I am a cradle Catholic that just started praying this devotion at retirement. Your videos are excellent and helped me so much! Thank you and God bless.

13:17 - "Look at this cheap plastic that has the ribbons slathered on with glue." 13:45 - "Get one of those plastic folders and attach your ribbons on with glue." 😀

I have a question about the Ordinary in terms of doing the Office of Readings followed by Morning Prayer. The red text clearly states that the introductory verses can be omitted because it says "If the office begins with the invitatory, all the above is omitted", but when you get to Morning prayer, the red text for the introductory respons says "This verse and response are omitted when the hour begins with the invitatory. So when the red text on one page says "all" and red text on another page says "this", I'm assuming it is talking about the "Glory be to the father..." and not the "God come to my assistance...". Please let me know if this is right or not.

I really appreciate the visual for the office of readings, etc. Being new to this, it would have taken me a bit to understand on my own. Thanks for saving me the money!

Mary will help you just do it 😂❤

Can clergy just use the Christian prayer book only?? Where is the 4 volume set mandatory?

RE: closing prayer in the apps being different than in the books - I have the same experience with hymns. My Christian prayer book rarely matches up with the hymns in iBreviary. It bugged me at the beginning, but now I've come to believe that it's the 'theme' of the hymn that matters not the actual lyrics.

What is the difference between the regular Christian Prayer book and the Large Type Christian Prayer book?

thank you.

I know there is a order to these readings but Jesus will always help you say them no matter what we are talking with him .😊

How can I buy one

Mine is different mine as all but my Christian prayer isnt red and black

Thank you Christopher, it helps a lot. I shared your video to my friends. God bless you!

Thank you for your introduction to this. I’ve never done litergical prayer before now I feel kinda lost but I want to do it! I think I’ll need to watch this a few times.

well done

I like praying the hours, but this just seems unnecessarily complex...

Hey Christopher, guess what! Just bought my 4 volume set, yay! Thanks again for your advice. I cannot wait to add the office of readings to my routine. Once you get started with morning, evening, and night you really want to do the rest of the day :)

Thank you, Christopher! All of your videos helped me so much. I had to get the christian prayer book instead of the 4 book set, unfortunately. Feast and solemnities is really throwing me off, a lot of flipping around. I hope to one day have the 4 volume set because you are right. The structure and flow is perfect in the four books and the office of readings is nicely laid out. Anyway, I really appreciate your videos and you cracked me up in a few of them lol Take care and God bless!

Starting the Liturgy tonight, this video series is very helpful God Bless you.

Thank you this is very helpful!

Great video 🙌 thank you for all the details I was really confused on how to read it. Went through lot of video and none of them were as helpful as yours. God Bless for all that you do for us 🙏

What's the guidance on the time when each hours should be prayed? Does morning prayer need to be at 6am?

Yo were all gonna pray lets go.

If u attend mass...ur bulliten should tell u where u r in ordinary time...and readings

Watching on August 19th 2024 and its the same.

Today is 8/19/24 = page 883 in the the second volume (blue book). I just got the set and trying to figure it out. Sundays are year A,B,C. Lectionary weekday cycle year 1 or 2.

If Christian Prayer eliminating 3 weeks worth of Daytime Prayer Psalms irritates you from a sake of it being incomplete, check out the changes that occurred between the Divine Office (1960) and the Liturgy of the Hours (1971). In both the 4 volume Liturgy of the Hours and Christian Prayer: -Psalms 58, 83, and 109 are missing entirely. -Psalms 78, 105, and 106 are confined to Advent, Christmastide, Lent, and Eastertide. -Psalms 5, 21, 28, 31, 35, 40, 54, 55, 56, 59, 63, 69, 79, 110, 137, 139, 140, 141, and 143 all have verses removed from them that never appear anywhere in the current breviary.

Any plans to introduce us to The Little Office of Baltimore? That would be GREAT! Thank you 😊

It really is not that hard. Ribbon placement: everything begins with the Psalter--place a ribbon there first. Place another ribbon for the Office of Readings and Proper. Place another ribbon for the repeated prayers (invitatory, our Father, different closing prayers). Place another ribbon at supplementary (afternoon) prayers (which are always the same except for very special days). Place another ribbon for Night Prayers which generally just repeats over and over. You can place a ribbon for special days. As you are learning---have an electronic version available. This will let you know the Week you are in and the day. It will also help you with the Sunday prayers I or II (remember Sunday begins Saturday evening). When you are in Advent-Christmas Time and Lent-Easter Tide--things can become tricky---but the electronic version will hold your hand, so you know that you are reading the right psalms and readings. Ordinary Time is rather straight forward. Once you place your ribbons correctly you will see that the Psalter for a specific day leads you through each hour, one page after the next. Correct ribbon placement in the Proper (begins with Office of Readings and then the readings for the rest of the day)--everything is logically and expertly placed. Learn to pray from the physical Breviary. It makes a world of difference--and YOU can do it and will be richly blessed for learning to master the physical Breviary.

Very good, I appreciate your work on this.

How can we purchase this book?

Thank you very much Father Chris! I started praying the liturgy of the hours. Christian prayer back in April. I didn't really know what I was doing, but then I watched your video explaining the Christian prayer procedure and it helped a lot. Even though I was still lost, I bought Shorter Christian Prayer and practiced with the psalter as well as the morning and evening prayers because I wasn't ready to do the full Breviary yet. Now I'm more comfortable with it and have have seasonal devotionals by Professor William G. Storey. Your explanation and guidance is the best I have seen. Thank you, Father Chris.

