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The Audio Divine Office

In today’s fast-paced world, many faithful long to pray meaningful and effective prayers — prayers bringing satisfaction with the Lord — but many struggle to find the time to read and pray these sacred prayers themselves. Prayers this powerful, this globally impactful, should be easily accessible to the world at large. Our website seeks to bridge this gap by providing audio recordings of the Old Rite Divine Office, allowing the beauty of these time-honored prayers to be more easily integrated into daily life. Whether at home, on the road, or during work, listeners can join in the rhythm of the Church’s prayer without the burden of setting aside large blocks of reading time.

The Divine Office has been the heartbeat of the Church for centuries, sanctifying the hours of the day with Scripture, psalms, and sacred hymns. Yet, in the modern era, access to these prayers in their traditional form can be challenging. By offering high-quality, reverent recordings, we aim to make this treasure of the Church more accessible to all—clergy, religious, and laity alike.

This site exists to fill a vital need in the Church: providing a way for more people to participate in the daily cycle of prayer with ease and consistency. Whether you are a long-time devotee of the Divine Office or a newcomer seeking to deepen your spiritual life, our recordings offer a simple yet profound way to remain connected to the prayer of the Church. For the healing of the nations, the Church, and the family, join us in prayer as we embark upon this day.

The Old Rite Divine Office

Mass is the most important prayer in the universe and of the Church, outside of Heaven. The Divine Office is the 2nd most important prayer.

• Immerse yourself in both the Old and the New Testament on a daily, hour to hour basis

• Get to know the Holy Saints

• Understand and see how the Liturgy affects your heart life and the world around you: daily, weekly, monthly and seasonally

• Check to see how the particular Saint of the day may be fitting for your daily need

• Seek the Lord as the living and alive God that He is. He speaks fresh and living words of life pertinent to you and your daily life, words of wisdom love, comfort, encouragement, correction, direction, peace, joy, and rich contentment

• Participate and listen to the liturgy that the Holy Spirit orchestrates in Heaven, clearly on earth, joining our worship with Heaven in Himself

• See how He hears with most compassionate and undivided attention to your deepest heart and what matters to you (He answers always justly, sweetly and wisely. He sees with utmost kindness and clarity, and He judges with peace and equity)

Many can point out what is wrong with society, politics, the Church and families. Providing solutions, however, requires faithful action—like St. Nehemiah, who rebuilt Jerusalem’s walls with a sword in one hand and a tool in the other, persevering and building brick by brick.

Let us, with that same courage and faithfulness, take up daily prayer and fulfill our duties with humility and grace. Let us pray and be faithful in our daily duties; and watch delightfully and expectantly as God works in these prayers. 

For the healing of the Nations, the Church, and the Families, and above all for the consolation of God's Heart, let us be faithful.

Why Old Rite?

These are the most ancient prayers of the Church.

These are the prayers that Moses, King David and other Old Testament Saints as well as our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Lady, St. Joseph, St. Augustine, St. Catherine of Siena and all of the other Saints prayed.

King David prayed seven times a day and was protected from his enemies.

These prayers are where you can clearly see the roots of the Old Rite Catholic Church connecting to Judaism; how Jesus took the Old Testament and reconfigured everything to Himself. This shows how God is and always will be His own reference point.

These prayers satisfy the inner hungry heart, meet the need and fulfill where it says, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." - Matthew 4:4

These are the most effective prayers that one can ever pray outside of the Holy Mass and Heaven.

This is where more of the daily Mass is explained and expounded on and the scriptures and collected quotes in the Divine Office are often the same as the Scriptures in the Mass.

Autobiography

Born into a home where there were no Christians to speak of and against all odds, God made Himself known to me. One quiet evening, alone in my room, I encountered God. The clarity of answered prayer filled me with peace. Little did I realize that this was the beginning of an amazing and powerful adventure, that only God could have unfolded.

Within a year and a half of that, I was placed in private schools where, for the first time, I met other Christians. I was given my first Bible, and I fell in love with it. I was hungry for God and His Truth, craving every word from God. Living in a dangerous place due to my faith, with death threats even to my face, I clung to the promise He gave me — that He will never leave me or forsake me. Furthermore, the assurance that He would rescue me and bring me to a better place, was a hope that I knew was real and true. I clung to my God and His word. No matter what others thought or how impossible it seemed, I believed. I knew I would be rescued because my God had promised me.

After being brought to the place God had promised, I found myself on the brink of completing my college education. But before I could finish, I met a man — through a friend of a friend of a friend — and entered into a dangerous marriage. People ask: yes, he was an American with blue eyes and reddish brown hair, but definitely that was not the reason to marry him, the reason was that I honestly did not know that I could say no, I was too young and too polite.

Even in that dark season, God was faithful. He blessed me with beautiful children and kept us safe and did many wonderful and beautiful miracles, always making Himself real and known. Years later, by His grace, under the most serious death threat, God made a way for me to escape with my children. God provided for us every step of the way. He provided us a home, provided my children with school, and opened the door for me to finish my own college education, without any human help at all. He provided in ways I couldn’t have imagined. He even multiplied money in miraculous ways. He gave us not only what we needed but also sweet gifts along the way: a puppy, movies, and treats for my children to enjoy - again without any human help.

After years of fighting for my life and my children’s lives — and clinging to my Bible as my lifeline morning, noon, and night — the news came that the aggressively dangerous man that I was fleeing from, died and took someone else’s life with him. 

