I am looking to buy the 6 volume Liturgia Horarium

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Hi,

I am scrounging the internet for the 6 volume Liturgia Horarium. However, I am wanting to get a single volume at one time as I cannot afford the $900 dollars it’s going to take to get this.

Does anyone have suggestions?
 
Yes, use the iBreviary app on an iPhone or iPad. It’s free (or maybe a dollar or two) and you can download the daily office in a number of different languages, including English and Latin. Personally, I very rarely use the app, as I like the book. But, I don’t own a Latin set or breviaries (or any other language besides English) and were I to desire to pray my Office in another language, I would certainly recommend iBreviary.

If you really want the books, or don’t have a device that can use iBreviary, try Loom’s Theological Bookstore in Stillwater, MN. The specialize in old books that are hard to come by…not sure if they have a website. I know the Latin Breviaries are among their most requested items, so you might be on quite a waiting list.
 
Thank you for your answers.

Do you guys know what the difference is between the 4 volume and the 6 volume set?

Thanks.
 
buc_fan33 said:
Yes, use the iBreviary app on an iPhone or iPad. It’s free (or maybe a dollar or two) and you can download the daily office in a number of different languages, including English and Latin. Personally, I very rarely use the app, as I like the book. But, I don’t own a Latin set or breviaries (or any other language besides English) and were I to desire to pray my Office in another language, I would certainly recommend iBreviary.

If you really want the books, or don’t have a device that can use iBreviary, try Loom’s Theological Bookstore in Stillwater, MN. The specialize in old books that are hard to come by…not sure if they have a website. I know the Latin Breviaries are among their most requested items, so you might be on quite a waiting list.
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I found their website, thanks it looks like I can get the books individually instead of in a set. God bless you.
 
I got the 3rd Tome of the Latin LoH - it’s in 4 tomes. But it has the Nova Vulgata Psalms. I’ve been praying the breviary for half a century, with the Bea Psalter (the 1945 Pius XII Psalter). I just cannot get used to any other, much less the Gallican, with its many mistranslations. I have had to prepare in my computer the Tempus Per Annum Liturgia Horarum Psalter so that I may continue praying it.
 
Turtle_Turtle said:
Thank you for your answers.

Do you guys know what the difference is between the 4 volume and the 6 volume set?

Thanks.
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I don’t have the six volumes set from MWTF yet, but from what it says on the website, it is textually identical to the four volumes set from LEV issued in 2000 - it is an editio iuxta typicam alteram, which means it is textually in accordance with the editio typica altera.

MWTF’s edition split the liturgical year slightly different from LEV’s to make the volumes more compact. To wit:

LEV:
Volume I - Advent and Christmastide
Volume II - Lent, Sacred Triduum and Eastertide
Volumes III & IV - Ordinary Time (34 weeks split into 2 volumes)

MWTF:
Volume I - Advent and Christmastide
Volume II - Lent & Sacred Triduum
Volume III - Eastertide
Volimes IV, V & VI - Ordinary Time (34 weeks split into 3 volumes, but with some overlaps)

From what I have read on various websites, the books are thin (similar to the pre-Vatican II breviaries) but have a larger surface area. Also unlike the LEV editions, MWTF has the texts in double column format. What I couldn’t understand is why MWTF’s hardcover edition only comes with 2 ribbon markers - surely they could afford to add 3 to 4 more ribbons without much additional cost?

Hope this helps.
 
OraLabora’s First Law of Breviaries: it will always come with fewer ribbons than you need, no matter if it comes with a dozen ribbons 😛
 
buc_fan33 said:
Yes, use the iBreviary app on an iPhone or iPad. It’s free (or maybe a dollar or two) and you can download the daily office in a number of different languages, including English and Latin. Personally, I very rarely use the app, as I like the book. But, I don’t own a Latin set or breviaries (or any other language besides English) and were I to desire to pray my Office in another language, I would certainly recommend iBreviary.
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iBreviary doesn’t have the rights to use the texts they have. They claim to be “authorized by the Catholic Church” but they do not acknowledge ICEL for use of the English Liturgy of the Hours. I would avoid them.
 
peregrinus_sg said:
I don’t have the six volumes set from MWTF yet, but from what it says on the website, it is textually identical to the four volumes set from LEV issued in 2000 - it is an editio iuxta typicam alteram, which means it is textually in accordance with the editio typica altera.

MWTF’s edition split the liturgical year slightly different from LEV’s to make the volumes more compact. To wit:

LEV:
Volume I - Advent and Christmastide
Volume II - Lent, Sacred Triduum and Eastertide
Volumes III & IV - Ordinary Time (34 weeks split into 2 volumes)

MWTF:
Volume I - Advent and Christmastide
Volume II - Lent & Sacred Triduum
Volume III - Eastertide
Volimes IV, V & VI - Ordinary Time (34 weeks split into 3 volumes, but with some overlaps)

From what I have read on various websites, the books are thin (similar to the pre-Vatican II breviaries) but have a larger surface area. Also unlike the LEV editions, MWTF has the texts in double column format. What I couldn’t understand is why MWTF’s hardcover edition only comes with 2 ribbon markers - surely they could afford to add 3 to 4 more ribbons without much additional cost?

Hope this helps.
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Yes it does. Thank you so much for that informative answer. I have not been able to log on for awhile. God bless you.
 
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