On the website, what is ordo?

And what language should we pray in?

I see there is 2 tridentine versions.
Is there much difference between them and the Pius X version?
Is his objectively superior?

Do I just go through each

Matutinum Laudes
Prima Tertia Sexta Nona
Vesperae Completorium
Omnes Plures

One by one throughout the day?
And what times are they?
And do they need to be prayed immediately at the start of the hour?
And how does each one take to pray?
Is it the same each day of the week?

Thanks.

You may want to try the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
This gives about as simple of a guide as possible:
https://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/Little%20Office%20Ordinary%20Main.html
Scroll down the left page, click on the hour you want to pray, and it will come up on the right page.

Is there a specific time for laudes and compline? Does it change with seasons. I know in winter the sun can rise after 6am. (Even today dawn was 6:28am my local time)

So basically i do prayers following along the website (or buy a book so i dont have to look at a screen).

Matutinum - 12am
Laudes - 5am? Earlier?
Prima - 6am
Tertia - 9am
Sexta - 12pm
Nona - 3pm
Vesperae - 5pm
Completorium - 8pm? 9pm?
Omnes - ???
Plures - ???

Is the above correct? I am not used to 6am being the 'first hour' due to 24 hour time keeping.

Also does the day start at martin or vesper.

I apologize for not knowing much about Lauds or Compline, since I only pray the Prime (morning prayer) and evening prayer, the evening prayer of which there isn't a set time for the laity. There isn't really a set time for the laity for morning prayers either.

I too have wondered about the change in seasons for the prayer times. I think that the times stay the same, regardless of seasons, but hopefully, someone else on the forum can help clarify that, and provide a good resource for the prayers you hope to recite for a 24 hour period, without having to look at a screen. Hopefully there's a book available with those prayers, or a way to print the prayers out from a website, but books are much nicer to pray from, of course.

Is there a specific time for laudes and compline? Does it change with seasons. I know in winter the sun can rise after 6am. (Even today dawn was 6:28am my local time)

So basically i do prayers following along the website (or buy a book so i dont have to look at a screen).

Matutinum - 12am
Laudes - 5am? Earlier?
Prima - 6am
Tertia - 9am
Sexta - 12pm
Nona - 3pm
Vesperae - 5pm
Completorium - 8pm? 9pm?
Omnes - ???
Plures - ???

Is the above correct? I am not used to 6am being the 'first hour' due to 24 hour time keeping.

Also does the day start at martin or vesper.

Hi Anthony,

Since we are not in a monastery, we have to set our own schedules. There are ideal times and there are practicable times. I choose the latter.

Monks and nuns get up at midnight for Matins, but we layfolk have jobs and other duties of state which cause us to require uninterrupted sleep.

What I find works best for me is to pray Matins, Lauds, and Prime upon waking, which is between four and six in the morning. Oft times I have completed these Hours before six thirty or seven, and that is what I call a good day. On such days, I find completing all the Hours very easy. Whereas if I get a late start and drag things out, I often miss Hours or find myself cramming.

I don't often take up Terce at nine because after morning Office I take a walk and pray Rosary. By that time I need to rest my mind.

Often I pray Terce, Sext, and None together in the afternoon after my meal; Vespers in the evening around five or six; and Compline I pray at retiring for the night.

The Feast Day begins with Vespers the night Before. As soon as Vespers is said, we are in the Feast. Thus, having prayed Vespers earlier, I'm now participating the Feast of the Assumption.

But the Morning Office begins with Matins.

I've never heard of Omnes and Plures. Maybe Moneil knows those.

As for seasons, I've never observed any changes because I recite the Hours according to convenience for my lifestyle. It is best to pray the Hours at or near their appointed times, because the Hymns especially correspond with time of day; but I've never been able to accomplish that feat for any consistent length of time.

Lastly be very careful about buying the books. You have many headaches and pitfalls there. Before you do, please make a post and we can discuss. Translations pose the biggest problem. As a rule, you want the Latin Vulgate and the Douay English. divinumofficium.com  gives you precisely that, in the Psalms, with only a few deviations here or there in the English.

Note: As you pray the Office and become familiar with its rhythms, you will begin to recognize the differences among the ranks of Feasts. If today is a duplex and tomorrow a simplex, when I recite Vespers I'm still in the Feast of the day. It is only when tomorrow is a duplex or higher (Moneil or Kaz, correct me if semi-duplex is included in this) that Vespers "changes the clock" to tomorrow. And so forth....... :)

P.S. O Look!!! Moneil and I are both on it at the same time!!!! 

On the website, what is ordo?

And what language should we pray in?

I see there is 2 tridentine versions.
Is there much difference between them and the Pius X version?
Is his objectively superior?

Do I just go through each

Matutinum Laudes
Prima Tertia Sexta Nona
Vesperae Completorium
Omnes Plures

One by one throughout the day?
And what times are they?
And do they need to be prayed immediately at the start of the hour?
And how does each one take to pray?
Is it the same each day of the week?

