Bilingual Roman Breviary Online

[TexasJoe]

Can anyone help me here?

For some time now, I have been reciting the Divine Office daily from the website divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium/pl. This was evidently maintained by one Lazslo Kiss from Hungary (I think) and was an excellent resource in that it gave both the Latin and English for each of the canonical hours of the breviary for each day in the liturgical calendar (or even in Hungarian - Magyar - if you wanted that). It even had a section on the rubrics for the Office as well as the Latin-English mass for the day. I logged in OK Wednesday morning and recited Matins, Lauds and Prime. Then in the afternoon when I logged on, I got this message that says the site is “temporarily unavailable.” It is coming from a web address box431.bluehost.com/suspended.page/disabled.cgi/lzkiss.net. I’ve been trying to log on in the meantime and keep getting this “temporarily unavailable” message. Does anyone know what is going on with this?

The only other site I can find with a bilingual Latin-English version of the Roman Breviary for each day is one maintained by the Confraternity of Ss. Peter and Paul at www.breviary.net. From what I can gather, they are schismatics and sedevacantists having something to do with the Society of Saint Pius X and also charge a fee to subscribe to this site. For obvious reasons, I would prefer not to use this service. Is anyone aware of another site like DivinumOfficium.com that has the current day’s Office in a Latin-English version?

Baronius Press says that they are coming out with a three-volume print edition based on the 1963 Collegeville version, but that has been years in the offing according to their website and shows no sign of going on sale anytime soon. I can find various print versions of the breviary solely in Latin or assorted “Novus Ordo” editions all in English. I also see from time-to-time online auctions such as on e-Bay for used copies of the 1963 Collegeville and even earlier versions. I’d like to still keep reciting the Office in Latin but would also like to know what it is that I’m reciting. It would be nice to have it online so that I would not have to also consult the Ordo in order to be able to use the breviary each day.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Yours in the friendship of Christ Jesus,

TexasJoe

 

[gatewood1988]

Can anyone help me here?

For some time now, I have been reciting the Divine Office daily from the website divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium/pl. This was evidently maintained by one Lazslo Kiss from Hungary (I think) and was an excellent resource in that it gave both the Latin and English for each of the canonical hours of the breviary for each day in the liturgical calendar (or even in Hungarian - Magyar - if you wanted that). It even had a section on the rubrics for the Office as well as the Latin-English mass for the day. I logged in OK Wednesday morning and recited Matins, Lauds and Prime. Then in the afternoon when I logged on, I got this message that says the site is “temporarily unavailable.” It is coming from a web address box431.bluehost.com/suspended.page/disabled.cgi/lzkiss.net. I’ve been trying to log on in the meantime and keep getting this “temporarily unavailable” message. Does anyone know what is going on with this?

The only other site I can find with a bilingual Latin-English version of the Roman Breviary for each day is one maintained by the Confraternity of Ss. Peter and Paul at www.breviary.net. From what I can gather, they are schismatics and sedevacantists having something to do with the Society of Saint Pius X and also charge a fee to subscribe to this site. For obvious reasons, I would prefer not to use this service. Is anyone aware of another site like DivinumOfficium.com that has the current day’s Office in a Latin-English version?

Baronius Press says that they are coming out with a three-volume print edition based on the 1963 Collegeville version, but that has been years in the offing according to their website and shows no sign of going on sale anytime soon. I can find various print versions of the breviary solely in Latin or assorted “Novus Ordo” editions all in English. I also see from time-to-time online auctions such as on e-Bay for used copies of the 1963 Collegeville and even earlier versions. I’d like to still keep reciting the Office in Latin but would also like to know what it is that I’m reciting. It would be nice to have it online so that I would not have to also consult the Ordo in order to be able to use the breviary each day.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Yours in the friendship of Christ Jesus,

TexasJoe

I use breviary.net because our parish has a link to it on their site, but that is the closest one I found so far until Baronius comes our with the actual printed one.

 

[GIR]

If you have an iphone or ipad, you can use breviarium meum. It’s really great. I’ve been using it VERY casually for a while, mostly to help brush up on my latin.

 

[hazcompat]

divineoffice.org/

peace

 

[TexasJoe]

Good news! The site

divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl

is back up and running as of last night. I don’t know who Laszlo Kiss is. It appears that he is either in Hungary or from Hungary, but he is the one who has gone to all the trouble to assemble the Divine Office for all the canonical hours of each day in the liturgical calendar. You can click on the “credits” section of the website to appreciate the monumental difficulty involved in aggregating all these sources. Perhaps he has helpers as well. In any case, he and they have done a magnificent service to all of us and to Holy Mother the Church in preserving the Roman Breviary and making it available to everyone. I’m a layman and just learning the Office but already appreciate its timeless beauty. For what it’s worth, I use the Divino Afflatu version from the DivinumOfficium.com website and try to recite at least three of the hours aloud in Latin everyday. I only wish I had time for more. Thank you and God bless you Mr. Kiss (and helpers) and may God bless Hungary.

Thank you also “GIR” for your post in reply noting the “Breviarium Meum” available from the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate ?] as an iPhone/iPod/iPad application. I thought I could download that and iTunes to my personal computer, but it didn’t work. So in the meantime, I ordered myself an Apple iPad (still awaiting delivery) and look forward to installing the Franciscans’ app so I’ll have a backup in case I can’t access DivinumOfficium.com or decide to go into the remote mountains for weeks on end. Until Baronius Press releases its “definitive” print version, these sources seem to be the best there is.

TexasJoe