Advent
Pope: Keep track of your blessings during Advent
By Cindy WoodenCatholic News Service VATICAN CITY – Advent should be a time when Christians keep track of the little blessings they receive each day, blessings that are signs of God’s love, Pope Benedict XVI suggested. “To keep a kind of ‘inner diary’ of this love would be a beautiful and healthy task,” the Pope […]
Web resources for the Liturgy of the Hours:
Full text of Day and Night prayer as PDFs: www.ebreviary.com/ebreviary/ebreviary.nsf/homepage3!OpenPage Night Prayer: From the Liturgy of the Hours is available from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for $4.95. The volume, drawn from the Liturgy of the Hours, offers the last prayer of the day, from Monday to Sunday, together with hymns and psalmody, Scripture […]
During the day: God’s presence in prayer
Liturgy of the Hours series: Part IIBy Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T If the Liturgy of the Hours is the Prayer of the Church, why for most of Church history was it not widely prayed by the laity? The very simple reason is that for most of Christian history the vast majority of the laity […]
Prayer through the day
Liturgy of the Hours series: Part I By Lou BaldwinSpecial to The CS&T “Come, let us worship the Lord, the king who is to come.” So begins the ancient prayer of the Church as it begins the liturgical year. This invitatory antiphon will start the day at many thousands of monasteries, convents and churches throughout […]