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I’m not sure if I am posting this at the right forum but here goes:

Hi,

I’m a Catholic striving to increase my devotion life. So I decided to recite the Daily Office. However, I only have a few prayer books. Here is the list:
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 1662 Book of Common Prayer
 1928 Book of Common Prayer
 1979 Book of Common Prayer
 Anglican Service Book (PDF File)
 Lutheran Service Book
 New People's Prayer Book that contains the Liturgy of Hours, Sunday Week 1
 Book of Divine Worship (PDF File)
 Anglican Use Office (PDF File)
The ones in Red are the final ones I decided but I’m stuck here.
Can anybody give advice about which to use, especially the ones in red?

Thank you for your time.
 
In the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, we have a daily devotional Treasury of Daily Prayer.
 
Rose_Commander said:
I’m not sure if I am posting this at the right forum but here goes:

Hi,

I’m a Catholic striving to increase my devotion life. So I decided to recite the Daily Office. However, I only have a few prayer books. Here is the list:
Code: 
 1662 Book of Common Prayer
 1928 Book of Common Prayer
 1979 Book of Common Prayer
 Anglican Service Book (PDF File)
 Lutheran Service Book
 New People's Prayer Book that contains the Liturgy of Hours, Sunday Week 1
 Book of Divine Worship (PDF File)
 Anglican Use Office (PDF File)
The ones in Red are the final ones I decided but I’m stuck here.
Can anybody give advice about which to use, especially the ones in red?

Thank you for your time.
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The Anglican use office would be structurally similar to the divine office as used by Latin Rite Catholics (as distinguished from those Catholics in full communion with the Pope who use the Anglican use of the Latin rite) and so it would be my recommendation if you prefer to use one of the books listed here
 
There are some really good tools out there, availiable online. Are you set upon those listed?
 
bauerice said:
There are some really good tools out there, availiable online. Are you set upon those listed?
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Yeah, I am actually. I made a list for every book and program that I could think of. Out of them and others, those listed were the ones that I favored the most.
 
Rose_Commander said:
I’m not sure if I am posting this at the right forum but here goes:

Hi,

I’m a Catholic striving to increase my devotion life. So I decided to recite the Daily Office. However, I only have a few prayer books. Here is the list:
Code: 
 1662 Book of Common Prayer
 1928 Book of Common Prayer
 1979 Book of Common Prayer
 Anglican Service Book (PDF File)
 Lutheran Service Book
 New People's Prayer Book that contains the Liturgy of Hours, Sunday Week 1
 Book of Divine Worship (PDF File)
 Anglican Use Office (PDF File)
The ones in Red are the final ones I decided but I’m stuck here.
Can anybody give advice about which to use, especially the ones in red?

Thank you for your time.
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Why wouldn’t you just use the Catholic Office?

I prayed the LOTH for years and I found that very satisfactory.

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One thing I would suggest, is to find a nearby Catholic monastery and pay a visit (hopefully there is one within a few hours drive). Most have oblate programs which you can join, and it most definitely will enhance your spiritual development and prayer life. You can pray the Hours with the brothers (or sisters) when you visit, and pray along at about the same time when you travel or remain home.

Remember, more than anything else, you are praying the psalms, and you don’t really need any of this for that purpose. You can build your own prayer rule around the psalms, adding the appropriate acclamations. That’s what the early monastics and desert fathers did.
 
Actually I can’t afford anything at the moment. I am waiting for my check. Since I already have those listed above, I might as well use one of them for Daily Office.
 
Rose_Commander said:
Actually I can’t afford anything at the moment. I am waiting for my check. Since I already have those listed above, I might as well use one of them for Daily Office.
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Well then, I suppose the 1928 would work well for the purpose, and the Anglican Use PDF as well. Those are my fallible recommendations 🙂

I have some other thoughts…

Phylis Tickle put out some nice books, but as you say we must consider the budget for now.

The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours come in a more economical ‘Christian Prayer’ version, abbreviated to one volume (somewhat more complicated with all the page turning) and also ‘Shorter Christian Prayer’ which is a four week repetitive cycle. Again, there is a cost, unless one finds these at a used bookstore, or Amazon partner used.

To be frank the Catholic ones are hard to get started on, I had a priest friend help me at first. The important thing is to pray, and I admire you for that.
 
Hesychios said:
Well then, I suppose the 1928 would work well for the purpose, and the Anglican Use PDF as well. Those are my fallible recommendations 🙂

I have some other thoughts…

Phylis Tickle put out some nice books, but as you say we must consider the budget for now.

The Catholic Liturgy of the Hours come in a more economical ‘Christian Prayer’ version, abbreviated to one volume (somewhat more complicated with all the page turning) and also ‘Shorter Christian Prayer’ which is a four week repetitive cycle. Again, there is a cost, unless one finds these at a used bookstore, or Amazon partner used.

To be frank the Catholic ones are hard to get started on, I had a priest friend help me at first. The important thing is to pray, and I admire you for that.
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Actually, I totally forgot about used bookstores… I will look into that. I just hope I can find the Christian Prayer there…

Thank you,
 
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