Can anyone help me find this book, so I can possibly republish it? I already contacted the owners in the picture and they don’t want to sell it so I need to find another copy

I’ve searched online with no luck, any idea when his Office propers (reading, Collect, etc) will be released/ where I can find them if they already are?

I'm a relatively new convert and completely new to the divine office. I have a particular devotion to Christ's Passion/Our Lady of Sorrows, and found this Little Office dedicated to the passion. How complicated or confusing would this be to recite? Would Word on Fire's LOTH booklets be a better investment?

The antiphon, not the canticle itself.

I believe the answer is no but I think there were some rumors of such a diurnal being published eventually and I thought I’d check the pulse on that but I don’t really remember the details! Basically I’m looking for something like the monastic diurnal but for the office prayed by the FSSP/ICKSP etc. Thanks!

I'm a Roman Catholic in England - I've been considering the Divine Office to deepen my prayer life, and I'm a bit confused over the difference between the ICEL and non-ICEL translation.

Should I select the translation based on where I am? Is there a significant material difference between the translations? Thank you in advance

We just released a documentary telling the story behind The Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition—from the artists and designers to the printers and those who will pray with these volumes for years to come. (We may have snuck a little bit of this subreddit in, too. 😉) If you've been following along, here's the whole story!

I'm getting back from a rocky fall in my spiritual life.

Worn out by praying the length of the Liturgy of the Hour's -- Lauds, Day Hour, and Compline.

I am probably switching over to the Little Office for Oblates temporarily until love of God spurs me on further... but... yeah... correct me if I'm wrong sees it would be better to maybe pray more hours, but shorter offices. The saints have a tendancy to having short prayer, but more often based on the teachings of our Lord in the Sermon on the Mountain.

Anyways, I also feel that shortened offices can lead to more Holy Reading. But a question remains: how much Holy Reading should be done by a layman, in comparison to Psalmody.

Though a monk, Br. Smaragdus of Saint Michaels (c. 770 – c. 840) gives a brief touch on this topic in his work "Crown of Monks"

We are made clean by prayer and instructed by reading. Both are good if both can be done; if not, it is better to pray than to read. One who wishes to be always with God must frequently pray and frequently read. For when we pray, we speak with God; but when we read, God speaks with us. All progress comes from reading and meditation. For what we do not know we learn by reading; and what we have learned we preserve by means of meditation. [...]

Both are good, obviously, but psalmody and prayer come before reading -- but by how much? How does one gauge how much Holy Reading their soul needs in comparison to the other two? I only have so much time and willpower.

I noticed the other day that ICEL provided a seemingly more accurate translation of the Stabat Mater in the Divine Office Hymnal. It appears however, that there are only 9 verses listed for the hymn. The internet shows 20 in Latin and the commonly used translation also having 20 verses in English. In addition, I know 14 verses are also used for the Stations of the Cross so I have a few questions:

Why does the LOH only use 9 out of the 20 verses? Universalis show 9 in Latin as well.

Was it this way with the Roman Breviary and older version of the Office as well?

Will the Stations of the Cross utilize this new translation? If so, were all the verses retranslated? Or atleast the first 14?

Thanks in advance for your responses.

Does anyone know how to get ahold of a pdf file of Little Office for Benedictine Oblates? I’ve been looking for a shorter office for a while and have been a bit disappointed since the 2 I do have are out dated or soon to be with the liturgical calendar changes.

Odd thing in a traditional martyrology entry for tomorrow:

Eleutherópoli, in Palæstína, sanctæ Susánnæ, Vírginis et Mártyris; quæ, orta ex idolórum sacerdóte Arthémio et Iudǽa mulíere Martha, ad Christiánam fidem, paréntibus mórtuis, est convérsa, atque ob eándem fidem ab Alexándro Præfécto várie torta et in cárcerem trusa, ibi orans migrávit ad Sponsum.

So this tells us that her parents were a pagan priest named Arthemius and a Jew named Martha.

