![]() ![]() For us,it can be compared to the Angel Raphael who led the young Tobias successfully through all the dangers of his journey. The breviary is a staff and guide to heaven. The individual, too, must grow that is the subjective side of liturgical prayer. In the universal spirit of prayer as described above, the individual soul is not to lose sight of itself. It is a guide to genuine spiritual growth for the individual soul, religious or lay We should approach our prayer of the breviary saying: Now the Church is praising God through my mouth now the Church is struggling after souls with my hands!Ģ. The objectives of the Church, the objectives of Christ’s redemption, become ours. It is through the breviary that we participate objectively in the official ministry and care of souls. This gives a deeper content to our prayer we spread out far beyond our own selves. All the sentiments of Holy Mother Church find their echo in us. The Church weeps through our tears with those who weep, rejoices through our joys with those who rejoice, does penance through our penances with those who are repentant. The Church is praying through my mouth I offer Her my tongue to pray with Her for all the great objectives of redemption, and for God’s honor and glory. In liturgical prayer, I am like a leaf on the great living tree of the Catholic Church. The object of Her prayer is broader: all the needs of God’s kingdom here on earth. But in liturgical prayer, that is, in the breviary, it is not primarily I who am praying, but the Church, the Bride of Christ. It is I who stand in the center of action. In private prayer I pray, mostly for myself and my own affairs. It is helpful to understand the difference between private prayer and liturgical prayer. The breviary is above all the prayer of the Church. It is the prayer of the Church as a bodyġ. The two chief objectives which the breviary fulfills are:ġ. It contains the Divine Office, or the formal prayers which the Church puts into the mouths of her priests and religious. ![]() It could be said that the Holy Ghost and the Church have been working on it for more than 3,000 years, and it has become the basic book of prayer. Latin pronunciation guide bookmarker included.Ģ21pp, leatherette sewn hardcover, 2 ribbons.The breviary is the official prayerbook of the Catholic Church, the prayer said in the name of the Church. Includes everything for the Hours of Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline Prime, Sext, and Compline for each other day of the week. In timeless Latin with parallel English translations. Melodies in Gregorian notation for those who chant the office in common. The prayers to be said before and after reciting the Divine Office An 11-page Introduction explaining the Divine Office and how to pray it, including guidelines on how to interpret the psalms in a Catholic manner Our Lord, our Lady, and the Saints prayed these psalms. When understood correctly (this edition has a short explanation preceding each psalm), these are the intentions for which Holy Mother Church wants us to pray for ourselves, for the Church and for all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This is better than private prayer it's the prayer of the entire Mystical Body because you pray with one heart with the millions of other clerics, religious and laymen around the world who have prayed and are praying these exact same prayers, AND because you adopt the intentions of the psalmist as you pray. Join your voice with the Church and her members Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day. ![]() Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. But the Church gave us the answer from the very beginning when she structured her official prayer around a framework of the psalms prayed eight times a day so that within one week, all 150 psalms are said. It's so easy to lose sight of God in our busy world. What does it gain a man to have his whole life perfectly organized but to lose his soul? Officium Divinum ![]()
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