Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

[The Liturgist]

Greetings, my dearly beloved Catholic friends, from an Orthodox Christian who supports reunification.

I wanted to ask you what your level of familiarity was with different Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic liturgical texts. Specifically, how many of you have read the following (in either vernacular translations or in the original languages such as Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac and Church Slavonic):

• The current version of the Roman Missal, including the propers for Years A, B and C of the lectionary, and the various options for the service available to priests? Either in concert with, or instead of, the disposable Missalettes issued by various music publishers that are pre-arranged for the liturgical calendar of each year?
• The General Instructions for the Roman Missal (GIRM), the book of rubrics controlling how it is to be used (sort of like the old Ordo of the Breviary and the General Rubrics of the old Missal, and the Byzantine Rite Typikon, and the Armenian Rite Directory.
• The complete Liturgy of the Hours, including proper lessons (which are primarily for the Office of Readings, formerly Matins).
• On a related note, how many of you have attended a service from the Liturgy of the Hours such as the Office of Readings, Lauds, Midday Prayer, Vespers or Compline in person? And how many of you attend churches where these are regularly available?
• Any edition of the Tridentine Missal (1962 or earlier) or other Extraordinary Form Missal (such as the 1959 Dominican Rite Missal)?
• Any Extraordinary Form Breviary, such as the 1967 Dominican Rite Breviary or the Monastic Breviary in its 1517, 1930 or other recensions, or the Tridentine breviary, or the version revised by St. Pius X?
• A traditional Roman Rite hymnal (some of which are still used with the current missal), such as the Graduale Romanum, or a hymnal issued by a ltiurigcally conservative diocese such as the Diocese of Pere Marquette, or a traditional hymnal used by multiple dioceses such as the Lumen Christie hymnal used by the Diocese of Madison?
• Any missal or breviary from a less common Traditional Latin Mass version still in use, such as the aforementioned Dominican Rite, or the Use of Lyons, the Use of Braga, the Use of Cologne, or the four ancient English uses (Sarum, York, Durham and Hereford? Or the missals and breviaries of religious orders that either had their own breviary, like the Benedictines and Cistercians (whose breviaries are different from each other), or both their own breviary and missal (such as the Dominicans ( also used by the Order of St. Vincent Ferrer), Carthusians, Carmelites, and Norbertines (Premonstratensians)?
• Any missal or breviary from a non-Roman Western Rite, either in its pre-Vatican II or post-Vatican II form (among the two surviving rites, the Ambrosian and Mozarabic Rites); there are also the extinct Gallican Rite and Beneventan Rite); all of these are variants of the ancient Gallican Rite or in the case of the Ambrosian Rite, a hybrid of Gallican, Roman, Byzantine and indigenous Milanese influence, dating back to the vigil St. Ambrose had in his cathedral in 386 AD, where he introduced Greek-style antiphonal hymns to keep high the spirits of his flock?
• Any version of the Ritual or Pontificale, which include instructions for sacraments and other services like baptisms, extreme unction and funerals and in the case of Pontificals, sacraments and other services such as Confirmation, Ordination, the consecration of churches, etc).
• Any Byzantine Rite Catholic liturgical text, such as the Divine Liturgy, the Horologian (which contains the common parts of the missal), the Horologion (containing the invariant parts of the Liturgy of the Hours), the Euchologion (containing services one would otherwise find in the Ritual or Pontifical) or the books containing the propers, such as the Octoechos, the Festal Menaion (important fixed feasts throughout the year (the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Feast of the Holy Cross, the Entry of the Virgin Mary into the Temple, Christmas, the Baptism of Christ, Candlemas, the Annunciation, the Feast of the Apostles St. Peter and Paul which we just celebrated, the Transfiguration and the Assumption? Or the Monthly Menaion, whiich has all the propers for the fixed feasts? Or the Triodion and the Pentecostarion, which contain propers for Lent and Holy Week, and the period from Pascha through All Saints Day (which in the Byzantine Rite is the first Sunday after Pentecost rather than November 1st; there are multiple Soul Saturdays as well starting in the pre-Lenten period). Some Eastern Catholic churches (and Orthodox churches) have consolidated all of these into volumes that make them easier to access, such as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Hymnal, the “Nasser Five Pounder” and other titles (one common one being Anthologion). There is also the Typikon, which ties it all together liturgically.
• Any non—Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic liturgical books, such as the current version of the Missal of the Maronite Catholics, or of the Chaldean Catholics, of which English translations exist, or other rites where I’m not sure if English translations exist or not, such as the Syriac Catholics, Coptic Catholics, Ethiopian Catholics, etc.
• The service books of the Anglican Ordinariates, such as the Book of Divine Worship? (the name of which I really liked, as it represented the ideal of the Ordinariates, that of Anglo Catholicism but with all negative residual traces of the iconoclastic English Reformation expurgated).

