholictv.com/videos/videos.aspx?videoID=434
Tthose of you just learning about this beautiful prayer of the Church would probably find these videos most helpful and inspiring .
November 23rd, 2010 at 15:38
I noticed there no reference to Bl. Miguel Pro today Nov. 23 (US Calender) nor on the iPhone app. Could a calendar of Saint Day & Feast day be included both on the web & the iPhone app. Txs
November 23rd, 2010 at 14:58
There will be in a few hours.
November 23rd, 2010 at 11:38
I noticed there is nothing special here for St. Andrew Dung-Lac and companions.
November 22nd, 2010 at 11:14
I just love Divine Office! I can’t tell you how much this program has helped me to be more faithful.
November 22nd, 2010 at 10:19
I can’t download just the text to my iphone therefor when I am not where there is wi-fi or cell service I can’t say the Office. If I’m doing something wrong please email me how to download just the text.
November 22nd, 2010 at 06:50
Terry,
I’ve had the same experience with MassReadings, which has wonderful content overall but the LotH translation is a bit of a non-starter for me. I just use the Android built-in browser to hit this site directly; I can either pray off the text for each office (the tabs at the top of the page) or if it’s available, click the “Podcast” embedded link and listen along. The only drawback is that my version of Android doesn’t recognize the podcast playing through the web page as “activity” so it sleeps the phone every few minutes. I can probably turn that off while I’m using the site. Still, looking forward to the Android app when it comes out, Dane!
John
November 21st, 2010 at 20:13
We do have other ways to help and we do appreciate your support. The page on our site called “Want to Help?” gives instructions. You will find a link in the upper right corner.
Thank you again!
November 21st, 2010 at 14:27
I would love to pay a monthly donation, but I do NOT want to use PayPal. I will not donate on a recurring basis unless I can use my debit card.
Can you please give me another option?
Thanks!
November 21st, 2010 at 13:20
How my I obtain the hymns and songs sung during the hours?
November 21st, 2010 at 08:19
Are your daily postings exactly as it would be found if I was looking it up in the Liturgy of the Hours volume set?
The reason why I ask is that I’ve been using your site for the reference materials and another for the voice over.
Thanks,
November 21st, 2010 at 05:27
Thank you so much. Your ministry helps my ministry. I am a pastor of three parishes. While traveling between churches, I listen to divineoffice.org and marvel at how well presented it is! Prayed reverently, tasteful music, wonderful to listen and pray along with. Thanks again.
November 19th, 2010 at 04:11
I am very interested in obtaining a copy of the recording of the Solemn Te Deum. Could you please tell me where I might obtain this. Blessings Abundant to YOU and all who are involved in this ministry!!! Praise Be Our God !!!
November 18th, 2010 at 10:05
No app yet for Blackberrys, sorry. Several people use a podcast app and get our audio using our Divine Office podcast. The link is provided here on our web site.
November 18th, 2010 at 10:03
Thanks for letting us know. I will try to get these office linked properly. It may take a few days because I suspect that audio files and text are also missing.
November 18th, 2010 at 10:02
We post Solemnities, Feasts, and Memorials and very rarely Optional Memorials. You might be expecting an Optional Memorial, but we just don’t have that content because few, if any, of our community is required to pray Optional Memorials (hence the name).
November 18th, 2010 at 08:42
I was unable to access the Office for the Dead. None of the displayed links would work from the page of the office.
Deacon Lou
November 18th, 2010 at 08:31
I’m new to the hours. I’ve noticed you often opt for the Ordinary , not the Saint o’theDay. Is there a way to get that?
November 17th, 2010 at 06:31
Thanks for the Carlow Choir’s Adoramus Christe in this Morning’s Prayer. Hope we will hear more from them…….
November 17th, 2010 at 05:03
Is there an app for Blackberry storm? Thanks.
Joaquim
November 15th, 2010 at 19:39
Any timeline on the Android app?
November 15th, 2010 at 16:05
This is a wonderful ministry and I’ve recommended to hundreds of people. Thank you very much.
I’d like to make a suggestion if I may. Some of your readers, not all, are a little too emotional and dramatic and it is a huge distraction in praying the Office. A few times I’ve had to turn of the sound and pray it on my own. But I always look forward to the audio and beautiful singing.
November 15th, 2010 at 09:16
The image is displayed on mobile devices and not on our web site.
November 15th, 2010 at 09:15
The Android app will have the option to turn off audio file downloading and can also be read without listening. To answer you question, yes, you can use this app just for the text.
November 14th, 2010 at 18:28
I haven’t tried the iPhone app because I have an Android and am waiting for that. Can someone tell me if this app can be used without listening to the audio? I’m really only looking for the electronic text so I can pray the hours anytime/anywhere without having to have my breviary with me. There is an Android app called MassReadings which is very good and also has the Liturgy of the Hours, but it is not the standard ICEL translation which I have come to know and love.
November 14th, 2010 at 13:30
Hi,
I was searching on the internet for a reading in the Office from a 2nd century homily. I quoted a bit of it and your site came up among others. So now I’m registered on your site and logged in. How do I search for the text I’m looking for? Is there a search window somewhere
Thanks, and may God bless us all
Phil Wiley
November 14th, 2010 at 01:58
it’s the best apps I have on my ipod touch, I don’t get out much due to health, so this is a good way to join others in prayer/s and I love it, just a bit concerned why I couldn’t get my 14/11/10 morning prayers???????
November 13th, 2010 at 07:47
Is there any way that you all can post the upcoming prayers in advance. We can only see the following day as it is now. Maybe posting the entire month so people can look further ahead more so than just one day.
November 13th, 2010 at 02:42
At the bottom of the Saint of the day page is a coment simular to :
Image source: Devotional painting of Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc from an English church building (public domain).
I never have an image of the Saint.
Am I not clicking on a secret button??
November 13th, 2010 at 00:30
You have all of Monday, Nov. 15 available, but there is no morning prayer for Nov. 14. Was this an accidental omission?
November 10th, 2010 at 10:33
Someone asked if the Divine Office was accessible through Amazon Kindle. The answer is YES! I have access to it every day via my Kindle. I just placed it in my Kindle as a “Bookmark.” This ministry is such a blessing to the world. Thank you.
November 9th, 2010 at 19:14
Blessings on this the Feast Day of the Dedications of the first church in Rome, St. John Lateran.
Just a quick note to let you know how bautiful I thought all the Hours were today. This is truly how the Hours should be prayed. I could point out individual items, however, what needs to be said about perfections?
Truly we prayed together today.
November 8th, 2010 at 20:21
Hi Fr.,
This is exactly what we are asking those who have the influence to help us do. Placing us in your Diocesan Bulletin is fabulous!
Be are working on the Benedictus and the Magnificat, but there is a technicality we are unsure about. Considering they are canticles we are concerned that the best form to sing them in would be with antiphons between strophes as recommended by the General Instructions and if this is the case then we would have to have a different version everyday, which would be another large effort. We don’t shy away from these efforts, but we often have other priorities to get to before we tackle them. But, with all that said, we do have a chanted version that will be be used soon, but when we start to chant them then we think we can’t wait too long before we chant them in the most preferred form.
Thank you so much for spreading the word!
November 8th, 2010 at 05:18
Through Our Diocesan Bulletin, I have informed our Readers About “Divine Office Web”. I hope more people will join with you to pray the Divine Office everyday.
I really like the Sunday Office, because you sing all the Psalms and the Canticles. May I suggest one thing. I would be happy if you can sing the “Benedictus” and the “Magnificat”too. This is a request only.
May God bless you all, and your Apostolate.
November 7th, 2010 at 07:44
Hi Teresa,
I will update the “How to Help” page with the information you requested. The phone number is 801-272-9800 and you make out checks as pay to Surgeworks.
Thank you for the support!
November 6th, 2010 at 22:56
I especially love the new Te Deum with the chant and chimes used for the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Having all the words used in the Te Deum makes it easier to follow along and pray, and perhaps begin to learn to sing along, which I do as much as possible. Your site is a wonderful help to all of us, binding together more of the church in prayer than would be possible without the technology. This, I am sure, is Spirit-inspired, and the way God would have us use technology.
November 6th, 2010 at 19:26
Not without significant difficulty. I believe you can subscribe as if we are a blog, but I am not sure if the audio is downloaded.
November 6th, 2010 at 17:12
Can you access this service via an Amazon Kindle?
November 6th, 2010 at 14:23
The volume control will return with the next app update, which should become available in about 8 to 10 days. Apple rejected our volume slider because we didn’t use their standard slider. We are now using their standard slider even though it doesn’t match our design.
November 5th, 2010 at 21:52
Thank you that was really fast,..I pray the lord gives you His very best blessings…c.c.c.
November 5th, 2010 at 21:42
what has happened, only the comments are visible, and in the upper left corner it says prayers for nov.0 I hope this is a brief glitch, I get bummed out when I miss prayer with you all.May God speed his help to you,amen!!!!
c.c.c.
November 5th, 2010 at 18:49
Thank you for posting the information on how to send donations by mail. I have more issues. First, can you give me a phone number and specific wording on how to write outthe part of the check that say “pay to”. I want to set up an automatic payment and I need a phone number for the required field. Finally, will my donations qualify as a charitable contribution under IRS regulations
Cordially,
Teresa
November 5th, 2010 at 09:33
Thank you so much for your help. Now we just have to get the right pitch!!
Pax et Bonum
November 5th, 2010 at 07:20
How do I get the volume control back on my DivineOffice App on my I-Phone Touch?
November 4th, 2010 at 04:18
Dear Manuel42 – I did a search for you for the Salve Regina and found the following sites which will help you in your desire to sing this beautiful prayer.
http://interletras.com/canticum/eng/translation_virgin.html <—–Link to music for many Marian Hymns Including Salve Regina
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5p_U8J0iRQ <—–Salve Regina Sung one version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB_7xyx6mhs&NR=1 <—-Salve Regina Sung another version
November 2nd, 2010 at 20:58
Okay, taking a poll here after praying Evening Prayer on the Feast of All Souls: Does praying LOTH make the celebrations of the feastdays more meaningful or do the feastdays keep LOTH from being repetitious and routine?
There was more meaning and richness in the Feast of All Souls tonight than I had ever guessed at before I began praying the LOTH. And what an inspired choice of hymns! One of my favorite writers says there are really only two prayers: “Please, please, please, please” and “thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you”. This is a definite thank you.
November 1st, 2010 at 09:07
We pray Evening Prayer every day and we know that singing adds solemnity to prayer and so we want to sing acappella The Magnificat in Latin. Where can we find the music and lyrics? I remember sing this canticle in Latin when I was younger.
Thanks,
Manuel
November 1st, 2010 at 03:54
Dear members of this Wonderful Ministry,
I cannot begin to tell you how much your efforts to help others to pray together as One Church has meant to me. I have a Great Love of Praying together and when I am alone hearing the voices of those who so reverently pray these hours allows me the joy of praying along. I keep each of you and your ministry in daily prayers. Abundant Blessings to All !!!
October 31st, 2010 at 17:16
hi buchay, there is no difference from the version which we use in the philippines from this site. they use the full version of the LOTH while we use the CP book (from the paulines). The only issue is the paging, but all is the same.
October 31st, 2010 at 16:00
Thank you
October 31st, 2010 at 12:31
I have posted an announcement on how to get the correct content for your liturgical calendar. This isn’t perfect, but it is the best workaround we have at the moment. We will be adding liturgical calendar options in a few months.
Note that Week 23 is the same as Week 31 for most of the content on Monday. Office of Readings is different so I could only provide the audio.
I will try to stay ahead of this in the future, but if you know of a change I haven’t address then please let me know. I will continue to try to make our site inclusive of all English speakers around the world, but this will take time.
October 31st, 2010 at 01:10
Thank you for your prompt response. I was thinking more of tomorrow which in England is Monday of Week 31. Will you have the Office of Readings for that day available on this site?
October 31st, 2010 at 00:33
No, but that is something we are working on.
Since we celebrate on November 1 you can just advance to that day. Use the “Tomorrow” link on the left side and you will see all of the content for All Saints. You may also make note of the address. It has the date in it and if you change the web site address date and hit enter you will be taken to that date.
October 31st, 2010 at 00:21
Do you have a calendar for the UK? For example, we are celebrating All Saints Day today, (Sunday,October 31st) instead of tomorrow.
October 30th, 2010 at 22:58
It was my mistake. I placed the Canticle of Zachariah accidentally. In deed, when you are expecting the Canticle of Mary this would have been a jolt. This version of the Canticle of Zach is produced by our own ministry member, Erika Provinzano, and it catches the theology of the Canticle of Zechariah with its traditional Hebrew sound that transforms halfway through. It is an inspired piece.
October 30th, 2010 at 22:55
Oh, my mistake. You are right. I accidentally placed the Canticle of Zechariah in the Evening Prayer. Thank you for pointing it out. It will be fixed in a few minutes.
October 30th, 2010 at 22:53
You may contribute by pointing to better versions of any hymn, canticle, Te Deum, that you may come across. But, we also invite anyone who can send us a good quality recording they make that is of a reading, prayer, antiphons, psalms (especially psalms) that would could use. Notice that I added a link in the upper right corner of the site that is labeled “Want to help?”. I will keep adding new ways to help on that page.
October 30th, 2010 at 20:09
MikeyLove and Dane
I liked the song and the setting. However it was not a Magnificat, it was the Canticle of Zechariah from Morning Prayer. I don’t pray regularly with the website; it’s usually just me, God, and Christian Prayer, but it would be a real treat to hear one of the beautiful settings of the Magnificat some time when I just happen to drop by. I occasionally even try chanting the old Latin Magnificat that I sort of remember from my schooldays when everything was still in Latin. I do agree with the others who have said that it is more important to gather in prayer than it is to pick at errors, but I also understand that the only way to fix something is for someone to notice that it needs fixing.
In Him,
Jan
October 30th, 2010 at 19:30
As I was listening to this evening’s Vespers, I was jilted out of meditation by the beginning of the Magnificat Music; it was too distracting to return to meditation. Please be more careful in the selection of different versions of the Magnificat. I prefer the more traditional music settings for this piece. Thank you.
October 30th, 2010 at 19:18
In what way can we contribute to the content?
October 29th, 2010 at 20:38
Thank you Teresa. We will do that. I will add a page on how to donate and we can use more then money. It would be nice to have people contribute to our content.
October 29th, 2010 at 20:35
It is really great to hear from software engineers. If you are ever up for some freelance work then you should drop us your resume and rate information so that we can involve you once in awhile in one of our Catholic projects.
October 29th, 2010 at 20:32
Thank you for recommending that people support us. I am not one who asks for much and so we don’t push for contributions, but we definitely appreciate them and they go to a good cause.
Our ministry is not yet large enough to support itself as a legal entity so it is being operating by volunteers and developers from my own company. My company, Surgeworks, provides the studio, equipment, programming, design, and everything technical. So I will post a place to send donations, which will be the address of Surgeworks or its bank account. Until we get a page setup, here is the info:
Checks should be made to Surgeworks with a note that it is a donation to Divine Office. The address is:
Divine Office
c/o Surgeworks
2040 Murray-Holladay Rd
Suite 115
Holladay, UT 84117 USA
Funds may also be deposited to:
Key Bank
Account: 445010035183
Swift Code: Keybus33 (For use outside USA)
ABA/Routing: 124000737 (For use inside USA)
October 29th, 2010 at 20:32
Can you please post the midmorning as well as midafternoon hymns, readings, and prayers for daytime prayer? I think it would be perfect if we have that because not every person prays daytime prayer at midday.
October 29th, 2010 at 17:41
Hello:
I would like to suggest that you put an address and a phone number for donations. I send donations regularly to EWTN and Pro-Life groups directly from my bank. I set it up to automatically pay a certain amount per month. I don’t need an account number just the name, address, and phone number. The phone number may be needed by the bank when they are sending the first check. Could this be done? I love this site.
Thanks for the hard wrok in putting it all together.
Teresa
October 29th, 2010 at 07:12
Hello Dane, thanks for the update on the technical issues of such a spiritual site.
I would like to direct everyone’s attention on the PayPal donation to the right. Yes, I have read in a recent post that PayPal is a bit questionable but honestly, if we pray often, we need to support this ministry financially. I am currently giving to the Pro-Life movement for this upcoming election, but I am going to make a donation next week.
After Dane’s posting, we should be questioning ourselves: Why would we have to resort to financial shortcuts if we trust in God’s providence and give what we can. If PayPal is an issue, let’s research another provider or Dane, if you set up some kind of address where we can send funds, that would work too.
Thankful for this ministry,
I remain,
Sylvia
October 29th, 2010 at 06:32
Dane,
As a fellow software engineer, I can certainly sympathize with your issues with the App Store and with encoding formats. Somehow things never work out as they’re “supposed” to. Be assured of my continued prayer to our patron saint, St. Isidore of Seville, for continued bug-free development!
I would also echo the comments below — it’s the intent of the prayer that matters, not whether you read the right section out of the Breviary. I get the sense that some of the vagueness and contradiction is intentional, to force the personalization of the prayer as opposed to restricting it, but that’s just my opinion.
Looking forward to the Android app shortly — my bride has the iPad app and loves it (especially on feast days!).
Your exemplary efforts to unite us in prayer and to make it easier for people to use this beautiful form of conversation with God are very much appreciated.
October 28th, 2010 at 14:03
Yes. We will have an Android version available in about 4 weeks. We will evaluate possibilities for other devices, but, before we can build for new mobile devices we need to be sure of two things. We must have the funds to complete the project and we must be sure that our investment will be returned and will generate additional income. There are many good people helping us financially through donations, but donations are not enough so we depend upon our mobile device apps to cover our costs plus fund our mission into the future.
October 28th, 2010 at 12:55
I was wondering if you had given any thought for a version for other mobile ‘phones?
October 28th, 2010 at 11:12
In this past week we changed the file format for Office of Readings and this caused no issue for 99% of our community, but it caused enough of an issue for the other 1% that we have removed the new m4a format files and replaced them with our tried and true mp3.
Additionally, our Internet Service Provider was serving the audio files at a very slow speed over the past two days. This was a result of us trying to save a few dollars by changing some things, but this created such a problem that we have restored things to as they were before.
We are always trying to find ways to improve our service while controlling our costs, which we tried both this week, and occasionally our attempts are for naught so we have to back up and get back what we know works. This happened this week and I apologize for the inconvenience, but all should be back to normal now.
October 28th, 2010 at 10:02
The service we use for distributing the audio files was extremely slow for the past two days. This is about to be resolved. Give it another 5 minutes and everything should be available and full speed.
October 28th, 2010 at 07:46
It’s coming in now. I guess the enemy is at work again!
October 28th, 2010 at 07:07
Hi Dane, I think we have to go back to how we used to put the podcast in. For the second day since yesterday, the podcast is buffering for a long time. I also used two different computers and the one at work is really fast. Even on that one, the buffering is slow.
October 28th, 2010 at 06:33
Not sure what is going on. I have been listening to this service for a number of months now and it has been great. Now the files spend a lot of time buffering. The effect is that playing the audio files has become full of long hesitations. It is basically unusable. Can you help me out?
Thanks
Bruce
October 28th, 2010 at 05:45
I am having trouble today & yesterday with the recording part of the morning prayer. yesterday it would not play at all and today it quits during the hymn. is it just me?
October 28th, 2010 at 05:29
Is the server down? I like Rheanrs am having trouble downloading the Audio files. On my iphone and on the web site. The page loads fine but the audio will not load. I’m praying it is restored with little hassle. God Bless!
October 28th, 2010 at 03:40
Ok, I do not understand again. I did the converter thing and I was able to start listening to the Readings “on the Road” but last night and this morning I am not able to open the podcast or, download without it taking an excruciating amount of time. Help? I checked my computer at two different connection locations and then checked on my friend’s computer and realized it was not my computer but the website? Thank you for any help., Really. I so look forward to listening to these prayers every morning and throughout the day, I will occasionally re-listen to them.
October 27th, 2010 at 12:21
I have never personally used that converter I linked earlier. If it is doing something funny to the file, then I would discontinue using it.
I would suggest that you download iTunes or if you don’t want something that big, I believe QuickTime (also from Apple) will play M4a files with no trouble and no need for conversion.
October 26th, 2010 at 19:33
I am having playing the new file format. I did, however, download the converter Carlos recommended. But there is problem, the converted file records a voice in backround of the file converted. I am using RealPlayer.
Any comments, recommendations? Thanks
October 26th, 2010 at 03:21
Biblical words may be pronounced using this guide:
http://www.betterdaysarecoming.com/bible/pronunciation.html
It’s good. Julie D. also recommended it on her site:
http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com/
October 26th, 2010 at 03:02
The m4a format works fine.
October 25th, 2010 at 16:53
Hi Everyone!
I discovered this site as if by providence on my birthday almost 2 years ago. I’ve been praying it on and off, until recently when I finally decided to get a copy of the Christian Prayer Book.
Living in the Philippines, it is quite difficult to find these books unless you visit every religious publisher… by luck I found out that the Daughters of St. Paul (www.paulines.ph) are the licensed publishers in the Philippines. I got my copy for PHP 750 (or $18).
Listening to you and reading the book has really enhanced my prayer life. Now I pray the office 3 times a day and it helps me keep focused on what matters most and feeds me with the words of grace.
Thank you so much.
October 25th, 2010 at 13:01
We put a few of the Office of Readings into an m4a format because we can make the files smaller and have higher quality. Most of today’s mp3 players also play m4a so to assess the impact we put a few of Office of Readings in this format.
You say that you can’t save the OR to your computer to listen to later on the road. Does your computer go with you on the road? If so, you will want to do as Carlos suggested and try iTunes. It will automatically download all of our content from our Divine Office podcast and it will play fine. However, if people can’t find a good solution then we will revert to only using mp3 files. Let us know if things are working OK.
October 25th, 2010 at 06:43
If you have iTunes on your computer (which is free), then it should play M4a files with no trouble. If you don’t or do not want to install it, there are a few free M4a to MP3 converters out there. This is one of them: http://www.maniactools.com/soft/m4a-to-mp3-converter/index.shtml
I have not used it myself, but it seems to have some pretty good reviews off CNET and should serve your purposes.
October 24th, 2010 at 19:52
Help me again!!! Only the Office of Readings are downloaded as M4a files and i don’t have a converter for that. but all the others are mp3. I can listen when I am online but I can not save the OR to my computer to listen to later on the road as I do each morning on my way to work. Suggestions appreciated.
October 24th, 2010 at 13:35
Dane & Company
I found a really understandable explanation regarding what time Jesus mounted the cross that I thought you might like to read. The writer gives a good reason for why the ending Daytime Prayer says Jesus mounted the cross at noon.
Again, thank you all for all of your hard work.
May God richly bless you!
Christopher
http://www.catholic-convert.com/wp-content/uploads/WhatTimeCrucified.pdf
October 23rd, 2010 at 20:07
In Christian Prayer, there are “selections” from Daytime Prayer (the “little” hours) and from the Office of Readings. There are selections that you can read, and the 4-week psalter is there for OR. However, only VERY FEW of the actual readings are present.
The appendix lists the “first readings” for the year for the Office of Readings, but not the “second” readings. For that, you really need the 4-volume set. Or, as I do, rely on this website.
October 23rd, 2010 at 20:03
The ISBN for Christian Prayer (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., 1976) is 978-89942-406-4. It has 2080 pages.
I’ll bet you’ve got a copy of SHORTER Christian Prayer, much more compact, containing Morning and Evening Prayer, Night Prayer, and the Sundays, Solemnities, Feasts and Obligatory Memorials. Not much room for more. It’s great for traveling, but for daily prayer at home, you need the whole book.
The 4-volume set is great – - and it has everything – - but there’s a lot of repetition (commons, etc.) within the 4 books, and it doesn’t have music.
October 22nd, 2010 at 21:21
Hi Pattie!
Every single new voice in prayer is worth it! Together we are making a real difference through the prayers of our community. Welcome!
October 22nd, 2010 at 09:59
I just recenly starting praying the LIturgy of the Hours and want to thank you for taking the time to maintain this site. I didn’t want to bring my book to work every day because I was afraid I’d forget it, lose it, etc. so I didn’t pray the daytime prayer. Now that I found this site, I am able to pray the daytime prayer as well. Keep up the great work!! God Bless, Pattie
October 22nd, 2010 at 07:16
Yea I got it from clicking on your link haha.. ISBN 978-0-89942-406-4 – It at least has part of the Office of Readings, also the hymns
October 22nd, 2010 at 07:14
Hi again,
I’m using this site to learn how to pray LOTH, and I see now that only part of the Office of Readings is there in Christian Prayer.
When I saw a part of the Office of Readings in Christian Prayer I got excited thinking they somehow squeezed it all in here-forgive this newbie for speaking too soon before looking through it completely.
October 22nd, 2010 at 07:14
My edition of Christian Prayer doesn’t even have 1800 pages. Do you have an ISBN for the book or could you provide a link to where you purchased it if it was online?
October 22nd, 2010 at 06:58
Hi Dane and all!
I just wanted to say that I noticed you state that the Office of Readings isn’t in the Christian Prayer. I finally got Christian Prayer this week (thanks to this site) and at least in my copy the Office of Readings is there. For instance, today’s is on page 1800. Mine is from Catholic Book Publishing Company.
October 22nd, 2010 at 02:51
As a founding member of a new community of Franciscan Hermits, thank you so much for this ministry. May you and your entire team be blessed.
October 21st, 2010 at 22:07
Dane, again thank you for your continuing ministry here. This has truly been a blessing to me, I’m sure,for others as well.. I was wondering ,at the end of night prayer when you play the Ave Maria could you use ms. Voss version of it;as she also continues with sancta Maria portion,and she did such a knockout job on it, I fell it would be a beautiful way to end the day.. thank you for you time..
Pax Tecum! God Bless you all with His best!!!!!
October 20th, 2010 at 05:56
i found this on all days my birthday think someones trying to tell me something!
October 19th, 2010 at 16:23
We have an Android app in development. I hope it will be available in a month.
October 19th, 2010 at 01:08
As a new subscriber, first: thank you for your ministry, and second: any chance you will develop an app for Android? I apologize if you have answered this previously. God Bless.
October 18th, 2010 at 21:58
As a simple layman, and penitent, may I make a suggestion?
It might be better to just pray and not worry about it so much. We are not going to change the rules of the Liturgy of Hours, just pray them. This is not a forum for this kind of dialog.
Jesus would rather we direct ourselves to Him, with a simple and contrite heart. Stumbling over details and what the instructions say distract us from this purpose intended.
This is a very dedicated and hard working group of volunteers, who give up a lot of their time producing this fantastic website, for all to pray the Liturgy of Hours together peacefully. They are doing a great job and explain what they are doing in the FAQ section quite well.
Peace and goodness be with you all. Keep up the wonderful ministry you are doing. Now let us pray.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
October 18th, 2010 at 13:29
Hi,
I am sorry if my explanation was confusing. It was a poor attempt to, as I said, to reconcile the seemingly contradictory instructions in the LOTH books.
I notice though, that you do not mention the ordinary at all in your reply. It is the section starting on page 613 in Volume IV. It gives the instructions on how to pray the LOTH. Do you see how those instructions can seem to contradict the instructions in the proper of Saints? So what to do? Well, I believe the best way to interpret instructions is to take them in context, not in isolation. Maybe there is an example in the LOTH books that can help us. I believe there is.
First we will go to the General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours. Look at paragraph 240:
“On Saturdays in Ordinary Time, when optional memorials are permitted, an optional memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary may be celebrated in the same way as other memorials, with its own proper reading.”
Do you see how it says that they are to be celebrated in the same way as other memorials? In Volume IV the memorial is on page 1656, but if we look at the instructions on page 1664 for morning prayer it says that “the antiphons and psalms are taken from the current Saturday.” There is, of course, no evening prayer for this memorial.
Pax et Bonum
October 17th, 2010 at 22:10
“all from the common of virgins…” verses “from the common of virgins …” does not tell me that the absence of the “all” implies that some of it should come from the psalter, especially since what you are saying is that what is not in the Proper of Saints should all come from the Psalter. If taking the balance of the content from the Psalter was intended then the instructions would explicitly state something like “… taken from the current week of the Psalter”, wouldn’t it? Why would it be implicit verses just being straight forward. I take the instructions exactly as they are written and if it says to take content from the common of whatever then that is where we take the rest of the content. If those commons redirect us somewhere then I also follow those directions without reading anything more into it. Don’t you think we are over thinking it when we read more into the instructions then are written? I ask this with humility, because I try to keep this simple and I try to resist the argument that because many people are doing it any particular way that that makes it right. There are times when we all start doing it a particular way because the Spirit is moving us in that direction, but I will wait for the crafters of the LOTH to change the instructions before I, not as wise as they, would take liberty to make such an adjustment. I know I may be wrong, but I am following what I find to be simple instructions and I don’t have enough (or any) proof we should change.
