![]() If you have benefited from Today's Pages, consider donating to help us further our mission. For more information about our apostolate, please take some time to browse the rest of our website. We also offer workshops on the Liturgy of the Hours as well as several themed retreats throughout the year. In addition to praying the hours and hosting individuals and groups on retreat, we host special events such as Solemn Vespers, Psalm Vigils, First Saturday devotions, and weekly Eucharistic Adoration. ![]() ![]() We make a public offering of the seven canonical hours Monday through Saturday on site in our beautiful chapel. Located in Cranberry, Pennsylvania (in the diocese of Erie), the St Thomas More House of Prayer is a Catholic retreat center with a mission of praying and promoting the Liturgy of the Hours. Whether you are experienced at praying the Liturgy of the Hours or just getting started, we hope that Today's Pages is a helpful resource for praying the public and communal prayer of the Catholic Church. Sunday 5.Thank you for visiting the St Thomas More House of Prayer website. The Liturgy of the Hours consists of seasonal hymns, the chanting or recital of the Psalms and scriptural canticles, readings from the scriptures, and prayers of praise and intercessions. While these prayers are recited daily in monastic life and by the clergy, they are the prayer of the whole Church and a means by which all the baptised may join themselves to the prayer of Jesus Christ to the Father. The most important Hours are Morning Prayer (Lauds) and Evening Prayer (Vespers), but the Liturgy of the Hours also consists of Prayer During the Day (Terce, Sext or Nones), Office of Readings (Matins or Vigils) and Night Prayer (Compline). In the course of time, other hours were also sanctified by communal prayer, and these prayers in common at the different hours of the day gradually took on a more definite shape, which today we call the Liturgy of the hours of the Divine Office. For example, at the last hour of the day at dusk when the lamps were lighted, and the first hour of the day when the rising sun dispelled the shadow of night. The testimony of the early Church shows that individuals also devoted themselves to prayer at certain hours, and in various areas the practice soon gained ground of devoting special times of prayer in common. Many times, the Acts of the Apostles testifies that the Christian community pray together. Everyone is very welcome to join us for the Prayer of the Church.įrom the very beginning of the Church, the baptised “remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of the bread and to the prayers (Acts 2.42). Here at St Mary’s Cathedral, Evening Prayer or “Vespers” is sung most days of each week, and Morning Prayer or “Lauds” on most Sunday mornings. The Liturgy of the Hours prayer of the Church, continually praising God. St Philip Howard’s Catholic Church, Norfolk Island.St Columbkille’s Catholic Church – Woolloomooloo.Sacred Heart Catholic Church – Darlinghurst.
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