What I love most about the Roman Catholic church is the liturgical diversity; some priests have multi-ritual faculties and are able to celebrate the mass in multiple rites; for example, in Los Angeles, where a rare Armenian Catholic church exists, a local Roman Rite priest learned Classical Armenian so he could celebrate the mass at that parish on the frequent occasions when they are unable to find an Armenian priest. The Armenian Catholics used to be the largest sui juris Eastern Catholic Church, but the Genocide of 1915 and the subsequent persecutions after the Soviet conquest of Armenia resulted in them becoming the smallest, although they do have a lovely monastery in Venice (and their own religious order, the Mechitarist Fathers; unfortunately in the Armenian Apostolic Church there are very few operational monasteries other than those connected with the main cathedrals in Holy Etchmiadzin, Lebanon (the headquarters of the other worldwide Armenian jurisdiction, led by the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, which owes its existence to the time when there were two Armenian kingdoms simultaneously, and its growth to mistrust of the church headquartered in Armenia after the Soviet conquest of it), Jerusalem (where there is an Armenian Cathedral that also supports the Armenian liturgical activity at the Holy Sepulchre, where along with the Greeks and the Franciscans they are one of the three main groups, and also are responsible for supervising the other Oriental Orthodox), and in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity (which like the Holy Sepulchre, is jointly operated by the Franciscan Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, that if i recall was given charge of the pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land centuries ago, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and Armenians).

Also I’d be interested in any information on prayer books you are using in your personal devotional life.

As a gift of fellowship to my Catholic brethren to commemorate the election of Pope Leo XIV and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, I will do everything in my power to make my vast library of Roman Catholic liturgical books and hymnals available and to help Roman Catholics who wish to find certain liturgical books to do so.

Please pray for me, a sinner who is in ill health.

 

[RileyG]

I haven’t read them all, as I am most familiar with the ordinary form. I have attended the extraordinary form on occasion, as well as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church mostly in Ukrainian, and a Melkite Divine Liturgy.

I’m very familiar with some liturgy of the hours depending on the religious community’s use of them. Some communities follow their own set.

I have very little experience with other western rites such as the Sarum, Ambrosian, Mozabaric et al, since they aren’t commonly celebrated in America.

God bless

 

[The Liturgist]

I haven’t read them all, as I am most familiar with the ordinary form. I have attended the extraordinary form on occasion, as well as a Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church mostly in Ukrainian, and a Melkite Divine Liturgy.

I’m very familiar with some liturgy of the hours depending on the religious community’s use of them. Some communities follow their own set.

I have very little experience with other western rites such as the Sarum, Ambrosian, Mozabaric et al, since they aren’t commonly celebrated in America.

God bless

Are there any liturgical books you would like to read, or Catholic rites you would like the chance to learn more of?

To what extent have you read the actual service books for the Ordinary Form mass? And did you read the Extraordinary Form Missal while visiting that liturgy or on other occasions?

Also, do you use a prayer book, and if so, which one?

 

[RileyG]

Are there any liturgical books you would like to read, or Catholic rites you would like the chance to learn more of?

To what extent have you read the actual service books for the Ordinary Form mass? And did you read the Extraordinary Form Missal while visiting that liturgy or on other occasions?

Also, do you use a prayer book, and if so, which one?

I haven’t read them much, other than the missal at Mass, I own the Ordinariate Anglican use missal, as well as multiple breviaries, including Christian prayer, shorter Christian prayer, Benedictine daily prayer, among others.

 

[Bob Crowley]

I'm afraid I have to admit to a fair amount of ignorance on this topic. I have the catechism, but tend to rely on the weekly mass per se. I don't have much in the way of liturgical resources.

