Directory of Liturgy of the Hours Resources

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• An Incentive to Prayer

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRAYER/INCENTIV.TXT
  Essay by the late Cardinal Spellman says that the publication in English of the official prayer book of the Church offers a tremendous opportunity for anyone who wishes to grow closer to God in prayer.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Breviary

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02768b.htm
  Evolution of the book, or set of books, containing the texts and rubrics of the canonical hours.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Canonical Hours

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07500b.htm
  Essay on the practice of reciting the Divine Office according to set hours.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Compline

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04187a.htm
  Scholarly essay on what is essentially a bedtime prayer, often recited privately.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Divine Office

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11219a.htm
  Brief essay on the historical development of the Liturgy of the Hours.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Lauds

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09038a.htm
  Article on the canonical hour once known as Matins, then as Lauds, now as Morning Prayer. One of the two principal hours.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Matins

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10050a.htm
  Not Morning Prayer, but a nighttime prayer, which has now been replaced by the Office of Readings.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Music of Vespers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15382a.htm
  Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Nocturns

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11087b.htm
  The convoluted history of this nighttime prayer.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: None

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11097a.htm
  Essay on the daytime hour recited in mid-afternoon.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Office of the Dead

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11220a.htm
  Historical article on a special set of prayers for the deceased.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Prime

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12424a.htm
  Article on the office of Prime, now suppressed.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Reform of the Roman Breviary

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16013a.htm
  Article on the 1911-1913 revamping of the breviary so as to allow recitation of all of the Psalter each week. Feasts were also ranked according to liturgical importance, and some offices were no longer obligatory or were even suppressed.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Sext

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13747c.htm
  Article on the midday office.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Terce

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14514c.htm
  Essay on the office of Terce, the earliest of the "little hours" in the day.

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Vespers

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15381a.htm
  Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours.

• General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours

  http://www.catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/DocumentContents/Index/2/SubIndex/39/DocumentIndex/2
  Published by the Congregation for Divine Worship in 1971.

• Introduction to the Roman Breviary

  http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRAYER/DIOFFICE.TXT
  By William J. Lallou. Written in 1950, so the four books he mentions do not correspond to the four-volume set in use today.

• John Cassian's Institutes, Book 2

  http://www.osb.org/lectio/cassian/inst/inst2.html
  About evening and night prayer and psalmody.

• John Cassian's Institutes, Book 3

  http://www.osb.org/lectio/cassian/inst/inst3.html
  About daytime prayer and psalmody in fourth-century Egyptian monasticism.

• Laudis canticum

  http://www.catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/DocumentContents/Index/2/SubIndex/39/DocumentIndex/372
  Apostolic Constitution, on the promulgation of the revised book of the Liturgy of the Hours, in 1970. By Pope Paul VI.

• Universalis

  http://www.universalis.com/cgi-bin/display/index.htm
  Source for praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Once you have entered your time zone and country, you can bookmark pages for daily prayer. (This site does not use the official Liturgy of the Hours translation due to copyright issues).

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