The 

Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum) or Divine

Office (Latin: Officium Divinum) or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a
set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours,[a] often also
referred to as the breviary,[b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the
Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each
day and sanctifying the day with prayer."[4] The term "Liturgy of the
Hours" has been retroactively applied to the practices of saying the
canonical hours in both the Christian East and West–particularly
within the Latin liturgical rites–prior to the Second Vatican Council,
[5]
 and is the official term for the canonical hours promulgated for
usage by the Latin Church in 1971.[6] Before 1971, the official form
for the Latin Church was the Breviarium Romanum, first published
in 1568 with major editions through 1962.
The Liturgy of the Hours, like many other forms of the canonical
hours, consists primarily of psalms supplemented by hymns,
readings, and other prayers and antiphons prayed at fixed prayer
times.[7] Together with the Mass, it constitutes the public prayer of
the Church. Christians of both Western and Eastern traditions
(including the Latin Catholic, Eastern Catholic, Eastern
Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian, Lutheran, Anglican, and
some other Protestant churches) celebrate the canonical hours in
various forms and under various names. The chant or recitation of
the Divine Office therefore forms the basis of prayer within
the consecrated life, with some of the monastic or mendicant orders
producing their own permutations of the Liturgy of the Hours and
older Roman Breviary.[2]