The Liturgy of The Hours (also known as the Breviary or the Divine Office) is a time honored form of Christian worship consisting of hymns, psalms, and other passages from Sacred Scripture.  There are also included the writings of different Christian saints and councils.  Through the use of patterned word, music, gesture, and silence, the Church gives voice to all of God’s creation praising God.  
Archbishop Fulton Sheen in his book: The Priest is not His Own gives the following advice and encouragement to praying the Breviary. 
 
Aids to the Breviary
1.         Read the office of the day in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, a practice for which a plenary indulgence is granted.  Furthermore, since the breviary is the Body of Christ praying, it is read with more faith when closely united with the Head, Who “lives on still to make intercession on our behalf” (Heb 7:25).

2.         Advert to the fact that most of the psalms confront us with two figures: one is the Sufferer; the other is the King.  It helps us to interpret the suffering psalms as the Church, and the kingly psalms as Christ.  That long Psalm 118 (RSV 119) would thus become the Church pleading its love for Christ, the New Law.  And when we come across “cursing psalms” it may be well to remind ourselves that, of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst and that the Judge takes sins seriously.

3.         Often appeal to the Holy Spirit during the recitation.  As a mother first prays for her child even before he can know what she is doing, then teaches him to pray so that later she may pray with him, so does the Spirit in the breviary first in un and then through us.
Go on praying in the power of the Holy Spirit; to maintain yourselves in the love of God, and wait for the mercy of Our Lord Jesus Christ, with eternal life for your goal. – Jude 20-21

4.         Offer certain hours of the office for specific intentions.  How seldom is a priest not asked to pray for someone: a boy taking an examination, a mother before childbirth, a father going on a trip, or a young couple about to be married?  The breviary, the Church’s prayer, gathers up all these intentions of the parish, the diocese, the nation and the world.  It helps to offer a particular psalm for a predetermined person.

5.         The breviary can never be properly read while the priest is listening to the radio or watching television or has one hear and half his mind concentrating on a baseball game.  Magna abusio est habere os in brevario, cor in foror, oculus in televisifico. 
No need for Me to prove thee a guilty man, they words prove it, thine own lips arraign thee. – Job15:6
                        This people does Me honor with its lips, but its heart is far from Me. – Mt 15:8 
 
Other Quotes:
            The breviary is, however, not only a yoke and a burden; it is also a duty—a duty of love.  The two aspects seem almost contradictory, but the test of love is self-sacrifice, not emotion.  Besides, the duty itself is good.  When we lose faith, we lose a sense of duty.  How this duty is performed will depend upon the level of behavior.  If a priest is egotistic, the breviary will be said out of duty alone; if he is conscious that it is the prayer of the Church, the duty will have love in it; if he is a priest-victim, love will fan duty into an ardor that feels no obligation.
 
 A Spanish story has it that a priest who showed little mercy to a penitent heard a voice from the crucifix: “I, not you, died for her sins.”
 
To recall the words of Saint Teresa of Avila, he who omits prayer needs no devil to cast him into hell; he casts himself into it.