I've noticed before that "The Liturgist" has a lot of interest in church liturgy and it's historical development, and his knowledge in this area far exceeds mine.

I can't contribute much to this discussion.

 

[The Liturgist]

I'm afraid I have to admit to a fair amount of ignorance on this topic. I have the catechism, but tend to rely on the weekly mass per se. I don't have much in the way of liturgical resources.

I've noticed before that "The Liturgist" has a lot of interest in church liturgy and it's historical development, and his knowledge in this area far exceeds mine.

I can't contribute much to this discussion.

Is there an area of Catholic liturgy you’d like to learn about, for example, a particular feast?

 

[Bob Crowley]

Is there an area of Catholic liturgy you’d like to learn about, for example, a particular feast?

I'll think about it and get back to you.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Greetings, my dearly beloved Catholic friends, from an Orthodox Christian who supports reunification.

I wanted to ask you what your level of familiarity was with different Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic liturgical texts. Specifically, how many of you have read the following (in either vernacular translations or in the original languages such as Latin, Greek, Coptic, Syriac and Church Slavonic):

• The current version of the Roman Missal, including the propers for Years A, B and C of the lectionary, and the various options for the service available to priests? Either in concert with, or instead of, the disposable Missalettes issued by various music publishers that are pre-arranged for the liturgical calendar of each year?

I hate disposable Missalettes but that is mostly what I see. I have been mostly formed by the NO in English since it came out. It's a low pass but it can be done reverently. I was able to experience the NO in Latin a few times. This was at St. Agnes parish in St. Paul MN, which was guided liturgically and musically by Msgr. Richard Schuller. Do check him out.

• The General Instructions for the Roman Missal (GIRM), the book of rubrics controlling how it is to be used (sort of like the old Ordo of the Breviary and the General Rubrics of the old Missal, and the Byzantine Rite Typikon, and the Armenian Rite Directory.

I have read the GIRM

• The complete Liturgy of the Hours, including proper lessons (which are primarily for the Office of Readings, formerly Matins).

I have never used the four volume version but have a one volume version called 'Christian Prayer'. It's complicated flipping pages and I find a subscription to Magnificat far easier.

• On a related note, how many of you have attended a service from the Liturgy of the Hours such as the Office of Readings, Lauds, Midday Prayer, Vespers or Compline in person? And how many of you attend churches where these are regularly available?

It is so seldom available in my parish or anywhere nearby. I wish it were on a regular basis. When it is available I go.

• Any edition of the Tridentine Missal (1962 or earlier) or other Extraordinary Form Missal (such as the 1959 Dominican Rite Missal)?

Back when I worked at Loome Theological Booksellers I was able to hold in my hands the 1962 Missal and many older versions as well. The 1962 version was the unicorn as the previous versions had their approval rescinded and were only bought by the more schismatic folks. By the way, the Loome enterprise is sadly defunct.

• Any Extraordinary Form Breviary, such as the 1967 Dominican Rite Breviary or the Monastic Breviary in its 1517, 1930 or other recensions, or the Tridentine breviary, or the version revised by St. Pius X?

Rare things. Nope.

• A traditional Roman Rite hymnal (some of which are still used with the current missal), such as the Graduale Romanum, or a hymnal issued by a ltiurigcally conservative diocese such as the Diocese of Pere Marquette, or a traditional hymnal used by multiple dioceses such as the Lumen Christie hymnal used by the Diocese of Madison?

I have a 'St. Gregory Hymnal' copyright 1920, reprinted 1947.

• Any missal or breviary from a less common Traditional Latin Mass version still in use, such as the aforementioned Dominican Rite, or the Use of Lyons, the Use of Braga, the Use of Cologne, or the four ancient English uses (Sarum, York, Durham and Hereford? Or the missals and breviaries of religious orders that either had their own breviary, like the Benedictines and Cistercians (whose breviaries are different from each other), or both their own breviary and missal (such as the Dominicans ( also used by the Order of St. Vincent Ferrer), Carthusians, Carmelites, and Norbertines (Premonstratensians)?

Very rare things. Nope.

