Ways of Engaging with our Liturgy of Mass and Hours During COVID-19
In these days some are finding it difficult to stay in touch with the Liturgy of our Church. Some are going to the online Masses, like our own Canberra-Goulburn Catholic Voice. Others are finding online Mass in other places. We are still to find out about accessing online Mass for languages other than English and a 'Signed Mass' for the Hearing Impaired (Deaf) Community.
The Universalis Website and App can help. Here is a picture of what the app looks like on an iPhone.
There are Android options too. You need to know that there is a purchase fee up front. When you set up the app, we strongly recommend that you go to the calendar part of it and set it up on Australia. This is for a couple of reasons. One, so that some of our special feast days and events will be included, e.g. Anzac Day, St Mary MacKillop. Also, the app comes from the US of A and they use a different Lectionary (Bible translation) to us.
In addition to the Mass and readings of the Mass you will see this app also includes the Liturgy of the Hours. Sometimes this is called 'The Divine Office' or the 'Prayer of the Church'. It is based on stopping to pray at different times of the day: morning, midday, evening and night. Catholic Online Encyclopedia has more. Some of the hours, like Morning and Evening Prayer, include intercessions. You can add your own petitions in there too.
Those who have visited Jamberoo Abbey or Mt Carmel Retreat Centre may have experienced a form of the Liturgy of the Hours there. Like the Missal of the Mass, the Hours follow the Seasons. This means it is set on Lent at the current time.
Anyone who would like to can pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Like the Mass, it is a way of joining in the universal prayer of Christ for the Church and the World.
Some of us out there still like to hold an actual book in their hands. The book of the Liturgy of the Hours is called a Breviary.
The little one on the left of the picture is sometimes affectionately known as a 'Baby Breviary'.
To purchase a Breviary you can contact our Catholic Bookshop in Manuka.
We hope this is of some help for people to keep connected to the prayer of the Church around the world.
The Universalis Website and App can help. Here is a picture of what the app looks like on an iPhone.
There are Android options too. You need to know that there is a purchase fee up front. When you set up the app, we strongly recommend that you go to the calendar part of it and set it up on Australia. This is for a couple of reasons. One, so that some of our special feast days and events will be included, e.g. Anzac Day, St Mary MacKillop. Also, the app comes from the US of A and they use a different Lectionary (Bible translation) to us.
In addition to the Mass and readings of the Mass you will see this app also includes the Liturgy of the Hours. Sometimes this is called 'The Divine Office' or the 'Prayer of the Church'. It is based on stopping to pray at different times of the day: morning, midday, evening and night. Catholic Online Encyclopedia has more. Some of the hours, like Morning and Evening Prayer, include intercessions. You can add your own petitions in there too.
Those who have visited Jamberoo Abbey or Mt Carmel Retreat Centre may have experienced a form of the Liturgy of the Hours there. Like the Missal of the Mass, the Hours follow the Seasons. This means it is set on Lent at the current time.
Anyone who would like to can pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Like the Mass, it is a way of joining in the universal prayer of Christ for the Church and the World.
Some of us out there still like to hold an actual book in their hands. The book of the Liturgy of the Hours is called a Breviary.
The little one on the left of the picture is sometimes affectionately known as a 'Baby Breviary'.
To purchase a Breviary you can contact our Catholic Bookshop in Manuka.
We hope this is of some help for people to keep connected to the prayer of the Church around the world.
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