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John 5:39-40
May be my current favorite Bible verse. Going over the readings for Thursday 3/22 (Our Wedding anniversary by the way…) in the Ordinary Form and it really hit me.
And the fact that that is leading in, right to John 6 - Perfect…..
You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf.But you do not want to come to me to have life.
John 5:39-40
The Meaning of life…
Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength.
And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house.
6. Q. Why did God make you?
A. God made me to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
Baltimore Catechism
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Officium Divinum
I have been trying to pray the Liturgy of the Hours when I can. Most days I end up just praying Night Prayer and reading the office of Readings. I mostly use the Ordinary Form “Liturgy Of the Hours” as I was gifted the complete 4 Volume set - In leather no less! I really enjoy the Sermons from Saints and prayers and poems.
I also was gifted the Angelus Press Officium Divinum - Divine Office for Laity, It is abridged but has a good amount of Psalms and prayers in the Traditional Office format. So I have been throwing that into the prayer rotation as well. Some days I get to say both, others just one and even some days I forget about them entirely.
Since I have an Ordinary Form Hand Missal Missal (Roman Missal 3rd Edition) and an Extraordinary Form Missal - on the Sundays that we go to one but not the other I use the Missal to read the readings I did not hear (Usually I am reading the Ordinary Form readings at home but my faithful readers should have probably guessed that by now) - It really helps to tie the Mass to the LOTH together.
My wife at one time was very devout in praying the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary before I took us away from the faith, slowly shes coming back around to it.
Ever since about the 2nd week in Advent I have tried to pray the Rosary (5 decades ) as a family - I would say we’re at about a 70% success rate. So hopefully as we continue to improve those stats my reading of the Office will continue to improve as well.
What I would really like to do is get a Google+ Hangout of other Catholics and pray the hours / rosary / general discussion etc. - but how do I go about organizing / joining such a thing - please leave your suggestions in the combox