October 16th, 2010 at 19:22
Hi,
You can find a clearer instruction in the ordinary section of the Liturgy of the Hours book. In Volume IV page 619 for the Psalmody it states:
“…For the Sunday and weekday offices, the psalm, canticle, and antiphons are taken from the current week of the Psalter.
For solemnities and feasts, the psalms and canticle are taken from the first Sunday of the Psalter, the antiphons from the proper of Saints or Commons.
For the memorials of saints, the psalms, canticle, and antiphons are taken from the current week of the Psalter, unless there are proper psalms and antiphons. ”
I know that the instructions in the proper of saints say something like “from the common of virgins, except for the following:”, but I think that these can be reconciled if you notice that it doesn’t say “all from the common of virgins…”
What this means in practice is that the antiphons for most of the commons are never used, because if saints are celebrated as a solemnity or feast they would have their own antiphons in the proper of saints. So why are they there you may ask. Well, sometimes a memorial is “upgraded” in certain situations, like in a diocese that is dedicated to a particular saint, for instance. Then those antiphons would be used. See the table of liturgical days on page 11.
October 15th, 2010 at 22:05
Hi,
Thank you for pointing this out. I mean no offense. I appreciate the suggested corrections, but please let me explain. We are doing our best to comply with the letter of the instruction as well as the spirit of it. We always seek to comply with the guidelines and we appreciate that you and others point out where we may miss the mark. In this case, even by the article of the general guidelines you reference you can tell that we are in compliance with the guidelines. As you mentioned, #235, paragraph “b” states as follows:
“b. the antiphon at the invitatory, the hymn, the short reading, the antiphons at the Canticles of Zechariah and of Mary, and the intercessions must be those of the saint if these are given in the proper; otherwise, they are taken either from the common or from the current week and day;”
We opt to take them from the “common” because the four-volume LOTH books are very explicit about this and almost always says to take it from the common, but only rarely specifies to take from the current week and day. You use today, Oct 15, St. Teresa, as an example, but this does not support that your premise is correct, in fact, it supports how we do it as correct by saying on page 1483 “From the common of virgins, 1791, or of doctors of the Church, 1777, except for the following:” and then it goes on to provide the second reading for Office of Readings, a responses, and concluding prayer.
Our difficulty here is that we have heard several people tell us that we should use the content from the proper for the day, but nowhere in writing is this approach supported, but in fact, it is our way that appears correct. Take a look at the text on page 1483 of volume 4. It clearly tells us to use the commons. It does not give us the option of praying from the normal psalter for the day. Are we wrong in following these instructions? If we are, please help us see that the way you suggest is right.
I offer this to you as the proof of why we do what we do. I am not an expert. I seek the truth and the best way to pray the LOTH. I know what you say appears correct, but where are there instructions more clear then those written directly in the LOTH books?
October 15th, 2010 at 17:07
I know I’m forever making corrections, and I hope that it doesn’t bother you too much, but I noticed that you’ve got the Te Deum in the Office of Readings for today (Memorial of St. Theresa of Avila). The General Instruction says (# 68) that the Te Deum is said (sung) on Sundays outside lent, and on Solemnities and Feasts, but not on Memorials or Weekdays.
Just a heads-up.
October 15th, 2010 at 07:37
I highly appreciate this site. I just notice that for MEMORIALS you are using psalms quite differently from what is being prescribed by the General Instructions of the Liturgy of the Hours nö. 235. Let me use as example the memorial of St. Theresa Oct. 15. You took the psalms and antiphons from the Proper of Saints which should be taken from the current Weekday (Wk. IV). There are Saints with proper (but they are exceptions). I recommend you to refer to the inserted card in every volume of the Breviary, OUTLINE OF EACH HOUR AND THE FORMAT OF THE VARIOUS OFFICES. I hope that this comment would be considered charitably. Thank you.
October 15th, 2010 at 06:37
Evengeline, if you still need help with subscribing on iTunes, this link should take you there and you can just click the View in iTunes if it shows in your web browser, and once the page opens in iTunes,click the subscribe button on that page:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=294319197
October 14th, 2010 at 05:59
There’s another edition of “Christian Prayer” published by Pauline Books & Media. I noticed some detailed customer reviews comparing this one with the one published by the Catholic Books Publishing Company. I guess there are both good and bad features about both editions.
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Prayer-Liturgy-Hours-Inspiration/dp/0819814482/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287060386&sr=1-1
Here’s a link to just the customer reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Prayer-Liturgy-Hours-Inspiration/product-reviews/0819814482/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_recent?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending
October 14th, 2010 at 05:15
This is the link for the large print edition in Amazon:
The edition was published in 1986. Didn’t you say something before about the edition from 1986?
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Prayer-International-Commission-English/dp/0899424074
October 14th, 2010 at 05:00
You’ll be able to see from the description in the link that there are two separate product numbers for each guide (406/G for the regular print edition and 407/G for the large print edition.
http://www.catholicbookpublishing.com/BrowseByDepartments.aspx?DepID=89&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
October 13th, 2010 at 20:18
Lisa,
I love that you are using Skype to pray with a priest so far away! Truly amazing! And I am envious of you for such an opportunity.
Your donation was substantial, in fact, five times what most large donations are. We thank you. Our community should show you gratitude because your donation and the inspiration of your story renews us and helps sustains our work.
Please help us to know how to better serve people with failing eyesight.
October 13th, 2010 at 19:59
This is a big surprise to me. I will purchase a copy of this. Can you confirm the isbn number for this large volume?
October 13th, 2010 at 12:44
I found out recently that there is a different guide that goes with the large print version of “Christian Prayer.” I guess this isn’t so in the large print version of the 4-volume set of the Liturgy of the Hours. Supposedly, the page numbers are the same so that the St. Joseph’s Guide may be used with both.
I received a respone about it thru an e-mail.
“It does seem odd that the larger print edition has fewer pages when the content is the same for each book. I double checked this with the publisher and that is indeed the case. I think the reason for the difference in the number of pages is due to the larger overall size of the large print book… 5 ½” X 8 ¼” vs. the regular print which is 4 ¼” X 6 ¾” . The regular guide #406G will not work with the large print edition which needs its own guide #407G.
I hope this helps explain things a little better for you.”
October 13th, 2010 at 09:21
I learned to pray the Breviary from an 80 year old priest who grew up praying the offices daily in community. He now lives alone and 1000 miles away from me, so we started praying together each day on Skype! His eyes, though, are getting worse and worse, and even his large print book is hard for him to read. A few months ago, I found your site and showed him how to download it on to his iPad. I have loaded the same on my iPhone. He loves the interface and can read the print very well. So, now enabled with iPad, iPhone and Skype, two friends in Christ can be a part of this great prayer of our Church. I learn from his teaching as we go along, and he has the joy of a friend to pray with. I’ve made a donation in thanksgiving for your efforts from both of us. God bless you for all you do!!
October 12th, 2010 at 16:54
The NRSV says, (MT 27:45) “Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over the land, until the ninth hour.”
The hours are like the ones used to name the “old” designations of daytime prayer: Terce, Sext, and None (3, 6, and 9). The Third hour was about 9:00 a.m., the 6th about noon, and the ninth about 3:00 p.m.
These hours were supposedly hours after sunrise.
So – - darkness at noon (the 6th hour) makes sense, when you think about it this way.
October 9th, 2010 at 13:28
It is wonderful to have you in prayer with us Christopher. You make a good point so I double checked that our text matched the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours and it does. The text does say “Lord Jesus Christ, at noon, when darkness covered all the earth, you mounted the wood of the cross …”
Perhaps someone knows more and can give you a better explanation, but I don’t know.
October 9th, 2010 at 07:18
How do I subscribe to the podcast on itunes? Do I have to subscribe to something?
October 8th, 2010 at 18:02
Hello Dane and Company,
I’ve been praying with you for over a year nowAnd I wanted to thank you for helping me to grow and enrich my prayer life. As a quadriplegic, I’m not able to turn the pages of the prayer books and your website has really helped to open up a world of prayer that was not available to me before. So thank you very much.
I have one comment, that is totally not a criticism, regarding the prayer at the end of today’s (Friday) Daytime Prayer. The prayer mentions that at 12 o’clock, when darkness covered the earth, Jesus mounted the cross. I’ve just been reading, and I will send a link, about how the Gospels according to Mark and John both confirm that Jesus mounted the cross around 9 AM. Anyway, here’s the link and thank you so much for your time and dedication.
Christopher
http://workmenforchrist.org/Bible/BC_Jesus_Nets.html
http://www.apocalipsis.org/difficulties/thirdhour.htm
October 8th, 2010 at 14:59
Hi Dane!
I was wondering if it is possible to get the audio files for advent and christmas either for 2010 or 2009? I tried the date insertion but the audio files are not there, well, they are there but not working.
Thanks!
October 6th, 2010 at 09:41
I don’t believe you can purchase this anywhere as of yet, but soon you should be able to. The music is from our local Cathedral of the Madeleine (https://www.saltlakecathedral.org/ ) and based on their site they do say that music will be available for purchase soon. The song is called “The Virgin’s Slumber Song”.
October 6th, 2010 at 09:29
Deacon Griffin,
We will have to write about how we became what we are today, but at the moment we are in the middle of preparing for Advent and Christmas so our time is consumed. One resource you may want to try is a few of the podcasts that are out there of people who have interviewed us. Try this http://catholicfoodie.com/divine-office or http://gspn.tv/118-about-the-church-liturgy-of-the-hours/
Thank you so much for telling other people and getting our ministry linked on these community web sites. This is one of the best things that you can do to grow our prayer community.
Blessings to you!
October 5th, 2010 at 20:25
Do you have any performance credits or information for the hymn that is heard at the very end of the Compline (Night Prayer) recordings? It is beautiful but I must confess to not knowing the name of the hymn. I’d love to download a copy of it, if I could find its name.
October 5th, 2010 at 15:57
Dear Wonderful Ministry, I wrote sometime ago to ask how your ministry began and how each of you were led to participate in this Gift to All of Us. I have not received an answer to this question as of yet and have not found it on the Web Page or in the facebook application.
I also want to tell you that I shared the address for this site with the Secular Franciscans and with the Worcester Diocese Diaconate community. At our retreat two weekends ago your site was referenced to those who attended.
Blessings !
October 5th, 2010 at 01:21
There is always something new to learn! Re the discussion on LOTH combined with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament/Benediction, am I correct in assuming that the long and convoluted rules in your references apply only to situations where the LOTH is said in community as part of the observance and not when it is prayed privately during Eucharistic adoration? (Yes, I am too lazy to read and try to comprehend all of that unless it is necessary.) I wish my parish would incorporate LOTH where it is appropriate, but not so far. And since I am here, I need to say thanks again for all you do to make this website work.
October 4th, 2010 at 20:38
The Confraternity of Penitents, a lay Association of the Franciscan Order, who practices the Rule of 1221, congratulates, and thanks, the Divine Office for it’s celebration of St. Francis of Assisi.
Peace and goodness to all.
Pax et Bonum
October 3rd, 2010 at 20:22
Hi Sister,
I have never heard of this approach. Let me see if we can help you through a different way. Would you tell me what device you are using? Do you know what version of system it is running?
October 3rd, 2010 at 17:31
Dear Dane,
My app is not working with the new format. In the past I would go to the quick link section of iTunes and put in my number JNF9H3M4HRY3 in and click sync and it would work???
September 30th, 2010 at 22:20
Thanks for sharing this. I will look for a better version. Let me know if you know of one or if you think it would be OK for us to create a version of our own that followed the exact text.
September 30th, 2010 at 22:20
I am only familiar with the Catholic Book Publishing Company versions. I think the latest version is 1975 and that is what we use. We have found that the four-volume sets match page for page between the large and small book sets. The single volume Christian Prayer book does not match the same pages.
As far as typos, I know of very very few. In fact, if there are typos we are obliged to reproduce the typos here because we are under agreement that that is our source text. As far as I know there is nothing better then the 1975 version of the Liturgy of the Hours by Catholic Book company. There is a 1986 version of the Liturgy of the Hours somewhere, but nobody uses it that I know of and it is very different in its translation. The only reason I know about it is I saw a GIA hymn book that had a few of its psalms set to music. You can safely ignore the 1986 version, if you can even find it, and go with anything done by Catholic Book Publishing Company around 1975.
September 30th, 2010 at 22:14
I like the high-mass feel of their Te Deum, but perhaps someone knows of a more exact version? We could produce a simple version with the correct text, but I don’t want to overdue it using Melinda and Vince. Erika could do a fabulous job, but hers is likely to feel more contemporary then some people like. I have nothing against contemporary music, actually I like it all, but that will be saved until we can offer people options.
September 29th, 2010 at 22:09
I figured out my MP3 download problem. I right click on the download button and chose “save target as”…it worked!
I would love to be able to buy Melinda Kirigin-Voss music from this website. It’s exquisite!!!
Peace and Blessings to you all,
Rebecca
September 29th, 2010 at 16:50
I listened a bit more carefully at the sung words of the Te Deum today because I have had a similar feeling in the past about this rendition. I think the lyrics in the Chichester Cathedral Choir version are more of a “dynamic” translation. It is Te Deum, but some phrases are worded a bit differently as compared to the official LOTH text.
Those differences do make it hard to sing along. I don’t know what more “literal” translated vocal options exist, but they may be worth considering as licensing allows.
Thanks for all your work on this, Dane!!
September 29th, 2010 at 10:39
I’ve been reading the Liturgy of the Hours every day. If I don’t have access to a computer on any given day, I’ll print out a copy at the library and read it at home. I’ve heard that there are quite a few typographical errors in Christian Prayer and the Liturgy of the Hours. I think it was mostly in relation to the large print edition although I don’t know why this would be true. It seems like the text would still be exactly the same. I’ve read that the pagination is still the same in the large print so it seems like it wouldn’t make a difference whether it’s the standard text or large print. It was in reference to the edition from the Catholic Book Publishing Company. Are there also editions printed by other publishing companies? Thanks for your help.
September 29th, 2010 at 08:33
Hi Dane, I feel the need to share that the lyrics for the hymn TE DEUM is seriously flawed. The only part I can really hear is accurately is the stanza:
“The glorious company of apostles praise you.
The noble fellowship of prophets praise you.
The white-robed army of martyrs praise you.” Can you check for me.
September 29th, 2010 at 08:14
Owen, this is so wonderful when people tell others by blogging about it. These links and blogs are the most effective way we have of growing our community in prayer.
Thank you!
September 29th, 2010 at 07:35
Thank you for sharing that information about Paypal. We will seek an alternative like Google wallet, but we are not aware of another way to receive donations on-line. It would be very helpful if someone could locate a good alternative for us.
September 28th, 2010 at 06:40
Hello,
Greetings from TX!
Thank you for your site. I really enjoy it!
I just noticed that Divine Office uses PayPal in processing its online donations. Is Divine Office aware that PayPal funds Planned Parenthood, the leading provider of abortions in the US, & that there are alternatives? In a recent news article, Life Decisions International offered to assist organizations in locating & securing alternatives. I include the links for the article & LDIs home page for more info.
http://www.ewtnnews.com/new.php?id=1399
http://www.fightpp.org/
Thank you for your consideration.
A sorrowful, post-abortive mom in Houston
September 28th, 2010 at 02:45
I love this site,the liturgy,the hymns,it’s what I’ve been looking for.Wonderful to be able to participate in the Divine Office.
September 27th, 2010 at 21:26
I joined last week and I had no problem downloading MP3 files to my computer. However, this week when I click on the download button I get a pop-up screen that starts playing the Office.
Any suggestions on how to get my downloads again?
I love the Hymns!
God Bless, Rebecca
September 27th, 2010 at 16:55
Dane, I was happy to provide you with a plug on the blog today accompanying a little bit of new art fitting for the feast day of St. Vincent de Paul. God bless you and your continuing work.
Charity over rule
P.S. I have recently been able to get one more member of the household praying the D.O.
September 25th, 2010 at 20:05
You said. “I will never be one of the scholars I see here.”
Thomas ‘a Kempis said: “I would rather have compunction of heart than to know what compunction means. “
September 25th, 2010 at 09:36
I am new here and so thankful! I had thought it impossible for me to participate in the Divine Office due to my inability to figure out what goes where and when.
Thanks to this site and my oblate mentor, I am learning and loving the Office. I will never be one of the scholars I see here, but trust that God will overlook my errors and see the efforts as I try my best.
Thank you so much for making this available. I will keep you all in my prayers.
September 25th, 2010 at 01:56
Rich,
First of all, I am not a liturgist so I may be wrong and I don’t try to speak with authority. I just need proof before I make changes. I say this so that you know where I am coming from.
You make a good point for praying the psalms of the day (psalter), but the layout and directions within the LOTH direct us to the commons in the way we have been doing. Instead of following the St. Joseph Guide as our primary guidance, which many people do follow, we use the LOTH itself first and the St. Joseph Guide secondarily and the instructions within the LOTH don’t say anything about praying the psalter for special days. The LOTH is very clear when it tells us to pray the commons and does not give us an option. For example, consider the next memorial, which is September 27, St. Vincent de Paul. This memorial specifies, and I quote, “From the common of pastors, 1748, or of holy men: those who worked for the underprivileged, 1880, except for the following:” and it says nothing about praying from the psalter. At those times when the Saint Joseph Guide specifies that you can pray from the psalter I see no guidance in the General Instructions or the LOTH that allows them to suggest such a thing. I can only conclude that the St. Joseph Guide is introducing another option for praying. If you find evidence to the contrary then I would like to know about it.
Another reason that I believe your argument almost proves my position is that during Lent and other periods of time whereby the message from the psalms is critical to that period within the Liturgy you will find few if any special days that will take us away from praying the psalter. In Lent you will find lots of “commemorations”, but only one or two feasts and the same number of solemnities. You wont find memorials or optional memorials. I feel this might be for the reasons you stated in that we need to be praying from the psalter during these periods of time.
Also, I don’t recall the repeating pattern of the psalms for mass, but the psalter repeats every four weeks so over the course of a year you should hear the same psalms and antiphons several times and it is by introducing the commons that you are exposed to even more psalms.
I do like your points. They make me spend way too much time looking up proof, which I skipped this time because it is so late at night for me. Keep challenging me. I do want our ministry true to form.
God bless
September 24th, 2010 at 23:28
I don’t know that there’s a general instruction for the combination of the two, but I DO know that generally exposition precedes and benediction follows a “Holy Hour.” It is extremely appropriate to pray Vespers during that Holy Hour. I have done so with a standard Exposition: Expose the Eucharist, Sing “O Salutaris” and incense it. After, spend some time in silent prayer. After a time, begin Vespers with “Lord open my lips” and proceed as usual, including the hymn, and concluding with the dismissal “May the Lord Bless us . .” etc. Finally, after more time for meditation, perhaps a homily, and so on, do a standard Benediction with “Tantum Ergo”, incensing of the Sacrament again, the divine praises, and so on. There doesn’t need to be any modification.
September 24th, 2010 at 14:57
Peace Deacon William,
I found several references online to the use of the Liturgy of Hours in the Adoration or Benediction of the Eucharist.
1. Combining the Liturgy of Hours with the Adoration and Benediction of the Eucharist.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur166.htm Paragraphs 681-745
2. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Pdf Page 3.
http://www.richmonddiocese.org/worship/docs/Norms%20for%20Adoration%20and%20Exposition.pdf
3. Celebrating Exposition and Benediction
February 24, 2010 | Vol. 48, No. 44 | Msgr. Joseph DeGrocco. Paragraph 6
http://www.licatholic.org/news/2010/02/022410/022410churchPrayer.html
“Part of the Liturgy of the Hours, such as Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer, may also be celebrated during exposition.”
A side note:
Three hymns which Thomas Aquinas composed for the feast are among the most beautiful in the Catholic liturgy. They express the unchangeable faith of the Church in the abiding Presence of her Founder on earth.
All three hymns are part of the Divine Office. They are best known by each of their last two verses, which have become part of the treasury of Catholic hymnology.
· Salutaris Hostia is an act of adoration of Christ the Saving Victim who opened wide the gate of heaven to man below.
· Tantum Ergo Sacramentum is an act of adoration of the Word-made-flesh, where faith supplies for what the senses cannot perceive.
· Panis Angelicus is an act of adoration of that Wondrous Thing where the lowly and poor are fed, banqueting on their Incarnate Lord and King.
Hope this gives clues to the answer you are searching for.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
September 24th, 2010 at 10:19
What an incredible service you are doing for the Church. God Bless all of you.
September 24th, 2010 at 02:50
Do you have the General Instructions for when the Liturgy of the Hours is combined with Exposition and Benediction? I have some recollection from Seminary Days but would like to find specific instruction if there is such
September 23rd, 2010 at 23:06
Why was there no audio for 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Thursday Morning Prayer?
Anyway, your site is such a blessing. I especially like the rendition of the Canticle of Zechariah in song and Melinda’s singing.
September 23rd, 2010 at 21:07
THANK-YOU! I attempted to start Shorter Christian Prayer over a year ago. It was so confusing that I gave up and put my prayer book on the church “give away” rack. Several times in the past year I felt drawn to this prayer. Then I noticed that my prayer book was still on the “give away” rack. So I took it back.
I began searching the net for guides and came upon your website. I’ve been praying the morning and evening prayers ever since. (About 5 days so far). It is beautiful!!! When the bell rings in my head, I am awed by joining in the official prayer of the Church and can feel each of you praying with me.
In Christ through Mary,
Pat
September 23rd, 2010 at 00:43
My home page shows Nov. instead of Sept., and I can’t get any of the prayer pages to open. Help please!
September 22nd, 2010 at 12:46
Thank-you so much for your productions!
Would it be possible to add some Gregorian Chant now and then?
(Maybe you already do at times, but I haven’t been using your service long enough to experience it.)
Dominus vobiscum,
Reg.
September 22nd, 2010 at 02:04
A request, but understandable if inapprropriate, for the propers for Blessed John Henry Newman to be commemorated on the 9th October, and anniversary of the day he was received into the Catholic Church. The propers are at: http://www.oratoriosanfilippo.org/
September 20th, 2010 at 21:43
Ooops! I had already downloaded tuesday, Sept. 21, but they don’t show up on the iTunes Store page. And there aren’t any yet for Wednesday, but I’m not panicking about those yet.
But how could I have downloaded them when they look like they haven’t been posted yet. Hmmmmm . . . .
There is something going on with the subscriptions, I think.
September 20th, 2010 at 21:39
This is Monday evening, Sept. 20. There are no podcasts available on iTunes for tomorrow. Does anyone know what’s up here?
September 20th, 2010 at 15:13
Hey Dane:
Just thought I’d share that I finally found a mobile browser that lets me access the site while away from my computer. The Blackberry browser shows a garbled page, and Opera Mini shows the entire page, but none of the links work, so it’s not very good, except for seeing the Invitatory (which I’ve had memorized since formation).
But the Bolt Browser, for blackberry and smart phones, seems to give me complete access to the site – - except for leaving comments. It’s not an “app” like you have for the iPhone, but it does work as a browser to access the web page.
This might be useful for your other smart phone users who’ve had problems accessing the site from their phones or hand-helds.
I have no financial or other interest in the Bolt Browser – - I just wanted to share that it works with the web page.
Hope this is useful information.
God continue to bless you for all you do.
September 19th, 2010 at 21:25
Hi,
Hate to be a broken record… Check last night’s Night Prayer (Sunday 19th.) They’re still skipping the final blessing and repeating the Responsory!
Other days of the week have been fine.
Thanks for all you do. God bless you.
September 19th, 2010 at 14:15
Dane,
I’m curious… why do you say “it has become optional, not preferable, to pray the psalter for [memorials]?” It is my understanding, that the cycle of readngs at daily Mass should not be interrupted by memorials without good cause (e.g. a special devotion to that saint) – for fear that for all the memorials of saints, we would be left with a smaller scope of exposure to the Bible. I personally feel that interrupting the cycle of Psalms in the Psalter for every memorial creates the same danger, and only do so for Solemnities, Feasts, and those few Memorials with proper Psalms (Morning Prayer antiphons with Psalms from Sunday, Week I).
Also, you are correct that the non-labelled celebration in the LOTH are optional memorials, and those that are labelled as “Memorials” are obligatory memorials. There are some that are proper to the USA, which I believe are listed on a page following the General Calendar.
Of course, there is no one right way, and the fact that we’re all praying is really what’s important. I just wanted to present the case for praying the Psalter of the day for memorials.
God bless,
Rich
September 19th, 2010 at 13:20
Also, I am a Carmelite at Heart, as I was a Friar for 9 years til 2005. I try to remember to use the Carmelite Proper of the Liturgy of the Hours, the Little red book which I have with me. Is there any possibilities of creating seperate pages for the different Religious Orders’ feasts and Solemnities like the one I used as a carmelite?
September 19th, 2010 at 13:10
I hope that at least the daytime office can be chanted on Sundays, Solemnities, and feasts days. It would be wonderful if the Canticles of Morning,evening and night prayers be chanted at all times. Today is the first time I heard the Invititory Psalm and canticles sung here. I believe that the entire Office aught to be chanted every day with the different degrees of Solemnity, such as chanting the Psalms without the antiphons in between each strophes on a regular day. All things considered, keep up the great work at hand.
September 19th, 2010 at 03:57
Just wanted to say thank you for your ministry. A love and fidelity to prayer of the divine office is part of discernment of vocation. As a third-year candidate in formation for the Permanent Diaconate, I found your ministry a tremendous enhancement to my prayer of the Divine Office and shared your site with the brothers in my class. Keep up the great work and know that you are making a difference in the world, bringing Christ’s presence to your online community.
September 19th, 2010 at 03:01
Daytime prayers are not considered to be what is called “major Hours” so they of lower priority and since we are a work in progress they needed to be of lower priority. We hope to provide them at some point.
September 18th, 2010 at 13:44
I Love the Divine Office & with the audio on my computer,
But may I ask on Daytime why isn’t there any audio?
Thank you;
May God Bless;
Karen
September 18th, 2010 at 09:48
Welcome Fr. Sidath,
I am glad you found us, please spread the word so that others will find us and join us in prayer. We are a “work in progress” so that is why there is no audio for midday prayer. We occasionally can’t get everything done so every now and then we will miss a special day or make a mistake, but we will pickup and fix anything we are aware so that in another year we should be complete with all special days and hopefully with midday prayers. The other thing we are struggling with is how to present the midday prayers in this format without confusing people. Some people may want to pray only one while others may want to pray all of them.
September 18th, 2010 at 05:29
Greetings to all of you in the Lord,
While surfing the Internet, I accidentally came across your Website (Divine Office.org) and I consider it as a Blessing. As a Diocesan Priest I am faithful to recite the Breviary and I pray it alone. I know very few hymns in the breviary and as many of our priests do, I use to recite the hymns instead of singing. Having found your website, now, I feel that I am not alone but live in a community at that particular moment. It is really inspiring and I feel the “Divine Presence”. So thank you very much for your valuable ministry. May God bless your apostolate.
P.S.
I was little bit of puzzled why is it that there is no audio for the Mid day Prayers?
September 17th, 2010 at 20:26
You actually get it. When we get multiple days in a row that are special days I have to work my rear off to get everything in place and it is very hard to make sure everything is perfect. After spending hours cleaning up the audio tracks and doing my edits (we make lots of errors) then I have to assemble and listen to everything several times. You can imagine to just how many times I have to listen to the same thing over, let alone actually doing the recording and then the editing in the first place. Thanks for showing you understand the effort!
September 17th, 2010 at 20:23
Thank you so much. I thank you for your appreciation.
September 17th, 2010 at 15:34
Greetings. Just wanted to let you know that your website is such a blessing to me. I marvel at how much it has enriched my life. I don’t know anything about what readings should take place on what days, but I do know that your ministry is playing a vital role in bringing me closer to my God. I look forward to the prayers and music throughtout the day and evening. Thank you so much for your hard work, dedication and obedience to the Lord. I love you!
September 17th, 2010 at 15:05
Hey I’m amazed you get as much right as you do. And with a Feast followed by a MAJOR memorial, followed by another memorial – - three in a row – - well, that’s a recipe for disaster. And you did a good job with itl
Happy anniversary and may God bless you and your wifel
September 17th, 2010 at 02:59
Yes, sorry we missed it. I am trying to prepare for being out of the country all next week and was focused on next week. It was also my 10th anniversary today so I have had my hands full this week. Sorry about missing it.
September 16th, 2010 at 19:42
Nope that was the memorial celebrated today at Mass. Dane, I think you need to watch this kind of stuff. I still enjoyed the prayers and the hymns.
September 16th, 2010 at 16:05
Maybe the calendar’s been changed since I bought my book – - isn’t today the Memorial of Cornelius and Cyprian?
September 16th, 2010 at 14:45
We see it so often we don’t even read the words. Thanks for pointing that out. I will start looking for it and fix it where I find it. Let us know if you see it again and on what day. Thank you!
