Mary, Queen of Martyrs Parish will be praying the Divine Office: Evening Prayer/Vespers on Tuesday evenings at 7PM during Lent 2023.
ALL are invited to come to pray this beautiful prayer of the Church.
The Liturgy of the Hours is an ancient, structured way of praying Scripture throughout the day, focusing especially on the Psalms. It hearkens back to the Jewish custom of praying at fixed hours, a practice early Christians continued. By the medieval period, monks chanted the entire Psalter, all 150 Psalms, throughout each week, and sometimes in a single day!
Eventually, this form of prayer became known as the Liturgy of the Hours, also called the Divine Office. It is a liturgy because, like the Mass and other sacraments, it is a public prayer of the Church, Christ’s Mystical Body, as distinct from private devotions such as the Rosary, novenas, or personal prayer.
Its purpose is to sanctify the day and the whole range of human activity. It does this by bathing the morning, afternoon, and evening in prayer, so that “the whole course of the day and night is made holy by the praises of God.” (Bishop Robert Barron, Word on Fire)
The Schedule for Lent 2023 is as follows:
Tuesday 7:00 PM Church
2/21/23 St. Peter
2/28/23 St. Peter
3/7/23 St. Kateri
3/14/23 St. Kateri
3/21/13 Our Lady of Lourdes
3/28/23 Our Lady of Lourdes