Help with ribbons

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Just bought the liturgy of the hours books how do I set up the liturgy with the ribbons?
 
You’ll find out pretty quickly once you start praying it. Start, obviously, with the LOTH of the day marked, the Canticle of Zechariah, etc. One page will very often take you to another page.
 
When you figure out how the LOTH works, it will become obvious how to place the ribbons to help you find your way.

And at that point you’ll learn the most important Catholic liturgy rubric: every liturgy book has at least one fewer ribbons than you actually need (the French LOTH has only TWO ribbons, totally inadequate!!!) 😛

There are two sections of the LOTH you should study in detail: the General Instructions, and the Ordinary.
 
Ora is right. There are never quite enough ribbons. That’s why holy cards were invented. 🙂
 
I made extra “ribbons” from cross stitch thread and tied them to the original, single ribbon in my Shorter Christian Prayer.
 
I have my breviaries set up with 5 ribbons:
purple on the Proper of the Season
green on the Psalter
orange on Night Prayer
red on Proper of the Saints
yellow is for the common of the day, as necessary

I also use reference cards 1 and 2.
 
I’ve also put little plastic index tabs on the frequently used parts: invitatory, gospel canticles, psalms 4, 90, 133 which I use daily for Compline, etc.

Frees up a few ribbons 😉
 
I’ve done the same, except with book darts - small brass bookmarks that hold in place by friction.
 
That is how I have set it up, except my ribbons are colored in a different order. I seem to have enough ribbons. The ribbon in the commons functions as a kind of floating ribbon, wherever it is needed.
 
Bartholo said:
That is how I have set it up, except my ribbons are colored in a different order. I seem to have enough ribbons. The ribbon in the commons functions as a kind of floating ribbon, wherever it is needed.
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Colours are not really the way to go because Catholic Book Publishing manufactures their ribbon slips in varying orders, so I just arrange them according to how close they are to the pertinent sections:

Proper of Seasons
Ordinary
Psalter
Proper of Saints
Commons

But because CBPC uses replaceable ribbons, there is enough space in the spine to actually stick a second ribbon set without damaging the binding. This is what I’ve done, and now I have ten ribbons. So in addition to the above, and since I use primarily Christian Prayer:

Night Prayer
Commons, where some substitute texts are used (e.g. “for those who worked for the underprivileged”)
Morning hymn
Evening hymn
Proper/common hymn

Plus I use cut-out/folded short ribbons or slim cards (not holy cards, but thin index card strips) to mark some fairly fixed positions, such as Easter Sunday, Psalter, Sunday Week I, and the Marian antiphons at the end of Night Prayer.
 
I second using sticky notes, if you need it, for:
  • Magnificat
  • Benedictat
  • The Christmas season
  • The Easter octave
If you do that, you mostly can do fine with five ribbons.
 
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