September 16th, 2010 at 09:48
Please fix the glaring typo in one of the Invitatory prayers. It’s driving me bananas! As below…:
//Forty years I endured that generation.
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray
and they don not know my ways.”
So I swore in my anger,
“They shall not enter into my rest.”//
…the mistake being “and they don not know my ways”. Thanks and God bless you for what you guys are doing.
September 16th, 2010 at 04:36
I would like to learn more about how you started your ministry and how other became involved in it. I am always moved by those who are called to the Lord and the paths they follow which when given to the Lord lead them to places and tasks He wishes them to become involved in. Blessings to YOU and the The work You Do !
September 15th, 2010 at 18:06
The Saturday reading is a typical reading from the Optional Memorials of the Blessed Virgin. Today is NOT an optional memorial – - it is a feast, but many of the prayers, psalms and readings for a feast are also found in the optional memorials. That’s why it looks familiar. We recently had the same reading from Isaiah (for the birthday of Mary) as we have today in the OR. The Common of the BVM has only so many psalms, readings, and prayers.
September 15th, 2010 at 12:29
Tim, Thank you for pointing this out. I think people need to be reminded. However, we will keep working to improve.
September 15th, 2010 at 12:25
We still have Night Prayer. Our technology had a glitch.
September 15th, 2010 at 12:09
Day Prayer did not list ribbon placement for Wednesdayfor Christian Prayer. I was curious that the Psalms that were used were from a Saturday morning reading. I am new to divineoffice.org so I am learning how to use both the website and the christian prayer book.
September 15th, 2010 at 03:34
Hi Dane,
This is a fantastic site! I notice comments about occasional errors and the way I look at is we’re praying to God, I don’t think he minds if we don’t pray the official text for the hour. Anyways great site and please keep up this great ministry. -Tim
September 14th, 2010 at 18:51
I just want to say that I’m completely amazed at your dedication and that I pray for you and yours daily. The work you do is overwhelming. And I don’t want you to think that I’m unhappy, even if you ARE Mac-centric.
God Bless You.
September 14th, 2010 at 16:04
Why, why, why, have you done away with the Night Prayer ???
The hymns and prayers were so comforting especially after a sometimes long and stressful day. It is greatly missed. Hopefully others will miss it too and you will reconsider and put it back on.
September 14th, 2010 at 12:38
Dear Dane:
Thank you very much!! You know that you, and all of your wonderful staff are always in my prayers. We pray together!! Once gain, thank you!!!! Naidin
September 14th, 2010 at 10:31
I am sorry, until you reported it just now I didn’t know that was happening. I will check into and get things working again.
September 14th, 2010 at 07:33
Noticed Night Prayer is missing from 9/12-9/16… When i did buy this App, I paid 14.99 for all the hours!! I need to have the complines too!! Could you tell me if this problem will be a tempory one? (I hope so) May God bless you!! Naidin
September 13th, 2010 at 17:12
Thanks for your wonderful website and the hard work you do. I would like to pray the Hours but I find it really too complicated for me.
September 13th, 2010 at 16:23
Thanks for checking. I just posted Morning Prayer. If you are new to us I want you to know that we are a “work in progress” ministry so we often get things done just a day ahead of time, as was the case this time, but we work very hard to post well before people around the world will pray. We are making great progress so by this time next year everything will be in place a week or two in advance. Thanks again for letting me know.
September 13th, 2010 at 16:10
well I want to say is that you used the wrong morning prayer for Sept. 14. You didn’t use the morning prayer that is proper for the feast of the Triumph of the Cross. I checked it out on my Christian Prayer. The one that appeared on screen is for ordinary time. Bye.
September 13th, 2010 at 11:56
OK, I finally fixed it. Let me know if the problem arises anywhere else. I don’t mind, in fact I need, reminding. Thank you!
September 12th, 2010 at 20:36
I truly appreciate coming here each day for prayers. I especially love Night Prayers. What a perfect way to end my day and go to bed in peace.
I’ve mentioned this a few times before, so I hate to be a pest but after the Concluding Prayer, just before the final blessing, they’re suddenly saying the Responsory again and they never do say the final prayer, “May the all powerful Lord…”
Can this be fixed, please?
God bless you all.
September 11th, 2010 at 23:59
Hi Dane! Your ministry is so marvelous. I know the Spirit of the Lord is guiding you completely. I love the hymns & I am glad that you are using the traditional ones. It makeas the LOTH truly a traditional prayer. There are other hymns that I saw on the adoremus hymnal that are the same with the hymns of the Christian Prayer. I think its good to check it out.
September 10th, 2010 at 23:13
We are trying to move to all the major platforms, but it takes time and resources so we go where we think the most people are so that we can build our prayer community. I hope we will be everywhere eventually.
September 10th, 2010 at 16:55
I read the notice about all the new iPhone and iPad apps. I rejoice for those who use items. How about the rest of us? Any plans for those of us who use smartphones, blackberries, and Kindles? I love the site. I’d love to have the Catechism app to run on my blackberry. Any chance of looking into other technologies?
I really couldn’t afford an iPhone if I really wanted one.
September 10th, 2010 at 09:33
Very wonderful to have you praying with us and your prayers improve the lives of others in addition to your own. For your prayers we all thank you.
September 10th, 2010 at 09:26
Just ordered the liturgy of the hours….from your Amzn link. Thanks, couldn’t have done this without you. Prayer is life changing! And this Liturgy of the Hours seems to be improving my outlook on life …praying it …almost daily now.
September 10th, 2010 at 07:11
It’s Friday morning, and there is no Friday morning prayer on iTunes. Ooops. I’ll read it here instead.
September 9th, 2010 at 15:46
Mary has been considered a Saint for many, many centuries. She is considered to be the first of the apostles. She is a Saint because she shares the beatific vision, with all the other saints in heaven. She is the Queen of the Apostles and the Queen of Heaven and all the saints. As Catholics we often OMIT the honorific “Saint” from her name, but you’ll see many churches and oratories named “St. Mary’s.”
As to birthdays, only St. John the Baptist and (St) Mary have their birthdays celebrated. Many other saints are observed on the Calendar, but almost all of them are celebrated on or around the date of their DEATHS. Martyrdoms and death dates of Saints are far more likely to have been recorded than the dates of birth. In fact, the celebration of the Births of Mary, John the Baptist, The Immaculate Conception, and the Annunciation are placed on the calendar in relation to the date of Christmas and other immovable feasts. We do not know the exact dates of the births of any saint – - not even the date of birth of Jesus the Christ. The dates are selected for the celebration of these “birthdays” because these particular saints, and of course Jesus, Himself, are so important to the faith.
So no. We don’t celebrate the birthdays of other saints on the calendar. We celebrate their “lives,” and we generally use a date near to the date most recognized as the dates of their deaths.
September 9th, 2010 at 07:08
I too am brought to tears when I hear Melinda’s Ave Maria and I so enjoy all that she does for your Divine Office…..I enjoy and appreciate all that you all do as I pray with you each day with all that are saying the LOH….I wish that she would do a CD on Itunes or at least some individual songs that she does…..it is like listening to the angels sing their praise to Him most high!!! I look forward to the Sat. evening and Sunday morning prayers with her singing/chanting with ? (I can’t remember his name) They lift me up to the heights of prayer….thanks so much for all that you do….Peace! Sharon
September 8th, 2010 at 13:09
The Ave Maria brought tears and goosebumps! It was beautiful.
September 8th, 2010 at 13:08
The Feast of the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary has been celebrated in the Church at least since the 8th Century. The Church’s calendar observes the birthdays of only two saints: Saint John the Baptist (June 24), and Mary, Mother of Jesus.
Why does the website reference Mary as a saint? Also, doesn’t the church calendar celebrate other’s saints birthday?
September 8th, 2010 at 09:41
I will let Melinda know. She is a blessing to our ministry. Thank you for praying with us and thank you for sharing this.
September 8th, 2010 at 09:00
Dane, I had to take a moment to express how moved I was by the beauty of the “Ave Maria” that sung by Melinda Kirigin-Voss during today’s Office of Readings for the Feast of the Birth of Mary. It left me speechless and came close to tears!! Hearing that redition was a true blessing!
God bless you, Melinda and the rest of the team for such a beautiful and enriching ministry!
September 7th, 2010 at 13:30
We will continue and please tell everyone about this ministry as well.
September 7th, 2010 at 08:51
Continue propagating the Divine office to the Lost Souls.
September 6th, 2010 at 10:49
Like so many others who have shared their strong support and words of gratitude for the work you are doing , I too wish you to accept my complimentsand my sincere thanks.!!
I am paticularily pleased with how the language has been updated and brings with it a more modern interpretation of the scripture.Here in Ireland , I have used a 1971 version and on times have been somewhat confused as to the meaning behind some of the phrases and terms.Your version is so much more clear and in turn I find more rewarding.In fact I have my brother seaching to purchase a set of the books for me in Canada.
So thank you again and God bless you all for your dedication.
Brendan
September 4th, 2010 at 11:47
Thank you very much for your explanation. God bless you for your work. I am excited to share your podcasts with my fellow parishoners. Peace be to you. Ted
September 4th, 2010 at 10:44
We use Libsyn for podcast hosting and they have hundreds of podcasts. They are the main hosting service on the Internet so they do not promote or filter the podcasts. They have no affiliation with the podcasts that they host or vice versa. Many notable Christian podcasts are also hosted on Libsyn.
However, I have tried to get them to not list us as a “Wizzard Media” show because of the exact things you have noticed. I will keep trying to get them to leave us out of their listing.
September 4th, 2010 at 04:32
Peace be to you. Thank you for your wonderful podcast. I listen to it in my car when I cannot prayer the Hours on my own. I would like to post your podcast in my parish bulletin but concerned about your affiliation with Wizzard Media. They clearly support anti-Christian media. I was appauled to see some of their programing — such as Midwest Teen Sex Show…-clearly anti Theology of the Body. Why is your wonderful podcasts affiliated with them? Ted
August 31st, 2010 at 03:20
The Prayer of the Church is Truly Universal. Having a Site that you have created is a Great Blessing to Each of Us and to the Church. Your Ministry allows each of us to come to your site and be able to pray the Liturgy of the Hours along with the voices of others and unite our Prayer to Praise Our God!
God Bless Each of those involved in creating this Ministry !!!
August 30th, 2010 at 18:53
The new look in the iPod is just excellent. A+ again. God bless you all for a wonderful ministry. “Da best”, as we say in Chicagoland…
August 30th, 2010 at 09:21
First, let me say that the sung Psalms on Sunday are superb! Next, an observation on the Marian Antiphons for Night Prayer. I understood that The Alma Redemptoris Mater is sung from the First Sunday of Advent to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord. The Ave Regina Cælorum is sung from the first day after the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord to Holy Saturday. The Regina Cæli is sung from Easter to Pentecost and the Salve Regina is sung after Pentecost to the First Sunday of Advent. I listen to Night Prayer on my way to work and it gives me great peace to start my shift. Thank you for your work in making the Hours available
August 26th, 2010 at 00:36
Congratulations for a beautiful job done. Here in the Philippines we are Catholics & prayer is very important to us. I hope I can have better transmision here in our place bec. sometimes it is choppy. The other thing is, we use here the Christian Prayer used by the Daughters of St. Paul. I hope that you will consider their version of the LOTH bec. I’m sure others are using it too. Thank You. Let’s pray for each other. I like your idea that you use the oiginal hymns of LOTH.
August 21st, 2010 at 09:46
St. Kolbe was a recent addition to the USA ordo, which is to say that this saint was added since the publishing of your book and also of the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours. Your book is most likely to be the newest printing of the book and it is not out of date. What you might be missing is the supplement that accompanies the book when it is sold, but there isn’t enough in the supplement to be concerned about. Just keep you book and take your queues from us
August 21st, 2010 at 05:46
Hi Dane and team,
I am still new at this, however I don’t see my single volume St. Joseph’s edition of the Christian Prayer book containing the newly added saints such as St. Kolbe.
Is my book out of date? Is there an added book or suppliment that contains the newly added saints?
Thanks for your help to clarify this.
August 20th, 2010 at 12:03
They do give different options at times, but you don’t really need the St. Joseph guide at all if you are paying attention to the dates for the Common of Saints. Admittedly, I use it for just that reason. I am now looking to see if a special day is optional, which is indicated by giving an alternate celebration for the day, or mandatory, no alternate. I am not even sure it is perfectly correct in this regard ether because somedays require a memorial and others don’t, which one would think should be indicated differently in the LOTH. The LOTH only indicates if something is Solemnity, Feast, or Memorial and does not give a label to optional memorials and commemorations (usually). So I would expect that these “labeled” days should be the required days, but it isn’t always the case.
August 20th, 2010 at 11:56
Exactly! We have the instructions here http://divineoffice.org/general-instructions/#Ch%20III-X
August 20th, 2010 at 11:06
I agree exactly with Dane’s response. I would only add that the hymns should also be in keeping with the TIME of the hour. For example, a MP hymn should be appropriate for the dawn or early morning. Evening Prayer should be geared to the afternoon, etc. The Office or Readings, original a VIGIL, or night office, frequently has assigned to it a hymn which talks of the middle of the night. This might, appropriately, be changed for a hymn appropriate to the time of day you’re praying the office.
Not READING the General Instruction at this instant, I’m relying on my memory when I quote it as saying: “Then the appropriate hymn is said.” We don’t even have to sing it. We can recite it.
I prefer to sing. I like to choose a psalm tone and sing the Psalter, from time to time, as well – - and CP has a nice assortment of psalm tones to choose from, as well.
The idea is reverence and appropriateness.
Right Dane?
August 20th, 2010 at 10:12
If one follows those steps then It makes sense. Thanks for walking me through that. I find it difficult trying to use the St. Joseph guide and the itnernal rubrics found within the breviary itself. They seem to conflict at times.
Thanks.
August 20th, 2010 at 09:43
We are not limited to the hymnal for hymns used in the LOTH. It is the one area were you have flexibility so long as it is in keeping with the dignity of the Liturgy.
The hymn should be designed to praise God and incline and draw the spirit to a devout celebration.
August 20th, 2010 at 09:16
This information answers a lot of questions about the use of sacred music in LOTH. Are we limited to the hymnal? I’m a Vatican II child and a lot of the music is unknown to me. If I know it, I will have it in my head like an echo for hours because I heard it as a child and don’t hear it now.
August 20th, 2010 at 08:34
We don’t take liberties to mix and match so if we actually did this it was a mistake, which definitely can happen. Let me lead you through it as I verify the text myself in the process.
Step 1 – go to the Common of Saints for St. Bernard, August 20. The instructions say “From the common of doctors of the Church, 1777, or of holy men: religious, 1872, except the following:” and the following text includes the Office of Readings Second Reading, Responsory, Concluding Prayer and the Antiphons for the Canticle of Zechariah for Morning Prayer and Antiphon for the Canticle of Mary for Evening Prayer.
Step 2 – we selected to use common of doctors so proceed to common of doctors of the church, 1777. Here you will find instructions on page 1776 that “Everything is taken from the common of pastors, 1742, except the following:” and the following text (Evening Prayer I is not applicable) has the Invitatory Antiphon, First Reading and Responsory for Office of Readings. It also has a Second Reading, Gospel Canticle Antiphons, etc, but those have already been assigned in step 1.
Step 3 – Go to common of pastors, 1742, and get everything that has not been specified already. Specifically, for Office of Readings we get psalms and their antiphons, verse before readings. For Morning Prayer, we pickup antiphons, but are instructed to use psalms and canticle from Sunday, Week I, 652, and we also pickup the Intercessions. Evening Prayer provides the antiphons, psalms, and intercessions.
If you see that I have done it differently then let me know, but I believe we have done this correctly.
August 20th, 2010 at 07:50
Great job on the website! God bless your work and increase it.
I also noticed something different about your format. For today’s memorial for St. Bernard the St. Joseph Guide states that the common to be used is either Common of Doctors OR Religious. It seems that your team decided to use both Doctors AND Religious. I thought the norm was to choose one or the other Commons and then supplement what is missing from the Psalter and Proper for the day. Is it permissible to combine Commons? It sure makes the prayer more laborious (one more common to flip to and not enough ribbons to mark them all!) Just curious.
Pax et bonum,
Br. Kevin Dulin, SFO
August 20th, 2010 at 07:20
The Liturgy of the Hours specifies what to use and we follow it explicitly, but you do have the option of praying the current day psalter.
Since tomorrow, August 21, is the the Memorial of St. Pius X, pope the Four-volume Liturgy of the Hours explicitly states “From the common of pastors: for a pope, 1748. However, it has become optional, not preferable, to pray the psalter for that day.
August 20th, 2010 at 07:15
From the web site when you click on the yesterday or tomorrow link you will see the address has a date in it, which you can then change. Here is an example of what you want to put in http://divineoffice.org/?date=20100817
August 20th, 2010 at 04:51
I thought for obligatory memorials, the psalms should be from the current day in the psalter.
August 19th, 2010 at 16:38
I truly enjoy reading the LOTH. Your site is great! Thank you for your dedication. When I miss a day I like to go back and catch up. I missed Tuesday, August 17th Readings. I cannot find them. I don’t use the ipod or iphone so the suggestion to uninstall that app doesn’t apply. Please Advise?
August 19th, 2010 at 13:20
I think Dane has done a great job of finding recordings of the hymns designated in the Psalter of the 4-volume set of the Liturgy of the Hours. I always found it unfortunate that in that set, the lyrics to the hymns are printed for each hour, each day, but the music is nowhere to be found. When I was in formation for the Diaconate, because I have a degree in Music, the Director of Formation would always ask me to lead the hymns. It was hard to do, and I frequently had to make substitutions, because I didn’t know all the hymns, and couldn’t find the music to learn them.
However, even though it doesn’t have ALL the hymns, many used in the Office of Readings, for example, The one-volume Christian Prayer DOES have a hymnal in the center of it – - words and music for the vast majority of the hymns used in the Office of Readings.
For the little hours, and for the seasons outside Ordinary Time, the instructions there give a range of hymns from which to select, and I noted, during the Easter Time (during which I found this site) that Dane also selects hymns from that group of selections. The music for these is also present in Christian Prayer.
So – - even if you want to buy the 4-volume set – - which isn’t a bad idea at all, it is still also a good idea to have Christian Prayer to use as a hymnal if nothing else.
August 19th, 2010 at 08:08
I will try to take better care of getting the volume of the hymns to the proper level. Thanks for pointing that out.
August 18th, 2010 at 19:08
I too love the music parts. I wished that you would let us know where we could get not only the words, but also the music so that I could use it when I share what you offer with others around me.
August 18th, 2010 at 16:14
You may need to delete your iTunes subscription and then subscribe again. In fact, try doing this every 4 weeks to make sure you get all downloads properly.
The reason for this problem is that iTunes is not designed for podcasts that have several published per day and publish some of them over again.
August 18th, 2010 at 08:14
there are no prayers for the 18th on itunes!!!! please help….I see they are on you web site but what do we need to do????
August 18th, 2010 at 08:11
I have difficulty with the audio on the hymns. They are not consistent in level with the readings, so, in order to hear the hymn lyrics, I must turn the volume up – and then turn it down again when the readings commence.
August 18th, 2010 at 08:09
It’s the 18th, but there are no prayers for anything after yesterday. I see that “GrandmaOschner” has asked the same question.
August 18th, 2010 at 07:01
What am I doing wrong. I am unable to download to my ipod from itunes any prayers after the 17th of August? When I click on the “ITUNES PODCAST” button I get a page with prayers to the 21st but when I click on them I can only get itunes showing until the 17th.
Thank you and God Bless. I really miss not praying with you all.
Marie Ochsner
August 17th, 2010 at 18:38
I was taught, back in seminary when I asked the same question, that in English liturgy there have been two traditions – - two basic “traditional translations” of prayers: The monastic tradition and the diocesan tradition. The Liturgy of the Hours, at least in the Authorized English Translation, follows the Monastic Tradition for English Translation. This is why the Psalms are not the New American Bible translations, but are the GRAIL Translations. The Monastic Tradition uses the GRAIL translations of the Psalms.
It is interesting that in Spanish there is no difference in the traditions. It is also interesting that on ebreviary.com they use the diocesan translation and not the monastic one.
August 17th, 2010 at 09:39
Hopefully you know the answer to this question. Please enlighten us. Why is the doxology of the LOH clearly different than the traditional “Glory Be” And if there is a reason that it is different, why are they intermixed in the audios versus the texts. Thank you.
August 17th, 2010 at 04:41
Your selection of hymns is always so perfect. Some days I don’t feel like praying but the hymn will melt my heart. Thanks for alll the great work!
One little complaint though: oftentimes the lyrics don’t match up with what the choir is actually singing, which makes it hard to sing along. But the hymns really set a nice tone.
August 16th, 2010 at 19:15
Thanks MikeyLove. Good hints
August 16th, 2010 at 18:05
I am guessing you mean ibreviary.com because ebreviary.com does not have any apps.
Divine Office is different in a few ways. The primary difference is that we also have audio Liturgy of the Hours and we are paying royalties to ICEL (International Committee on the English Liturgy) and we will soon be paying royalties, including back royalties, for a few other organizations that we are working with. This makes us the only online resource and iPhone/iPad app to be doing so.
There are also many more differences that comes with having an prayer community praying together using these apps as simply a way to support the ministry.
August 16th, 2010 at 08:57
What is the advantage of your app over ebreviary.com app?
August 15th, 2010 at 19:09
Yes. Turn your volume to zero and read. I do this once in a while. You will love it.
August 15th, 2010 at 15:07
We could not agree more. Amen!
August 15th, 2010 at 06:56
Your Morning Prayer today (Assumption) is absolutely over the top! Melinda Kirigin-Voss is truly phenomenal singing Ave Maria! Her voice resounds in my soul with the sounds that I think we shall hear in eternity in heaven. The readers are great. The background music is wonderful. Your LOH made my day today. God bless.
August 14th, 2010 at 20:08
I am considering buying this app for the iphone but want to know if there is a way for me to pray without listening to the sound. In other words do you display the text and have the option to mute the sound?
August 14th, 2010 at 19:44
Tomaz,
Look to the right side column of this site,and you will see “Facebook Group” and click that and you will be directed to the facebook page for the Divine Office. I also did a note page on my facebook profile, and wrote about it and left the website address.
August 14th, 2010 at 19:28
How do I add a link to divineoffice.org to my facebook page? I don’t knwo how to do it… Thanks
August 14th, 2010 at 08:30
this has been a great help for me in my prayer life
August 13th, 2010 at 20:38
How can everyone help spread the word about the Divine Office? Allow me to share how I added 14 website links to the DivineOffice.org website. I searched for Catholic links on the web, then emailed each one. I gave the main points Dane has used, and how this ministry is for the laity, as well as the religious, to learn how to pray this wonderful prayer. Vatican II had the Divine Office made easier for the laity to understand. The websites responding were devoted to our faith. One was located in New Zealand. Dane has encouraged all persons, and Christians, to come and pray, not just Catholic’s. I have been unsuccessful in some request, but that is OK. There are thousands of more websites out there.
If you would like to try doing this, simply compose a form letter that you can specialize with the website’s name, or person to whom you are writing. It makes it easy to do a lot of emails this way. A follow up email in 15 days would help. Send Dane a cc of your emails and successful links.
I am a layman, and volunteer this mission, to the Divine Office team. I only share this with you to help you help Dane in the ministry. It is really easy.
May the Holy Spirit bring the light of the Word to all Christians in the Divine Office prayers. Let us join together each day in prayer of the Liturgy of Hours, for the glory of God the Father, of His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
August 13th, 2010 at 17:33
Yes, we are working hard. One of these days I will get far enough ahead to take a weekend off.
I just finished the Invitatory Psalm for the Assumption. Now I have to get all the memorials done for next week.
August 13th, 2010 at 13:31
I noticed that the “Hours” were finished through Sunday. Someone must have been working like crazy to get it all online. I assume that they’re usually not more than a couple days ahead as I have noticed that sometimes a prayer or two might not be ready for the current day if it’s early on.
August 13th, 2010 at 12:50
I knew that you could print the Liturgy of the Hours from previous dates. I didn’t know that it goes both ways. I was able to print the Liturgy of the Hours for Sunday. When you click on “Yesterday” or “Tomorrow” there is a date within the link. All I did was type in the date 20100815 and I was able to retrieve Sunday’s prayers. This is good if I’m not near a computer on the weekend. I can read it whenever I find time through the day. The link below is just the link for Saturday’s “Hours.”
http://divineoffice.org/comments/?date=20100814
August 12th, 2010 at 22:09
am very glad that i found this site coz it add to the synergy of my prayerlife. thanks a lot! Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!
August 12th, 2010 at 08:52
This is exactly what we need. I hope others will take your excellent example. Thank you thank you!
August 11th, 2010 at 19:54
I already made mention of this website by way of my Facebook, MySpace, and on two different Forum websites- so there will be a several hundreds of people from all walks of life possibly looking into this site.
August 11th, 2010 at 17:22
Susan, thank you for granting us permission to use your music and thank you for praying with us! For those who are not familiar with Susan you can find her music on Amazon.com by searching Susan Bailey.
August 11th, 2010 at 13:58
Beautiful site, just started using it this week. Never knew how to pray the Divine Office or if I even could. Now I can! This is a great website for people who are homebound – I recommended it to my homebound friend. Thank you for this ministry!
August 11th, 2010 at 12:23
Thank you Lorraine! Please tell everyone about our site and ask them to link to it. This greatly increases the number of people who will find us and ultimately join us in prayer.
August 11th, 2010 at 05:44
Yes, volume IV is now the correct volume. Much of the content can still be found in volume III.
August 11th, 2010 at 03:44
Are we suppose to be in Volumn IV of then Litugry of the hours?
August 10th, 2010 at 19:01
Yes, I am sorry that I missed it. We are within a few months of completion so now it is important for us to get the word out about our ministry and in the process of doing so I spread myself far too thin and just couldn’t complete it in time. I had to attend the Catholic New Media Celebration to begin the process of letting everyone know we are here. Not to make excuses, but with my family and full-time job I spread myself too thin and simply couldn’t get today’s feast day completed.
I am responding to you, but this is meant for all who read this comment, not necessarily you, it would be great if our community would help others find us by talking about us, blogging, linking, and whatever it takes to promote us. Our community is around 20,000 people and there are only a handful that help us by blogging or linking to us. We don’t fault anyone because we mostly want them to join us in prayer, but without more help from our community it will be upon our shoulders to spread the word in order to complete our mission. I say this humbly with the willingness to do it myself, but it would be really really nice to get help.
To everyone that was dependent upon us today to celebrate today’s feast I can only say I am sorry and I am doing all I humanly can to get everything done. Please have patience with me as I progress this important work.
August 10th, 2010 at 18:37
Today, August 10th is supposed to be an Obligatory Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr- not ordinary day of the week. Just thought I let you know this.
August 10th, 2010 at 09:16
What a treasure I found when I came across your site! It’s beautiful, prayerful, reverent and user friendly. Thank you!
August 9th, 2010 at 20:17
Once you register on our site, which I believe you have done, you will receive the weekly mail. We are not perfectly timed on getting these out because I am handling all the technical work, but we usually try to have it out by Sunday morning.
August 9th, 2010 at 08:25
I very much appreciate all the loving effort that goes into the production of the Liturgy of the Hours. I did notice, though, that the opening for the invitatory should be “Lord, open my lips-and my mouth will proclaim your praise” and not “God come to my assistance…”.
August 8th, 2010 at 12:12
notify me of the new prayers each week. thankyou
August 8th, 2010 at 12:05
are you going to send me the email every week for the new prayers for the week? How can I get that to happen.
August 6th, 2010 at 20:10
Thanks very much for all your work and service. …my english is poor but with you is not a problem to pray. God still to blessing you. Saludos desde Lima-Peru
August 6th, 2010 at 08:58
I noticed that in Aug 6 OOR the hymn is omitted in the printed version since the choir sings it on the podcast, so I skipped the hymn. Although you provide a recorded version of hymns, would you still be able to print the text? Your work has been a great benefit to me–keep up the awesome work!
August 5th, 2010 at 11:57
The dedication of St. Mary Major, according to my calendar, is an optional memorial. The Memorial of St. John Vianny is Obligatory.
August 5th, 2010 at 11:54
I agree with you that the shorter Christian Prayer has a better selection of Readings – - I THINK I recall the readings for the 4-volume set to be something like half the CP longer readings in volume 3 and the other half in volume 4 – - but that might be nothing more than a concept that I drew out of the air. Anyway, that’s one of the reasons I prefer the CP book. The other being that the music (I read music, and haven’t always known the tunes to all the hymns) is printed for the hymns in CP and is NOT in the 4-volume set. In fact, I asked several times, when I was using the 4-volume set, before I retired and donated the set to my current parish, that there was no resource for the music for the hymns. Obviously, I was asking the wrong people.