Thanks.

What language to pray in?

Massive question, indeed. Again I can only go by my own experience. My first Breviary was the novus ordo model, all English. I got rid of that when I left the novus ordo around the year 2000. My next Breviary book was a nightmare - "Cardinal Bea" Latin and novus ordo English. Some kind man at that time gave me a giant printout of the Psalter in Vulgate Latin and Douay English. This is what I used. I needed a suitcase to pray the Breviary off site!

As soon as I got the proper Latin and English side by side I started going back and forth between the two languages. Note that by that time I was well versed in the Psalms. By endless comparisons I got to the point where I could pray the Psalms in Latin and understand them, about 95%. Even now some verses boggle me, but I am substantially competent to pray in Latin. All Hymns I pray in Latin, and barely understand them. All Antiphons and Responsories in Latin, with almost perfect understanding. All readings for Matins in English because I cannot understand them in Latin, with the exception of Scripture passages, which are always easier to comprehend. 

If you are not fluent in Latin, I would STRONGLY recommend you begin in English, using Douay translation. You want to literally steep your mind in the Psalms. You want to memorize them, not word for word, although it often happens naturally that you do memorize a lot of verses, but you want to be intimately familiar with all 150 Psalms. This will come over time, and believe me, it will transform your mind and soul. Believe me.

The Psalms have an anointing on them, and they have a powerful sanctifying/enlightening effect. Start in English and take your blessed time - I mean a year or two before you come around to the Latin. Knowing the Psalms makes picking up the Latin much, much easier.

I think your other questions I answered in my previous post.

God bless you. I'm praying for you! You are about to undertake a mighty work, for which you will be generously rewarded, I'm sure! 

What language to pray in?

Massive question, indeed. Again I can only go by my own experience. My first Breviary was the novus ordo model, all English. I got rid of that when I left the novus ordo around the year 2000. My next Breviary book was a nightmare - "Cardinal Bea" Latin and novus ordo English. Some kind man at that time gave me a giant printout of the Psalter in Vulgate Latin and Douay English. This is what I used. I needed a suitcase to pray the Breviary off site!

As soon as I got the proper Latin and English side by side I started going back and forth between the two languages. Note that by that time I was well versed in the Psalms. By endless comparisons I got to the point where I could pray the Psalms in Latin and understand them, about 95%. Even now some verses boggle me, but I am substantially competent to pray in Latin. All Hymns I pray in Latin, and barely understand them. All Antiphons and Responsories in Latin, with almost perfect understanding. All readings for Matins in English because I cannot understand them in Latin, with the exception of Scripture passages, which are always easier to comprehend. 

If you are not fluent in Latin, I would STRONGLY recommend you begin in English, using Douay translation. You want to literally steep your mind in the Psalms. You want to memorize them, not word for word, although it often happens naturally that you do memorize a lot of verses, but you want to be intimately familiar with all 150 Psalms. This will come over time, and believe me, it will transform your mind and soul. Believe me.

The Psalms have an anointing on them, and they have a powerful sanctifying/enlightening effect. Start in English and take your blessed time - I mean a year or two before you come around to the Latin. Knowing the Psalms makes picking up the Latin much, much easier.

I think your other questions I answered in my previous post.

God bless you. I'm praying for you! You are about to undertake a mighty work, for which you will be generously rewarded, I'm sure!

Also should we pray standing kneeling sitting?

Omnes & Plures are just options of which hours to display:

Omnes = a compilation of all the hours

Plures = you choose which hours to display

Also should we pray standing kneeling sitting?

Well, my friend, you do what you can. I'm old and have a bad knee, so I sit to pray. You could kneel for certain parts and sit for certain parts. If you are not in a church or monastic choir, you can be less formal. In choir certain rubrics are followed, but we need not worry about that here. What is most important is the heart that wants to give God His praises. 

Now I don't think I will be able to do all of them at the 'correct' hours all the time but I will do what I can based on my schedule. Once I start doing them I will get a better feel and understanding to how long that take. How slow/fast are these meant to be said?

You say them at a normal pace, the same pace you'd use to pray Paters and Aves. I often stop to consider while praying the Office. I often apply the Psalms and readings and responses to what is happening in my life or in the Church or in the world. They are not to be meditated upon in general, but you cannot help yourself sometimes. 

Especially at the beginning you will be struck by the beauty and order and majesty of the Office, and this might cause you to ponder and pause more. And that is a good thing. 

Praying the Office online streamlines the whole affair. Everything is right on the page. No flipping through the books, which really slows you down. 

It's not a race, and if you cannot say all the Hours each day, try to get Matins in because that is the true proper of the Feast. Lauds and Vespers sometimes have proper antiphons, which also enrich the Feast. Prime is a good prayer for daily graces, and Compline ends the day with most appropriate petitions, and a commemoration of Our Lady.