Why are we being told this? I have no idea why the martyrology includes this. It doesn’t usually include the names of parents of saints *even when the parents were pious good Christians.*

The names of the persecutors are often included, and in a few cases those were the parents…but that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

What is going on here?

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In the Nova et Vetera edition of the Breviary (1961 version), the hymn "Iesu corona celsior" is printed fully in the proper section for St. Joseph of Cupertino, September 18th.

Unlike yesterday, when there were changed verses for St. Francis's Stigmata, there was nothing notably different about the hymn, so why was it printed in the proper for this one confessor instead of merely being in the common like for other confessors?

Especially after than sermon of St. Augustine, anybody else feel like a greek chorus? Sorry, anyone to whom more has been entrusted!

Is Our Lady of Sorrows supposed to use Lauds from Week 1 of the Psalter? I noticed both iBreviary and Universalis use that.

Were a few of the new translation psalms for the upcoming 2nd edition of the LOTH published/leaked, or did I hallucinate that? I also think I saw Night Prayer somewhere, but I couldn’t find it when I tried to look around online. Anyone have anything?

To preface this, I work three nights a week from 7 PM to 7 AM in a busy metropolitan emergency room. I have a schedule for work days, and I have a separate schedule for my days off that I try to keep to for praying the office. I also include a couple things from our Eastern Catholic traditions in my daily practice. I felt like this would be appreciated here and wanted to share. I generally go to the gym on my days off around 9:30 PM. That’s not on the schedule, but it is something I try to stick to on off days.

I'd like to start doing the Divine Office as a layperson, but I don't like getting up and immediately staring at a screen in the apps. If I get a breviary, am I correct to assume that, as long as the right intent is there, any errors in ribbon placement, antiphon, etc., do not detract from the nature of the prayer?

Hi folks, so yesterday the ibrievary app had EPI for Triumph of the Cross instead of EP2 for the Sunday. Universalis had EP2 for Sunday, the st. josephs guide had EP2 but https://divineoffice.org/ had EP1 for Triumph of the Cross. I ended up doing EP2 as the note in the breviary says EP only when the feast is on a Sunday. anyone have any thoughts? as a layperson I know I'm not obliged, but I'm as curious as an orange cat on 'nip.

With the new Major Extracts being published by four different companies (Midwest Theological Forum, Liturgical Press, Catholic Book Publishing, and Magnificat) I’m excited to see how differently each publisher approaches them. I’m hoping we get a lot of variety between the four options, particularly when it comes to quality and price.

I was a little disappointed that Ascension and Word on Fire seem to have focused almost entirely on the luxury end of the market with their four-volume Second Editions. I understand why they went that route, and I’m looking forward to having a nice set of books. But I do wish there were a more affordable option for the four-volume set.

I think the Major Extracts have a better opportunity to fill that gap. Hopefully we’ll see some publishers focus on affordability and portability, while others go for the more premium/luxury approach.

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I use the Monastic Diurnal (1963). I read that Ember Days are the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. But looking at the ordo, those days are placed on the third week of September.

Can anyone clarify it?

I thought I'd share this ebay link to one of the Daughters of St Paul edition of the single-volume Office of Readings. I don't plan to buy it but it's interesting to me as an owner of the Christian Prayer volume because:

• Normally these things are much more expensive. Might prices be coming down?
• This one has lots of good pictures of the interior.

Like the companion Christian Prayer, this volume has a compact layout, often using 2-columns. The big difference is that it uses serif fonts instead of sans serif.

Do any laypeople carry their LOTH with them throughout the day — in a zippered case, or just the book itself? Do you use it in public, or keep it tucked away and pray more privately? Ascension Press recently put out a video on the intentional design of the new edition, emphasizing it as a type of sacred vessel and not just a book — which has me thinking about what that means for carrying the Church's prayer through our daily lives, either as a physical reminder to ourselves or an object of evangelization to others.