I also have a sort of a weird question. Why are the Psalm Prayers not included after the psalms on feasts and memorials? I find it odd that we use the same psalms as on other days, but on the “special” days of the year, we omit the Psalm Prayers that we use on the “ordinary” days. I’ve looked for this everywhere, and haven’t been able to find an answer. It holds true for both publications, and I don’t know if it’s just a matter of space (I don’t think it COULD be) or whether somebody thought that the Psalm Prayers were too general for the feasts, memorials, etc.
Do you have any idea?
August 3rd, 2010 at 22:46
Aug 4 and Aug 5 are important feast days, but they are not hear yet
so I have a few more hours to complete Aug 4. They will all be done before people actually should be praying them. This is a lot of work and we often can’t complete very far ahead of when they are to be prayed, but we do try.
August 3rd, 2010 at 21:14
I am hoping that I’m wrong but Aug 4 is the Memorial of St. John Vianney who was a key figure in this past year’s Year of the Priest. Also, isn’t August 5 a big deal too with the Dedication of St. Mary Major? I always use your tomorrow tab to check the invitatory antiphon and so this. It would be easier to me for my Christian Prayer Book if I didn’t have to do the Common of Pastor etc. But in obedience I want to pray the right LOTH. thanks for your good work.
August 3rd, 2010 at 21:00
There is a slight difference between publications. You would think that the single volume Christian Prayer book would have the shorting readings, but that would be wrong, because it is the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours that has slightly shorter readings.
We like the longer readings, but it causes some confusion so we are trying to decide on the best way forward. We want to be a perfect match with the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours, but at times the Christian Prayer book provides better readings. We are trying to figure out how to have the best of both.
August 3rd, 2010 at 04:36
This may be more an issue of what edition is being used. I use Christian Prayer by the Catholic Book Publishing Company, so there may be some minor differences. I notice that the Readings, as in Morning Prayer for 8/3/2010, are sometimes abbreviated to what I see in my book. Today’s Reading skips the 1st two sentences I have, and ends mid-way through the final sentence.
Additionally, the closing Prayer ends “where you live and reign…forever and ever” omitting “…with the Father and the Holy Spirit,…” which appears in my book.
A choice on your part, or a difference in publishing ompany editions?
August 1st, 2010 at 11:48
Thanks for pointing it out. We will correct it soon.
July 31st, 2010 at 21:59
It’s more than just Sunday. It happens other days of the week as well.
July 31st, 2010 at 21:58
It still happens at the end of Night Prayer that suddenly they’re saying the Responsory again and they don’t say the final blessing, “May the all-powerful Lord…”
July 31st, 2010 at 21:41
It appears to be an ongoing problem, that the Sunday Night Prayer repeats the Responsory after the final prayer, instead of the correct Conclusion.
July 31st, 2010 at 19:27
Thank you for responding so fast. I will not switch phones before LOTH is available. You have made a difference (huge) in my prayer life.
God bless you, your ministry and all that support and work with you.
Allow me to recommend two things:
1) post a big notice in your homepage when you do come up with a Droid version
2) plan on making it a no charge to switch, or a nominal fee to help cover your development cost, for those who already purchased the iPhone version.
July 31st, 2010 at 07:31
Yes, the Droid is our next platform, but we are wrapping up a redesign of our existing iPhone Divine Office app before we build the Droid version so it is still several months away. We hope before year end.
July 30th, 2010 at 18:21
HI. Any short term plans for having a Droid version?
July 27th, 2010 at 19:29
Welcome to all CFP members, and the many who come to pray together the the Divine Office. Pax et Bonum
Paul
July 27th, 2010 at 16:14
Nothing wrong with the file, we were just updating it. It is now in place. Thanks for letting us know in case it was a problem.
July 27th, 2010 at 16:05
I am unable to download Morning Prayer for July 29th, although I have successfully downloaded other files for July 29th and 28th and 30th. Is there something wrong with that file?
Thanks.
July 27th, 2010 at 15:19
Rhea, it is fixed now. Sorry about that, but we found errors and we were in the process of replacing it, but forgot to publish it. Thanks for letting us know!
July 27th, 2010 at 15:18
Thank you for trying to help, but I am back to work and have now fixed it. Thanks again for your service to others!!!
July 27th, 2010 at 14:05
Thank you Carlos, that helped a lot. Rhea 5:05 pm
July 27th, 2010 at 10:47
Ouch! Two typos in one message.
I need to slow down. Sorry.
July 27th, 2010 at 10:42
That is odd. I can’t see it either. Just in case Dane does not seer your post in time, here is a link to the audio from the RSS Feed:
http://c1.libsyn.com/media/18602/divine-ord-w01-tue-ep.mp3?nvb=20100727172819&nva=20100728173819&sid=f9fcbcbc789bb46978e9285db0d9b49e&t=0154bf19ffe7cf4f3f356
I hope it’s the latest version.
Also, if you have the books, here are the ribbon locations:
Ribbon Placement:
Liturgy of the Hours Vol. III:
Ordinary: Page 668
All from the Psalter: Tuesday, Week I, Page 738
Liturgy of the Hours Vol. IV:
Ordinary: Page 632
All from the Psalter: Tuesday, Week I, Page 702
Christian Prayer (single volume)
Ordinary: Page 694
Psalter: Tuesday, Week I, Page 734
The text is too long to post, but hopefully this will due if it doesn’t get fixed in time.
July 27th, 2010 at 08:42
Help: Looking for July 27 Evening prayer?
July 26th, 2010 at 23:56
Again THANK YOU all for your efforts on this site It’s just wonderful to come here and know your not praying alone!!!!! I would have one small request ; is it possible for you to turn up the volume on the music ? The past few days it has been difficult to hear them,even with my volume turned up. No matter what,I will continue to use this site,and know,there are many here. May GOD bless you all richly!!!
July 26th, 2010 at 16:21
Welcome to the Confraternity of Penitents. May you find this website a blessing as it has been for many. Pax et Bonum
Paul
July 26th, 2010 at 07:15
Just a quick note to say that I really enjoy the new readers. Not that Denise, Kriss , Grag and you aren’t wonderful. You often said you were looking for some variation. This is a great way to do it. Plus, we don’t know who we will be praying with.
July 25th, 2010 at 20:36
I am having problems with night prayer. I download the podcast for itunes but nightprayer for the 24 and the 25 of july both have the same probably. Other ways are also probably like this. After the Prayer, and before the Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the audio the Responsory is read again, instead of the Conclusion (“Mat the all-powerful Lord…”).
Please Help
July 25th, 2010 at 11:21
I guess I am caught
, I tried to go on vacation this week and trying to get ahead last week has created a few errors, like this one. I apologize. I will be off vacation tomorrow and should be able to avoid these mistakes. It is very hard to do this work remotely, but it is possible and I have corrected the reading.
July 25th, 2010 at 10:58
I have noted the problem and I will check into it. Thank you!
July 25th, 2010 at 10:57
Hi Jim,
I am not sure if I can help with Facebook, but I will try.
Follow the link http://www.facebook.com/pages/Divine-Office/75941565913
If you are not logged in then at the upper right you will have fields to enter your email address and password with a button labeled “login”. If you have an account you would enter the information here. If you don’t have an account then you click on the login button and it will take you to a screen to try your email and password again or to sign up for a facebook account.
I also noticed that their was a sign up for a facebook account on the top left of the screen that is our Divine Office facebook page. You could use that to create an account also.
If you are already logged in then you will see the center column has six tabs, the first one of which is labeled “Wall”. This is where comments are posted. When logged in there will be a field right under the “Wall” tab and above all other comments. The field has text already in it to prompt you. It reads “What’s on your mind?”. You can paste text into that field and the prompting text will vanish. When your text has been entered you will click on the button near the bottom right of the text box labeled “Share”.
I think that will get you going. If not, let me know.
July 25th, 2010 at 09:08
Thank you for letting us know. I will try to use Erica’s Te Deum a little more. Something I like about Erica’s version is that it has a bit of a Jewish feel to it.
July 25th, 2010 at 06:53
My husband and I truly love the Divine Office on Sunday when the psalms are sung. We also like Erica’s singing of the Te Deum (the best of all!) because she has such a clear and beautiful voice.
July 25th, 2010 at 06:35
Today’s Morning Prayer (7/25), the Reading audio is not the same as the text (text is correct per Christian Prayer).
July 24th, 2010 at 21:25
I believe this is a problem every Saturday. The Night prayer for 7/24/2010, after the Prayer, and before the Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on the audio the Responsory is read again, instead of the Conclusion (“Mat the all-powerful Lord…”).
July 24th, 2010 at 16:28
Thanks again, Dane.
Now my “blind” problem is trying to post my comment on Facebook. I clicked the link and got there, but then—what? I was lost in a jungle. I found loads of comments, but nowhere to upload mine. This is no doubt due to my ignorance of how Facebook works. Linda started an account there because all our adult children are there, but the last time she went there was several months ago. She has loads of emails generated by Facebook, and when I get them, I move them to her own folder , tell her, and then we both forget about them. In contrast, snail mail gets piled up on the table and eventually, if you want to sit down and have dinner, you have to at last plow through it all, but this digital stuff can so conveniently be forgotten in some digital folder, and it is.
So we don’t know how to use her account, let alone yours. Just today we both spent about two hours trying to figure out just what a “blog” is and how it works. Does the Facebook icon after a post mean one can dupe it over at one’s own Facebook file, account, or whatever you call one’s “section”?
Maybe once sighted folks get to your Facebook section they see some icon flashing something like “Add your comment here!” but I can’t “see” it. What I do with my JAWS for Windows screenreader (info at
http://www.freedomscientific.com/) is search the page for some term like “comments” and that’s how I find it. In the sample blog on GoDaddy this AM I searched that way for “Twitter” and even found what was not visible on the screen for her. It took us about a half hour to figure out that she had to move her (it is useless to me)mouse over a blank area after the visible word “Share:” and presto! she saw Twitter pop up, Facebook and some things we never heard of before like “DIG.”
I am afraid I might end up having better luck teaching my 1 year old mutt, Goldylox, not to poop on the carpet, than you will have teaching me how to post a comment at your Facebook section.
Kids are never taught this stuff. They just “osmose” it—unfortunately, along with a lot of negative stuff from their sibling society. At least I am not quite as bad as our youngest’s godmother, who is a great organist, but when I asked her to record on audio cassette the music to some hymns we wanted to learn, she found some tape recorder in her attic, but didn’t know what to push to get it to record. That beautiful lady was once pres. of VT Right to Life. Hmm, I wonder if Nellie Gray (foundress of March for Life in DC) is on Facebook yet. I suppose if the pope is…
I was in Nassau when the Beatles filmed “Help.” To quote from their lyrics:
“Won’t you please, please help me?”
Jim C. Cunningham
Jay Peak, Vermont
(just south of the North Pole)
July 24th, 2010 at 08:38
Jim,
Would you mind posting this comment on our Divine Office Facebook page? The link is http://www.facebook.com/pages/Divine-Office/75941565913
You are an inspiration and your writings should be shared.
July 24th, 2010 at 08:11
It’s good to know that who all is helping to bring us this blessing.
July 24th, 2010 at 06:34
Dear Dane,
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my concerns so quickly.
1. My concern about maybe no longer being able to download the offices as MP3’s because I no longer “see” the “icon for pod press” thingy is not a concern after all. This AM I downloaded MP just fine, simply clicking when my screenreader said, “Link Download: Standard Podcast.” So now I know I no longer have to wait to hear that “icon” note to click.
I am trying so hard to keep up (at least somewhat) with all this technology, but it is really overwhelming. The learning curve is hard enough if one has vision, let alone for us blind folks. I know some blind folks who don’t even try. They hardly even listen to audio books on the old audio cassettes. How Helen Keller did it without even being able to hear or speak right is a total marvel. I think if I lost my hearing also I would just resign myself to the contemplative life altogether, which after all, wouldn’t be so bad. And my neuropathy is such that I have poor feeling. I can hardly feel that standard little bump manufacturers routinely put on the #5 key in number pads. Instead, Linda (my wife) glues squares of rough emery cloth on certain keys so I can navigate keyboards better. And I think I manage to type better than most folks.
But hey, I have fingers, and they still do a lot. Can’t imagine weeding our gardens with stumps or some mechanical prosthetic device. But even if all our limbs were amputated, and none of our senses worked right, if we had a beating heart and a soul imbued with the faith of Christ, we would be better off than healthy billionaires. We could still sing that jubilant invitatory prayer each morning, and even if we didn’t have the mental health for that, we could still do what Ps. 119:36 bids we do: incline our hearts unto him. Maybe Terri Schiavo did this better than anyone else on earth with all our high tech psalters and meticulous fastidiousness to rubrics (my tendency). For all we know, Terry could be higher than St. Thomas Aquinas in the heavenly places. “He lifts up the lowly” (cf. Luke 1:52). I once knew a nurse who had a patient (client) at a State hospital who was barely a torso and head with just enough organs to function. In a very real sense, we who look down on him with pity are self-righteous and blind, because it is we who deserve to be pitied so much more. Think of all the “stuff” (i.e. “the world) that inhibits and all but prevents us from living in Christ, and imagine all of it suddenly being rendered absolutely ineffective in our battle against the principalities and powers. That guy was not only on the lintel of heaven, but he was even already leaning over into it.
I once assisted a priest in celebrating Mass for the (in)famous Danvers State Hospital in Massachusetts. Many could not even receive Holy Communion in the conventional way because they might not swallow the Host. But it seemed they were already where the Host would deign to bring the rest of us. One patient/client lady played the piano for the “hymns.” She very well might have played “A Bicycle Built for Two,” and some of her congregation might have sung along with the lyrics to “Ring around the Rosy,” but their performance heard in heaven would have far outshone anything Notre Dame de Paris ever heard. I have not yet read Fr. Henri Nouwen on his experience at Larch communities, but I know him (he helped bring me back to Christ) and bet he also saw things this way.
The soon to be canonized Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen also said some things about his experience at an African leper colony that at first seem downright heretical, but it may be that the holy cross (the back end we carry) may be far more supernatural than everything in Canon Law and all the Ecumenical Councils. It’s not to derogate this other, but rather to elevate the cross to its true, triumphal station. And to think how we ignorami are always complaining about it. “Oh, Mommy, do I really have to eat this cake and ice cream?”
2. I did manage to listen to your audio of yesterday’s (July 23) evening prayer, and the pronouns were correct—not like the txt you provided.
When I was younger, I thought I was smarter, and might also have tampered with liturgical pronouns, thereby “improving” on the word of God. I did some things I thought more “pious,” but not exactly “with the program.” This was in the days when many priests also thought they knew better and would routinely give Communion in the hand before authorized to do so. But when we take liberties, it can literally lead to anything. One priest in DC even had a guy walk a tight rope over the altar during Mass “to get the congregation to pay attention. A Vermont priest near here on Pentecost did not exactly follow the rubrics on vestments, walking down the main aisle during the Introit bedecked in Christmas lights, “after all, it’s a birthday party, isn’t it?” The give an inch, take a mile proverb is so true.
Now I obey, even when “I know better.” So the present lectionary that has a monopoly at Mass is a translation which I think I know better ought to be shelved in some dusty cellar in the Vatican, but the bosses that be say that’s the one to use, so that’s the one to use. But while we use it we can “respectfully” complain about it. And now that even that translation has been made even worse with all the pronoun distortions, lest some feminist (who I doubt even exists) should take offense that Jesus plans to leave women behind at the resurrection since he did say, :I will raise HIM up on the last day.” (I do hope this lady emails me. She ought to have a place beside the stuffed, 2-headed calf in our village library.)
I also don’t like Pope Paul VI allowing the “”deprecatory psalms” to be excised from our liturgical Psalter. Psalm 109 was good enough for St. Peter, who cites it as his reason for replacing Judas in the apostolic ministry (cf. Acts 1:20). But he did what he did, and he sat on the apostolic seat—not me, so I accept the new psalter,. Even though many of us understand that the deprecatory psalms were not to be interpreted in terms of cursing our earthly enemies, but our far worse, infernal ones, not to mention our own faults that keep us back from clinging to Christ. But maybe most folks would take it literally, and in this world of wars, wars and more wars, praying such psalms was not, just then, germane.
I did not agree with Paul VI’s detente with the Soviet Union, but sided with Cardinal Mindszenty instead. But the wall did come down, and the Soviets even dissolved themselves, so maybe Mindszenty and I would have inadvertently ushered in World War III instead. I just re-re-read The Little Flowers of St. Francis, and over and over again we are taught that obedience is everything.
So I accept the present lectionary, and suffer in the pews as it is read. At least we are finally getting a decent translation of the ordinary of the Mass this year, for which I have patiently (yeah, right!) waited the better part of a half century.
All things come to him/her/it who waits.
Grateful always,
Jim C. Cunningham
Jay Peak, Vermont
July 23rd, 2010 at 23:28
Patti, thank you from all of us. There are four of us who have been recording for four years. Over the past six months we added Randy Sly as the reader of our second readings on Office of Readings and then two months ago we added Melinda and Vince to sing the psalms. Before that we had music from Erika Provinzano. We have also had two people getting our text right, Monica and Barbara, for about seven months.
I say this because there are now more people investing their time then just six people. It is my fault for the faulty math, but we were only four for almost four years. Then just this year we added several others with investments of time from a few hours per week to full-time. To all of them I am very grateful. I don’t want to discount their importance.
July 23rd, 2010 at 23:10
And may God bless you abundantly as well! Please don’t feel compelled to donate. For those on a fixed income I ask that you simply pray for us and with us. Keep your money to cover your needs. We know you want to help so just tell other people about us and help spread the word about us and that will be entirely sufficient.
July 23rd, 2010 at 20:53
Thought I’d throw in another GOD BLESS YOU DANE, and ALL of you, for doing this work. I’d been looking for such a site for ages when this one, by the Grace of God, popped up in a search for a specific psalm. Since that day, I’ve been praying the Office of Readings (at least) from this site – - and generally continuing to use my Christian Prayer for morning and evening prayers.
I know, also, that paying ICEL for permissions cannot be an inexpensive prospect. I’m trying to save up some cash to make a donation – - being on a fixed income, this is not easy, but it will be worth it.
God Bless You and Yours, yet again.
July 23rd, 2010 at 20:23
Jim,
First of all I must say that we absolutely listen and secondly we learn from our mistakes and take action to correct them. Without being told of mistakes we sometimes go blissfully forward unknowingly repeating them until the work to correct them is herculean.
I read your comment and felt my heart sink. We are now licensed and pay royalties to ICEL (International Committee on the English Liturgy) so we want perfect adherence to the published text, except for errors of course. This is not just our will, but also our agreement with ICEL. But, this is not to say that we have not wanted to change the text upon occasion and in the distant path we did occasionally try to make the audio inclusionary, that was until we found that by our actions we made it even more exclusive. We no longer do what you fear we do. We did at one time, we don’t know, and we didn’t do it on purpose this time.
Listen to our audio and you will find that we read from the four-volume Liturgy of the Hours and so our audio is true to that text, except for an occasional blunder.
After a little research I found the problem. Remember, we are a small ministry and typing every word of text would create even greater errors from typos and transpositions. What we do now is copy and paste our psalm text from http://www.athanasius.com. We thought this was a reliable source for this translation of the psalms. I continue to believe this source is reliable, but now we will have to keep vigilant to keep our text to the published four-volume LOTH.
I can’t tell you how much I value your “raising the pennant” of concern, but nothing to be worried about from us, we just needed to see the problem and we will be off to fix it. I have no idea how many more of these things are in our text or how to best fix them. We will have to rely upon our community to ferret out inconsistencies so that we can get them fixed.
I can use your help in another area. We have been discussing our accessibility and we would like your guidance in making these prayers as accessible as possible to all people. If you can give us guidance on how to do that then we would be most thankful and I know that many others who are blind or visually impaired would thank you as well.
The podpress plugin we use on our site had a recent update. I think this prevented you from downloading the offices. I will look for settings to improve that behavior and I will attend to the misspelling. Thank you so much for pointing this out.
May God bless you,
Dane
July 23rd, 2010 at 20:14
Dear Dane,
I thank God for you many times a day, for you have kept me true to my duty as a Discalced Carmelite. Praying with you blessed six faithful people make it so much easier for me to concentrate on the Divine Office. I have trouble keeping my focus when I pray it myself. Thank you and God Bless You.
Patti
July 23rd, 2010 at 16:39
Dear Friends,
It was not till this evening at Evening Prayer that I noticed something I had not noticed before. Was I sleeping before, or is this something new?
The first psalm, Ps. 145, said:
“and declare your might, O God,
“to make known to ALL your mighty deeds”
Doesn’t the text say “MEN” where your text has “ALL”?
Is there some new, authorized text out that I do not know about? How is this going to work when praying in community with brethren (sistren? allren?) using the different texts?
Then your text had:
“let all PEOPLES bless his holy name”
But my memory had “MANKIND.” Am I mistaken? I have had big problems with this kind of tampering with the word of God. The first time I heard it was at St. Joseph’s Trappist Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts, c. 1975, where the principal celebrant at Sunday Mass changed the words of Christ in John 6:54, when, in the Gospel, he read, “and I will raise HER up on the last day.”
When I heard it from the nave, I reached down to my Bible by my side, and checked, just in case I had gotten it wrong all these years, and sure enough, it said “and I will raise HIM up on the last day.”
I wrote to Abbot Thomas Keating about it, and he replied that that monk’s knuckles had been duly rapped, but that he had thought a major benefactor (Claire Booth Luce) was also in the nave, and thinking she was a feminist (was she?), changed the Lord’s words to placate her.
But is there really a single woman in the world who honestly thought/thinks that she was excluded from the resurrection by the original text? Jesus has all he can do to keep St. Mary Magdalen from hanging onto him after the resurrection, and by using the default generic third person singular personal pronoun, “him,” Jesus planned to shut her out because she was a female?
I don’t believe it. Language is sacred and we just don’t make it up to accommodate some transitory fad (other than techno-terms for unnamed things). I am always reading, and I read books from ancient times to the present. My wife and I are presently reading Dickens’ David Copperfield together. Is there really a disgruntled lady out there somewhere who has a problem with Dickens’ grammar and use of “he/him/his” for the default generic 3rd person singular personal pronoun? I wish she would email me and make my day.
In the meantime, the real persecution of the fairer sex continues unabated almost everywhere, while we self-righteously make ourselves feel good by such frivolous, symbolic gratuitousness? I grant I can’t say for sure, but I believe (as does my better half) that were I blessed with the other software called “wo-MAN” (“wo-PERSON”?), I would feel insulted by being thrown such bones.
And one of the many absurdities of trying to castrate our English language is the many inconsistencies that inevitably arise. One example is in that very same Evening Prayer service, when, in the Concluding Prayer, you had:
“you brought salvation to all MANKIND “
Consistency would have demanded you use “PEOPLES” again as above in Ps. 145.
If the text really says “PEOPLES” & ALL,” then I reluctantly admit you guys are just obediently following the given translation, miserable as it often is. But if you are tinkering around with the text like that Spencer Trappist, then my conscience bids me write this before silence wrongly sends the message of agreement. God knows are culpable silence about so many issues has made absurdities such as two PEOPLE blessed with the same software imagining that they have the requisite “sacramental matter” to effect the sacrament of matrimony!
And we don’t speak because—for but one reason–we don’t want to sound like moaners and groaners.
I have noticed the hymn choices being far less sophisticated than a few months ago, and I like it. My wife and I have wished for decades that there were some hymnal or CD that showed how to sing all the given hymns in the LOH. We don’t like to simply recite them, but more often than not, it is either that, or singing the same old, same old, all the time.
I also noticed today that I couldn’t download the offices as MP3’s in the usual way I know how to do without having any vision. I usually click on the “icon for podpress,” but today that option was not in the offerings. I can still click on the “Hide Player” and then “Play Now” which I guess is some built-in MP3 player on your website, but it is not blind-friendly like my Winamp player is, and I have no control like pause, ff, and rewind. I hope you are not deleting the way I used to be able to download and let Winamp play it on my PC for me.
Again, just giving feedback lest silence send the message that all is hunky dory here in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
What is really great about you guys is that you really do listen and pray and then act accordingly. Maybe lay-run apostolates will prove to be better at listening than the clerical-run 99.9% of them, because I still can’t recall any priest who ever made me feel listened to, but that is another story.
Always grateful,
Jim C. Cunningham
Jay Peak, Vermont
PS: There is a typo on your homepage:
A link to Saint Joseph Guide spells Saint as Seint.
July 23rd, 2010 at 05:09
Dane,I want to thank you and your whole team for the work you are doing. I felt greatly blessed when I found your sight. May God continue to bless you all for your persistance in this gift to us.
July 23rd, 2010 at 04:30
Morning Prayer 7/23, first Psalm (51) is missing audio of the Psalm-prayer. God Bless you for your work.
July 22nd, 2010 at 21:25
Just so you know, I hit burn out 4 or 5 times per year, but then God pick’s me up, dusts me off, and sends be back with greater vigor then ever. So don’t worry, but please keep praying.
You are seeing fewer invitations for your own prayers during the intentions, but that is not burn out. We are now under agreement and paying royalties to ICEL (International Committee on the English Liturgy) and they have required that we match the books exactly. This makes us ultra sensitive to adding anything not explicitly allowed by the general instructions or written into the text of the four-volume books.
With that said, we are actually trying to think of ways to stay completely true to the text, but also the intent and so you will see us circle back and make prayer intentions of the community an actual part of the daily intentions. We have some ideas, but we aren’t in a position to act…yet.
July 22nd, 2010 at 20:35
Dane sounds like he is getting a bit burnt out, at least from what I have read in the July 20 posts. He says is trying to perfect this website as far as it is humanly possible. Well, we all know just how impossible that actually is. Not to be patronizing, but we need to hold Dane and his associates in our prayers so that the Holy Spirit will use them to complete the work He has begun here. There is so much that is evil on the Internet – how wonderful to have a place here where we can join together to praise God. There are many beautiful prayers, especially in Morning Prayer that commend the work we do to the Father to carry forth in His glory. That spot to remember Dane and the others who work on this website as you pray those prayers.
That said…
In Evening Prayer tonite there was no invitation after the intercessions for us to stop and add our own intentions. I’ve got a LONG list and I nearly forgot. Please don’t drop that permanently! It would be really neat if sometime after you get all the important things handled there would be a way to hit a pause button right there without have to scroll up and down.
July 22nd, 2010 at 18:18
I am not aware that they exist in the breviary, but they can be found in the lectionary for Mass.
July 22nd, 2010 at 18:17
Thank you. I removed the psalm prayer text verses adding the audio prayers because, as far as I can tell, the directions imply the psalm prayers are left out when you use the common of saints, which was the case for 7/22. Thanks for helping us get things fixed up.
July 22nd, 2010 at 04:24
During Morning Prayer for 7/22, the Psalm-Prayers appear in the text but are not read in the audio.
July 22nd, 2010 at 04:19
I would like to know where the prayers of confession are in the 4 volume breviary are please
July 21st, 2010 at 18:49
Thank you so much for this site. With four little ones, I think this site is the only way I am able to participate in the Divine Office. Thanks again for your work!
July 21st, 2010 at 04:06
I have to agree with Carlos. It is so wonderful to be able to pray along with many others.
I have also found that as I do have the book, Christian Prayer, I can usually follow that and the written or spoken parts of this ministry. So, if it happens that there is a discrepancy, I can follow my book.
Knowing this is all accomplished with love by 6 people I think it is easy to have patience as the kinks are worked out.
Mahree
July 20th, 2010 at 12:25
Thank you for explaining Carlos. Your perspective is accurate and I appreciate having the community support and understanding. This is a labor that will take us a long time, but will eventually reach perfection (at least as far as humanly possible).
July 20th, 2010 at 12:21
It appears you are referring to Morning Prayer for Monday, July 19th. Thank you for giving us the correct page number for the 4th volume. You are incorrect about using page 522 for the prayer. This is the concluding prayer for Office of Readings only. You will notice that the concluding prayer is taken from Sunday for the Office of Readings and remains the same all week, but Morning and Evening Prayer take their concluding prayer from the Psalter.
St. Joseph’s guide is an excellent guide, but it can confuse people as well because it isn’t enough to use the guide. One must follow the instructions in the LOTH books over the guide because the guide often gives too little detail.
We are trying to get everything perfect, but this is an enormous project that has been in the works for over 3 years and will likely take another year to complete. Until that time we would appreciate your patience with us. This is a ministry of 6+ laity with jobs and families to attend to as well.
July 20th, 2010 at 11:06
I think it’s important to keep in mind that Dane and his team are doing their best to share and promote the LOTH. It is much easier for someone to pray the LOTH on their own then what the DivineOffice team does. From what I’ve observed, they pray the separate sections, record them, create the text, match everything up (including finding previously recorded segments to re-use) and paste it all together before the date they need to be posted. Mistakes will happen, especially when you have 6+ people trying to divide and conquer. It’s not that easy and it can be very time consuming.
