Daily Office Times
Morning Prayer (Mattins)
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 7:25 a.m. at St Paul's Catholic Church, Mt Lawley
Evening Prayer (Evensong)
4:00 p.m. First Sunday of the Month
Monday, Wednesday, and Friday: 7:25 a.m. at St Paul's Catholic Church, Mt Lawley
Evening Prayer (Evensong)
4:00 p.m. First Sunday of the Month
Using the Daily Office website
Daily Office Online is the web version of the Daily Office. It enables everyone to pray the Office without having to buy the book and learn how to navigate it. It can be viewed by typing dailyoffice.online in any web browser.
Daily Office Online is the web version of the Daily Office. It enables everyone to pray the Office without having to buy the book and learn how to navigate it. It can be viewed by typing dailyoffice.online in any web browser.
What is the Daily Office?
The Daily Office is the Ordinariate Form of the Liturgy of the Hours, based on the Book of Common Prayer. Based upon the ancient Monastic Liturgy of the Hours, which sanctified time with the eight Offices of Matins (2 AM), Lauds (5 AM), Prime (6 AM), Terce (9 AM), Sext (noon), None (3 PM), Vespers (6 PM), and Compline (7 PM or before retiring), the Book of Common Prayer provided just two offices: Morning Prayer (a combination of Matins and Lauds) and Evening Prayer (a combination of Vespers and Compline).
The Prayer Book offices of Morning and Evening Prayer were designed to be as simple as possible. Recitation of Morning and Evening Prayer every day was obligatory for clergy, but the formula was so simple that the laity, almost all of whom would some day come to own their own personal copies of The Book of Common Prayer, could easily pray Morning and Evening Prayer in their homes.
The Ordinariate Office possesses a more extensive set of liturgical 'propers' for the liturgical year, in keeping with Catholic tradition, but retains the same approachability for laypeople as the Prayer Book Office.
The Daily Office is the Ordinariate Form of the Liturgy of the Hours, based on the Book of Common Prayer. Based upon the ancient Monastic Liturgy of the Hours, which sanctified time with the eight Offices of Matins (2 AM), Lauds (5 AM), Prime (6 AM), Terce (9 AM), Sext (noon), None (3 PM), Vespers (6 PM), and Compline (7 PM or before retiring), the Book of Common Prayer provided just two offices: Morning Prayer (a combination of Matins and Lauds) and Evening Prayer (a combination of Vespers and Compline).
The Prayer Book offices of Morning and Evening Prayer were designed to be as simple as possible. Recitation of Morning and Evening Prayer every day was obligatory for clergy, but the formula was so simple that the laity, almost all of whom would some day come to own their own personal copies of The Book of Common Prayer, could easily pray Morning and Evening Prayer in their homes.
The Ordinariate Office possesses a more extensive set of liturgical 'propers' for the liturgical year, in keeping with Catholic tradition, but retains the same approachability for laypeople as the Prayer Book Office.
Why pray the Daily Office?
We often hear the phrase, “fed by Word and Sacrament,” and quite reasonably our thoughts would immediately focus on our participation in the Divine Mysteries of the Holy Eucharist - the Mass. The Bishops of the Second Vatican Council called the Mass the “fount and apex of the Christian life” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 21 November 1964, #11). As they understood the supreme importance of the Eucharist, they encouraged everyone to participate as fully as possible.
Yet not everyone in every place is able to attend Mass, particularly on weekdays when it might not be celebrated especially in smaller or remote communities.
The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer (often referred to as Mattins and Evensong) are that by which the faithful, along with the clergy who are required to pray the Offices, enter more fully into that daily rhythm of prayer. In so doing, even as we are not able to be fed by the Sacrament of the Altar, we do derive important sustenance from the written Word.
Reading from Scripture is to be commended at any time and in any place; however, the readings as laid out in the Ordo, like the readings at Mass, are intentionally sensitive to the themes of the seasons of the Church year. Further, the Old Testament and New Testament readings very often are linked typologically in terms of how the Old is fulfilled in the New. Even if one is not able to pray the full Office, this resource is of great value in thus presenting an organised way of reading through Scripture – essentially the New Testament twice per year, and the Old once per year.
In Domino
Monsignor Carl Reid PA
Ordinary
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
December 2019
We often hear the phrase, “fed by Word and Sacrament,” and quite reasonably our thoughts would immediately focus on our participation in the Divine Mysteries of the Holy Eucharist - the Mass. The Bishops of the Second Vatican Council called the Mass the “fount and apex of the Christian life” (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 21 November 1964, #11). As they understood the supreme importance of the Eucharist, they encouraged everyone to participate as fully as possible.
Yet not everyone in every place is able to attend Mass, particularly on weekdays when it might not be celebrated especially in smaller or remote communities.
The Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer (often referred to as Mattins and Evensong) are that by which the faithful, along with the clergy who are required to pray the Offices, enter more fully into that daily rhythm of prayer. In so doing, even as we are not able to be fed by the Sacrament of the Altar, we do derive important sustenance from the written Word.
Reading from Scripture is to be commended at any time and in any place; however, the readings as laid out in the Ordo, like the readings at Mass, are intentionally sensitive to the themes of the seasons of the Church year. Further, the Old Testament and New Testament readings very often are linked typologically in terms of how the Old is fulfilled in the New. Even if one is not able to pray the full Office, this resource is of great value in thus presenting an organised way of reading through Scripture – essentially the New Testament twice per year, and the Old once per year.
In Domino
Monsignor Carl Reid PA
Ordinary
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross
December 2019
Using the Daily Office book
Divine Worship: Daily Office can be obtained from CTS Books.
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has released a short guide with videos on how to navigate the Daily Office book.
Our Parish Assistant Nigel McBain conducted a workshop with parishioners on how to say the Office and a brief discussion of the history and background behind it.
Here is the handout for the workshop:
Divine Worship: Daily Office can be obtained from CTS Books.
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham has released a short guide with videos on how to navigate the Daily Office book.
Our Parish Assistant Nigel McBain conducted a workshop with parishioners on how to say the Office and a brief discussion of the history and background behind it.
Here is the handout for the workshop:
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