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Anyone know of a good app for the Traditional Liturgy of the Hours?
Not just a website. Something that is made for a phone or tablet format?
 
When you say “Traditional,” do you mean the pre-1970 version of the Divine Office?
 
Try iBreviary. Most of my friends use it and find it very useful and convenient 🙂 If I am not mistaken (I sometimes use it though honestly, I prefer my hard copy of the Liturgy of the Hours), it has a Vetus Ordo option; just not sure if it’s for the Mass readings or for the Liturgy of the Hours.
 
Try iPieta app and “1962 missal and breviary” app. Both are great apps. iPieta has both of and pre 1965 resources. And both are available in android and apple.
 
liturgy96 said:
Try iBreviary. Most of my friends use it and find it very useful and convenient 🙂 If I am not mistaken (I sometimes use it though honestly, I prefer my hard copy of the Liturgy of the Hours), it has a Vetus Ordo option; just not sure if it’s for the Mass readings or for the Liturgy of the Hours.
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If you wish to pray the current verison that the Church prays, divine-office.com/ has an app for both the iPhone and Android (as well as Kindle, Nook, etc). I use it when I don’t have my book with me.

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Shea96 said:
Anyone know of a good app for the Traditional Liturgy of the Hours?
Not just a website. Something that is made for a phone or tablet format?
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You have to specify what you mean by “traditional” Liturgy of the Hours. The Divine Office that was in use immediately prior to Vatican II was not by any means “traditional”, as it’s basic schema only dates back to 1910. Hence it was only in use for 60 years before being officially superseded by the current Liturgy of the Hours in 1970. In comparison, the current Liturgy of the Hours has been around for 45 years. In another 16 years it will officially pass pre-Vatican II Divine Office in longevity as the “ordinary” Divine Office. In a 2000 year old Church, something invented in 1910 can hardly be considered “traditional” even though it retained some traditional elements (as does the 1970 Liturgy of the Hours for that matter).

On the other hand the Monastic Divine Office (which would be the one in Corsair’s link), has been around for over 1500 years and is so venerable that it can truly lay claim to being “traditional”. Moreover, the same basic schema is still in use in post-Vatican II form with adaptations for the post-conciliar era (mainly the new liturgical year and the option to omit Prime), and is used in many monasteries doing the liturgy in the Ordinary Form to this very day. It can licitly be prayed in either pre- or post-Vatican II variants. It will be the same psalms and chants (antiphons & hymns) for the most part, but the Latin will be the neo-vulgate for the psalms (but the old vulgate is retained for the antiphons because it would be too difficult to adapt the neo-vulgate to the old melodies).
 
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You have to specify what you mean by “traditional” Liturgy of the Hours. The Divine Office that was in use immediately prior to Vatican II was not by any means “traditional”, as it’s basic schema only dates back to 1910. Hence it was only in use for 60 years before being officially superseded by the current Liturgy of the Hours in 1970. In comparison, the current Liturgy of the Hours has been around for 45 years. In another 16 years it will officially pass pre-Vatican II Divine Office in longevity as the “ordinary” Divine Office. In a 2000 year old Church, something invented in 1910 can hardly be considered “traditional” even though it retained some traditional elements (as does the 1970 Liturgy of the Hours for that matter).

On the other hand the Monastic Divine Office (which would be the one in Corsair’s link), has been around for over 1500 years and is so venerable that it can truly lay claim to being “traditional”. Moreover, the same basic schema is still in use in post-Vatican II form with adaptations for the post-conciliar era (mainly the new liturgical year and the option to omit Prime), and is used in many monasteries doing the liturgy in the Ordinary Form to this very day. It can licitly be prayed in either pre- or post-Vatican II variants. It will be the same psalms and chants (antiphons & hymns) for the most part, but the Latin will be the neo-vulgate for the psalms (but the old vulgate is retained for the antiphons because it would be too difficult to adapt the neo-vulgate to the old melodies).
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Thanks for clarifying! That went waaaaay over my head, totally above my scope of liturgical knowledge, but I’m sure that cleared it up for others!

I just wanted something to replace my missal with when I’m holding a babe and can’t coordinate turning pages and redirecting feet 😛

divinumofficium.com/ worked out wonderfully! (corsair’s link, redirects when you select text. Works great in mobile format, even though it is not an app!)
 
Shea96 said:
Thanks for clarifying! That went waaaaay over my head, totally above my scope of liturgical knowledge, but I’m sure that cleared it up for others!

I just wanted something to replace my missal with when I’m holding a babe and can’t coordinate turning pages and redirecting feet 😛

divinumofficium.com/ worked out wonderfully! (corsair’s link, redirects when you select text. Works great in mobile format, even though it is not an app!)
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Divinum Officium has a mobile app! At least they do for the iPhone. It’s called BrevMeum
 
BrevMeum - not for Android 😦

But the other works great, so thanks for all the suggestions!
 
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