I consider this ministry similar to a product in beta-testing. They are still in the building stages and are working out the kinks, but they will get there. I’m confident that the Holy Spirit will perfect any errors in our prayers.
My sense has been that Dane is committed to making this perfect and we should remain charitable and patient when helping the team perfect their ministry. God bless.
July 19th, 2010 at 18:25
When will the mobile application for Sprint HTC EVO be available for us to purchase?
July 19th, 2010 at 08:24
Your “ribbon placement” states “All from the Psalter: page 1111″ This is not correct. It should be “All from the Psalter: page 1143.” Also your written concluding prayer is incorrect coming from the Psalter. it should be from the Common of the Seasons, page 522; It is all very clear in the St. Joseph’s Guide. I struggle to understand why the frequent errors. Follow St. Joseph’s Guide!
July 19th, 2010 at 04:26
For today’s Morning Prayer, 7/19, none of the palm-prayers match what is in Christian Prayer. I don’t see a Solemnity or Memorial listed, so I’m not sure why they do not match. Am I missing something?
July 18th, 2010 at 19:03
OK, I will get it fixed. Thank you for your help!
July 18th, 2010 at 19:02
Thanks for letting me know. It really helps!
July 18th, 2010 at 07:09
You asked me to post inconsistencies: Today, Sunday July 18, your written Invitatory Pslam properly matches the St. Joseph’s Guide. However, the audio uses a diiferent antiphon.
July 18th, 2010 at 06:55
The spoken Antiphon for the Invitatory for today, Sunday 7/18, does not match the text, and does not seem to come from any part of today’s ribbon placements in Christian Prayer.
July 17th, 2010 at 12:02
If you see that we don’t follow St. Joseph’s guide then let us know specifically where we have not. We do seek to follow it, but also keep in mind that this is a project we have been working on for 4 years and within another year we will finally be complete, until that time there are imperfections so please provide us with specific things we have missed.
July 16th, 2010 at 21:51
I wish you would closely follow “St. Joseph’s Guide For the Liturgy of the Hours. I wish you would make the audio match the written office. Is seems that you don’t even follow your own ribbon placement very closely. Nevertheless, as a diaconate candidate, you have brought the LOH to life for me. Thanks!
July 15th, 2010 at 18:57
Thanks. I sometimes misread things – - and I don’t have a St. Joseph’s Guide. So – - I use the calendar from the book – - one page per month, which lists the memorials, feasts, solemnities, etc. In Christian Prayer, at any rate – - haven’t seen the 4-volume set in a long time – - the Obligatory observances are printed in normal script, and the optional memorials (or commemorations during lent) are in italics. That’s basically How I keep track.
I sometimes wonder how to choose which common to use when there are various options, and I’m almost always at a loss as to which hymn to use when they’re not specifically given.
Thanks again. You really perform a wonderful service. It’s a blessing to know you’re spreading the observance of the Official Prayer of the Church to the world.
July 15th, 2010 at 09:10
I admit, this one caught us completely by surprise. In the St. Joseph guide on memorial days you are usually given the option of the proper of the day or the memorial. We (I) made the wrong assumption that this was the case so we are scrambling to post something.
You are correct and this is our mistake. Furthermore, we try to use as much from the Common of Saints as possible to better commemorate the saint. For St. Bonaventure we prefer to use the Common of Doctors of the Church.
July 15th, 2010 at 08:44
I’m curious – - Today (July 15) is the Memorial of St. Bonaventure. In my calendar it’s NOT listed as an optional memorial, and so at least the closing prayers of MP and EP should be proper. The hymns, antiphons for the Invitatory, Cantical of Zacharia and Magnificat can be either from the commons or from the day.
Is there a reason that you’ve skipped the closing prayers, and kept the prayer of the 4-week psalter, or is it an oversight, or have I made a mistake (DISTINCTLY possible!).
God Bless, and thanks for your ministry.
July 15th, 2010 at 06:42
Morning prayer for July 15 audio does not match the written. Audio is from Sun week I, Written isn’t. Thanks
July 11th, 2010 at 21:06
Peace Elaine,
An old fashion reason religious items are blessed, is that they are blessed by the Priest, so that they become holy objects used to give glory to God, and that God would through them help remind us of His love for us. These items cannot be sold since they are holy blessed items. They are not to be used for profit. I had my LOTH Volume blessed by a priest and he prayed over the book, that it may bring blessings, and answers to prayers, and bring glory to God. It is a little more special to me now. God bless,
Pax et Bonum (peace and goodness – St. Francis of Assisi)
Paul
July 11th, 2010 at 16:17
Paul,
thank you very much for the resource. I took away from it that it really doesn’t matter in this instance. Since there is nothing evil in the books, I don’t think there is anything to worry about.
Thanks again,
Elaine
July 11th, 2010 at 13:55
Peace Elaine,
Here is a website that explains the ‘Priest’s power to bless”.
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=7702
It is best to read the article than to take the room here.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
July 11th, 2010 at 08:45
I recently purchased the 4 vol set of LOTH and was wondering if they need to be blessed. I was thinking we pray with a rosary and that is blessed…we pray with the LOTH so should they be blessed? thanks.
July 10th, 2010 at 11:15
This is just a bug. It has been a low priority to fix because it doesn’t cause any problems, just occasional confusion.
July 10th, 2010 at 09:30
The Invitatory psalms are allowed to be varied as desired to provide variety. The only requirement is that they should not be one of the psalms that will be included in any other psalmody on that same day.
July 10th, 2010 at 07:50
I am new to the Liturgy of the Hours, and I am finding it a true blessing. The book I have is “Christian Prayer: The Liturgy of the Hours”, by Pauline Books and Media. My book only has Psalm 95 in the Invitatory, but references Psalm 95 may be substituted by Psalm 100,67 or 24. What determines which Psalm is used?
July 9th, 2010 at 04:02
Good Morning, I was wondering why the date banner on the left side of the page first loads up as the correct date but then changes to “Prayers for Jun 31″ It seems all the other places the date is accurate. Keep on with this wonderful ministry. God Bless you all for the work you do.
July 8th, 2010 at 10:19
Dane: how far in advance to you prepare the feeds? It looks like you cover a week at a time, correct? Any chance of going out further, e.g. 2 weeks @ a time, esp. since summer’s upon us in No. America & many ae traveling? It’d be great to download 2 weeks worth of the LoH so that one’s covered during vacation time.
Regards & thanks for a great ministry.
July 8th, 2010 at 06:10
I just bought a book by Thomas Dubay titled, “Prayer Primer: Igniting a Fire Within.” There’s a chapter about the Liturgy of the Hours. I saw his program on EWTN and I looked up some of his books.
July 4th, 2010 at 19:30
Hi Dane. Glad to hear you are going to the CNMC. We are looking forward to meeting you. We would love to join you in Morning prayer on the 7th depending on where it is. We are not staying at the hotel but at a campground nearer to the pastoral centre.
July 4th, 2010 at 07:34
I think I have finally lost it. Friday night I downloaded the prayers for Saturday. Last night when I played EP, it was MP for the Feast of St. Thomas. This morning when I checked your site, it was the correct EP. I replayed what was on my mp3 player and it was MP. It would have realy been scary if it had switched over night or I just imagined it. God Bless and have a happy Independence Day
July 3rd, 2010 at 22:21
Just letting you know, it happened again during Saturday night prayer, that just before the final blessing, suddenly they were saying the Responsory again.
July 3rd, 2010 at 10:19
Pax et Bonum
Peace and goodness.
July 2nd, 2010 at 21:01
I really enjoy this site – - I use it, primarily, for the Office of Readings. I pray the rest of the office from Christian Prayer, and actually enjoy praying with the longer readings found there than in the 4-volume set. I also like the fact that both Christian Prayer, and your site, allow people to know what the hymns sound like. The 4-volume set has no music, but CP does.
Anyway – - I frequently read OofR on a desktop computer. I don’t have an i-phone, but have been using a blackberry for years. The blackberry browser does not give me the chance to open the OR, for some reason, and Opera Mini, actually a better hand-held browser, doesn’t do it either. I’m anxiously awaiting your design of an app for the blackberry.
God Bless you for this ministry.
July 2nd, 2010 at 09:11
Mystery solved then. No worries and thank you again.
July 2nd, 2010 at 09:02
We occasionally update content only hours before people use it and that update must not have made it to your iPhone. Sorry about that.
July 2nd, 2010 at 06:30
How curious that the website file was complete. I was listening to it from the Divine Office iPhone App and I have the app set up for automatic downloads, so I think I had the latest version that morning.
Anyway, it’s not the end of the world. The Holy Spirit perfects our prayers infinately more then we could ever do, so I’m not worried.
Thank you for your reply. Should I notice something similar in the future, I’ll be sure to include source information for the sake of clarity.
I will say it once more, because I think it needs to be said … I love this minstry!!
God bless.
July 1st, 2010 at 23:57
Peace Carlos, Just a note: The website Morning Prayer for June 28th is correct and complete in the audio and text .
Are you referring to a podcast download, or where is the problem found. This may cause confusion to those who use the website audio and text, thinking it is missing something.
Giving complete information on the problem location and source would help Dane find the solution. Hope this is helpful. Wishing you well, Pax et Bonum, my friend.
July 1st, 2010 at 23:46
Pax et Bonum, spiritbrother,
The LOTH for July 1 online website is correct and is the same in Volume III, pages 769-774, and agrees with the St. Joseph guide for LOTH. Do you mean podcasts downloads are incorrect. It would be helpful to be specific with the problem so a solution or reply could be made. It may cause confusion if everyone thinks the website prayers are wrong, when they are not. Hope this will help. Dane will check on the problem I am sure. Peace my friend.
July 1st, 2010 at 06:48
I really enjoyed reading the Office of Readings today. That’s why I don’t think I would like the Christian Prayer (shorter version). I’m not sure I would benefit from ordering the volumes at this time. I think I prefer viewing it throughout the day here at work. Also, you can listen to the audio and hear the music, too. On Tuesday, I heard a female vocalist sing Psalm 23. I don’t remember her name but it was a hyphenated name. It was beautiful.
July 1st, 2010 at 05:07
Peace! I’ve just concluded morning prayer for July 1st. Perhaps you’re unaware the reading doesn’t correspond for today; the intercessions were said before the benedictus, then the intercessions were repeated twice with a different musical background. Finally, the prayer of the day didn’t correspond either. I know life isn’t perfect…so I gave up to God this morning with a LOL. Just wanted to let you know. Peace!
June 28th, 2010 at 06:19
Hi Dane. I noticed in today’s Morning Prayer (June 28th) the 3rd Antiphon and corresponding Psalm was not included in the recording. I don’t know if that was intentional or not, so I thought I’d mention it.
Additionally, I loved the sung arrangement of the Canticle of Zechariah. It was a beautifuly powerful rendition.
Thank you for your team’s great work and your ministry.
June 27th, 2010 at 22:18
I am sorry, but I have only listened to SQPN’s Liturgy of the Hours a few times and that was months ago. I just tried to look at the SQPN site, but it is confusing so I couldn’t find their Liturgy of the Hours so that I could make a real comparison. Let me just say that when they do the Liturgy of the Hours it is exactly as ours in content, but they usually have a priest doing it. We do all the major hours, which means we do Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Office of Readings for every day. We also do Night Prayer and we provide the full text for all these prayers plus Midday Prayer. SQPN is a great site, but in all humility I must say we have added much more then SQPN, not in content, but in additional prayers through the day.
I recommend you try us both and if you are praying with SQPN you must know that you are still praying with us and the entire Catholic community because these prayers are the prayers of the Church and when we pray we pray in communion.
June 27th, 2010 at 22:07
Would you mind explaining what issues you are having? It is not clear to me what you are experiencing.
June 27th, 2010 at 21:09
Hi Dane, I’m having the same experiance on the night prayer as jenH ,my encounter with it was tonight 6/27/2010 ,at 11 pm. missouri time. hope this helps.. I love this site may God bless you all richly for what you do ..
June 27th, 2010 at 14:11
devine office has and is a great help to me
June 27th, 2010 at 13:25
Hi, what is the difference between this podcast and the SQPN liturgy of the hours with the exception of the music you have and the people kind of leading you through? Are these the complete liturgy of the hours like the other ones. Sorry to make this so long but I’m new to this and am blind and need to make sure that I get the complete thing.
June 27th, 2010 at 06:15
It happened Saturday night. 26th. And I can’t remember the exact dates before that.
June 27th, 2010 at 05:49
This is the announcement that is on my wall whenever I try to listen every morning and evening prayer. Of course, when I say “whenever”, it means I have tried for a week. I used to be able to listen to it before. I’m the person who commented the same question yesterday. But your reply can be help. It’s so odd,isn’t it? How it is possible that it doesn’t allow to listen only to me..? There is nothing wrong with my computer and monitor of Divine office except below sentence. Please, reply again.. Thank you….
“”"The Audio Liturgy of the Hours for Jun 27, Morning Prayer has not been produced by our Ministry yet. We’re working hard on getting the Divine Office audio podcast complete soon. Stay tuned!”"”
June 27th, 2010 at 05:32
Today (June 27)was the first day that I have been able to see all the prayers for the day when I went to your site. If it was my browser, then why were the readings on Universalis opened to the day that I was looking for? (If it was Saturday, June 26th, then those readings for June 26th were visible when I went to that site. If my browser was not working properly, then I would think that have affected all sites that I visited that were date specific or dependent. However, I don’t really know that much about computers. I’m just glad everything is working fine now!
June 27th, 2010 at 00:27
Just this moment I read your message of 6/25 and found it food for many curious things in my soul. I am not far off from you in age (I guess), but I was denied the experiences for which you speak so your experiences intrigue me.
To be clear. This ministry was “technically” my creation, but it was Greg Pedroza that moved us into the LOTH. I must always thank, and perhaps also curse, him for getting this ministry into these all consuming divine works.
Greg was the inspiration to my young Catholic/Technological itch and then came along two women, diverse from each other, Denise and Chriss with experiences in life and a relationship with God that left me wonting. We were only four for a long time, but then we were joined by Randy Sly (Potomoc Falls, VA, USA) and Erika (Rome, Italy) as the voices you hear. These are the voices, but the people who help everyone else pray with us are those who enter the text and cover all my blunders, namely, they are Barbara (in the Northwest of the USA) and Monica (Romania). These women do a remarkable job of getting the text of the Hours right and letting me know when I have necessary corrections.
I mention these good souls because of your comments about how unusual it is to have laity and lay women as core to something only priests would do and even know about. Well, times are a chang’n when someone like myself along with a few folks around the globe, mostly women, are building upon a remarkable tradition and asset to glorify God and bring his body into common love and adoration. Alleluia.
And the work does not even slow down as you will notice we have added Melinda and Vince to sing the psalms and bring our common worship to a new level.
To all these laity I am grateful because they really make the wheels go round for this ministry, but I will also acknowledge a key spiritual leader who is Monsignor Manion, our diocesan theologian and parish shepherd.
Because I don’t mention the hard work and dedication of these good souls I felt it necessary to do so and now I feel it is befitting to thank you, Jim and community, for the constant acknowledgement of this work and the pressure to get it right. To you I/we are very grateful.
June 26th, 2010 at 23:46
I will take a look at it, but can you help me by telling me the day? Thanks.
June 26th, 2010 at 22:34
Peace, Jim,
You know I mean no disrespect for you or the Church. You are a very interesting and experienced gentleman. I just think that the faucet for Vatican II changes was turned off after the death of Pope John XXIII to hold a more conservative line. That is what we all have to follow. It could have been planed by the Holy Spirit to be this way, not intending anything but what the Lord wants for His Church.
I yield in this discussion and thank you for your kind and interesting background. I will simply pray that this website grow, Maybe someday it will be developed into many varieties of prayer forms, including Latin, chant, and others that meet the comfort zones of it’s users. As of now it is drawing thousands of people to prayer. The seed is planted, let us nourish it with our prayers and support. God bless everyone.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
June 26th, 2010 at 21:51
Love the site! I’ve become quite fond of Night Prayer… but I’ve noticed some nights that just before the closing Blessing, they’re suddenly saying the Responsory all over again even though it’s not indicated in the text, and then they don’t say the closing Blessing. What gives?
Thank you for this wonderful site! God bless you!
June 26th, 2010 at 07:33
You should quit and restart your browser. If you know how to clear the cache on your browser then you should do that also. If these things don’t work then you could try rebooting your machine. Let me know if this corrects your problem.
June 26th, 2010 at 06:33
I have a question, why I cannot see morning and evening prayer? In my computer, only Invitatory and Night prayer are available. However, one of my fellow can see and listen to it.
What’s the matter. According to the message, they haven’t prepared the sound file yet. But only to me not to other..
I’m sad… Please, let me know.
June 26th, 2010 at 06:27
Jim, You are a couple years younger than I. I’m not as much a fan of the changes of Vatican II. The IHM sisters at my school taught us a number of prayers and hymns in Latin. It may be just showing off, but I love to try to pray and sing in Latin. There are few opportunities now. I would like to find a website that recites the Regina Caeli and other Latin prayers of my youth so I can improve.
I won a prize from the SQPN website, The Catholic Foodie. It’s an I Phone app link for this website. I hope to replace my old Sprint cell phone which is 2005 vintage with a new phone so I can get TLOTH and not have to stoke up my old computer twice a day for MP and NP. When, God willing, I get my phone, I will definitely give the 5 star rating this site deserves.
June 25th, 2010 at 15:32
Hi Amis41 & my other bros. & srs. in Christ,
I hope you do not think anything I said implied anything but zeal for the reforms of Vatican II. I have long believed that Vatican II will go down in history as one of the greatest ecumenical councils ever, albeit not dogmatically, but practically. As Pope John XXIII intended, it definitely opened up the windows to let in the fresh air. One example of this freshness is this very lay-created and operated web site. Former clericalism would have said, “Just who do you think you are? And ladies, too? Your place is at home or maybe in the Blue Army or some Ladies’ Sodality.”
Clericalism is still a problem, just as there are still many problems that the poor implementation of Vatican II has hardly yet corrected.
This web site is a correction and a true implementation of Vatican II’s encouragement for laity to become more involved in the Liturgy, not only of the Eucharist, but also of the Hours, which formerly was thought to be almost exclusively a priest’s “thing.” But, as far as I know, this apostolate was not created from the top down, but from the bottom up. None of the many chanceries, nor even the USCCB gave us Anglophones this site. The Holy Spirit blows where He will (cf. John 3:8), and He blew in the hearts of these wonderful laymen to do this ministry.
I cannot recall ever hearing the Office even mentioned from any pulpit, and I was educated by the Sisters of St. Joseph, the Augustinians and Catholic University. Before I ever heard of the LOTH (c. 1973), I was with an Augustinian when he purchased the readings for Christian Prayer. I looked at them intriguingly. Then we went out for coffee, and I pointed to his bag of books and asked just what it was that he had purchased.
“Oh, just something we priests have to do.”
Later, after knocking on many doors and kicking a few in, I found out the “Secret of the Breviary,” and I have not looked back (well, till now).
As for Latin, I have seen it used miserably as well as excellently. One of the main reasons our family moved here to Westfield is because of the Benedictine cloister (Congregation of Solesmes) called the “Monastery of the Immaculate Heart of Mary” (http://www.ihmwestfield.com). I encourage single women, whether never married or widowed, to check them out. Mass there is in Latin (except for the readings, thank God), and it is so reverent. However, most folks, hearing of a “Latin Mass,” assume that means the old, Tridentine Rite (now called “extraordinary”). But no, it is still the “Novus Ordo,” just as one finds in the parishes.
Let’s not forget that, whatever our personal opinions may be, the objective fact is that Vatican II did encourage Latin, especially for priests and religious (see Sacrosanctum Concilium, NN. 36, 54 & 101). That this is so little known is one example of the “poor implementation” of Vatican II I have referred to. I think the Mass we see/hear on EWTN is a perfect example of true, Vatican II reform. Why is it that I have never heard the Orthodox disparage Old Church Slavonic or Greek, but we of the Latin Rite act as if we are ashamed of our own awesome liturgical heritage? I may be prejudiced, but I imagine that the angels themselves prefer to lend their ears where Gregorian Chant is sung. The same goes for liturgical art. We Latins emulate the East as though we have something to be ashamed of. Fyodor Dostoevsky and the Russian intelligentsia of his day (19th cent.) themselves were mesmerized by no other than Rafael’s “Sistine Madonna” who, unlike Our Lady of Vladimir or Kazan, is so human you can practically hug her as you would hug your own mother.
Hey Latins! Our Rite is superb an we should be proud. And DivineOffice.ORG is an asset to be very proud of and grateful for.
Jim C. Cunningham
Westfield, Vermont
June 25th, 2010 at 13:24
I am one of those laymen who used and still have the Old Roman Breviary, and served as an altar boy during Vatican II as a Chaplain’s Assistant in the Army. I found the old ways difficult, and that is why the people were brought back by Vatican II, into the liturgical ways of the Church with English at Mass ( the Latin currently used is still for me not prayerful in my understanding- I know it is the language of the Church world wide), and the revision of the LOTH, which was a blessing. I discovered it late in 1970′s in the Christian Prayer Book.
There are many who have not experienced the past ways, and those who did, welcome the revisions with participation, and devotion, and have a renewed spiritual life with the various contributions to music, and media presentation of the LOTH. It is best to let the past go to some degree, or find communities that still practice it.
This Divine Office website is unique, and invitation to everyone, and an educational, and convenient way, to learn, and pray, the Divine Office for years to come. The Team is working very hard to make adjustments to have a flavor of a variety of prayerful ways to pray the LOTH. The Holy Spirit will guide them, and we can all pray that it will blossom one day, so that it will be prayed by a greater number of people, far beyond our imagination.
All you who pray, Bless the Lord. Share this website link with other Catholic, and Christian websites, and support it financially if you are able. It needs our positive 5 star votes in iTunes, and where the link is available.
Pax et Bonum, God be with you.
June 25th, 2010 at 07:59
You replied: Are you sure you are speaking of Evening Prayer I? We used, at least I am pretty sure, the most basic Gregorian Chant on Evening Prayer I and Office of Readings. We used a flourished chant for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer II.
jcc: Yes, I was mistaken, having waited too long to reply. It was EP2 that I meant. It was so “flourishing” that I skipped EP altogether, though I should have at least settled for the text you wonderfully provide.
I am glad you understand where I am coming from. I know you can’t please everybody. Some folks want to kick back and listen, and this prayer is valid. But I am used to praying the Office in a more active way for over 30 years. I am old enough (barely, b. 1953) to remember how Liturgy was in the olden days and I have always embraced the authentic reforms of Vatican II, among them encouraging laity to participate more fully.
I just recently realized that the newbloods being ordained never experienced what went before. A 34 yr old seminarian friend of mine seemed to have no problem going to confession at one of four working confessionals during Mass in Chicago. He thinks, “Heck, it’s confession isn’t it? And shouldn’t we rejoice that four confessors are busy, even if it is during Mass?”
Yes, and no. Why not before or after Mass? Mass is not confession, except for its own penitential rite at the beginning and at the Agnus Dei when we again get off on beating our breasts.
Just to let the youngbloods out there know:
Back in the 50s and early 60s, it was customary for the laity to be “at” Mass, yet not fully . We altar boys represented them and we did all the responses in Latin (which I love). Perhaps because of the Latin most Laity were not “all there,” but contented themselves—with clerical approval—with reading their own missal, prayer books, saying their own rosaries and novenas, and even walking around the church lighting candles at this or that shrine. All those things were (and are) good in themselves, but during Mass? Do you want Tom Brady meditating on the rosary during a Patriots football game? (Okay, if you’re an Indianapolis Colt, maybe you do…)
I don’t think young people can picture the way it was.
And back then the choir, like us altar boys, would do the congregation’s part for them, singing important parts like the Gloria and Credo with polyphonies very beautiful indeed, but too sophisticated for the rest of us. So the laity sat there doing and thinking something pious (hopefully) until bells rang and they rubbed their eyes, looked up, saw the consecrated Host above the priest’s head with an altar boy kneeling behind holding up the back of an abbreviated chasuble that needed no holding up any more than a bikini needs to be hemmed. (BTW, many such traditions once had very practical explanations such as when chasubles were very voluminous and long, they needed to be held away from lighted candles and thuribles for safety reasons.)
Unless the new generation of priests understands the context in which Vatican II and liturgical reforms occurred, they cannot, at long last, implement them. Even though I have raised five children, I forget what they have not experienced. Context is everything. Only God is His Own context.
Thanks for listening to the likes of me. Sometimes I feel like I am in your studio/oratory with you.
There is more than one way to skin a cat, as we Yankees say, and every community has its own way of offering the sacrifice of praise called the Divine Office. The important thing is that we all follow the rubrics and not take unauthorized liberties. Youngbloods do not even remember the madhouse 70s when matters went so far afield some priests celebrated Mass (or so they thought) with pretzels and Coke! We must remember that madness, too, lest we repeat such mistakes.
I noticed a recent comment from another blind person like me. I wonder how many of us are out there. What an aid your ministry is for us!
My rooster is impatiently letting me know I should send this now and liberate him and his harem from their coop. At least he succeeds in shutting me up.
Jim C. Cunningham
Westfield, Vermont
June 24th, 2010 at 12:35
Dcn Dick,
Thanks for your response. I was thinking about going to a local (somewhat local) Catholic book store in Scarborough, Maine. It’s called “The Abbey” and I visited the store years ago. I thought I would look at both the leather and imitation leather editions. When I called them, they said that if I wanted the large print edition, they would order it. From what I’ve been told, the regular print isn’t very difficult to read. I guess it’s average sized print. I was told that the leather bound volumes are all black and that the imitation leather set is in four colors. I think that the large print edition has wider margins. I guess I’m too fussy. It’s the words that are the most important but it is quite an investment and does take a little consideration. Thanks for your help. ~ MargaretAnne
June 24th, 2010 at 08:21
Hi Jim,
Are you sure you are speaking of Evening Prayer I? We used, at least I am pretty sure, the most basic Gregorian Chant on Evening Prayer I and Office of Readings. We used a flourished chant for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer II.
Good news is that we have learned not to record too much before letting our community “taste and see” so that we can better respond. This is also why we are criticized because we often cut it too close and miss a feast day or something, but in this case it proved to be best because we do have time to adjust. We have only recorded Sundays and they can be redone.
Today we record psalms to psalm tones and we will have the Chantress (Melinda) sing along with a male Chanter (Vince) and we will take your recommendations to heart.
Please check on Evening Prayer I and Office of Readings from last weekend and let me know if you do indeed consider them too highfalutin. Then Listen to Sunday Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer II from last Sunday and compare. Let me know what you think please.
Thank you!
June 24th, 2010 at 08:12
We are also in search of Divine Office music so please let us know if you find any. This ministry creates the audio Divine Office and only a few of the songs are our own recording.
June 24th, 2010 at 08:10
We need the feedback and appreciate that you clearly expressed you were trying to be positive, it helps us more that way.
You may not have noticed, but we have only recorded Sunday’s Hours. Evening Prayer I and Office of Readings have been recorded in simple Gregorian chant. Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer II used a chant from a publication created by GIA for chanting the Liturgy of the Hours specifically. These GIA chants are most likely the ones of which you speak. I found myself calling them the chants with the fancy flourish. They are lovely to listen to and we felt appropriate for Sunday, but since we want everyone to actively participate and not just listen we will move in the chants into the most accessible direction.
June 23rd, 2010 at 20:04
I wasn’t going to say anything lest it seem like I was criticizing the new addition of chanting the psalms. However, although the chantress is obviously very talented, I find the melodies are far too difficult for me to follow. I actually find them very distracting. In fact, I find myself trying to concentrate on the notes to sing along and lose almost entirely the meaning of the prayer in the process. Also the key is very high and the current rendition seems to engender a bit of an unusual peppy upbeat feeling. I am sure this is just a matter of personal taste, but if there might be a way to include some traditional chants (i.e., Gregorian or the echo-y monotone versions used in monastaries), it might prove to be more condusive to the prayerful mood of the psalms. This too might just be my own desire since I have only heard the psalms sung in a more soothing musical arrangement such as the typical chants.
I realize this endeavor is mammoth and has required tremendous efforts on everyones’ parts. I myself feel very hesitant in offering my opinion because I have done nothing to contribute to your ministry. It is easy to sit on this side and ramble on about what might be a better direction. I know, though, that all of you are being led by the Holy Spirit and therefore are extraordinary people. I do hope that these comments will be accepted in a spirit of alternative considerations rather than criticisms.
Thank you again for what you are doing. I am so grateful for this site and it’s immense addition to my prayer life.
