Morning Prayer & Office of Readings

We will be saying Morning Prayer and the Office of Readings with our Schola on Holy Saturday, April 19th at 9:00am.

Morning Prayer is part of the Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office, and is the daily prayer of the Church, marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day. The Hours are a meditative dialogue on the mystery of Christ, using the Psalms. It is a beautiful and ancient tradition in the Church that is not reserved for priests and religious, but can also be prayed by the lay faithful. The Second Vatican Council highly encouraged the laity to “recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually” (Sacrosanctum Concilium, 100).

"The office of readings seeks to provide God's people, and in particular those consecrated to God in a special way, with a wider selection of passages from sacred Scripture for meditation, together with the finest excerpts from spiritual writers. Even though the cycle of scriptural readings at daily Mass is now richer, the treasures of revelation and tradition to be found in the office of readings will also contribute greatly to the spiritual life" (General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours [GILH], no. 55).