I recall when I first did Matins, the night before, it would take 35 minutes, now it's down to 25 minutes but I move at a pretty quick clip since I know the Psalms, often I'll say the Gloria Patri. Maybe I'm fast, or too fast, but once you do it daily, the time spent will diminish. Regardless of whatever choice you pick, Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. You are in my prayers, Texan, and I hope that you find what you need to do. Adjust it according to what you believe is right to do, not just from its rubrics, but also from your habits, your disposition, and your obligations. Ultimately, your schedule is in your hands. It is hard to do good work when one is sleep-deprived through procrastination, and likewise, it is hard to commit to fixed prayer when you wake up late because of said procrastination. Something I am still trying to apply to my prayer life is that the Benedictines viewed their menial work as complementary to their prayer, and a lesson that I can glean from this is that, therefore, I should try to use my work, no matter if it is house chores or going to school (I am still in high school), as a way to serve God by “tending the garden” and serving others. However, concerning my own advice, which you ought to take with a grain of salt, as I have no experience with the Roman Office except one badly-planned midnight singing the 1570 Roman Office on DivinumOfficium, if you cannot wake up very early while it is still dark to do Matins, it would do you some good to anticipate it. Proper Time for Matins (The Office of Readings)Īccomplishing the Hours of the Extraordinary Form (1962 Breviary)Įasy Horarium for Parish Priest Breviary (pre-1962) (I have no clue why it says pre-1962, it describes the 1962 breviary) I found a good series of blog posts created by a priest concerning the traditional time for Matins-he advocates that the correct course of action would be to anticipate it so that it corresponds to the “true time” of the Hours, and according to his schedule, he prays it after Vespers at around 4PM. I wish I prayed Matins, but there’s no equivalent for the book.Ĭoncerning scheduling with Matins, the 1960 rubrics make a provision that Matins can be anticipated the day before, after 2PM. Well, I don’t pray the 1960 Divine Office, I pray the Monastic Divine Office as I bought a Farnsborough Monastic Diurnal some time ago, and I pray Lauds after waking up at 5AM, (~30 mins) and I pray Prime at 6AM. I don't believe the Church frees us from such obligations because she thinks we can't hack it: I think she does so because our vocation is elsewhere. I do pray the Divine Office (Divino Afflatu, in the form of the Anglican Breviary), but I don't fret doing an hour out of its "proper time," or missing an hour or even a few days. As a layman, my primary responsibility is to my family, and that's why the church lays no greater burdens on me than Sunday Mass, days of obligation, and confession. If I can do Matins along with Lauds in the morning, I do, but if it would mean distracting me from my family, then I anticipate it the night before. At that time, the Anglo-Catholics were very strict traditionalists, and often called "more Roman than Rome." Me, I don't sweat it. On the other hand, I do remember the Anglo-Catholic priest Colin Stephenson, in his memoir "Merrily on High," mentioning anticipating Matins the night before (this would've been the 1940s, I think). I'm not a medievalist: I don't miss 3 a.m. People tended to go to bed and get up with the sun because lighting a house was neither easy nor cheap. But then, very little we do nowadays is strictly "historical" by that rubric. R/Catholicism (largest Catholic subreddit) r/TraditionalCatholicsĭepends on what you mean by "historical." If you mean stretching back to early centuries A.D., no, probably not. Universalis ( Android – iOS) iBreviary ( Android – iOS) Breviarium Meum ( iOS) – Vetus Ordo Related subreddits † Novus Ordo: Liturgy of the Hours ‡ Vetus Ordo: Roman Breviary * Traditionally prayed during darkness Mobile apps When's the new English-language version of the Liturgy of the Hours coming out? A. I'm not interested in wasting my money on books that are soon out-of-date. Categorized Index of PostsĪ semi-frequently-updated and categorized index of posts is available. Other allowed topics: personal devotions the prayer and development of older and future versions other structured Christian daily prayer systems, private or public, Catholic and non-Catholic. A subreddit on the prayer of the Divine Office (also known as the Liturgy of the Hours or the Roman Breviary) of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, its private and public observances, as well as its historical development and place in Catholicism.
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