![]() ![]() There are seven different prayers spread throughout the day, but don’t worry, you are going to start with just one. Some of the elements of the prayers repeat daily and others repeat less often, but if you pray them long enough you will notice things start to sound familiar. The prayers themselves are an arrangement of Psalms and other Scripture. At set times of day, religious, priests and even laypeople stop what they are doing and gather to pray these prayers. Very simply the Hours are a set of prayers the church has been praying for thousands of years. Which is helpful, but what if you just want a crash course because you want to pray today? Well that I provide right here! Here is Pam’s super-duper easy crash course of how to pray the Liturgy of the Hours in Three Easy Steps for those who just want to get started today. The book also contains tons of options for praying the hours - different books, websites, apps, and audio versions. Daria Sockey does a fabulous job of explaining exactly what the Hours are and how to pray them. Then about a year ago I stumbled on the book The Everyday Catholic’s Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours and all of a sudden things were very clear. Jargon was thrown about, and despite my attempts to research what the Hours were and how to do it, the whole idea just left me scratching my head. Like many other things in the Church, though, there was a general assumption that Catholics just knew how to do this. I read of other mamas praying the hours and working the hard stops of these prayers into their daily life. ![]() ![]() I was intrigued by the Liturgy of the Hours before I even became Catholic. ![]()
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