#Catholic tv divine office tv#
I'm supposing that Catholic TV has four weeks' worth of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer "in the can", which it cycles through every four weeks. But my guess is that it would be cost-prohibitive. It would be wonderful if Catholic TV could broadcast the fully correct/accurate texts each day. The app presented the same texts as Catholic TV did, except that the app used the correct seasonal antiphons et al.
So to make sure I did the right texts this evening, I used a Liturgy of the Hours app on my phone, which is called DivineOffice, to follow along with Bishop Reed's televised archive. I'm sure that's one of the chief reasons that the Liturgy of the Hours have never quite caught on with the praying public. It requires some training, and the use of multiple ribbons when one prays from an actual book. These seasonal substitutions (and beyond that, there is an entire additional set of substitutions for saints' days, although fortunately today is not a saint's day on the universal calendar) make it really complicated to piece together the Liturgy of the Hours. Evening Prayer (and Morning Prayer) substitute a number of season-specific texts during the high seasons, for elements such as the antiphons, the reading, the responsory and the intercession. The problem is that we're not in Ordinary Time - we're in Easter Season.
#Catholic tv divine office archive#
What was in the archive for this evening was all the texts for Wednesday for Week 1 of Ordinary Time, and those were the correct texts for that day. Some readers may not be aware that Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer follow a four-week cycle - one goes through the cycle for four weeks, then starts over again. I say "mostly" because I do have a caveat, and I'm afraid it's rather a significant one (at least, it's significant when this is an obligatory part of one's daily life): the archive I viewed, and prayed along with, used the Ordinary Time texts. So I consider that I've fulfilled my obligation - mostly. And as the text scrolls along the screen, it's very easy to pray along. But, I guess, if I pray aloud with the bishop, we're a group of two (at least virtually). I agree with you that it would be considerably better if it was recorded as group prayer rather than individual prayer. As it was evening when I clicked, and I hadn't done my Evening Prayer yet, I thought I may as well give it a test drive by trying to pray along. I'm bound by church law to pray Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. I poked around a little on the website and see it's a property of the Boston Archdiocese.Ī few minutes ago, I went ahead and clicked on the link you provided, and located the evening prayer for today. I admit that, until I saw your post, I had never heard of Catholic TV before. The Divine Office is the prayer of the Church, and what more fitting icon than a bishop. I suspect many people would be pleased each day to pray Morning and Evening Prayer with a bishop.
In our parish we have some shut-in's who pray for the parish. What a wonderful thing for many of our elderly who have little to do but watch TV. While I am disappointed that this is not done with a group, I am elated that a bishop is taking on this very neglected part of the liturgy.
Here is Rocco's write up on his ordination. What is even more interesting it is done by Auxiliary Bishop Bob Reed who is also head of Catholic TV. I don't know if morning prayer appears before 9am. Evening prayer appears sometime in the afternoon. I do not know exactly when they are archived. I was even more delighted to find that it is archived Daily Archive of Divine Office. Yesterday I looked at Catholic TV on the internet to see if they were going to broadcast +Wilton Gregory's installation Mass (they did) and was delighted to find they are doing Morning Prayer (at 9 am) and Evening Prayer (at 9 pm) from the Divine Office.
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