Skip to the text
Ember
PT

Patristic Reading

10 min

This part is read from its publisher each day and is not reproduced here. It opens in the Ember app. See the app

About this prayer

Today's second reading from the Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the Hours — a passage from the Church Fathers, councils, popes, or saints. Texts provided by iBreviary.

History

The Office of Readings (Officium Lectionis) of the Liturgy of the Hours pairs a longer scriptural reading with a second, non-scriptural reading drawn from the Fathers and writers of the Church, the documents of councils and popes, or the lives and works of the saints. This reading carries the living voice of Tradition into daily prayer.

How to pray it

Read slowly, as the Fathers wrote — to be prayed, not merely studied. Pause where a line strikes you and turn it back to God in your own words.