Divine Office / Roman Breviary

[Magnum_V8]

Does anyone pray the traditional Divine Office?

Angelus Press offers the Divine Office book. They seem to be the only one with a current printing of it. Baronius Press will be publishing the traditional Roman Breviary sometime next year.

I’m also considering getting the Baronius Press edition of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which comes out in October. Its also in the traditional form. I have the current version (blue book). Its fine, but I’m leaning more towards the traditional side of things lately.

I’m trying to figure out which will be more suitable for me…either the Little Office or the Divine Office.

Any opinions, recommendations and testimonies are appreciated.

 

[PhilotheaZ]

I would recommend the Divine Office, since it is part of the official prayer of the Church.

When we pray the Divine Office, we are praying with the Church and for the Church. For that reason, I would prefer to be united with the Church in praying the currently approved version, which is not the old Roman Breviary.

If it is Latin that you like, the Latin version of the current official version is available in print.

If you are just getting started with Latin (as I am), there is a book that has Lauds and Vespers (Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer) with the Latin and English psalms (Revised Standard Version/Catholic Edition) side by side. It helps me know what I am praying in Latin. It can be found at theologicalforum.org/marketplace/product_desc.asp?Sku=0-9704022-9-5&Category=91 and elsewhere. It does not include Office of Readings, Daytime Prayer, or Night Prayer, so I pray those hours from the English breviary. It also lacks Commons/Propers of the Saints and the Blessed Virgin Mary, so if there is a feast or obligatory memorial (or a favorite saint whose day I would like to celebrate) I will also use the English breviary.

 

[AJV]

Does anyone pray the traditional Divine Office?

Angelus Press offers the Divine Office book. They seem to be the only one with a current printing of it. Baronius Press will be publishing the traditional Roman Breviary sometime next year.

I’m also considering getting the Baronius Press edition of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which comes out in October. Its also in the traditional form. I have the current version (blue book). Its fine, but I’m leaning more towards the traditional side of things lately.

I’m trying to figure out which will be more suitable for me…either the Little Office or the Divine Office.

Any opinions, recommendations and testimonies are appreciated.

The thing with the Traditional Little Office is that after some time it can become a bit monotonous. You are, with few variations, praying the same thing every day. Same psalms, same Scripture, same responsories.

The LOTH forms my main Office book, but I still pray the Office of the Dead from the Traditional breviary on Fridays (and Wednesdays and Mondays when able) . For the other hours, I just go through Matins II Nocturn (with 1961 breviary I guess that would be the Lesson III for most feasts) lives f the saints. Occasionally I’ll pray the whole thing but now only for main feasts.

I would recommend the Divine Office, since it is part of the official prayer of the Church.

When we pray the Divine Office, we are praying with the Church and for the Church. For that reason, I would prefer to be united with the Church in praying the currently approved version, which is not the old Roman Breviary.

Can it not be said, especially with the Motu Proprio that the '61 Roman breviary in Latin is also public prayer of the Church?

 

[PhilotheaZ]

Can it not be said, especially with the Motu Proprio that the '61 Roman breviary in Latin is also public prayer of the Church?

I hadn’t noticed the following, from Summorum Pontificum, Article 9:

§ 3 Clerics ordained “in sacris constitutis” may use the Roman Breviary promulgated by Bl. John XXIII in 1962.

I don’t know the difference between the 1961 and 1962 breviaries. Do you?

 

[AJV]

I hadn’t noticed the following, from Summorum Pontificum, Article 9:

§ 3 Clerics ordained “in sacris constitutis” may use the Roman Breviary promulgated by Bl. John XXIII in 1962.

I don’t know the difference between the 1961 and 1962 breviaries. Do you?

It’s the same. I call it the '61 because it was published in that year.

 

[cue]

I prayed the current breviary for seven years, the last two were partially in Latin. I’ve switched to the old breviary because 1) it was easier to find an old breviary set than buy a current Latin set, 2) the current berviary constituted a huge rupture from the rich breviary tradition before it, and 3) most of the saints I am particularly devoted to have been ejected from the new calender.

 

[Magnum_V8]

I prayed the current breviary for seven years, the last two was partially in Latin. I’ve switched to the old breviary because 1) it was easier to find an old breviary set than buy a current Latin set, 2) the current berviary constituted a huge rupture from the rich breviary tradition before it, and 3) most of the saints I am particularly devoted to have been ejected from the new calender.

I was doing a little reading on St. Therese of Lisieux last night for the first time – having never acquainted myself with her before – and found out that she wasn’t a big fan of prayer books and pre-fabricated prayers, that is, except for the Divine Office.