Liturgy of the Hours

[iarwain]

My wife and I listen and pray along with an on-line Compline. AND there are only seven versions of Compline, once for each day of the week.

Lol, I can't believe that I haven't noticed that. I have noticed there was repetition, I guess that explains it. Well, that sounds easy enough.

I've been trying to follow along using YouTube videos, but maybe following online might be more useful. I'd like to get to the point where I'm independent enough to just use my books, which I try sometimes, but following along gives the illusion of praying along with someone else, which includes the call and response.

 

[RileyG]

Deacon Simons at St. Barnabas in Omaha NE. Don't know if he has any more.

By the way, there is a difference between the Walsingham (Great Britain) and the Chair of St Peter (North America) Ordinariates in the books they follow. The USA version is a slimmer version and the Great Britain version has way more pages. I'm not up on the exact differences but I think it comes down to the version here having few of the supplemental readings and the Walsingham one having all of them.

Divine Worship: The Missal

ordinariate.net

Thanks!

 

[iarwain]

Thanks to @chevyontheriver we know that there are only seven versions of Compline that repeat, once for each day of the week. Are there any other hours that are that simple to figure out or explain?

By the way, does that Compline pattern continue even through Advent and Lent?

 

[chevyontheriver]

Thanks to @chevyontheriver we know that there are only seven versions of Compline that repeat, once for each day of the week. Are there any other hours that are that simple to figure out or explain?

By the way, does that Compline pattern continue even through Advent and Lent?

As far as I know, the only seasonal difference is that an Alleluia is deleted in Lent. But that's sort of to be expected liturgically I think. Or is it that it's added after Easter. I don't remember.

Other non-seasonal variables are in hymn or poem choice, in communal penitential prayer options, and in Marian antiphon options. Otherwise the Psalms for Saturday or Sunday can be used every day of the week if desired for simplicity. I think that's the only variability.

 

[iarwain]

Just Vespers and Lauds. They had noon-prayer and compline privately

Did they sing them or just say them? I know parts are sung, like the hymns, and parts are stated. But on the videos I watch, most of it is sung.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

As the spiritual assistant for the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, OCDS group I belonged to instructed us, if you're praying
the LOTH's by yourself, it's not necessary to sing the hymn for the office.

The LOTH's was designed to be prayed in a group when the hymns are sung by the group. Some groups even chant
the psalms.

The four-volume set of the LOTH's doesn't include the music for the hymns anyway as there will often be a cantor and
organists or guitarists, who will have the music.

 

[RileyG]

Did they sing them or just say them? I know parts are sung, like the hymns, and parts are stated. But on the videos I watch, most of it is sung.

It was mostly said. But occasionally they would be entirely sung on feast days.

 

[RileyG]

As the spiritual assistant for the Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites, OCDS group I belonged to instructed us, if you're praying
the LOTH's by yourself, it's not necessary to sing the hymn for the office.

The LOTH's was designed to be prayed in a group when the hymns are sung by the group. Some groups even chant
the psalms.

The four-volume set of the LOTH's doesn't include the music for the hymns anyway as there will often be a cantor and
organists or guitarists, who will have the music.

Yes! That's my understanding as well