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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. Wou