A Bluebird's Table

The Table of Hours: Living the Divine Office

I've always been drawn to a kind of monastic life. A line there comes up more and more though...the more aescetic aspects can be too detached i feel, and yet the deeper spirit draws. An example of monastic living is from one community below, from here. I'm incredibly undisciplined when it comes to schedules, a big area to heal. I think there is real learning to be found in a prayerful daily rhythm of some sort, and one way is by following the Divine Office/Liturgy of Hours somehow (see here and here). So while a years worth of yummy soups are what i think of at a monastic table (another post, smile), this is more about the table of hours...

One Abbey's Horarium
(Latin for "hours")

"In union with Christ and the Church, His Bride, during the Hours of the Divine Office we bring before the Father all that is human: joy and sorrow; hope and anxiety; innocence and sin; patience and anger; life and death.

We pray these Hours (see here) in the Holy Spirit, Who inspired the texts of the Sacred Liturgy and Whose breath breathes in them."