A Guide to 7 Traditional Hours of the Divine Office 

The reformed liturgy of the hours still uses a traditional 7 hours. But it has rearranged it slightly to be adaptable for modern use in most cases. The living magisterium has always had and still has the authority to do this. Office of readings is the first hour and is preferred as such, but can when necessary be done at some other suitable time of day. Morning prayer is the second hour can be said any time before 9am. The three minor hours remain fixed at 9, 12pm and 3pm. However, for most secular clergy, they are obligated to recite one of these. So the three psalms for the minor hours of the day can be used at any of those hours. For those who wish to pray two minor hours or all three of them, they can use the same three psalms, or specified complimentary psalms, or substitute them for other psalms. Evening prayer is at 6pm. And night prayer is at 9pm. It has always been the case that these times can change around when necessary for an individual or for a community when there is a need, but the reforms make this changing around more synchronistic and simple. There has actually always been 8 hours rather than 7. There have been 7 for the day and one for the night. I praise thee seven times a day and wake up to praise thee at midnight. But over time, the midnight office more commonly began to be prayed along with the first morning prayer. Although prime has been suppressed when it comes to obligation for most people, it can still be prayed out of charity and devotion to those who feel called to and by those who have it as part of their community rule.

I was introduced to this daily prayers back when I used to attend daily Masses, where the local sisters with laypeoples would recite the Lauds and Vespers before Mass (using 1970 Liturgy of the Hours). But what joy it was for me to have found the richness of the old Breviary's Divine Office, where all 150 psalms are read in 1 week cycle. I still occasionally read my Office nowadays, since my current job hinders me from reciting the full 7 Office, but whenever I have the chance to chant it (using the 1962 Breviary), it gives me that mysterious vibes, as I also involve my chanting with body movements like those of monks.

I would really like to see it posted on RU-vid so I can learn it

Just off to pray Terce now. Thanks!

the potbelly stove at the end is neat

For Laity living in the world the Little Office of the BVM is a reasonable option. And there’s various options if you have a particular order you are called to vs just the Roman (the Carmelite, the Dominican)…

Only pray the Tradition Divinum Officium

what about the Capitular office

Which book do you use? The one from Angelus Press?

Actually there are 8 canonical hours. 7 during the day and 1 during the night (matins). The modernists tried to suppress prime, which is why there are only 7 in the modern Roman office.