June 23rd, 2010 at 18:05
I am looking for a song by Erika Provenzano, that was played on the Divine Office – Morning Prayer, a while back. It was the Canticle of Zechariah. I really enjoyed singing along with it and I’d love to hear it again with a link provided so that I can purchase the song.
Thanks.
June 23rd, 2010 at 14:37
I am trying to find the divine office with music for a Rector in India. Is this an audio book? How do I buy one?
Thank you
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:54
Oh-oh. After all I wrote about chanting the psalms and all, I was very dismayed as soon as the chantress sang the first antiphon last Saturday at Evening Prayer. The tune was so highfalutin that I could never join in, even by the time the psalm had ended. I vote for music that is far more congregation-friendly. Please Keep it simple I do not know what others think, but I fear that, if the chant remains that sophisticated, people (like me) will prefer to revert to the former simple recitation and throw the chant out with the holy water (as it were). I hope she has not recorded the entire breviary already.
Sorry to be negative, but if my two cents means anything and is timely, maybe you will not assume we are all thrilled with the way the new chanting is.
Gratefully anyway,
Jim C. Cunningham
Westfield, VT
June 23rd, 2010 at 09:38
There have been several good comments made. A few positive notes:
1) Praying the LOTH here for several years, and watching it’s growth, it has become a premier ministry that invites all Christians to pray the LOTH, including laymen, Christians, and all people, as well as the religious, and those of other faiths. Maybe having a more open invitation would be helpful.
2) I too think the advertising is becoming a distraction and needs to be used elsewhere. It occupies 2/3 of the space.
3) As for the music, I cannot see going to total Gregorian Chant style music “Gelineau, the Trappists, or Benedictines”, there are many new laity now praying the LOTH, and I am for a very “prayerful variety” of music, that would include some chant, but nothing distracting or dominating the style. We want a variety of people to enjoy and understand that praying the LOTH is for everyone.
4) The direction of this beautiful and unique website
should continue to progress on it’s own, guided by the Holy Spirit, and our support, and positive suggestions. After it has blossomed, it can make choices what to do, to keep the new people who have discovered the LOTH, and pray it in joining other LOTH websites. The seed planted here is growing beautifully, and we should be thankful as is commented for what is here.
5) Just a note on the 4 Volume version Large Print. I find it the best because it is easy to read, and the cover is nice, and it comes in a nice 4 section box for storing the volumes.
6) Pray for the Divine Office team. They are adding staff, and it is good to see such dedicated, and kind people, giving themselves to this ministry.
Pax et Bonum. Peace and goodness always.
June 23rd, 2010 at 07:19
Dane,
Thank you very much for your reply. You provided some very valuable information to help me with my decision. I’ve always been indecisive and it helps to hear from others to make it a little easier to make an informed decision. Thanks again.
June 23rd, 2010 at 07:15
MargaretAnne, Concerning the edition of LOTH, there is no difference in content between the Leather bound and Imitation bound volumes and no difference in type size. The dimension are different because the leather is “bulkier.” In my mind, the question as to which edition to get comes down to $$$ and how you are going to use them. The Leather bound edition is bound and sturdier. I guess you get what you pay for. As a Deacon I take my volume with me throughout the day. I have the Imitation Leather edition but bought a cover. See http://ocdsrose.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/page8.html for examples. This allows me to keep the Volume, the Supplement, my prayer list and prayer cards all neatly contained.
If you need larger type, there is a large type edition available from the publisher: http://www.catholicbookpublishing.com/ShowProduct.aspx?ProductID=446&DepartmentID=90
Hope this helps.
Dcn Dick
June 23rd, 2010 at 07:08
Dear MargaretAnne,
I have purchased most of the new versions available. I can’t speak to anything before the 1975 version, which is the newest. I find it very confusing also so you are not alone. I can share some of my experience with you. I have purchased the leather and the imitation leather and I just can’t recommend leather. The imitation leather is not soft, but nether is the leather, but it is very pliable and sturdy. I also found the expensive leather books I ordered ended up being black covers on all volumes and smaller dimensions, which meant smaller text inside. All of us at Divine Office love the large print edition and we can all see just fine. The large print edition is only slightly larger, but it makes it feel more substantial and looks nicer. It is much better to use in prayer. Only if you plan to travel around a lot would I suggest the smaller sized books. As far as I know, you must purchase a full four-volume set to get the large print. Hands down we recommend the Large Print edition. You can find it on our web page under recommended books (lower right corner of web site) or here http://divineoffice.org/liturgy-of-the-hours/recommended-books/
June 23rd, 2010 at 06:48
I’ve been reading all the prayers throughout the day here at work. I’m not exactly reading them in the manner they were meant to be read but at least I’m reading it. When scripture is referenced, especially when there’s a long passage, I read the text in Bible Gateway and then go back to the Liturgy of the Hours. Even though I’m unable to listen to any audio here at work, I can remember some of the music of the familiar hymns so I can read it as though I’m actually singing it. This is a wonderful sight. I don’t have a computer at home. I can print a copy of the prayers for Saturday on Friday (usually at the library) and I can print the ones for Sunday on Monday (yesterday’s prayers).
June 23rd, 2010 at 05:56
Praying alone as I do daily,the divine office online has become a great addition. However, I offer several suggestions for your consideration:
(1) It would be great if DivineOffice.org and Universalis.com were in partnership.
(2) Since the psalms are songs, consider more the use of chant, using psalm tones and words from a variety of sources (e.g. – Gelineau, the Trappists, or Benedictines).
(3) Be inclusive and invite others to participate in this undertaking..as volunteers. I think many of us would love it…depending on location.
(4) For those who register online remove the “ads” which are too distracting. If it means paying a small fee to remove anything but the office…it would enhance it greatly.
(5) Be more ecumenical..Involve Anglicans, Lutherans, Orthodox, Methodists, and others who pray the liturgy of hours. Prayer is the one essential element of Christian faith that should unite all of us. “How good and pleasant it is where brothers and sisters dwell as one.”
Peace and blessings.
June 23rd, 2010 at 05:13
If you are not seeing the Liturgy in your browser, I had the same issue, you need to clear out your browser cache files and history. That worked for me and should work for you.
June 23rd, 2010 at 04:51
I’ve been trying to make a decision about which edition of the Liturgy of the Hours to buy. Are the older editions different in the text or just the arrangement? Does the leather edition have a different type size than the imitation leather edition? The leather edition seems to have different dimensions when I looked in Amazon. Is there a difference in the paper. The thickness of the volumes seems to be different as well. That’s why I thought the text size might be different. Is the leather more flexible than the imitation leather? Is it a very soft leather? Thanks for any help you can give me. I’ve seen one edition on another website that has a 4-volume set with all black leather covers. I don’t like to buy something without seeing it first. You can never really be sure when you order something online. I suppose I could order a copy through Interlibrary Loan just to take a look before ordering a set. I think that the imitation leather may be ordered one volume at a time but the leather set isn’t available that way.
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:40
The Invitatory Psalm is used before the first prayer that you choose to pray for any given day. For most people that would be either the Office of Readings or the Morning Prayer, but it can be any prayer that you are praying first that day.. Whichever of the day’s prayers you start with, the Invitatory Psalm would be said in lieu of the “God come to my assistance …” and “Glory to…” for that prayer only.
Many choose to start the day with the Office of Readings, but that Hour can actually be said at anytime of the day.
I hope this helps.
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:05
If you are not seeing the hours on the web site then there must be something wrong with your browser. If you know how to clear the cache on your browser then please do so, if you don’t know how to do that then quit your browser and start it again and see if that helps. You can also reboot your computer if the problem continues or you don’t know how to clear your cache or restart the browser.
By browser I mean Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or what ever you are using to browse the Internet. If the problem continues the please let us know more about what browser you are using and on what type of computer.
June 22nd, 2010 at 03:10
I haven’t seen any of the hours for about a week now. I click on the tabs, and the message is that they are not completed yet. Also, every day the date for the next day is displayed, not the current day and date. Am I doing something wrong?
June 21st, 2010 at 05:59
Dane, I’m a newbie to the LOTH, but I absolutely LOVE this ministry and this service. You have made the Divine Office much less intimidating and you guys, through your interview on The Catholic Foodie, inspired me to pick this up.
I’ve read in a couple of places that for the Psalms, even though the publisher chose to print the ending sequence as “Glory to > Psalm-Prayer > Antiphon”, the correct sequence at the end is supposed to be “Glory to > Antiphon > Silence > Psalm-Prayer”. Have you ever heard this before?
Thank you again for all that you do!
Carlos
June 20th, 2010 at 15:21
With the Psalms being sung by Melinda Kirigin-Voss, I found myself singing along. It is very well done, and prayerful for those who read along, or join in the chorus or prayer. Continuing to pray for your progress with the Divine Office. If everyone found a website to add a link for the Divine Office it would be a tremendous blessing. Pax et Bonum Paul
June 20th, 2010 at 09:29
As a convert I am not very familiar with the Divine Office.
I can easily understand how to use ‘Morning Prayer’, ‘Daytime Prayer’, ‘Evening Prayer’ and ‘Night Prayer’.
I do not have any idea as to how to best use the ‘Invitatory Psalm’ and the ‘Office of Readings’ — at any time of day, perhaps? Are there any ‘rules’ or guidelines?
Thanks for all your hard work!
June 20th, 2010 at 05:51
I found a little mistake in the audio so it was not there when you needed it, but now it is. Sorry to miss you.
June 20th, 2010 at 04:13
‘Hi Dane and all,
I might be embarrassing myself here, but I listen to you via your web site and do not find the normal Podcast entry into Morning Prayer for Sunday, June 20, 2010. I’ll just do the reading myself. However, is it just that’s it not there today or is there a bug?? Not sure. All other hours seem to be okay. Thanks so much for your ministry and especially your recent efforts to put it on a much higher level with the Psalm Tones.
June 18th, 2010 at 05:32
I now receive audio & script. Thank you and may God continue to bless you and your ministry.
June 18th, 2010 at 05:25
I receive no prayers today audio or script. Is there anyway I can correct this?
June 17th, 2010 at 17:06
Perfect again, thanks!
June 17th, 2010 at 05:38
Further to my comment, all the prayer buttons are greyed out, which doesn’t let me open them.
June 17th, 2010 at 05:37
HI!
I can’t get anything to open, it is showing the Invitatory but I can’t change to anything else!
I am in Newfoundland, Canada and I didn’t have any problem with the today, yesterday and tomorrow but now…nothing
Many thanks again for this ministry!
June 16th, 2010 at 22:08
Try it now. We just implemented a fix to our “yesterday, today, tomorrow” problem and everything should be working correctly from this point forward. We also added a feature to correctly, we hope, detect people’s time zones and give them the correct “today”.
June 16th, 2010 at 21:18
Hi Dane; what happened I cant get any prayers tonight? I hope its something simple, God bless
June 16th, 2010 at 18:07
Thanks Dane… That’s very fast reply.. wow
excellent customer service 
Thanks also for the info…. Just one more question; in the 20th june prayer that is available for download today, i got morning prayer & night prayer only, and one section titled “samuel 1:1-13″ ? i did factory reset and it still download exactly like that for 20th june… any other thing i should do ?
Thanks again & God Bless
June 16th, 2010 at 16:56
Hi kartono,
To answer your questions.
The previous day prayers should delete automatically.
There are no settings to download additional days in advance. The default is for 5 days.
We are adding full-text and this will take us a few more months to complete.
Thank you for praying with us!
June 16th, 2010 at 16:53
This year our focus has been on providing Office of Readings and that will take us up to the season of Advent. We will have a little more work to do to complete all the Solemnities and Feasts, but once we do then we will begin the day prayers. Thanks for letting us know of your interest in them.
June 16th, 2010 at 16:50
We only recently received ICEL (International Committee on the English Liturgy) approval and it will take us a few more months before we have all the text in place. When we do then you will be able to view it. Remember, we are providing the Liturgy of the Hours for free with full-text and audio and we are using the authorized version of the Liturgy of the Hours so please give us a little time to get this in place. We all have our own day jobs and families to provide for while we complete this important work at the same time.
June 16th, 2010 at 16:47
There are no times when the prayers are missing, but occasionally we are unable to get everything published so that is our fault if you do not see it, but within a few month’s time we will have all the content all the time.
The abreviation “Ant.” means you should repeat the antiphon from the beginning of the psalm where you see this abbreviation.
June 16th, 2010 at 11:21
I am blind and I just depend on this ministry. Please consider putting the day prayer on mp3 also please. Thanks again. Jenny
June 16th, 2010 at 10:13
Why can’t we get prayers for days in advance? Like a week in advance like Universalis and ebreviary offers?
June 16th, 2010 at 08:13
I noticed that the daytime prayer is missing for Tuesday, June 15th. Are there times when there are no prayers for certain times of the day? Also, forgive my ignorance but I have a question. What is the abbreviation [ant.}? I just discovered the Liturgy of the hours. I am not Catholic but I’m enjoying learning about Catholicism. I’ve been watching a lot of the programming on EWTN and I’ve learned a lot. Thank you.
June 16th, 2010 at 03:56
Hi Dane: Still can’t get the Office and morning prayer to work even by changing dates, any other suggestions?/ Richard
June 16th, 2010 at 03:04
Hi ,
i just purchase the iphone app.. i have several questions . Pardon me if this has been answered somewhere..
- How do i delete previous day prayers ?
- How can i download more than -n- amount of days of prayers in advance ?
- Will there be plan to include the complete divine office (at least text only) for this application ?
All in all… Great thanks for this wonderful apps.. i love the feature that enable me to see who in worlds are praying the office at any current time
Best Regards
kartono – singapore
June 16th, 2010 at 01:16
Hi Dane,
You noted the following information for the Wednesday Evening Prayer hymn:
“O Radiant Light” performed by Michael Joncas; Music: Gregorian; Text: Pos Hilaron, Greek 3rd cent.; Translation: William Storey; Artist: Michael Joncas
The information should read:
Text: Phos Hilaron; tr. by William G. Storey, ©
Tune: RADIANT LIGHT, LM; Michael Joncas, b. 1951, © 1979, GIA Publications, Inc.
Thank you.
June 15th, 2010 at 00:02
Hi
Thanks for the response. I just finished using the “date change”; it works fine here.
marty
June 14th, 2010 at 15:50
Hi Dane: Reveived your e-mail and tried changing dates which I did but still no success: Any other suggestions, I really enjoy the Office but can’t really use it, without getting upset. Richard B.
June 14th, 2010 at 13:48
This is a known bug that we are working to fix. As a work around, try clicking on the yesterday or tomorrow and you will see that a date is placed on the address line. You can change that date to any day you want, including today, and that should make today reappear. The date is in the form YYYYMMDD.
June 14th, 2010 at 13:45
Dear liss8rubio,
Telling others about our ministry IS THE BEST WAY to help our ministry. It is our mission to bring everyone into prayer from any where they may be.
Keep spreading the word and ask people to link to our site.
Thank you!
June 14th, 2010 at 13:42
Hi Marty,
We are trying to identify exactly who is affected by this bug. It appears around your midnight and it probably lasts for about one hour.
As a work around, try clicking on the yesterday or tomorrow and you will see that a date is placed on the address line. You can change that date to any day you want, including today, and that should make today reappear. The date is in the form YYYYMMDD.
June 14th, 2010 at 13:39
Dear Jim,
The chantress is Melinda Voss. You can read a little about her on the music profile page on our web site. I think I will see if we can tag her with the name “Chantress”.
Melinda used to be the music director at our parish at St. Vincent de Paul in Holladay, Utah. She left when her husband had to attend medical school and with his education complete she has returned to our parish and is now part of our ministry.
Melinda has published 3 CD’s, which we will soon make available, on her behalf, to all who would like to purchase them. She is a blessing to all of us.
We will be adding a male voice in the next few weeks as a compliment to hers. This will allow the singing of psalms with alternating voices for each strophe and joined during antiphons so as to lead our prayer community to intuitively know how to pray the psalms interactively.
We strongly welcome and encourage everyone to help us get everything right. We are trying, but at times, we (at least I) don’t know some of the nuances. Even as my understanding has evolved, we don’t catch everything that needs to be corrected, but with the help of our community pointing it out to me we will eventually evolve to something really glorious.
I appreciate all your comments and we make note of everyone’s recommendations, corrections, and criticism.
Thank you Jim!
June 14th, 2010 at 13:23
The 404 error simply means the audio file is not available. This may happen when we remove an audio file while we are in the process of replacing it. This condition will continue for a few more weeks and you should only experience these 404 errors when there really is an error.
June 14th, 2010 at 13:21
We do follow the St. Joseph Guide, but we don’t have 100% of the Feast Days completed yet. We expect to have everything in accordance with St. Joseph’s Guide by this Advent.
June 14th, 2010 at 13:19
This is because we posted the single reading from the Office of Readings last year, but as we create the complete Office of Readings we replace these individual readings with the complete Office of Readings. The Office of Readings are often posted one day in advance while we work through them, but in a few months they will all be in place well ahead of time.
June 14th, 2010 at 07:46
Praise be to God, that he is good and merciful and has give to us the beauty of wonderful people like you that is working hard on the new technology to bring out the best of our prayer time.
I love the your change of the psalms. It was so powerful to pray like that, I’m terrible in signing, that is a gift God didn’t give me, but I enjoyed it so much when I can follow something so beautiful.
I felt a big difference between reading that following it, with the chant, or signing.
May God keep blessing you and giving you the strenght and resources ($$$) you need to do this wonderful job.
I keep telling all my friends (even non catholic ones) about the applications.
June 14th, 2010 at 03:31
June 14th having a problem with the buttons for (office of Reading and Morning prayer) when I click on them it goes back to the Invitory, but if I click on yesterday or tommorrow those work OK, its just the present day dosen’t work . Any suggestionsd ?? Richard B.
June 14th, 2010 at 00:03
Hi
I usually come looking for NIGHT PRAYER after midnight.
I was able to go to YESTERDAY and then close the day with NIGHT PRAYER ……….. but not now.
Thanks for your prayerful service!
June 12th, 2010 at 18:16
Yes!
No sooner had I uploaded my two cents comments about using chant, etc, than I sat down for Vespers (Evening Prayer) this (June 12) evening, and lo and behold, a female chantress did a great job chanting the psalms and the canticle from Philipp. 2. She sang well, distinctly, not operatically, at a good pace, and we could either learn to join her or/and chant the simple response, as at Mass.
Who is the chantress?
Singing adds something nothing else can match, like wine at dinner. Jesus both drank wine at his last supper, and for dessert (as it were), sang, with the apostles, psalms 148-150 (see Matthew 26:29-30).
Who says we can’t have it all? After all, our Daddy owns the world and everything in it!
Jim C. Cunningham (Westfield, Vermont)
June 12th, 2010 at 16:16
Thanks again tremendously for your devotion to the Lord and to us, aiding us in our own devotion. It must be so hard to keep us fed day by day, and even throughout the day!
My wife, Linda, used to make altar bread. You, too, are like that; you confect the “verbum” to which we add breath (i.e. Spirit),becoming the “sacrifice of praise.”
I am loathe to give any critique, as I am still jumping up and down on my one remaining leg, happy to have found you, but since so many others have ventured to put in their two cents, so I feel maybe I should as well.
I am not a passive pray-er, but an active one. I prefer a format that best allows us pray-ers (and not mere listeners) to join in.
Therefore, I prefer hymns that are truly congregationally singable such as “All creatures of our God and King” and “From all that dwell below the skies,” etc. I know some fans seem to like the more esoteric stuff, and maybe they know it and can sing it, but most of us plebs cannot. If you do use those highfalutin hymns, it would be nice if we could also have the text so we can follow along and get something out of it other than using the time to get my coffee.
Psalms:
I agree with the many who have complained about the responsorial way of praying the psalms, as it does interrupt the flow of the psalmist’s (and Spirit’s) composition. The invitatory is an exception, as even St. Benedict said, for the very practical reason of allowing his monks enough time to do their “bathroom stuff” and get their sleepy bodies into choir.
And it’s OK for Mass, as it makes it easier for the congregation to actively participate, having only to sing the same antiphon throughout the psalm, leaving the “harder” stuff to the cantor(s).
Your pace of praying and silences are perfect—better than many a religious community I have prayed with.
When one person reads a psalm, so we can pray along aloud, it should not be done idiosyncratically, with overly interpretive stresses and pauses, even though that would be better were it merely a reading to passive listeners. Your readers read the readings extremely well, better than some lectors here on the Quebec border who read Romans, telling us we are “hairs” of the kingdom!
Traditional chant—even recto tono—precludes this problem as it ignores even punctuation, and the designated musical note(s) allow for no other interpretive, emotional, accentuations. Save that for the readings; psalms are meant to be sung.
Dismissals:
If I am not mistaken, one of your female members at Easter season was dismissing us with a form reserved only for a deacon, priest or bishop (i.e. “Go in peace.)
Chanting:
I favor introducing simple chants for at least some psalms and canticles, such as the Benedictus and Magnificat. I don’t know the musical ability of you as a group, and if you do not have the gift, then it is better not to try it, but some chants are exceedingly easy. I have taught congregations who instantly caught on and did very well. The thing to remember is KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid). “Congregational” means anybody can do it. I think that is what Vatican II wanted. Mass was not to be between choir, altar boys and priest, with the congregation lighting candles at various shrines until bells rang and brought our attention to the altar, but it was supposed to be a dialog between priest and people “ad Deum.”
But even the simplest chant (recto tono, monotone) can be difficult. One monastery I stayed with would begin on a designated note and end on another, nearly an octave lower. That’s where a simple background instrumental can keep everyone on track without distracting from the flow and meaning of the psalm/canticle itself.
Some will not like chant, because we Catholics have lost an ear for it over the past few decades, but it adds a meditative, mantric element to psalmody, like the Aves of the Rosary.
I have almost half the psalms memorized, but if I can’t chant them, I am a basket-case when it comes to remembering them.
I once met a Cistercian chaplain who simply had to sing his Office in Latin. To recite it was for him like eating a baloney sandwich rather than filet mignon. (And he would even do it while watching Sesame Street!)
Latin:
I vote for some, such as the Glorias and Domine, ad adjuvandum, etc. More than that would not be truly congregational since we have unfortunately moved so far away from our sacred language since about 1970.
But if you do nothing different, you are all great. It’s just that, when it comes to the liturgy, I always vote for making it better and better, till we are on the other side, worshipping the Lamb on the throne with the myriads of angels and saints who have graduated from signs to the bliss of Essence.
Extremely grateful,
Jim C. Cunningham, Westfield, Vermont
June 12th, 2010 at 15:46
Peace to you Dane,
Maybe it is time for a general review of the status of the Divine Office website. It appears there is confusion on what selections are used for readings, technical problems accessing podcasts, and how to select the “yesterday, today, and tomorrow” readings, what is being re-done so far as music and antiphons are used, and new features and updates.
A general information talk, or information sheet on these and other problems, made like you did once before, may calm the storm of comments, and let the many new people understand the complexity, limitations, and many “wonderful” things happening in the Divine Office ministry.
It is a growing and developing, and very unique progression to get to a level of completion, but there is a ways to go yet before we can get the correct readings in the St Joseph Guide for Christian Prayer – note it gives a choice of the ordinary, or feast day readings. I believe the ordinary is being created first, and the feast days are being created next.
Thank you, all my friends in Christ, in helping in a positive way, Dane and the team, in this effort to make this one of the finest LOTH websites. It is for everyone to pray and enjoy using. With understanding it will make it easier to get through these creative trials with patience and love.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
June 12th, 2010 at 08:45
Don’t be too concerned about anything on your side. We are trying to make many improvements in all the prayers so we have gone back and rerecorded many and fixed others. This means that we are not posting ahead by more then a day so you are seeing 404 errors, which means the audio was not found, but it will be found soon. We should be through must of this cleanup work within 3 weeks.
June 12th, 2010 at 06:42
Stfrancisciv, You are right, there aren’t really options, and yet there are.The listings are right OOR pg 959, psalter Week II, Propers (Readings) 345 (However for the for the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the 2nd reading should be from the Propers of the Day 1445 ) The same would hold true for Morning and Evening Prayer. The Psalter is Week II with the Propers from the Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1626) and Canticle Antiphons and Morning Prayer from thePropers of the Day (1446)
So the psalter was correct and the 1st Reading was ( Sat. 10th week of Ordinary time and Week II of the Psalter. It’s just that a differrent 2nd Reading and antiphons are used for the feast day.
Confused yet? Me too.
You would think that with four volumes, they could get things in order and not have us page all over. Imagine 70 deacons praying the Office in choir and not having the Guide. There were times many years ago when I didn’t catch up until the Lord’s Prayer.
You mentioned p 1372 , that’s the Proper for St. Scholastica
Have a great Day. Even though we muddle through our prayer, God knows the prayers in our hearts. May God Bless you Always!
June 12th, 2010 at 04:36
Greetings! I am one of those who are truly grateful to people who work to bring others to God through prayers and deeds. I have been using your prayers by downloading them in my Ipod touch to be assured that I wont be needing any internet connection, thus, i prefer this method than thru the apps. My problem lately is i’ve been having some difficulties in download the Morning Prayers the error code is 404. I would download the prayers a couple of days before the start of the week, but only the Invitatory is available. Is the problem with the downloading? Thanks and hope to hear from you. God bless
June 12th, 2010 at 03:59
Hello – Just wondering – Are you using the St Joseph Guide for Christian Prayer (LOH)? I was instructed by my Spiritual Director to use that guide. But I am thinking you may be using something else. For instance, today, Saturday, 6-12, in the guide, is the Immaculate Heart of Mary with Morning Prayer starting on p 1372 (Ant) 845. Haven’t checked anything else yet but I will have to pray alone today. I so miss praying with the group and listening to the hymns. It’s a much richer experience for me. Anyway, if you don’t use the St Joseph Guide, would you consider using it in the future? I didn’t really know there were options since I am new to the LOH. Thanks so much for what you do. Carol
June 11th, 2010 at 09:09
I am a little lost. When I try to download what appears to be the Office of the day I get only the first reading but when I go on line (like today) the whole office comes up for audio. Am I doing something wrong with downloading to my Ipod? In spite of this I am sooo grateful for what I get. I love the “feeling” of praying with people when I use my Ipod and the music adds to the spirituality of prayer. God Bless you all and this website!
Marie
June 11th, 2010 at 07:37
The iPhone app does download 4 or 5 days in advance, but that is only when we have content for it to download. The Office of Readings is all new content that is posted only 1 or 2 days ahead.
We are also rerecording many Morning and Evening Prayers to fix a number of little issues we had with them in the past. In many cases this means that the prayers are not available for advanced download, but at least we are making the files smaller so that they are faster downloads. We have about 3 weeks of working through things before we can get ahead again.
June 9th, 2010 at 22:10
The Evening Prayer and Night Prayer are for the following day already. If I click on yesterday, it would show the prayers actually for yesterday. i.e. We cannot access the actual Evening and Night Prayers of the actual day.
June 9th, 2010 at 21:50
Just a note re: “yesterday|today|tomorrow switch – it no longer works as it should.
Still am grateful for your great service – keep up the good work!
June 9th, 2010 at 11:55
Hi and blessing to all. I love this application is my favorite, listen to it, every morning, middle of the day and night.
But very sadly for the past three or four days I haven’t been able to play the audio for the morning pray.
I don’t mind reading it, but I love the music that you always add, that makes my morning prayer so much more special. What is that I have to do to be able to listen to the morning pray. I try the re-loading and didn’t work.
Something else, thanks for adding the option to be able to buy some of the hymns, as soon as my economic situation is better I will star collecting my favorites.
Que Dios los siga bendiciendo. May God keep blessing you
June 9th, 2010 at 08:53
It has taken unusually long to download the audio for the office tonight (iPhone). I usually listen to Evening Prayer while walking the dog in the late afternoon. I was all the way home before the audio track finally finished downloading. Didn’t the iPhone ap used to download files days in advance? Sure was easier that way. But overall, I continue to value the Divine Office recordings very much. Thank you.
June 8th, 2010 at 08:17
Audio will not play on morning prayer even after restart today 6-8-10 Office of readings fine
June 8th, 2010 at 07:36
Dane: I have been having the same problem and tried the factory reset on my iPhone but the problem continues. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike
June 7th, 2010 at 22:03
Hi Dane, maybe I should get on sooner but lately I’ve not been able to get to night prayers well into the night, I can’t get that day’s prayers; I’ll get yesterdays tomarrows for today and tomarrow for tomarrow, could you please enlighten me ? thank you God bless…
June 7th, 2010 at 05:33
can you download the to an mp3 player and if so where is the link?
June 6th, 2010 at 11:09
Hi Dane et al: Great email article for Feast of Corpus Christi. Thanks!
Mike
June 5th, 2010 at 06:28
Hi bbf,
You are hearing some of the first Hours we recorded. We are in the process of replacing them. You will noticed a marked difference between these old ones after you hear an Hour we have recorded recently. Thank you for your suggestions however.