• Any missal or breviary from a non-Roman Western Rite, either in its pre-Vatican II or post-Vatican II form (among the two surviving rites, the Ambrosian and Mozarabic Rites); there are also the extiWhat I love most about the Roman Catholic church is the liturgical diversity; some priests have multi-ritual faculties and are able to celebrate the mass in multiple rites; for example, in Los Angeles, where a rare Armenian Catholic church exists, a local Roman Rite priest learned Classical Armenian so he could celebrate the mass at that parish on the frequent occasions when they are unable to find an Armenian priest. The Armenian Catholics used to be the largest sui juris Eastern Catholic Church, but the Genocide of 1915 and the subsequent persecutions after the Soviet conquest of Armenia resulted in them becoming the smallest, although they do have a lovely monastery in Venice (and their own religious order, the Mechitarist Fathers; unfortunately in the Armenian Apostolic Church there are very few operational monasteries other than those connected with the main cathedrals in Holy Etchmiadzin, Lebanon (the headquarters of the other worldwide Armenian jurisdiction, led by the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, which owes its existence to the time when there were two Armenian kingdoms simultaneously, and its growth to mistrust of the church headquartered in Armenia after the Soviet conquest of it), Jerusalem (where there is an Armenian Cathedral that also supports the Armenian liturgical activity at the Holy Sepulchre, where along with the Greeks and the Franciscans they are one of the three main groups, and also are responsible for supervising the other Oriental Orthodox), and in Bethlehem at the Church of the Nativity (which like the Holy Sepulchre, is jointly operated by the Franciscan Brotherhood of the Holy Cross, that if i recall was given charge of the pilgrimage sites in the Holy Land centuries ago, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem and Armenians).nct Gallican Rite and Beneventan Rite); all of these are variants of the ancient Gallican Rite or in the case of the Ambrosian Rite, a hybrid of Gallican, Roman, Byzantine and indigenous Milanese influence, dating back to the vigil St. Ambrose had in his cathedral in 386 AD, where he introduced Greek-style antiphonal hymns to keep high the spirits of his flock?

I wish. I did see a Missal in Slavonic and paged through it. But alas it was in Slavonic so it was like Greek to me. A beautiful book that was sent out to the monks in Oregon to be rebound.

• Any version of the Ritual or Pontificale, which include instructions for sacraments and other services like baptisms, extreme unction and funerals and in the case of Pontificals, sacraments and other services such as Confirmation, Ordination, the consecration of churches, etc).

I have seen the Rituale a few times. But even in the 1990's these were uncommon and in high demand.

• Any Byzantine Rite Catholic liturgical text, such as the Divine Liturgy, the Horologian (which contains the common parts of the missal), the Horologion (containing the invariant parts of the Liturgy of the Hours), the Euchologion (containing services one would otherwise find in the Ritual or Pontifical) or the books containing the propers, such as the Octoechos, the Festal Menaion (important fixed feasts throughout the year (the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Feast of the Holy Cross, the Entry of the Virgin Mary into the Temple, Christmas, the Baptism of Christ, Candlemas, the Annunciation, the Feast of the Apostles St. Peter and Paul which we just celebrated, the Transfiguration and the Assumption? Or the Monthly Menaion, whiich has all the propers for the fixed feasts? Or the Triodion and the Pentecostarion, which contain propers for Lent and Holy Week, and the period from Pascha through All Saints Day (which in the Byzantine Rite is the first Sunday after Pentecost rather than November 1st; there are multiple Soul Saturdays as well starting in the pre-Lenten period). Some Eastern Catholic churches (and Orthodox churches) have consolidated all of these into volumes that make them easier to access, such as the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Hymnal, the “Nasser Five Pounder” and other titles (one common one being Anthologion). There is also the Typikon, which ties it all together liturgically.

I have been to a Byzantine Divine Liturgy. But only once. It was grand but confusing.

• Any non—Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic liturgical books, such as the current version of the Missal of the Maronite Catholics, or of the Chaldean Catholics, of which English translations exist, or other rites where I’m not sure if English translations exist or not, such as the Syriac Catholics, Coptic Catholics, Ethiopian Catholics, etc.

Never even seen one. Even in original languages.

• The service books of the Anglican Ordinariates, such as the Book of Divine Worship? (the name of which I really liked, as it represented the ideal of the Ordinariates, that of Anglo Catholicism but with all negative residual traces of the iconoclastic English Reformation expurgated).

