Liturgy of the Hours

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I’ve been praying the Liturgy of the Hours for a while, using some combination of borrowed breviaries and a phone app (and a pamphlet for compline, which I chant with some pals). The app has Latin, which is nice, but the English translation (of the antiphons and prayers, not of the psalms) differs from the official one (I think). Plus, a glowing screen is kind of not-very-fitting. I think it’s time I graduate to an ink and paper version.
I have two questions:
  1. What is the official, not abridged English translation for use in the US? I keep finding things that only have excerpts from the daytime hours (like “Christian Prayer”), which is problematic because those are the only hours I really need my own copy of (there are lots of people around that pray Lauds, Vespers, and Compline in groups, so I could easily look at someone else’s copy.). I also want to have the Office of Readings, though I often let that slip so it’s not as big a deal to me if it’s missing.
  2. Is there any way to get a copy (or multi-volume set or whatever) that does not cost $100+? I’m barely able to pay my tuition, and scraping enough together would be hard. I know how to bind and repair books, so even if something is horribly damaged or poorly bound (as long as the text itself is readable), I can use it. Does anyone publish a cheaply bound version?
Thanks in advance.
 
Unfortunately, no one publishes an inexpensive version.

That doesn’t mean you have no options.
  1. Try an online store that sells used books. Amazon comes to mind, but there are others.
  2. If you live near a seminary or some place where there are (or were) a lot of priests or members of consecrated life you can go there and ask if they have any spare copies. Sometimes, when a member dies, there is no one to claim (or who wants) those old books and they might be placed into storage, just waiting for someone to ask for them. It can’t hurt to ask.
  3. Ask your parish priest. One never knows. Over the years, I’ve often come across old copies of breviaries just sitting on the bookshelves of the rectory. A priest bought a new copy, put the old one on the shelf, and just never bothered to take the old one with him when he left.
 
You might also try eBay. A friend of mine got a barely used set at a good price.
 
This is the app I use:
It has matched with my Breviary or the LOTH from the big set in every case.
ibreviary.org/en/

This is the website I use:
divineoffice.org/
Again, this site has matched the text in my books.

IF you goto the above site, they have a link to the full set of the LOTH that is discounted and they receive a portion of the proceeds.
You can purchase each volume of the set one at a time over the course of the year.
I would also go talk with your Pastor… sometimes an estate will have a set that they don’t know what to do with and it ends up at the local church waiting a new home.
 
FrDavid96 said:
As far as I know, currently, the only publisher that prints the full, official version is Catholic Book Publishing. www.catholicbookpublishing.com
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NB: While it would still cost $100+, you can buy the volumes individually as needed to spread out the pain. Currently the year is in Volume IV; in Advent you will need Volume I; after the Christmas Season, Volume III; and at Lent, Volume II.

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