June 5th, 2010 at 04:29
I agree with amis41. You all keep up the good work. This site is wonderful. To me, the emotional tone of a hymn is what moves me to feel closer to God. It is awesome to have such a thorough knowledge of liturgical music history – I certainly I have none – but I think God is pleased with any prayer whether it is historically correct or not, as long as it comes from the heart. I know that when I try to sing along with any hymn as best I can, for sure He knows an angel is not singing. But I hope He doesn’t turn away from my heartful offering nonetheless. Somehow, I don’t think He does.
June 4th, 2010 at 23:00
O Perfect Love – the analogy of the Bridegroom, Christ, and the bride, the Church, is a spiritual marriage, which if you stretch your imagination can be interpreted in the song.
Having a variety of music with the wide range of followers helps make this website vibrant, and prayerful. I hope we do not go back to mostly chant, but I do love hearing it.
I hope that we can focus on what the Liturgy of Hours is in the eyes of Vatican II, for all lay people, and religious, and all people who come to pray to Our Lord, in communion together.
May our comments be positive, and not distracting to the difficult effort it takes to produce this wonderful website. Having produced much of the Weekly LOTH, going back to polish it up is quite an effort, but Dane is sensitive to the music choices, and has improved it very nicely.
Dane you are a remarkable person, and your team as well to bring so many to prayer. Keep up the wonderful work. God bless you all.
Pax et Bonum
June 4th, 2010 at 17:45
I so appreciate this site. I notice lately however that you are repeating the antiphons after each strope which is unnecessary except for the Invititory. It tends to break up the reading quite a bit. I would also like to request that one of the women slow down her reading some. It’s quite fast and difficult to absorb the substance as we pray along. Thank you
June 4th, 2010 at 14:29
One more question regarding the use of O Perfect Love as a hymn for the Office of readings today. Did you download the sample from Amazom? I ask this because the music cut out after the first verse exactly in the same place the sample cuts out. That seemed a little strange to me.
June 4th, 2010 at 14:24
I have a question about the use of O Perfect Love as a hymn for the Office of readings today. Why did you choose a text that was written for and intended to be used solely as a wedding hymn?
History of the text:
One Sunday evening in 1884 at Pull Wyke, Cumberland, England, Dorothy Francis Blomfield (later Gurney; b. London, England, 1858; d. Kensington, London, 1932) wrote this text for her sister’s wedding.
The hymn tune STRENGTH AND STAY by John B. Dykes (PHH 147) was her sister’s favorite, but that hymn’s text (by Ellerton and Hort) included the line “the brightness of a holy death-bed,” which made it inappropriate for a wedding. So her sister challenged her to write a new text to fit that tune.
At a later time Gurney said,”After about 15 minutes I came back with the hymn, ‘O Perfect Love’, and there and then we all sang it to the tune, STRENGTH AND STAY. The writing of it was no effort whatever after the initial idea came to me of the two-fold aspect of a perfect union, love and life, and I have always felt that God helped me to write it.
The text was published in the 1889 Supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern with a reference to Ruth 1:17. Because of its use at the wedding of Princess Louise and the Duke of Fife that same year, it gained much popularity. Thereafter its place in many hymnals and at many weddings was assured.
“O Perfect Love” is a prayer that Christ’s love and life may infuse a wedding couple’s new life together.
June 2nd, 2010 at 19:03
It worked! Thank you!
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:54
Just another chance to say “Thank you” for making the LOTH available in this format which is so great from me when I am having to drive for some distance to and from work.
I appreciate your using the antiphons as directed in the Invitatory. I feel as if I am sitting in community when I am able to respond.
I’d also appreciate your leaving a silent space for me to respond/repeat at the approrpiate points after the antiphon is first said and at the end during psalmody as well as Canticle of Zechariah and the Canticle of Mary.
One other request: most of the time your hymn selections are just right. With the renewed emphasis on using traditional chant, perhaps more of these could be used.
Thank you for reading my suggestions. But again, thank you for performing your much-needed minstry.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:19
Hi Barbara,
Please try using the factory reset function. It resets everything back to normal so things return to normal functioning. Let me know if that does not work.
June 2nd, 2010 at 09:10
Hi Dane,
Thanks for all your hard work on this site.
What is the reference for the recording of “How Can I Keep From Singing” (hymn for Morning Prayer – 6/2/10)? It is a wonderful arrangement. Who is the recording artist? Is that particular piece available for pruchase? It reminds me of Paul Tate’s arrangements.
By the way… I have not heard from you concerning my offer to help with the music. You asked for my e-mail.
singcook1@astound.net
I’ll be waiting to hear from you.
Ron Jones
June 2nd, 2010 at 08:08
Repeating the Antiphon after each verse is for the Invitatory only and not necessary to do in all Psalms. Repeating the Antinphon in the Psalms actually distorts the flow of the spirit of the Psalmist. I know many have been recorded already but it would be nice not to have the Antiphons not repeated except for the Invitatory. I just find it so distracting instead in praying/listening to the Psalms to be broken by the Antiphons.
June 2nd, 2010 at 03:35
How Can I Keep from Singing – Hymn for today’s morning prayer is so uplifting. A great start of the day in praising the goodness of the Lord, my rock and strength.
Please email me on how I can use the “Subscribe to my feed.”
Thank you,
Ruby
rubybrigman@aol.com
June 2nd, 2010 at 03:05
Dane,
For the past two days, I can’t get the audio to work for morning and evening prayer! It seems to download fine to my IpodTouch – I can see the words on the screen, but no audio. Help! It’s amazing how I’ve come to depend on you! Thanks! Barbara Sardella OCDS
June 1st, 2010 at 09:43
Hello,
All the initial production made by Erika was aimed at creating modern songs out of the hymns and canticles. The Benedictus used in the Divine Office is actually a draft and the full arrangement is even more a song then what you can hear now. That was what we originally asked for, and she did some beautiful songs for us, including many advent hymns ( you can hear some samples in the flash player on this page http://divineoffice.org/music/erika-provinzano/ ).
The experience taught us our community tends to prefer more traditional music in the liturgy. Erika’s latest work for Divine Office has been setting to music the midday prayer psalms in a much simpler way (guitar and voice), with simpler melodies, and we are planning on recording more psalms using traditional tones.
June 1st, 2010 at 08:08
I agree. In our defense, this week’s Morning and Evening Prayer were produced a few years ago. I am reworking almost everything, but this week I am trying to take a few days off to focus on my family so our new content couldn’t be produced. In the next few weeks you will see vast improvements.
May 31st, 2010 at 15:21
Monday, 5/31, was the Feast of the Visitation of Mary. Evening Prayer should have been from Vol III, p 1436 and from the Common of the BVM p 1614.
Alternatively, I suppose, you might have used the 9th week of ordinary time, but from Vol III, not Vol IV.
Thank you.
May 31st, 2010 at 14:10
Hi Dane,
I generally like the music used for the hours. Today’s morning prayer is the exception. I personally would have prefered a hymn or even antiphoal song to the setting of the Lord’s Prayer used today. Even though it had an extension after the initial words of the prayer, I thought it inappropriate as a hymn choice for the office. May I also say that I disliked the setting of the Benedictus as the Gospel Canticle. I do not mean to insult the composing skills of Erika Provinzano. I just don’t think it works well as a musical setting of those words. Music in liturgy is a great passion for me and I believe we need to be more cautious and critical of the selections we choose for liturgical prayer.
Thanks for listening,
Ron Jones
May 31st, 2010 at 09:05
Hello! We solved this!
Sorry, while fixing a website bug we accidentally broke the iPhone feed. We fixed this, please reset your app (factory reset or reset contents in settings screen) and you’ll get the Divine Office back!
Mauro.
May 31st, 2010 at 04:13
Dane, as if you didn’t have enough problems. Todays Office should be the Visitation of Mary
May 31st, 2010 at 04:09
No Ipod downloads today?…. HELP!
May 31st, 2010 at 03:13
What a wonderful website?! Thank you for your effort and hard work to create and run this site. LOTH is my favourite prayer I do love praying here with you. God bless you! THANK YOU!!!!! Andy from London, UK.
May 30th, 2010 at 19:06
Dane, thank you and your group for this ministry. I think sometimes we, as frail human beings, have come to expect perfection from you all. Forgive our demands and pressure for removal of this “devil bug.” We are with you no matter how long it takes. Please know that the service you provide has brought most everyone of us closer to God and we thank you for that. Any inconvenience is worth the wait. God Bless You and thank you.
May 30th, 2010 at 18:53
I am so glad you were able to fix the problem. I am new to praying the Divine Office and your site is a joy. The music is beautiful and the readings are said with such feeling. Thank you and God bless you.
May 30th, 2010 at 13:27
Praying for you thru the intercession of St Isidore, patron saint of IT, that the bug will get fixed! I just want to point out that this url is incorrect http://www.cornerstonelacrosse.org/teachUsToPray.htm. It should be http://www.cornerstonelacrosse.org/teachUsToPray.php This hymn is in the Morning Prayer for 31 May
May 30th, 2010 at 13:18
Humor: The devil bug will be defeated by prayer and expert work by Dane. Keep up the good work Dane. A bit of humor never hurts. Pax et Bonum.
May 29th, 2010 at 23:58
I was mistaken about this being normal behavior. I now see the problem you are experiencing and we are working on a fix. Please look at the announcement we posted on our site as a way to work around this problem until we fix our technology. Sorry for the inconvenience.
May 29th, 2010 at 23:55
Yes, I definitely see this problem. We are working on it. I am sorry for the error. We posted an announcement on the site for a temporary work around.
May 29th, 2010 at 23:54
We know there is a bug with our site. We are working on it. Please see our post on the site about the work around.
May 29th, 2010 at 22:57
it is 9:55pm Sat. May 29-there is no May 29th prayers
May 29th, 2010 at 21:28
Dane,
Have just gone onto the Divine Office website. Current time here is 19:15 Mountain Daylight time. Upper left corner of page says Prayers for May 29, the header at the top of the main page reads Evening Prayer II (Sol) for Trinity Sunday. If I click on yesterday it gives the readings for May 28. If I click on tomorrow it gives me “May 30, About Today for Trinity Sunday”. This all changed from the correct readings earlier this afternoon when I last checked. Using the Divine Office app on my Ipod touch I get the correct readings for today.
Hope this helps.
May 29th, 2010 at 09:54
I am in Missouri and having the same trouble about evening and night prayers. This a a great site and I know you will get this problem fixed God Bless and thank you for this site.
May 29th, 2010 at 09:52
I’m again commenting on the current Night Prayer problem. I received your reply, but it seems as problematic as the problem itself is.
First, the problem is very, very new. I first noticed it within the past week. Therefore, something has changed at your end. Prior to this new manifestation, I could come to your website and say my NP at 11:55 pm without any problem.
Secondly, when I experience this new “feature”, I should be able to access the correct day’s NP by clicking on “yesterday.” Wrong. When I do that, I get the NP from two days before. So how do I access the current day’s NP? Must I now start saying my NP in the afternoon? Hello? It’s called NIGHT Prayer!
Thank you.
May 29th, 2010 at 08:36
I am having the same trouble I think. All of the morning prayers are ok until I log in to do evening and night prayer and then it is already on the next day. If I try to click on yesterdays prayers it is the previous day with the current day nowhere to be found. I am in San Diego.
May 29th, 2010 at 00:23
Dane,
I am located in Alberta, Canada
May 28th, 2010 at 23:17
Where are you located?
May 28th, 2010 at 23:16
This is normal behavior for the web site. Here in the USA we are far behind the time zones of most of the world. It is tomorrow for most of the world. The web site operates without knowing what time it is where you are at so we had to chose a time zone for it to operate and we selected one that is half way between the USA and Europe.
May 28th, 2010 at 20:40
Good evening. It’s Friday, 10:38 pm. I clicked on Night Prayer and got Saturday’s NP. It’s still not fixed, Dana.
May 28th, 2010 at 18:10
I have had the exact same problem as courts5946 but with Evening Prayer for the last 3 or 4 days and the problem is still there today. If I use my Ipod Touch using the Iphone app it is okay.
May 28th, 2010 at 05:50
Please let me know if this happens again. I needed to see this error while it was still Thursday because now everything appears normal. Thanks for reporting this issue.
May 27th, 2010 at 21:02
Days and dates for Night Prayer are messed up. For example, today is Thursday, 5/27, but NP is for Friday, 5/28. Clicking yesterday gives you, Wednesday, 5/26. Clicking tomorrow gives you Friday, 5/28. What happened to Thursday.
May 27th, 2010 at 09:40
Tech problem? Today May 27 on Lauds, Morning Prayer, there was a link offering song “click here to purchase this hymn” re: Isaac Watts “I sing the mights power”.
It linked to Amazon, with another hymn, a Taize hymn, featured for $.89, but I could not for the life of me find the one used in your Lauds.
Oh well.
May 27th, 2010 at 05:42
Good morning to all. I have used your app on my Iphone and been greatly satisfied with it. Because of cell coverage issues in my new parish I had to give up the iPhone and purchase a Motorola Droid. I would love to have this app on my new phone. Are there any plans to make a Droid friendly app in the future? I know in some cirlces this is anathema, however, I need my phone first and foremost for receiving and making phone calls.
Peace and be well,
Fr. Chip
May 26th, 2010 at 10:45
Good catch! It is fixed.
May 26th, 2010 at 06:18
Hi!
Just wanted to let you know that the audio for Office of Readings for tomorrow Thursday is actually the audio for today.
Again, many many thanks for your wonderful ministry!
May 24th, 2010 at 22:11
I aggree with romang1 ,I really enjoy this site and use it every chance I get, my the LORD bless you all who work on this, with His very best blessings!!!!! may the peace of our Lord be with you! In Christ,
gillysuiter
May 24th, 2010 at 13:26
We had the content right, but we did have a typo on the Invitatory. It is fixed now. Thanks!
May 24th, 2010 at 07:39
Just a note to point out a technical item – since this is the 8th week in ordinary time, we should be reading from the 4th week of the Psalter, not the 1st or 3rd as is posted on the web site today (we did conclude our readings before the Easter season in the 2nd week, but the readings are to be aligned with the weeks in ordinary time, modulo 4).
Best,
TK
May 23rd, 2010 at 22:35
God bless those who tirelessly devote themselves to providing this service. I am especially grateful for the recorded music and the decision to use some excellent English choral performances whch exemplify the musical standard that should be in every Catholic parish. It is my hope that those who are praying on this site will demand high quality choral music in there own parishes.
One suggestion: Please provide the text and/or a choral performance of the Marian antiphons for each of the offices.
Pax dominus vobiscum.
May 23rd, 2010 at 18:44
We will be bringing the page guide back. After starting to create the page guide it became apparent that we needed a more efficient method of creating it and distributing it so that it didn’t take 2-3 hours per week to publish. We will have the solution soon and the page guide will be back.
May 23rd, 2010 at 10:38
Juice is a free, multiplatform podcast receiver that I have used on both MS and Linux platforms (Apple os is a Linux variant) so you should have no trouble. Just google Juice podcast receiver and load it to your system.
May 22nd, 2010 at 19:16
What happened to the LOTH page guide? It was very helpful and a learning tool.
Thanks you.
May 22nd, 2010 at 12:03
I listen to the podcast on a Zune HD, which is a Microsoft product, so I can vouch for the fact that the podcast is not resticted for use only on Apple products.
Do you have a podcast application for your Dell Axim?
May 22nd, 2010 at 11:11
Greetings,
As a substitute suggestion for a LOTH Weekly Page Guide,
may I suggest a website that emails it out weekly free of charge. It may not have the Feast Days listed but the Ordinary days instead. However, it is a worthy ministry who supports linking the Divine Office website on theirs.
The Weekly Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours is a free service provided by the Classical Liberal Arts Academy to promote family and personal prayer. It is designed for use with the Catholic Publishing Company’s editions of the Liturgy of the Hours. Please encourage your friends and relatives to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and let them know we’re here to help! Direct them to the CLAA’s Liturgy of the Hours resource center at: http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/LOTH.
Request to be added to their mailing list. Until Dane can get back to it, this will help you.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 21st, 2010 at 10:03
What happened to the page guide?
Marie
May 21st, 2010 at 09:51
When I try to download from the Itunes website for the following week some of the LOH prayers don’t download even if they say it was released. There appears an exclamation point to the left of that particular office. Some of them download just fine. Am I doing something wrong? This is being downloaded to my Ipod… Thanks and God Bless you for all this wonderful work. It has enhanced my prayer life 100xs over!!
Marie
May 21st, 2010 at 09:12
Do not worry I know why
May 20th, 2010 at 23:52
There are three days listed – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. These cover three timezones in the world. Australia is 12 hours different, Europe is 12 hours different, and the United States is usually the “Today” I believe that is what was meant Dane. Just think we are praying with people around the world. God bless. Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 20th, 2010 at 21:26
Many people use pod catchers to download our podcast to their mobile devices. I have not researched them, but you should find one that will do the job for you.
Good luck!
May 20th, 2010 at 18:21
Dear Dane,
I love praying with you each day. I was hoping that I could take you with me on my Dell Axim pocket pc, but it seems that I can only access you on a mobile via Apple products.
Is this correct?
Monthly supporter,
Patti Hartman
May 20th, 2010 at 17:40
Sorry, I am no sure what you mean.
May 20th, 2010 at 17:02
Dane Why are there three days listed in office?
May 20th, 2010 at 13:16
Priests, deacons, seminarians, and nuns are all welcome to request a code that will allow them to redeem our apps for free if they have access to the USA iTunes store. If they have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch then let them know.
May 20th, 2010 at 10:23
I recently got this app for my iPad. WOWWWWWW! Jesus definitely owns a Mac, as this is now ever so accessible to anyone wishing to participate in the Office. I bought my hard books for just shy of $200 and do adore using them in Adoration every morning. BUT, having the Evening Prayer being recited aloud keeps me totally engaged. And that view of our planet and all who are praying??? This app costs the equivalent of two starbucks. Don’t even hesitate. It would make a great gift (gifts!) for family and friends alike. I’ve been showing it to my Priests, who are in the main technophobes, and they are all over it. Thanks so much for such an inspirational site. Beth Parks
May 20th, 2010 at 00:14
Paul:
Great article. Loved the following sentence in re silence and the discomfort we seem to feel when we experience it: “It is a confrontation with our emptiness, self-deceptions, even self-image–those things we try so hard to hide under blankets of activity and sound. Silence involves a reorientation from doing to receiving. From silence emerges the most natural expression before the divine mystery: awe and speechlessness.”
Thanks for sharing the article.
May 20th, 2010 at 00:01
Greetings,
As a substitute suggestion for a LOTH Weekly Page Guide,
may I suggest a website that emails it out weekly free of charge. It may not have the Feast Days listed but the Ordinary days instead. However, it is a worthy ministry who supports linking the Divine Office website on theirs.
The Weekly Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours is a free service provided by the Classical Liberal Arts Academy to promote family and personal prayer. It is designed for use with the Catholic Publishing Company’s editions of the Liturgy of the Hours. Please encourage your friends and relatives to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and let them know we’re here to help! Direct them to the CLAA’s Liturgy of the Hours resource center at: http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/LOTH.
Request to be added to their mailing list. Until Dane can get back to it, this will help you.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 19th, 2010 at 23:50
Interesting comment. Yes our society is not used to silence but it is suggested that if priest, or ministers introduce the silent periods congregations will get used to them. For three years now a pattern has been set and easy to follow.
Preferably, I like the sound of the bell before silence as a queue to take a moment to reflect on the psalm (5 seconds, then apply my thoughts to it (5 seconds), with out the bell in between as a distraction. It may break up the thought thinking something else is happening, or the bell is delayed. Also to change all the recordings now would be a considerable time consuming effort.
A nice article “Quiet Please: The importance of silence in liturgy.” on this is found at :
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Quiet,+please:+the+importance+of+silence+in+the+liturgy-a0140711082
God bless the Divine Office team, and members for helping foster this ministry.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 19th, 2010 at 04:04
Hi Dane:
A general rule of thumb is that silences in the LOH as in any liturgical act should never be so long as to make one weary or uncomfortable, but long enough to deepen the experience.
That being said, there has been some variance in the length of silence between psalms in the different monastic houses with whom I’ve been associated over the years. Personally, I like enough time for the psalm to sink in to my heart while my mind remains in silence – an average of approx. 10 seconds. But, I would experiment with different timings and get the input of others on your crew as you pray the LOH yourself. Some people are more comfortable with silence than others, and so probably best to strike a happy medium.
One idea might be about 4-5 seconds of silence after the antiphon, then one chime tone, then 4-5 more seconds of silence.
I’ve also seen differences in periods of silence during continuation of the same psalm. But the groups I’ve been associated with have, in general, given somewhat less silence, so as to keep the continuity of the text intact.
BTW, I like the longer period of silence after the reading. This seems just the right length of time.
Thanks again and blessings in your ministry.
Mike
May 19th, 2010 at 01:07
Thank you for giving me hope. I will continue to study the structure and execution of the Divine Office while I wait in anticipation for the return of the LOTH page guide. Thank you again for your ministry and all your efforts.
May 18th, 2010 at 22:19
Mike,
This is a great suggestion. I have felt there should be more time, but I was concerned it would be too much for others. The psalms are the foundation of this liturgy and I am trying to get them perfect.
I hate to get technical, but what would you say is an average number of seconds between psalms? Is there a different space of silence between psalms that are continuations of the same psalms verses a new psalm?
May 18th, 2010 at 22:15
I am really sorry that I couldn’t continue, but I will start doing it again. The reason I had to stop is that it was taking me about 2 hours to put it together and the demands of this ministry were already so high that doing it all was impacting the quality of the audio prayers so I had to give it up temporarily, but only temporarily.
May 18th, 2010 at 19:38
I am sorry to not see the LOTH page guide. I have been using these guides to help me during the learning process of saying the Divine Office. While I have been studying and learning, I have been able to follow along with the guide and say the prayers in the interim. I hope that they will return, but I do not have the time to sit in front of my computer to follow the prayers on the website, and I do not have a iphone to try and get it to work correctly. I am very appreciative of all of your efforts that benefit so very many, but the page guides were the only ones that helped me for now. Thank you again.
May 18th, 2010 at 19:35
Greetings Dane et al. I’ve really been enjoying the iPhone app for about 6 months now and just found your website. This is an awesome ministry that definitely deserves support.
I’m a long-time Benedictine oblate (New Camaldoli Hermitage, Big Sur) and love the Divine Office, but due to work commitments, cannot celebrate as many of the hours as I would like, until now! This app makes it much easier to pray as I am driving, etc.
My only request/plea: Perhaps allow a few more seconds of sacred silence between the end of the last Psalm antiphon and the beginning of the next Psalm to allow us to internalize the meaning and, thus, enter more deeply into the experience of prayer. An intonation of the chime would be great at this point as a centering device. To me, the praying of the psalms feel just a bit rushed.
Thank you for your wonderful ministry.
Blessings,
Mike
May 18th, 2010 at 12:02
I should add that we have started creating the chants, but only for the English psalms.
May 18th, 2010 at 12:00
We don’t have the resources to tackle that yet. It would be something we would like to do as our ministry “grows up”, but for now our focus is on making the Divine Office accessible and available to as many people in as many places as possible.
May 18th, 2010 at 10:12
HI. Are there any plans on having The Divine Office in Latin and chanted as was done throughout the centuries?
May 18th, 2010 at 03:15
Dane why do all three apear online?
May 17th, 2010 at 02:02
Since I don’t pray Morning Prayer with you I have not seen the introductory comments before (“Today is the Solemnity of the Ascension….”) but I stumbled across it tonight and found it very interesting. There were several references to last week’s commentary and I tried to find that but had no luck. Putting the date in the address got me to the Invitatory and Morning Prayer for May 9, but I could not find the commentary. Is there a way to do that? Is there any problem (eg copyright) in copying the comments to share with my faith-sharing group?
May 14th, 2010 at 12:44
We did get today’s feast day published, but apparently too late for your needs. Sorry, but there are so many special days this week that we got behind.
May 14th, 2010 at 11:18
I cannot thank you enough for this great tool of prayer. I know that you all are making extraordinary efforts to have it ready on a daily basis. That takes a lot of your time. For that, I know that many of us are grateful.
Being a one Priest only in a parish in the desert of the Imperial Valley in CA, it’s wonderful to pray with all of you. I feel the sense of being Church praying together from many different places in this World.
I only have one suggestion. Please, pay attention to the Feasts and Solemnities. Most of them are there but like today, the Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle is not there. Rather it’s only the regular Easter Friday. I wanted to pray with you but I can’t because Feasts and Solemnities must be prayed.
That’s the only concern. Other than that, you guys are doing an amazing job.
May God bless you always.
Fr. Jose Luis Muro
May 13th, 2010 at 09:30
Evening Prayer tonight (Ascension Day) the space after the Lord’s Prayer (just long enough for the “For Thine is the Kingdom …) also missing. Is this intentional, I hope not. If so, may I plea for the return of the pause?
May 13th, 2010 at 05:25
Once again, thank you for your ministry. This has become such a large part of my prayer day.
May I ask what happened to the invitation to add our own requests at the end of the Intercessions? If there is a way, please bring that back, as it reminded me to add my requests for my loved ones to the community of prayer.
God Bless you all.
May 13th, 2010 at 00:45
A glorious Ascension Day to you! … Just to note that the iPhone Divine Office for the Office of Readings today (Ascension Thursday) cut off at about the half way mark.
Also, I’ve long been meaning to express my gratitude for the lovely space you provide following the recitation Lord’s Prayer for those of us who use the ecumenical version (For Thine is the Kingdom …). Sorry to say that it is the absence of the space in Morning Prayer for a couple of days that has finally lead me to express my appreciation and, now, concern that the space has been cut (no doubt accidentally).
May 12th, 2010 at 21:39
You are in luck. I have an extra iPod. I will send you a private email to get your address and it will be on its way.
May 12th, 2010 at 21:32
You are most welcome. By the way the service is free and via email. You may try Danes set up and enter the basic readings, and the page numbers, and see if that helps. The only other option may be just purchasing the four volume set, which has all the readings. The Christian Prayer does not have the Office of Readings, and the daily shorter prayers.
Best wishes.
Peace and Goodness.
Paul
May 12th, 2010 at 21:25
Hello,
I lost my ipod shuffle recently that I used to use to listen and pray the office with you. I can’t afford a new ipod at this time and don’t have an i-phone. I was wondering if you could recommend an alternative device. Could you use an mp3 player with this application or do you have to have an ipod or i-phone? I tried an inexpensive mp3 player but could not figure out what to do. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike in Jax, Fla
May 12th, 2010 at 08:47
Many thanks for your welcome Paul… I shall give your suggestion a try.
Yours,
Vince
May 12th, 2010 at 07:50
Welcome to the Divine Office Reverend. I am a layman and wish to simply greet you in Christ to pray along with us. Your website is very nice and your church is beautiful.
In answer to the ribbon placement, Dane will explain how he does his as he prays the Solemnities. I am sure it takes time to organize it.
I researched the web and could not find any place on the subject.
There is another source that does the Ordinary mostly and also uses a page numbering for all the prayers. Maybe you can get an idea from there. it is called Classical Liberal Arts Academy, email http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/LOTH
William Michael is the site producer. Between the two you may get an idea how to mark you books as you wanted. Even make your own page guide.
Again welcome to the Divine Office, you will be in our prayers as well.
Pax et Bonum
Paul
May 12th, 2010 at 07:49
Sorry, I hit submit by mistake.
I also wanted to say that George Weigel writes on his death on Jan. 8, 2009 in ” An Honorable Christian Soldier” http://www.newsweek.com/id/178875:
“Father Richard John Neuhaus’s work will be remembered and debated for decades. As a Lutheran pastor, he was one of the first civil-rights activists to identify the pro-life cause with the moral truths for which he and others had marched in Selma; he set the terms of the contemporary American church-state debate and added a new phrase to our public vocabulary with his 1984 bestseller, “The Naked Public Square.” As a Catholic priest, he helped define new patterns of theological dialogue between Catholics and evangelicals, and between Christians and Jews. The journal he launched in the early 1990s, First Things, quickly became, under his leadership and inspiration, the most important vehicle for exploring the tangled web of religion and society in the English-speaking world. All of this suggests that Richard Neuhaus was, arguably, the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray, S.J.
He was also a marvelous human being, with the convictions of a true Christian disciple and the heart of a spiritually insightful pastor. In the retrospect of the death of my closest professional friend on Jan. 8, his living room—in which we prayed, argued, laughed and planned for more than 30 years—strikes me as a concise summary of the man.
