So, it was in the church, the Greek word liturgy came to mean the public obligation of the church. Well, liturgy, it comes from an old Greek word, which meant public service, public obligation. What is liturgy? What do we mean by the word, liturgy? So, the Mass one, in a sense, you’re watching liturgy, but if you’re praying the Liturgy of the Hours together, say us about. It’s not virtual, it’s really your liturgy, and it’s really a liturgical act of the church because one thing was made very clear in the church’s renewal of the Office, Divine Office, or the Liturgy of the Hours, is that although there are persons who are especially deputed and obliged to pray in the form, which is found in the Liturgy of the Hours, the hours of the day like bishops, priests, deacons, monks, nuns, canons, candidiases, and other religious orders that have the obligation of singing together, or reciting together, the Divine Office still anyone else who does that is still performing liturgical act even though they’re not bound by their way of life to do it, but they are doing the church’s liturgy. I mean, I wouldn’t want to criticize at all watching a live, especially a live Mass on television, where you’re participating with a community at some distance, but it’s live.īut of course, if you do some of the Liturgy of the Hours together, it’s a liturgy that you yourselves are celebrating. Well, in one way they are, and in one way they’re not.
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So, what’s the comparison between, say, watching Mass on TV or if say we had taken the time to pray the Liturgy of the Hours or the Divine Office together, are these things comparable? Well, the first thing I guess I would ask you is we have this thing now, and I did it, my wife and I and some other people who live in our home on Sunday, we watched the Mass together, did the responses and everything together, and I found it wasn’t like going to Mass exactly, but it felt like a very good thing to do on a Sunday. So today, we could talk a little bit about families possibly making use of the Divine Office. So, you pray, and maybe there’s a distinction between these two things, you’ll have to tell me, what’s called the Liturgy of the Hours, or the Divine Office. We have all those prayers from early morning till later at night, and we pray them constantly every day of the year. I guess monasteries around the world: praying all the time. So, we’re praying for everybody who can’t. Yeah, we’re lucky because people in monasteries, we’re doing all the prayers we did before because as we have our own church and whatnot. So, we thought we’d ask about the family praying together in this time and get some ideas about the family praying together from our chaplain, Norbertine priest, Father Hugh Barbour. Strange times we’re living in at the moment with the virus around the world and people confined at home, and families, many families, without too many outlets, not getting out to Mass, not getting out to do much of anything, really. Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus. Hugh Barbour explains how, even during the suspension of public Masses, you can still not just watch but participate in real liturgy.
Even though we cannot attend Mass while we shelter in place, we can experience real liturgy in our homes by praying the Liturgy of the Hours- and it’s more accessible than you might think.
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