Divine Office 1.0


Category: Lifestyle
Price: $19.99 (iTunes)

Description:

Audio version of the Liturgy of the Hours including audio scripture readings, psalms, and prayers for several times (hours) of each day.

Automatically download today’s audio Liturgy as well as the next few days without connecting to a computer. Use your wireless connection without iTunes synchronization so you never need to connect to a computer for updates. Designed to be very simple to use.

As more audio content is added it will automatically be downloaded to your device. These audio files are available for free on our web site at www.DivineOffice.org. However, we hope this app will make praying the hours more convenient, enjoyable and simple enough for anyone to use without any technical know-how and without a computer. It is also a way to support our ministry and to help us continue to add more prayers to each day.

Here are the daily audio files you will receive each weekday (weekends are coming):
About Today (on Solemnities and Memorial days)
* Invitatory Psalm
* Office of Readings (not everyday yet)
* Morning Prayer
* Evening Prayer
* Night Prayer (starting mid February)

We use the current four volume Liturgy of the Hours with a bias towards the USA calendar. This version is the official prayer of the Catholic Church, but it is also well suited for all orthodox Christian faith traditions and we ask that you join your voices to ours in prayer.

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

Liturgy of the Hours:
1174 The mystery of Christ, his Incarnation and Passover, which we celebrate in the Eucharist especially at the Sunday assembly, permeates and transfigures the time of each day, through the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours, "the divine office." This celebration, faithful to the apostolic exhortations to "pray constantly," is "so devised that the whole course of the day and night is made holy by the praise of God." In this "public prayer of the Church," the faithful (clergy, religious, and lay people) exercise the royal priesthood of the baptized. Celebrated in "the form approved" by the Church, the Liturgy of the Hours "is truly the voice of the Bride herself addressed to her Bridegroom. It is the very prayer which Christ himself together with his Body addresses to the Father.

1175 The Liturgy of the Hours is intended to become the prayer of the whole People of God. In it Christ himself "continues his priestly work through his Church." His members participate according to their own place in the Church and the circumstances of their lives: priests devoted to the pastoral ministry, because they are called to remain diligent in prayer and the service of the word; religious, by the charism of their consecrated lives; all the faithful as much as possible: "Pastors of souls should see to it that the principal hours, especially Vespers, are celebrated in common in church on Sundays and on the more solemn feasts. The laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually.

1177 The hymns and litanies of the Liturgy of the Hours integrate the prayer of the psalms into the age of the Church, expressing the symbolism of the time of day, the liturgical season, or the feast being celebrated. Moreover, the reading from the Word of God at each Hour and readings from the Fathers and spiritual masters at certain Hours, reveal more deeply the meaning of the mystery being celebrated, assist in understanding the psalms, and prepare for silent prayer. The lectio divina, where the Word of God is so read and meditated that it becomes prayer, is thus rooted in the liturgical celebration.

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