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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
