He met with them as a group – called the Oratory of St. Don Bosco became a mentor and spiritual director to them, helping them to live a life of virtue and saving many from a future of crime and poverty. Many of these street boys ended up in prison as teenagers. As a priest he began ministering to the poor and neglected boys of Turin, Italy, who were driven to desperate conditions in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. John eventually joined the priesthood, paying his way through school with odd jobs. In it, Jesus and the Virgin Mary showed him that he was to instruct poor, wayward boys and bring them back to God. At the age of nine he had his first of many powerful visions which would come throughout his life. His father died when he was two, leaving his religious instruction to his pious mother. John Bosco (1815–1888) was born in Italy to a poor farming family. Mother Raphael Lubowidzka of the sweetest Heart of Jesus, CSFN, p.65-66 Christ does not look upon the person who utters these words, nor upon his degree of perfection, but He is obedient to every priest without exception, in order to descend on our altars and give Himself to us entirely.” Our Lord, glorified in heaven, yet wishing to abide with us in unceasing unity, is obedient to the first invocation of the priest, who in His name, repeats the words of consecration: “This is my body…this is my blood” (Matthew 26:26,28). That is His greatest triumph of love, which according to His promise, He will fulfill until the end of the world. “Christ not only was obedient to His heavenly Father by giving up His life on the cross, He continues this obedience by remaining with us in the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. Now then, Mary is the Star of the Sea, the solace of our desert, the light that guides us towards heaven." St. Includes everything for the Hours of Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline Prime, Sext, and Compline for each other day of the week."We find ourselves in this earth as in a tempestuous sea, in a desert, in a vale of tears. In timeless Latin with parallel English translations. Melodies in Gregorian notation for those who chant the office in common. The prayers to be said before and after reciting the Divine Office Our Lord, our Lady, and the Saints prayed these psalms.Īn 11-page Introduction explaining the Divine Office and how to pray it, including guidelines on how to interpret the psalms in a Catholic manner When understood correctly (this edition has a short explanation preceding each psalm), these are the intentions for which Holy Mother Church wants us to pray for ourselves, for the Church and for all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This is better than private prayer it's the prayer of the entire Mystical Body because you pray with one heart with the millions of other clerics, religious and laymen around the world who have prayed and are praying these exact same prayers, AND because you adopt the intentions of the psalmist as you pray. JOIN YOUR VOICE WITH THE CHURCH AND HER MEMBERS Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day. Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. But the Church gave us the answer from the very beginning when she structured her official prayer around a framework of the psalms prayed eight times a day so that within one week, all 150 psalms are said. It's so easy to lose sight of God in our busy world. What does it gain a man to have his whole life perfectly organized but to lose his soul? OFFICIUM DIVINUM It includes everything for Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline and also Prime, Sext, and Compline for the other days of the week. 221 pages | leatherette sewn hardcover | 2 ribbons
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