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.

Lauds – May 6

Rubrics

Psalms for Lauds

Reading for Lauds

Charity is a right attitude of mind which prefers nothing to the knowledge of God. If we possess any strong attachment to the things of this earth, we cannot possess true charity. Anyone who really loves God prefers to know and experience God rather than his creatures. The whole set and longing of that person’s mind is ever directed toward the Lord.

For God is far superior to all his creation, since everything which exists has been made by God and for God. And so, in deserting God, who is beyond compare, for the inferior works of creation, we show that we value God, the author of creation, less than creation itself. The Lord himself reminds us: Whoever loves me will keep my commandments. And this is my commandment: that you love one another. So the person who does not love a neighbor does not obey God’s command, and one who does not obey his command cannot love God.

Vespers – May 6

Rubrics

Psalms for Vespers

Reading for Vespers

God finds fault with them when he says:
“The days are surely coming, says the Lord,
when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
not like the covenant that I made with their ancestors,
on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of
the land of Egypt;
for they did not continue in my covenant,
and so I had no concern for them, says the Lord.
This is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws in their minds,
and write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.

Verbum Domini
Hebrews 8:8-10 NRSV