The Liturgy of the Hours: The Church's Prayer is our Prayer | Sister Maria Kiely, O.S.B.

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🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This lecture was given at a Thomistic Institute Intellectual Retreat at the Dominican House of Studies with North Carolina State University on March 31st, 2023. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Sr. Maria Kiely, O.S.B. (Dominican House of Studies)is a Benedictine of the Congregation of Solesmes. She specializes in Christian thought and Scriptural exegesis in the early Church and in the rise and development of monasticism. She has studied in depth the life and writings of Ambrose of Milan and his use and adaptation of Origen and Plotinus. Her current research focuses on the development of the tradition of hymnody in the early Church through the Middle Ages. She is currently participating in a major commentary on the hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours. In addition to her work at Catholic University, she teaches Greek and Latin at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies. She is also on the Editorial Committee for the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL).

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1:15.4	I'm going to talk to you about the divine office, all right, but it's not going to be maybe what you're expecting. So for the details, we'll have a question and answer period, and you
1:20.7	can always talk to me after the talk. And but I want to just tell you that the official name for what I call the divine office is the
1:33.3	Liturgy of the Hours.
1:35.3	The Liturgy of the Hours has something like 10 syllables and it's a long phrase.
1:39.3	And I come from a Benedictine tradition where it's called either the divine office or the work of God.
1:46.5	And so I'm going to use that term.
1:48.2	The divine office is just much simpler, but I just want you to know that we're talking about the liturgy of the hours.
1:55.8	And so I'm going to begin by talking to you about the creation of ours.
2:03.7	And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to separate the day from the night.
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