Thanks for your video. I know that this video was done a while back, but I was hoping that you could answer a couple questions for me. I recently purchased the Christian Prayer book, and first of all, I do not like that the hymns are not there/listed for each day? Also on a feast day or memorial its s bit confusing flipping through the pages. Is the four volume set more straight forward since it is broken up into seasons? Did I hear you correctly, that the hymns are there for each day. I do also have too admit that the CP does feel very cramped, as they are trying to do an All in one?

This was the most in-depth explanation I have been able to find! Thank you so much for these videos. I got started with the Devine Office app before I could get the books. I love the app as it's very portable and can be anywhere my phone is. I did find that the readings on Devine Office is different from what the breviary says. They have readings I can't find in my book. I decided to go with one or the other depending on where I am or what I'm doing. I have to get used to do not worrying about doing it wrong and just doing it. lol. I also found a bunch of the Devine office hymns on spotify. I like to listen to the hymns even if I'm using the book because I like music but I'm completely tone deaf and can't carry a tune. Thanks again and God Bless you and your family.

Unfortunately it is VERY expensive, i don’t think you can even find the whole set in public libraries

I know this is an old video but when you're alone do you read out loud or read it all to yourself or a mix of the two?

Is that an animal skin? Are you a hunter?

I'm in my first year as a Lay Carmelite. We are obligated to pray morning and evening prayer with the option of night prayer. I just started with the Christian prayer book and I like it but I know as soon as I save up enough money I'll definitely purchase the four-volume set

Pope Paul VI didn't like it, sign me up

I have “approached” the LOTH and the Christian Prayer books about 50 times over the past two years. Each time I sit down, I feel optimistic and determined, find a nice video that promises to help me understand the “recipe,” and within about 30 minutes I have given up. It’s like trying to follow a supposedly simple cookie recipe, except the recipe is impossibly dizzying: You’re going to start by measuring out the flour, baking powder, and other dry ingredients. So, you’ll need 4 cups of flour for this particular recipe, which is for every third Wednesday after a full moon. The 4 cups should be all-purpose flour, unless you’re between the age of 26 and 53, in which case you’ll use whole wheat flour (and on Thursdays this is completely different, but I’ll get to that later, in minute 385,719 of video #16). If you’re male, the whole wheat flour should be organic, and you should mix it 50/50 with pastry flour, unless you’re a redhead. [Redheads should use self-rising flour, but you’ll have to adjust your baking powder by the square root of 1/3 the sum total weight of all ingredients, which you won’t know until you completely finish the recipe, which may never happen.] Females will actually use the same flour, but mix it with the other dry ingredients in a slightly different order, just because. For the baking power, if you wear a 28-34 size belt, you’ll use 1/8 tablesooon less per inch of waistline, and add yellow food coloring just after you mix the dry and wet ingredients. Now, if it’s summer, skip the last 2 steps and go to step 14, but do step 11 after step 23. . . And now I’m just eating really crappy store-bought cookies again.

Thank you

This is helpful, am hoping to be enrolled in the brown scapular next month

Thank you for all these videos. They have helped me quite a bit.

Pope Pius V did not "abolish" any liturgies that were established for over 200 years. Look up his Bull Quo Primum. So the Dominican Little Office, for example, and rite of mass, remained in force after 1570. This also established a principle of how to think about older liturgies. Now people like to say that Pope Paul VI abolished the traditional mass and office but he actually did not abrogate anything, as Pope Benedict explained in his Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. Paul VI did ALLOW a suppression of all older liturgies, which amount to him saying that he does not prefer them. Whatever. So it seems that the older (1962 and older) Little Office is still the official prayer of the Church.

7:00 I love this🤣 Thank you for giving us these wonderful guides! God bless you.

I got an old used copy which didn't have any ribbons, so I added a couple. It's easy with a small amount of superglue. The spine has a layer of thick paper between the cover and the page block, so I placed the glued ribbon in the gap between that paper and the page block, and pressed it into place with a toothpick. Don't forget to lightly melt the free ends of the ribbons to prevent fraying (assuming you used polyester ribbon.)

Thank you for the detailed introduction (both in this video and in the whole playlist). My copy arrived in the mail this afternoon and I was feeling rather confused when I tried to set it up without guidance.

I came to knowing of the Divine Office late in life. As an aspiring deacon we were required to learn the practice. As time went by, I came to wonder, "why did I not know about this sooner?" St. Ambrose (lived in the 4th Century and one of the first doctors of the Church wrote this about the book of Psalms: "History instructs us, the law teaches us, prophecy foretells, correction punishes, morality persuades; but the book of psalms goes further than all these. It is medicine for our spiritual health. Whoever reads it will find in it a medicine to cure the wounds caused by his own particular passions. Whoever studies it deeply will find it a kind of gymnasium open for all souls to use, where the different psalms are like different exercises set out before him. In that gymnasium, in that stadium of virtue, he can choose the exercises that will train him best to win the victor’s crown." I have come to understand the practice of the Divine Office is like working out in this gymnasium of which St. Ambrose spoke. It is not just the psalms - but the psalms comprise the majority of it. I appreciate that you promote this "workout".

Thank you for such a thorough explanation. I just started the little office and now I don't feel lost.

Thank you so much for your explenation. This is so helpfull. May the Lord bless you. When I start praying I know now I am not the only one doing it. May know that we are in Christ praying together. Best wishes from Maaike, Living in Amsterdam.the Netherlands.