Yes. And I am happy to have an Ordinariate parish in my city. My wife thinks their liturgy is too long but I like it.

Also I’d be interested in any information on prayer books you are using in your personal devotional life.

Really just the Magnificat subscription. Pretty good as far as it goes.

As a gift of fellowship to my Catholic brethren to commemorate the election of Pope Leo XIV and the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, I will do everything in my power to make my vast library of Roman Catholic liturgical books and hymnals available and to help Roman Catholics who wish to find certain liturgical books to do so.

That would be a good service to those seeking the recovery of good liturgy. I think pope Benedict XVI had a sense of how liturgy needed to evolve to something better than the NO, perhaps hybridizing, perhaps evolving, perhaps diversifying, but always with an eye to it's roots.

Please pray for me, a sinner who is in ill health.

I know you have had many health challenges and I pray for you in that. Also for perseverance in the faith and a strong finish. Not just yet though on the finish.

With the culture as it is I often think I have already lived too long. But then I remember that we were born for times like these.

 

[RileyG]

Ah yes. I think I have an old missal from 1945 somewhere. I don’t even remember where I got it from.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I have read the GIRM and pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, at least Morning and Evening Prayer.
I sometimes do the Office of the Readings if I get up early enough.

 

[RileyG]

I have read the GIRM and pray the Liturgy of the Hours daily, at least Morning and Evening Prayer.
I sometimes do the Office of the Readings if I get up early enough.

I'm a Benedictine Oblate and I need to pray the Liturgy of the Hours more often.

 

[The Liturgist]

I'm a Benedictine Oblate and I need to pray the Liturgy of the Hours more often.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Vatican II desired to make the Liturgy of the Hours more commonly celebrated publicly, so do let me know how that goes for you.

 

[The Liturgist]

Never even seen one. Even in original languages.

I can hook you up with the entire Byzantine Rite, both from EC and EO sources; the primary noticeable difference is that the EC liturgies have a petition in the Litany of Peace for the Pope of Rome, and fortunately these EC textual variants are well documented, so that you can annotate EO texts to meet Catholic requirements.

I also have a Maronite missal which you might enjoy.

Unfortunately some of the other Eastern Catholic rites are very obscure and are on my wishlist of liturgical material to find.

Gregory diPippo however has access to a lot of material, and I intend to ask him where I can find a complete Ambrosian missal and breviary, which I badly want and which he definitely has. Once I have the Latin text Im good, since I can read it; I can also reliably translate Latin and Italian.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I'm a Benedictine Oblate and I need to pray the Liturgy of the Hours more often.

I'm a Secular Discalced Carmelite OCDS. Morning and Evening prayer is mandated in the Constitution (Rule of Life)
for OCDS members.

 

[The Liturgist]

I'm a Secular Discalced Carmelite OCDS. Morning and Evening prayer is mandated in the Constitution (Rule of Life)
for OCDS members.

Do members ever get together to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours conventually?

 

[JimR-OCDS]

Do members ever get together to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours conventually?

My community disbanded years ago as members aged out or died. We used to
attend Mass and the LOTH's at the end of our monthly meeting.

My wife and myself are now inactive members of the OCDS, but we are still following
our vows and most of the rule of life for OCDS members.
We've been doing so for over 35 years.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Vatican II desired to make the Liturgy of the Hours more commonly celebrated publicly, so do let me know how that goes for you.

Yes, that was a goal of the Vatican II liturgical document. Realized only in a tiny way. If you notice some of the folks who go to daily mass get the mass readings from a Magnificat reader or some other subscription service, they also have morning and evening prayer in those booklets. I’m betting then that in my parish we have maybe 25 people who do morning and evening prayer by themselves that way. And of course the five deacons do it too. I wish there was a regular time it was available communally.

The Ordinariate locally has it once a week. Their format is a bit different.

Oh, there has been a revision in the works for the Liturgy of the Hours. Maybe an improvement. I don’t know much about this. Glacially slow of course.

 

[JimR-OCDS]

I taught the LOTH's Evening Prayers in my parish years back. The spiritual assistance
for my OCDS group told me that during Lent the Hours are the same. So, I
was able to teach evening prayer to the people that showed up. It went well!

