Livestream LITURGY OF THE HOURS for Oblates

We welcome you to join the Community of Jesus daily via livestream as we pray the Liturgy of the Hours — Lauds and Vespers.  These services sung in Gregorian chant include psalms, hymns, readings, and prayers.

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Psalms for Lauds

Reading for Lauds

Dear brothers and sisters, God’s love is calling us to the joys of eternal happiness for the salvation of our souls. The Apostle says: Rejoice in the Lord always. The joys of this world lead to eternal misery, but the joys that are accord¬ing to the Lord’s will, bring those who persevere in them to joys that are enduring and everlasting. The Apostle therefore says: Again I say: rejoice.

He urges us to find ever increasing joy in God and in keeping his command¬ments. The more we try in this world to give ourselves completely to God our Lord by obeying his commands, the greater will be our happiness in the life to come, and the greater the glory that will be ours in the presence of God. Your holiness of life must be evident, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of his children.

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Psalms for Vespers

Reading for Vespers

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the parent loves the child. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whatever is born of God conquers the world. And this is the victory that conquers the world, our faith. Who is it that conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Verbum Domini​
1 John 5:1-5 NRSV