May 12th, 2010 at 07:39
Dear Dane
Isn’t there anything you can do to remove today’s Chatter and Cheese segment from the Office of Readings for May 12. It pained me when I first heard it the first time it played during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit . It was equally painful today, just knowing that others are hearing John Richard Neuhaus surmised with such distain. Fr. Neuhaus had a dry wit and humor and great intellect. Our personalities don’t always suit all people but a man of Fr. Neuhaus’ quality and integrity shouldn’t be remembered in this way. He was Raymond Arroyo’s co-host for EWTN coverageof the event. Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief of FIRST THINGS — and one of the top 10 intellectuals in the U.S. according to the New York Times and George Weigel speaks t;, Editor in Chief of FIRST THINGS — and one of the top 10 intellectuals in the U.S. according to the New York Times;
May 11th, 2010 at 18:20
We will certainly let everyone know with each new platform we launch upon. Blackberry is coming, but it is right behind Android. This isn’t just economics, but rather it is the resources we can access first. Thanks for letting me know.
May 11th, 2010 at 18:18
Hola,
You can go to any date by entering it as part of the address. To go to May 4 you would put http://divineoffice.org/?date=20100504 in the address.
May 11th, 2010 at 14:47
Please if that happens let me know too, a friend has a blackberry and loves my Divine Office applications, and of course just like FrKeyes doesn’t want to buy and IPhone just for it, he loves his blackberry, just Divine Office is missing on it.
May 11th, 2010 at 14:44
Hola!!! It is a blessing to have your applications, I have been enjoying it a lot, I specially love it more when Christ talks to me through it. Hasn’t happen to you? you are worried about something or doubting something, go to Divine Office to pray and either the bible verse, the psalm or the commentary, speaks exactly about what you are going throug. Well one of those times was last week, sadly I was too busy at work and didn’t have time to sign up on the web to save the commentary that I love. Is that any way I can find it, I’m not sure if it was May4 or 5, I just remember it was on the Office Readings. I will appreciated if you can let me know if there is a way to go back more than one day to look for it. “Gracias y que Dios siga bendiciendo su ministerio” thanks and make the Lord keep blessing your minestery
May 11th, 2010 at 05:17
Hello everyone, I’m an Anglican priest who very much appreciates all your company when praying. I own the three volume set of the Divine Office and am wondering if your excellent Ribbon Placement idea can be transfered and if so how? As you can tell, i’ve only recently begun using them
May 10th, 2010 at 20:39
God is great I am so blessed to find this site,
May 10th, 2010 at 20:21
Hello Badback catholic. How do you “tie to my alarm function of my iPod”?
May 9th, 2010 at 23:04
I would like this to be an app on my blackberry, but cannot find it. I do not have an IPhone and refuse to own one.
May 9th, 2010 at 20:07
Thank you. We appreciate everyone’s prayers and God has comforted our family and we now find ourselves it peace.
May 9th, 2010 at 19:18
I am sorry to hear of your loss. May the Good Lord grant you and your family some peace at this difficult time.
Cy Cote
May 9th, 2010 at 00:27
Profound compliments for your happy and joyful work for us all!
Praying was never more joyful and happy!
Though I am mother-tongue Italian and the divine office here in English spoken, I enjoy it fully
I have always liked English, so I really eat word’s God rejoicing within now. The 2 powers are together. My faith plus my root love for English.
Thanks to the voices who animate the readings. Both men & women really touch me deeply and raise me up in joy with Christ!
Pls go on praying the way you do, deep voices. I feel really in company with you within.
THANKS THANKS THANKS and LET’S REJOICE US ALL WITH THESE WONDERFUL PROGRAM!
May 5th, 2010 at 21:51
We did this about one year ago in response to requests to get to know us. It turned out to be a bit of a disaster. Sadly, we realized that some of our community wasn’t open to our sincerity and so we felt that if we couldn’t be real we shouldn’t do it. It might be a good idea to do it as a separate audio file and we may consider doing that. We really want to connect to everyone and solicit interaction. Your idea is a good one.
May 5th, 2010 at 21:45
Amen. And thank you.
May 5th, 2010 at 19:35
Dane, May God Bless and strengthen you in your sorrow.
Eternal rest grant unto Dane’s father-in-law, O Lord.
May he rest in peace.
May his soul and souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
May the love of God and the peace of the Lord Jesus Christ bless and console you and gently wipe away every tear from your eyes. Amen Alleluia
May 5th, 2010 at 14:32
Loved the new “C&C” open mic addendum to last week’s (Saturday” morning prayer. It was the best bit of Catholic podcasting I had heard since your “Why I Remain Catholic.” Keep up these forays into truth and innovation.
Maybe you might want to have it as a separately listed/downloadable file, to ease the objections of some subscribers.
I find the Divine Office podcasts a great aid to my love of the prayer, and perserverance in praying as many of the hours each day as possible (by having them tied to my alarm function of my iPod).
Pax Christi.
May 5th, 2010 at 08:56
Tod,
I just wanted to say thank you for your service. Be safe. You are in our prayers. God Bless and be with you.
May 4th, 2010 at 21:39
Bessings and peace to your family, Dane. We are praying with you.
May 4th, 2010 at 11:48
As a result of the death of my father-in-law last week and his funeral with all our family and guests arriving I will not be able to get the prayer guide updated for this week. I will have it in place for next week. I apologize for this, but I have simply not had the time to produce the prayers and do the page guide.
May 4th, 2010 at 11:13
May the grace of God be with you, Dane, and also with your family. I realize that this website may not be updated for a few days more due to the death of your father-in-law. I am new to the website so please excuse me for not scrolling down to the other comments before my original question regarding site maintenance. I am very grateful for the time that you already spend in maintaining this site, as it is very helpful. Thank you for being patient with me.
May 4th, 2010 at 10:59
Why is last week’s Liturgy of the Hours showing instead of this week? The invitory prayers, office of readings, morning, daytime, evening, and night prayers are all last week’s prayers. When will you update this website?
May 3rd, 2010 at 21:08
Dane
Our prayers are with you and your family. May they all travel safely.
May 3rd, 2010 at 14:15
Hi Tod,
I may not be able to get that out very soon. My father-in-law died this past week and I have been fully engaged with his funeral and all the family and friends who arrived from everywhere to attend. I will get better at it in the future and I will try to get it done soon.
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:45
Dane,
Is it possible to get the page guides out by Sunday? They are really useful to me, but as I am in Iraq, I usually don’t see them posted until Wed. my time. What do you think?
Tod
May 3rd, 2010 at 06:53
Dear Paddyspets,
I am a hospice/palliative care rn and I will pray for your family.
God Bless
carol
May 1st, 2010 at 03:10
Hi all, My dad made it home today to begin his Hospice care. Its hard for me switching gears from Palliative care to Hospice, but I know God is strengthening me and He is able.
I love having all the apps on my Iphone and this website on my laptop. When I was at the ICU so much, between Dads naps or visits with nurses, I found so much refreshment in prayer. And now that we are all home (mom is recovering from leg surgery, and has the beginning of Alzheimers); you can’t imagine what a blessing this is to me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
April 27th, 2010 at 00:31
Peace be to you, Jim,
I am sure you have heard about the Church’s teaching and by St. Paul “I live in Christ, and Christ lives in me.”
You are a wonderful example of St. Paul, and from your sharing, one can easily tell, that “Christ lives in you.” Keep up the faith, and joyful spirits. We will include you in our intercessory prayers. Thanks for sharing your story.
Peace and goodness always,
Paul – Amis41
April 25th, 2010 at 21:14
To Jim C. Cunningham
What a beautiful story. You hinted at some things I never heard before – like, you mean lay people weren’t SUPPOSED to pray the Liturgy of the Hours prior to Vatican II?!!!? One more for the (short) list of reasons to be glad I live in this particular time. I loved your description on yourself as a “revert!” Never heard that term before although I understood it immediately. Me too, I guess, although I never formally un-verted – just became one of those lukewarm types the Lord is so fond of. Thank you for being willing to put yourself out there as a witness!
April 25th, 2010 at 20:31
I am about to go to Evening Prayer for April 25. If you don’t hear back it went well. I’m usually here for Evening and Night Prayer.
Thanks a bunch!
Jan
April 25th, 2010 at 16:58
Jim, You touched my heart with your story. I will share it with our ministry team. By making this post you have donated and by praying with us your contribution is already invaluable. Don’t send us money, you have done so much already.
In humility,
Dane
April 25th, 2010 at 16:40
From: Jim C. Cunningham
Date: Apr. 25, 2010 Good Shepherd Sunday
RE: Thanks
To: Brs & Srs in Christ’s Heartbeat
I am a blind man with 3! transplants, 1.5 legs, and other health blessings. My juvenile diabetic complications were staved off till my latter 30s, after fathering 6 “gifts from the Lord” (Ps. 127), one of whom miscarried and the others homebirthed by my wife, Linda.
I am a revert, rediscovering Christ 36 years ago at about age 20, being “knocked off my horse by I Corinthians 13. Weeks later, when I went to a Mass and a Quaker meeting on the same Sunday, I was drawn to the Father through Christ (cf. John 6:44f). If I Corinthians 13 knocked me off my horse, the consecration and elevation of the Host shuttled me into outer space in 1973 and I wouldn’t even know how to get back down to the planet (i.e. “the world”) if I wanted to.
As a youth, I used to dabble in poetry (horrid!) until I happened upon the psalms, which expressed everything worth expressing so perfectly and beautifully that my own attempts at poetry fell away with no regrets. It was what Paul refers to as “Christ in me” (Galatians 2:20). Before, I had expressed myself and there were two things very deficient about this: apart from Christ, “I” was hardly worth expressing, and that woefully deficient “I” was doing the expressing, whereas with the psalms resonating in my being, the Word Incarnate assumed the job of expressing, and who knows more about “word” than the Word, and even the flesh of that Word, in which “the fullness of Deity dwells” (Colossians 1:19 & 2:9)?
Then I began to discover the Benedictines, beginning at St. Anselm’s Abbey in Manchester, NH. My naiveté was surprised to find that, not only did those guys also know the value of the psalms and of praying them all the time, sanctifying time, but saints and seekers of sanctity had been singing those praises, gratitudes, imprecations and pleas for mercy even long before the Word, in obedience to his Father, found in Mary the perfect “outfit” for his visitation to us children of Eve, viz. that very flesh elevated above the altar than whom no Quaker private inspiration can hold even a thin taper.
From that moment on, I have been addicted to the Divine Office, at first using the Benedictine apportionment of psalms such that all 150 are prayed weekly rather than monthly.
In 1976, atop Mt. Carmel, in the very 13th century ruins of the chapel of Our Lady, Stella Maris built by those first hermits like Sts. Brocard and Berthold, I prayed beneath the stars for many things, among them my vocation in life. Shortly after returning to the USA, I met that vocation at a Bible study at a Polish parish in Massachusetts. Her name was/is Linda.
She was instantly sucked into the updraft of that Liturgy of the Hours, joining me daily in chanting it in English and Latin. 33.5 years later, we are still hard at it.
Along with “the great sacrament” (Ephesians 5:32) of our marriage, understood most fully in terms of John Paul II’s theology of the body, where our union in one flesh effectively communicates no less than Christ to each other, the Divine Office is that same Christ in us, enraptured by his Father’s excellence and beauty, giving back to him his all, which is “all in all” (Colossians 3:11).The mutual self-giving of our ”great sacrament” is caught up in an infinitely higher mutual self-giving which is the dynamism of the Blessed Trinity himself.
When I read the documents of Vatican II early on in my reversion, I found them to be poetry also. In them (can’t find the reference now—do you know it?) the laity are encouraged to exercise their lay priesthood by praying the Divine Office. Formerly, it had been considered by many such as my Irish Catholic grandmother, practically sacrilege for a layman to even read the Bible on his own, let alone dare to touch a breviary. And when I asked my Augustinian friend what those books were that he had bought while with me at a Carmelite bookshop (they were the volumes of Christian Prayer), he turned to me from his coffee and doughnut and said, “Oh, just something we priests have to do,” as if I were not practically drooling to take a peek into those mysterious books!
I have long lamented the effectual exclusion of laity from the Divine Office. I have even written to EWTN to urge them to include at least some of the Office in their broadcasts. They broadcast other devotions, but the only Liturgical prayer is Mass. There is no competition between Mass and Office, between the Liturgy of the Eucharist and of the Hours. Like many other things in Catholicism, it is a both/and proposition and not an either/or one.
Then, in my rural northern Green Mountains of Vermont I managed to graduate from my dial-up internet account to the 21st century wireless world, and enter your wonderful ministry.
Until I discovered you, whenever Linda was unable to pray the Office with me, I had to content myself with a textual scan of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, scanned into my talking PC. Repetition is all well and good, but to tell you the truth, I did get a bit tired of reading either St. Aelred or Lumen Gentium every single day for my second reading at Vigils (Office of Readings).
Both Linda and I are techno-phobes. It took me a whole year to figure out how to print a document from my PC—“Control + P”! It is really all very simple (at the user’s end, that is), yet I usually feel like the Ethiopian eunuch (well, in some ways) when he complained about having no one to teach him (cf. Acts 8:31). I only recently figured out how to download your MP33 files, having finally found a player that is friendly to my blind screenreader (BTW, it’s Winamp). your own player built into your website is not blind-friendly. I can click on “Hide player” and then “Play Now,” but if I need to respond to what St. Pachomius called “the necessities of nature” which sometimes occasioned is cenobites to excuse themselves from their chanting of the Office (all memorized back in those good ole days), I cannot click the pause button like sighted users can do. My screenreader cannot find it. If you are interested in learning how to make your website blind-friendly, you might want to contact Freedom Scientific who produces the Jaws 11 screenreader I use. Their URL is:
http://www.freedomscientific.com/
But my secretary managed, after 2.5 hours, to show me how I can right click on the icon for podpress and then follow the download prompts, find it on my hard drive and when I open it, my Winamp player automatically plays it and, unlike Windows Media Player, I can control the play about as well as a sighted person, even pausing to “see that man about a horse,” as my wife’s people used to say.
Under separate cover, via snail mail, I am sending a modest donation.
Your work is very important. I trust you already understand that numbers are not as important as the world would have us believe. You are providing a mechanism allowing hearts like mine to unite with the Sacred Heart in giving God the glory that is his due, or at least some of it. This is what eternity consists of, and you are already helping to make it happen. Keep it up!
In the Spirit who prays in us and for us because we are such basket-cases at it (cf. Romans 8:26),
Jim C. Cunningham
Foothills of Jay Peak, Vermont
P.S. You may publish any or all of this on the internet as you please.
April 25th, 2010 at 15:51
Thank you for putting the effort into endeavors such as this, especially with tools such as the iPhone/iPod Touch. We need a lot more prayer in our lives. Personally as I become more familiar with this prayer I hope to practice it more and include it daily. Thank you again and God bless you and your efforts.
April 25th, 2010 at 15:17
Thank you for supporting us, when you can, with donations, but the best thing you can do for us is pray with us, for us, and tell others about us. God bless!
April 25th, 2010 at 15:16
Jan, we fixed the error with Evening Prayer. Our audio file hosting provider is moving us to a new service and things are moving around. If it happens again please let us know. Thank you!
April 25th, 2010 at 13:37
I just want to say that I will glady support the Divineoffice website. I will ask my son to help me set up a paypal account. You have been a huge blessing to me—
May God continue to bless you.
April 24th, 2010 at 21:26
Could not open Evening Prayer for April 24. Got a message saying “Error Opening File” even after shutting down and trying again. I wanted to hear the hymn – it looked really nice – so I went to the website you gave but the closest I got was something really weird. Googled Josh Blakesley and got it at spiritandsong.com. Naaaah.
April 24th, 2010 at 08:35
Yes, this is correct. These are both optional memorials for Martyrs so there is only a difference in the second reading, response, and concluding prayer. Most of the content comes from the Common of One Martyr for Easter.
April 23rd, 2010 at 23:35
Hello
Strange to note that the Office of Readings for April 23 & 24 are identical except for the readings (same hymn, “Faith of our Fathers” same Psalms (2 … etc)
Can that be intentional?
Otherwise, I continue to appreciate this ministry very much.
April 22nd, 2010 at 10:06
This year we are adding new feast days as get near. You will often see the audio posted first and within a day to just a few hours before it is time to pray that hour you will see the full text get completed.
We are working to get everything complete and will continue to add the Office of Readings audio and full text.
April 22nd, 2010 at 06:05
Good Morning All,
I was just wondering why the open mic dialogue after the Office of Readings this morning. I found it took away from the prayer.
Just a note: Revelation actually has an opening blessing for those that “read” and listen to the message: ” Blessed is the one who reads aloud and blessed are those who listen to this prophetic message and heed what is written in it, for the appointed time is near.” Just my thoughts.
Jo
April 21st, 2010 at 14:43
4/21: I am not able to see the two readings for the Office of Readings. Will they not be online anymore?
April 21st, 2010 at 05:36
My ears and my eyes do not match many times. Confusing… Please help. Thank you for your ministry. God Bless, Susanna
April 21st, 2010 at 03:28
just found the Office of the Readings.. God bless!
April 21st, 2010 at 03:26
helloe! I thank God for inspiring you to create this site. Thank you very much for creating the mp3s. It’s very helpful for us who want to pray the Liturgy of the Hours while on the road. I’ll be waiting for the Office of the Readings! I hope I can make a donation but I don’t have a PayPal account and I am just a student and not earning. Maybe someday God will show me the way how can I help you guys! God bless!
April 19th, 2010 at 05:13
Night Prayer April 18. The Gospel Canticle is not there but its antiphon is repeated an extra time (or two?)
April 18th, 2010 at 20:15
God bless your work I truely find this refreshing
and satisfying to my ears and heart please continue
this beautiful work. May the peace of our Lord be with you…
April 15th, 2010 at 22:26
Dear Dcn. Dave,
Thank you for helping out with this question. There are so many people who ask about it and I never know what to say. One of these days I will need to write up a good FAQ section to handle questions and answers, but until that time I want to express my thanks.
April 15th, 2010 at 22:24
Jeff,
I really appreciate your offer to help. Many others stepped in and we had around 100 five-star ratings and 70 or so written reviews. Many good people came to our aide so now we can all relax, but I do thank you for wanting to help and in the not too distant future we may have the need again.
Thank you!
April 15th, 2010 at 19:20
Fr. Schulz:
What I’ve done from a Blackberry standpoint is to download the MP3 version to my C:\ drive then use either Bluetooth or the Blackberry Desktop Manager to transfer the file to my B/B.
Dcn. Dave Cedrone
April 14th, 2010 at 06:04
Hello,
I just listened to the Apr 13 podcast entitled “Help! iPod Drawing?”. I’d be only too happy to help, but, since I don’t own an iPod (I listen to the podcast on a Zune HD), I am looking for a link where I can download the $0 iPhone app. Can someone show me how to do this so I can leave a five-star review?
God bless,
Jeff Ferguson
February 13th, 2010 at 17:15
Yes, we are actually trying to get ALL feasts and memorials done, but no promises…yet.
February 13th, 2010 at 16:56
What a surprise and a pleasure to have the Office of Readings for Our Lady of Lourdes!
February 13th, 2010 at 12:35
I’d like to support the development of a divine office app for windows mobile, and blackberry. If someone could contact me about the costs involved, I’d be more than happy to get it rolling.
Rev.Fr. James O Schulz+
February 10th, 2010 at 13:17
This is because we moved our audio files to a much faster hosting service, Amazon S3, and I need to update the links to those audio files. I make sure to update them at least one week ahead of their scheduled time, but I will try to get to it sooner. Thanks!
February 10th, 2010 at 10:01
Hi Dane!
I was very pleased with using the date in the address as you suggested. However, having reached the third week of Lent, I have discovered many errors. The pages will not open at all, the audio files I mean.
Thanks again for all your help and all you do to make this ministry available to all!!
February 10th, 2010 at 02:24
Welcome to the Saint Blogs Parish, A global Catholic online community. May you find this website a way to enjoy praying the prayer of the Church, the Liturgy of Hours. Please let others know about it, so that together, our voices give praise, and glory to our Lord. Peace and goodness be with you always.
February 7th, 2010 at 19:38
Sorry, but we don’t have a palm app planned. These apps cost us significant money to produce so we can only do it if we feel it can pay for itself.
February 7th, 2010 at 19:36
Both of the formats are valid, but the antiphons between strophes are in less common practice. You are experiencing different formats because we are in transition as we replace all content with no antiphons between strophes, but this process takes time.
February 6th, 2010 at 21:41
I have a palm-any chance a palm app is in the works?
February 6th, 2010 at 21:39
I’m trying to get used to the form; it seems to change from day to day, when the antiphon is repeated after each strophe or until the end. But this site has been a terrific find for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this tremendous ministry & undertaking.
January 25th, 2010 at 21:57
To get the free Weekly Guide to the Liturgy of Hours, simply go to the CLAA’s Weekly Guide to the LOTH, and sign up free, for an email that will be sent to your computer weekly. Enter your email address in the box and complete the sign up. You can select either the 4Vol Version or the Christian Prayer version from the email you receive by simply by clicking on the title. Prayers are listed by page number. It is very simple. Ribbon placement can be set up before you begin your prayers from the list. Print the pages separately so they are both facing the same direction on each side of the page. Enjoy.
January 25th, 2010 at 06:47
What happened to the notes about ribbon placement for LOTH and Christian Prayer??
January 23rd, 2010 at 18:53
CLAA Weekly Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours is now available in both versions. See the BLOGROLL Links.
Weekly Guide to Christian Prayer JANUARY 24-30, 2010
Weekly Guide to 4 Volume LOTH JANUARY 24-30, 2010
To print your weekly guide to the Liturgy of the Hours, select the correct version. The guide should be printed in color on two sides. Fold the guide in half and tuck it into your prayer book. Enjoy!
A Special Thanks to William & Dania Michael
Classical Liberal Arts Academy /LOTH
(Pray for all the people of Haiti and those who help them.)
January 23rd, 2010 at 08:39
What a blessing your service is to the Church! I love your current format since it maps so well to the format being taught to all currently in formation in our Diocses.
Your faithfulness is an encouragement to all of us preparing for a greater service to the Church.
January 23rd, 2010 at 03:10
Thank you! Your wonderful site is helping me to properly make use of Christian Prayer. God bless you all, abundantly.
January 20th, 2010 at 08:15
I just want to say THANK YOU for the work that you are doing!!! I found your site about a year ago and have been following the Liturgy with you since then almost daily. Not being Catholic, I had no idea of the Liturgy of the Hours, but I have come to truly appreciate these time honored prayers. I now have the books to follow along and have found them to be a blessing. The iphone app is great also!! May God bless you in this work!!
January 16th, 2010 at 23:36
Welcome to potential Knights of Columbus members. Please join us in this wonderful prayer of the Church. The world needs our unceasing prayers. God bless.
January 15th, 2010 at 11:47
Thank you! Just posted some praise over at http://lifeofless.com/?p=87
January 13th, 2010 at 05:00
Good Morning!!
I just wanted to thank you for your info on using the date in your address, works great!!
Thank you again for this beautiful ministry!!
January 12th, 2010 at 05:29
Thank-you, thank-you, THANK-YOU!!
January 11th, 2010 at 21:33
I noticed you did nnot have the pages listed.
Today Monday, January 11th we Begin Volume III
All from Monday Week I, Page 702,
Office of Reading Mon, 1st Week of Ordinary time Page 53
Night Prayer Monday, page 1275I have an extra ordo if you would like it.
Blessings & Prayers
January 8th, 2010 at 11:18
We had a small bug on our system that missscheduled some of the audio files. That should be working again.
The content that you can expect to see is as follows:
Invitatory Psalm – audio and full-text
Office of Readings – audio on solemnities and full-text
Morning Prayer – audio with some days full-text
Midday Prayer – text only
Evening Prayer – audio with full-text
Night Prayer – audio with text outline
We are working hard to have Office of Readings in audio form for Ordinary Time, but can’t promise it yet.
We are also reworking much of our Morning Prayers to bring them more inline with our new format.
This is a lot of work and we are doing our best, but the one thing you can be assured of is that there will be more and more and better and better all the time.
Thanks for joining us in prayer!
January 8th, 2010 at 11:02
You can access any date by simply adding /?date=YYYYMMDD to our web site address. Eg. http://divineoffice.org/?date=20100109.
January 8th, 2010 at 09:44
Enjoy using the application whilst traveling – will the audio sections soon return for all the hours? I recently purchased the application for my iphone and found it very good . . . but I bought it for the audio feature. God bless your work. Ora et Labora
January 6th, 2010 at 21:53
Thank you for producing Divine Office. I use it each day on my iPhone. I particularly like the application which allows us to see dots where others are praying. I truly makes me feel a part of the great community praying in other parts of our world.
January 4th, 2010 at 19:18
thanks, I just signed up.
January 4th, 2010 at 13:49
Correction: Website for LOH page guide for 4 Volume Set is:
http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/loth/index.htm
Thank you.
January 4th, 2010 at 09:15
I will add a link on our site, but you can subscribe to the free email on their site at http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/ or you can send an email to wmichael@classicalliberalarts.com and ask to subscribe.
January 4th, 2010 at 09:13
Can you please provide me with the free email website address for the 4 volume LOH set. Thank you.
January 4th, 2010 at 09:13
Opps! We will get that fixed.
January 4th, 2010 at 09:05
Happy New Year Dane and everybody. My wife and I enjoy starting our day with morning prayer.
The past couple days the full text of morning Prayer has the Canticle of Mary instead of the Canticle of Zechariah. The audio file is fine. Probably just a cut and paste error in the template.
January 4th, 2010 at 00:29
Those who use the 4 volume LOH set, a reminder. A free email website that has pdf sheet with a week’s worth of Liturgy of Hours, by page numbers for each item. It is a printable two sided sheet that fits right into the book. It is free, or a charitable donation can be made. It is very useful.
wmichael@classicalliberalarts.com
Peace and goodness always.
January 3rd, 2010 at 23:04
Could there be a Palm WebOS application?
Also, could there be a way to include the Roman Calendar on the site? So that if for 1/4/10 one wanted to pray the office in the name of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton and not simply the office of the 2nd Week of Christmas?
January 2nd, 2010 at 12:34
Thanks so much for adding the ribbon placement information on the podcast. I just received the 4 volume set and I was a lttle lost at first. I was used to the Christian Prayer single volume set.
Thanks again,
Larry A. Franz
January 1st, 2010 at 15:51
If you find a link that does not work then please let us know, but if you are referring to the tabs on our site then they work, but there is not always content. You will see in the feedback area that we discuss the content delivery.
During the Christmas season we are a little less complete then we would like because of conflicts with our own families and Christmas events, but we are working hard to keep on the minimum, which is Morning and Evening Prayer.
January 1st, 2010 at 15:48
There was some discussion about using a Blackberry in the feedback area of our site so you may want to see if anything has developed.
What may work is for you to use a podcast client. There are many good ones. Then subscribe directly to our podcast feed.
December 30th, 2009 at 12:10
Any chance that we can access this Divine Office via a Blackberry phone?
December 30th, 2009 at 05:21
Good Morning!
I have a few questions, please. Why are some of the links not working, it says play but nothing happens? And also, how come there is only night prayer?
December 21st, 2009 at 20:29
I just added our feed to Zune. Try searching for Divine Office and when you find it, please leave us a positive review to help others find us on the Zune. Happy Advent and Christmas!
December 21st, 2009 at 14:58
Hi Folks-
I see that you have ITunes Podcasts. Is it possible to have this set up with the Zune site.
http://social.zune.net/podcasts/
I use a Zune and wish to subscribe to the Podcast but do not wish to install Itunes.
Dave
December 19th, 2009 at 20:39
God Bless all of you who bring this treasure online. God will reward you immensily.
Merry Xmas and a Happy 2010 filled with praises to God. Our prayers will bring God back to the center of peoples lives.
December 19th, 2009 at 11:07
During the Dec17-23 period of Advent it is different each year and we had to replace the content so I am feverishly working to get it all completed and posted.
December 19th, 2009 at 10:28
HI everyone,
I notice that itunes is missing parts of the daily office
in recent times. If you could fix that I (and others)
would really appreciate it.
Peace to all who work behind the scenes this Christmas
and 2010.
December 14th, 2009 at 15:05
I have tried to teach myself the Divine Office and it has been so difficult for me. I found the Divine Office on ITunes and now I listen to it on my iPod. Thank you for doing this and now I can listen to the hours on the hours that everybody is praying. God Bless all of you. Please have a very Blessed Christmas and a Wonderful New Year in the Name Of Our Lord.
December 13th, 2009 at 13:55
Those who use the 4 volume LOH set, a reminder. A free email website that has a week’s worth of Liturgy of Hours, by page numbers.
wmichael@classicalliberalarts.com
Simply sign up for the email, and you will find every prayer, by page number, easily. Peace and Goodness always. It is a printable two sided sheet that fits right into the book.
To simply get the latest issue, go to this website:
http://www.classicalliberalarts.com/LOTH
Click on “Print this Week’s Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours”
Peace and goodness always.