There were some other factors that brought me fast to the conclusion that more prayers were needed. That intense longing eventually led me to the One Holy and Apostolic Catholic Church, which was once again against all odds. No human reached out to me for the Catholic Church. If anything I had heard nothing but evil against the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, God in His great goodness, because of the serious need for my family and I, started a new chapter in my conversion.

Isolated and alone with only my children after our escape and after the death of their father, out of familiarity, I turned to the Christians I had known and highly respected for prayer. Forcefully rejected, heartbroken, and upset by the lies and maligning against me from them, I turned to God and prayed — instantly I realized I didn’t actually know anything about the Catholic Church for myself. I barely even knew a Catholic. Everything I thought I knew was hearsay — falsehoods passed down by others. And in that moment, it struck me, the way my own name had been slandered and maligned after escaping that dangerous world and marriage, was the same way the Church had been slandered. People just talked about me without really knowing the truth. Truth, and a desire for seeking and finding the truth, especially about God, is such a healing remedy, something that God Himself most definitely satisfies.

Not long after I found myself, along with some of my children, attending Mass daily and on every holy day of obligation, except for Sunday, because I still was not sure of the authenticity of the Catholic Church. I especially felt even more cautious because during this conversion I had my children, dependent on me. Cautiously, we went to Adoration, prayed the Rosary daily and even took up the Liturgy of the Hours—the Novus Ordo version of the Old Rite Divine Office—which I didn’t know at the time. Eventually, especially as my fears, doubts and questions about the Catholic Church Herself were being allayed, I realized I was living with every intention before God to act as a practicing Catholic. But I hadn’t actually received any of the Sacraments yet. I told God, “You know I am a Catholic before You in Heaven.” In my heart I clearly heard, “But you're not in Heaven, you’re on earth yet ….” After this point, I went to RCIA and I officially converted and entered the Catholic Church.

After about nine years in the Novus Ordo, strictly by the mercy and grace of God, I found out about the Old Rite Tradition of the Catholic Church and began attending the SSPX. It was there I discovered the true Old Rite Divine Office and quickly came to understand the depth and power of these prayers. I realized that the scripture God had given me to pray — morning, noon, and night over the years — were actually these psalm-based prayers of the Church, prayed at set hours. To my greatest joy, for human words fail me - of all of those 40 long and treacherous years, every single time that I met with God, which He was gracious enough to be with me every single day, absolutely every single moment, whenever I stopped to love and worship my God during any given day, at any given time, God was there …. in all different ways, exactly the way it says in the Holy Old Rite Divine Office! To find Him right there in the Holy Office, to rejoice and to enjoy Him as a healing balm, to see His sweet and lovely face, without any doubts, questions and fears is really what the Holy Old Rite Divine Office is all about. The Old Rite Divine Office is a glorious place for anyone to submerge themselves in Our good and kind God! 

From my conversion to Christianity, to the moment of entering the Catholic Church, and deeper into the Catholic Church as a Traditional Catholic, even all the miracles, safety and answers God provided me — all of this was and has been provided and led through the favor of the Lord, His graces, and prayer. Simply turning to God over and over in prayer relying on Him that He would answer me is how God led me through it all. If I ran into a wall, I knew I needed to pray a different way and again turned to God in prayer until He would bring me more prayers to pray and opened doors for me and my children’s  lives and saved us.

I learned that there is an excellent reason why the Church says that  the Divine Office is the second most important prayer in the Church — after the Holy Mass — and just above the Rosary. I’ve witnessed its power firsthand. It is as I have said, all that I have ever known of God, His love, His graces, His faithfulness and many many dramatic answers to prayers in my own humble life are ALL personified right here in the Holy Old Rite Divine Office. The same God — who has rescued me time and again, taken care of me and my entire life — is open, waiting and available to anyone who wants to be with Him, through these holy prayers — for sure and for real. I have seen it be effective in other people around me as well. A young man said it became a safeguard against sin (and has been a buffer from dangerous people in my own life!) and it carried a woman safely through surgery. 

Even if one prays just a few every day, there is such gracious and abundant peace and help granted. The Divine Office helps even in the Sacrament of Confession. These are just some very small and few examples. These prayers are so consoling. Please do try praying these, even if only through hearing the recordings and see what and how the Lord may engage with you!

For centuries, our Church Fathers and princes have been fighting the good fight, basically on their own, only with the help of Heaven and Our Lord. Yes, there have been a few and far in between lay people who may have stepped up to the plate. But these prayers, along with the Holy Mass and the Rosary are the answer to ANY of our personal, family or national troubles. These are powerful and effective prayers.  Let us please ALL pray together as much as we possibly can, joining to the liturgy in Heaven through these most holy and precious prayers, for the support and encouragement of the princes of our Church, for the salvation of souls and for a safe passage for ourselves and our loved ones on this earth. In light of the fact that these prayers have been hidden, almost to the place of extinction, that if it wouldn’t have been for the faithful Old Rite priests, we would have lost these completely, and then what would the world have done? As little as people know about these, and even fewer actually pray these prayers, the state of the world and other troubles in more sacred places is not a surprise at all. To ensure these prayers are no longer hidden or forgotten but shared, in daily lives for everyone, so that others too may experience the abundant fruits God offers through praying these beautiful prayers, and most importantly these are available to everyone in the easiest, quickest and direct way to adore the Lord with above all to minister to God with these lovely prayers, as well as to bring healing fruits and remedies in our own lives and of others around us, is the reason that this labor of love is being poured out in this humble website. May the Lord be glorified and blessed and His beloved people may go free.