So the reading wants to incorporate liturgical prayers for morning, evenings and night into daily life. Vespers is Evening Prayer, and Compline prayer at the end of the day. Matins can refer either to the middle-of-the-night prayers (the Vigil, or Night Office) or to Morning Prayer (also called Lauds). This brings us to the question: “I’m struggling how to incorporate Matins, Vespers, and Compline into my day. Then there are contemporary, “independent” liturgies that you can pray, including Shane Claiborne’s Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, Phyllis Tickle’s The Divine Hours, and the Northumbria Community’s Celtic Daily Prayer. Orthodox Churches also have their own versions of the Divine Office, as well as some of the Protestant denominations - a liturgy can be found in the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer and the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship. Many monasteries have their own liturgies, some examples include Benedictine Daily Prayer and The Saint Helena Breviary. So to pray the entire Liturgy of the Hours would entail 5 to 7 times of prayer each day, with a total time commitment of approximately two hours!
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