INVITATORY PSALM(S) & THE PROPHETIC LIFE

INVITATORY

DAILY BEGINNING 

THE LITURGY OF THE HOURS

General Instruction to the Liturgy of the Hours: Chapter II, Section I

34. The whole Office regularly begins with a invitatory. This consists in the verse

" Lord, open my lips. And my mouth will proclaim your praise" and Psalm 95. 

This psalm invites the faithful each day to sing God’s praise and to listen to his voice and draws them to hope for “the Lord’s rest.”[1]

In place of psalm 95, psalm 100, psalm 67 or psalm 24 may be used.

35. The invitatory is placed at the beginning of the whole sequence of the day’s prayer, that is, it precedes either Morning Prayer or the Office of Readings, whichever of these liturgical actions begins the day.

The psalm with its antiphon may, however, be omitted when it should precede Morning Prayer.

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INVITATION TO A PROPHETIC LIFE

DEEPING OUR FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD

(FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT)

BY CELEBRATING THE HOURS,

THE PRAYER OF CHRIST

AND 

THE PEOPLE OF GOD,

EVERY DAY

ANY TIME, ANYWHERE, WITH ANYONE