 

[The Liturgist]

Yes, that was a goal of the Vatican II liturgical document. Realized only in a tiny way. If you notice some of the folks who go to daily mass get the mass readings from a Magnificat reader or some other subscription service, they also have morning and evening prayer in those booklets. I’m betting then that in my parish we have maybe 25 people who do morning and evening prayer by themselves that way. And of course the five deacons do it too. I wish there was a regular time it was available communally.

The Ordinariate locally has it once a week. Their format is a bit different.

Oh, there has been a revision in the works for the Liturgy of the Hours. Maybe an improvement. I don’t know much about this. Glacially slow of course.

By the way, I love Fr. Robert Taft SJ’s liturgical books. He is most famous for his miraculous The Byzantine RIte: A Short History (which is almost impossible to do; if I tried to write a short history of the Byzantine Rite it would take up 8,000 pages the first 2,000 of which would be a history of the liturgies of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Alexandria, and another 500 pages would be about the relationship between the Byzantine Rite and the Roman and Ambrosian Rites, both directly and through Hagiopolitan influences, and another 2,000 pages would be about the complex relationship between the Byzantine Rite and the Oriental Orthodox liturgies, which were either the source of or the recipient of, or in some cases both, key prayers of the Byzanatine Rite, and then the rest would be bogged down in the history of the Cathedral typikon, the Studite typikon, the Sabaite typikon, the bifurcation between the North Slavonic-Caucasian Typikon (the Russian Old Rite and Georgian Old RIte) and the Greco-Serbo-Romanian Typikon) and the reintegration therof- you get the point, but Fr. Taft actually provided the basic history of the rite in a mere 84 pages, including details that I would have to exclude from my hypothetical short history for lack of space.

But his real Magnum Opus is The Liturgy of the Hours: East and West, which provides a history of the Divine Office of the Eastern churches, the different Western Rites (Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, etc), the monastic and religious breviaries, the Anglican divine office and so on. It was his desire to see the trend reversed whereby devotions like the Rosary and Novena had been liturgized, and the Divine Office had been turned into a devotion used by the priests and not by the laity, and he outlined the numerous attempts to increase lay participation in the Divine Office and its liturgical celebration over the past few centuries.

For my part I would hate to see the public celebration of the Rosary and the Novena go away, since in the Byzantine Rite Catholic churches and the Eastern Orthodox the public recital of the Jesus Prayer is a thing which has proven immensely spiritually profitable (it is a fixture of the monastery founded by the recently canonized Russian emigre Elder Sophrony in England), and also it can be coupled with the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament which is impossible for people without access to private chapel that has special authorizations for the liturgy as a private devotion. Indeed, these three Roman devotions, which I love so much - the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, such as the 40 Hours Adoration or the Holy Hour or other forms, the Novena, and the Rosary, could perhaps be coupled with the Divine Office, and actually I think a local Roman Catholic parish in Westlake Village is doing that, at least to some extent, because on Saturday afternoon, when the exposition of the blessed sacrament is going on, and many pious families including many Catholics from India are visiting the church for that, there are partial copies of the Liturgy of the Hours, without the propers of the day, but with the basic office, distributed around the church (the equivalent Byzantine Rite book being the Horologion, which has the Common of the Hours but not the propers for Matins, Vespers etc).

Interestingly the Syriac rite frequently has propers for the “Little Hours” like Terce, Sext, and Noone, which are in most rites invariant most of the time.

 

[boughtwithaprice]

Nice thread Liturgist

Personally I need more discipline. I have the four volume liturgy of the hours and the supplement which is hard to find now days, but I don’t read the books, I view the app on my phone which also has the daily mass
People in Mass see me on my cell phone and I wonder if they think I am distracted, but I am following the Mass for the day.
At home I say the rosary and the Little Office of the Virgin Mary. I can usually get Lauds, Vespers and Compline, and if I wake up at midnight for some reason, I can say Matins. The rest are hard to remember while working but I can try to remember
I also make it a habit to say the auxillium Christianorum prayers.

I wish they had a Mass for healthcare workers in my diocese which could start at 5am. The earliest I have is 6 am where I live and that is too late in the day to make it a habit. I’ll have to be content to go to noon or 6 pm on my post call days which is not every day but better than nothing