Many of us now face the inability to attend Mass and pray together as a community. While we may not be able to celebrate the Eucharistic liturgy together, we can continue to celebrate the Liturgy of the Hours in our homes. Below you will find guidance on how to pray this liturgy of the Church at home. We will update this page every week to provide a worship aid for each Sunday.

Time spent in prayer is an indispensable part of the spiritual life of a Christian disciple. The participation in the liturgy is the source and summit of our lives as Christians, and this includes participating in the Liturgy of the Hours. The Liturgy of the Hours is the daily prayer ritual of Christians that sanctifies and consecrates time and brings those who pray it deep into Christ’s death and resurrection, the Paschal Mystery, the central and primary tenet of the Christian faith. The Liturgy of the Hours is both the prayer of Christ and the prayer of the Church. It is prayed at set times of the day—morning, midday, evening, and night—and involves the praying of the psalms, short scripture passages, Gospel canticles, and intercessions.

The Liturgy of the Hours is very much related to the celebration of the Eucharist. Praying the Liturgy of the Hours extends to the various times of the day “the praise and thanksgiving, the memorial of the mysteries of salvation, the petitions and the foretaste of heavenly glory that are present in the eucharistic mystery” (General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours, 12). Like the Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours immerses us in the mysteries of the liturgical year, the life of Christ placed before us and through which we come in prayer to a deeper knowledge of Christ and his human life on earth, as well as his victory over death for our sins and his glorious triumph in heaven.

— From Guide for Celebrating the Liturgy of the Hours by Christopher J. Ferraro and Anthony W. Ruff