Digital LoTH?

[4givemeasinner]

So I just downloaded an app on my iPhone that has a bunch of Catholic prayers including the Liturgy of the Hours. Is it acceptable to pray the LoTH of my phone?

 

[SuscipeMeDomine]

Why wouldn’t it be?

I use iBreviary regularly. It’s especially nice since it means I don’t have to carry my prayer book with me and I carry my phone anyway.

If you’re praying with others you especially want to make sure you have the official translation and not something else. Beyond that, I think it’s a matter of preference whether you use print or digital.

 

[ilySHJ]

Perfectly acceptable!

I use Divine Office app. It’s much easier to carry to work and church afterwards!

 

[Windmill]

All it is is a different way to view the texts. Perfectly acceptable.

I like the traditional breviary app, BrevMeum.

 

[OraLabora]

All it is is a different way to view the texts. Perfectly acceptable.

I like the traditional breviary app, BrevMeum.

The 1962 Breviary is not “traditional”

It is only 102 years old which is brand-new by Catholic standards; the breviary went through some very radical reforms under Pius X in 1910, and then some further reforms in the early 50s under Pius XII. If you want traditional, try the Monastic Diurnal or the Monastic Liturgy of the Hours, it’s 1500 years old

 

[Windmill]

My Jiminy Cricket…

If you ever find a good Liturgia Horarum editio typica altera, PM me and I’ll buy it, use it, and shut up about the LOTH vs. 1962BR thing. LOL!

 

[OraLabora]

My Jiminy Cricket…

If you ever find a good Liturgia Horarum editio typica altera, PM me and I’ll buy it, use it, and shut up about the LOTH vs. 1962BR thing. LOL!

Digital:

almudi.org/portals/0/docs/breviario/fuentes/breviario.html

Book form:

paxbook.com/ (although I see they’re out of stock at the moment), but Amazon appears to have it:

amazon.com/Liturgia-Horarum-James-Socias/dp/1936045265/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356874410&sr=1-1&keywords=liturgia+horarum

To chant the day hours in Latin:

heures-gregoriennes.com/index.php?lang=en (with French alongside)

To chant the hours in English:

amazon.com/Mundelein-Psalter-Douglas-Martis/dp/1595250190 This has the Latin hymns, and the English texts with Gregorian notation to chant them on Gregorian modes. If I did the Office in English, this is what I would use.

However I use Latin and French.

 

[Windmill]

Digital:

almudi.org/portals/0/docs/breviario/fuentes/breviario.html

Book form:

paxbook.com/ (although I see they’re out of stock at the moment), but Amazon appears to have it:

amazon.com/Liturgia-Horarum-James-Socias/dp/1936045265/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1356874410&sr=1-1&keywords=liturgia+horarum

I use the alluding site and set iBreviary on my iPad to Latin, and Paxbook has been out of the “economical” edition for three years now. I check it regularly.

I have a buddy who uses the Mundelein and the MTF liturgia Horarum is HUGE to carry, but is a nice effort.

I’m holding out for LEV to reprint the LH sometime and for Paxbook to start reselling it.
To chant the day hours in Latin:

heures-gregoriennes.com/index.php?lang=en (with French alongside)

To chant the hours in English:

amazon.com/Mundelein-Psalter-Douglas-Martis/dp/1595250190 This has the Latin hymns, and the English texts with Gregorian notation to chant them on Gregorian modes. If I did the Office in English, this is what I would use.

However I use Latin and French.

 

[Jguerra]

Nothing wrong with that. I use divineoffice.org podcasts for the LoTH on my iPod Touch. Funny thing about it is how it actually increases the opportunities for daily prayer.

Joe