Notes for the Liturgy of the hours
- This is also known as the Breviary or the Divine Office.
- Consider how our prayer life has developed or has it since our childhood?
A bit of background.
The early Christians would have gathered in the morning and evening for prayer and praise and recited psalms and scripture in a recurring cycle. By tradition the Book of Psalms is considered an essential ingredient of the Liturgy of the Hours as psalms had an honoured place in Jewish piety. See below to continue reading…