#Divine office lauds series#

In this way I would like to encourage and help everyone to pray with the same words that Jesus used, words that for thousands of years have been part of the prayer of Israel and the Church.Ģ.

#Divine office lauds series#

To this end, we begin today a series of catecheses on the Psalms and Canticles found in the morning prayer of Lauds. Nevertheless, it remains a prayer that presupposes an appropriate catechetical and biblical formation, if it is to be fully savoured. It is an encouraging fact that many lay people in parishes and ecclesial associations have learned to appreciate it. This was the aim of my venerable Predecessor Paul VI, a little over 30 years ago, with the Constitution Laudis canticum in which he determined the current form of this prayer, hoping that the Psalms and Canticles, the essential structure of the Liturgy of the Hours, would be understood 'with new appreciation by the People of God'. If, in fact, priests and religious have a precise mandate to celebrate it, it is also warmly recommended to lay people. Consequently, it is important to devote greater pastoral care to promoting the Liturgy of the Hours as a prayer of the whole People of God. This effort must be expressed above all in the liturgy, the source and summit of ecclesial life. In the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte I expressed the hope that the Church would become more and more distinguished in the 'art of prayer', learning it ever anew from the lips of the Divine Master. General Audience, Wednesday 28 March 2001 - also in French, German, Italian, Portuguese & Spanishġ. The Psalms in the Tradition of the Church Here below they are listed as they are prayed in the Divine Office, at Morning and Evening Prayer every day. Here on Totus2us, the psalms and canticles are in two sections. Benedict XVI in his first catecheses finished the series on Vespers. From March 2001 until his death four years later, Pope St John Paul II gave catechesis on the psalms and canticles prayed at Lauds and Vespers each day by the Church.