LotH: Which Invitatory Psalm do you use?

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I use all of them. 100 on Mondays, 24 on Wednesdays, 67 on Fridays, and 95 every other day (and usually for Feasts/Solemnities too).
 
Luigi_Daniele said:
Be aware that Universalis does not use an approved translation of the LotH.

Use the one in Joe Kelly’s post above. 😉
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I am aware. I’m LOTHing by myself, so I don’t think the translation much matters.

(Oooh! Someone who doesn’t think the translation matters! That oughta stir up a hornet or two 😃 )
 
DaveBj said:
I am aware. I’m LOTHing by myself, so I don’t think the translation much matters.

(Oooh! Someone who doesn’t think the translation matters! That oughta stir up a hornet or two 😃 )
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Meh, it doesn’t really matter that much if you’re just praying by yourself and you’re under no obligation to do so anyways.

I considered using Universalis for a while actually (it’s very convenient since I have an iPhone), but I figured since that I’m pursuing a vocation to priesthood, I better get used to the official version (being able to practically use the Breviary for example :p).
 
curlycool89 said:
Meh, it doesn’t really matter that much if you’re just praying by yourself and you’re under no obligation to do so anyways.

I considered using Universalis for a while actually (it’s very convenient since I have an iPhone), but I figured since that I’m pursuing a vocation to priesthood, I better get used to the official version (being able to practically use the Breviary for example :p).
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I can understand the reason for your choice. Praying for you and your vocation 😃
 
curlycool89 said:
Meh, it doesn’t really matter that much if you’re just praying by yourself and you’re under no obligation to do so anyways.

I considered using Universalis for a while actually (it’s very convenient since I have an iPhone), but I figured since that I’m pursuing a vocation to priesthood, I better get used to the official version (being able to practically use the Breviary for example :p).
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Try iBreviary 🙂
 
DaveBj said:
I am aware. I’m LOTHing by myself, so I don’t think the translation much matters.

(Oooh! Someone who doesn’t think the translation matters! That oughta stir up a hornet or two 😃 )
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curlycool89 said:
Meh, it doesn’t really matter that much if you’re just praying by yourself and you’re under no obligation to do so anyways.

I considered using Universalis for a while actually (it’s very convenient since I have an iPhone), but I figured since that I’m pursuing a vocation to priesthood, I better get used to the official version (being able to practically use the Breviary for example :p).
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Why not use iBreviary or another online version that is faithful to the actual translation? PM me if you want links or more information…
 
Luigi_Daniele said:
Try iBreviary 🙂
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At the time I was considering it (this was mid-2010) iBreviary sucked. It was a second-rate product. It would often give you the wrong day, or parts that were proper to Easter in Ordinary Time (extra alleluia’s), etc. That part has largely been fixed (there have still been a few bugs, sometimes a day will download as totally blank, etc).

Also, it’s still not a perfect solution. iBreviary still has a very American-centric English calendar. Not much help for me in Canada some of the time. You also still have to download the days (it can take quite a while sometimes).

Also, the format/setup in iBreviary still, frankly, abysmal (it uses a similar background colour to the Vatican website, which makes me want to gouge my eyes out). I still have the Universalis app, and it is actually very beautifully and elegantly done. It also has the readings and propers for everyday, along with the full english Order of Mass. I was using it during the Easter Vigil to follow the readings, the Exult, ect.

I actually prefer the dead-tree version over iBreviary because I hate using the app. I also enjoy the greater options I can do with the books (like today I can use parts from the Common of Doctors of the Church. It is in iBreviary, but it’s not in an intuitive location nor easily accessible).
superamazingman said:
Why not use iBreviary or another online version that is faithful to the actual translation? PM me if you want links or more information…
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Like I’ve said, I don’t use Universalis, but there’s nothing wrong with a lay-person using it. If someone’s under no obligation, then they can pray from whatever they want. They can pray only parts of each hour, or substitute different readings or Psalms if they want. Magnificat has morning prayers inspired by the LOTH I believe (but not a direct copy), which is also just fine. There’s no obligation for lay-people to use only the approved version.

(Also, saying that the current ICEL LOTH translation is “faithful” is like saying that the 1st Edition Missal was. The LOTH suffers from the same problems, and will have to be eventually re-translated. The translation used by Universalis (non-Psalms), actually, I find to be much richer than the ICEL one).
 
Call me old-fashioned, but I always lug my breviary around with me. Both my monastic and Roman LOTH have been my trusty companions for years and have acquired this well-worn look. It just doesn’t feel right to recite an Office from an e-device 🙂

Carrying a breviary around is something clergy have done since the printing press was invented, and now laymen and women can join in.
 
OraLabora said:
Call me old-fashioned, but I always lug my breviary around with me. Both my monastic and Roman LOTH have been my trusty companions for years and have acquired this well-worn look. It just doesn’t feel right to recite an Office from an e-device 🙂

Carrying a breviary around is something clergy have done since the printing press was invented, and now laymen and women can join in.
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I often bring my breviary in my bag everywhere as well. I’m glad I’m not the only one!
 
To be clear: I do, too.

I only really use the iPhone when on vacation. Which is almost never:(
 
By and large I use my breviary, but in the odd-time I find myself without it I use my iPhone.
 
Thread drift but this is in Zenit today.
When to Celebrate?/4: The Liturgy of the Hours (CCC, 1174-1178)
The liturgical section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC), in the paragraph dedicated to “When is the liturgy celebrated?”, gives a certain space to the “Divine Office,” today called “Liturgy of the Hours” (LoH). The LoH is an integral part of the divine worship of the Church, not a simple appendage of the sacraments. It is Sacred Liturgy in the true and proper sense. In the LoH, as in the sacramental liturgy (in particular the Eucharistic Liturgy, of which the Office is as the prolongation), two dynamics intersect one another: “from above” and “from below.”
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Usually 95 when chanted and recited on more solemn occasions, but 100 on many ferial days and memorials due to the brevity of that psalm, especially when I am working an early shift.

Both in Latin 95% of the time, English maybe 5%.
 
I use Psalm 95 consistently now. I used to switch to Psalm 100 on ferias of Wednesday and Thursday of Weeks II and IV because of the antiphons, but I now tend to pray in continuity with the customs of the older Roman Breviary, which never varied its Invitatory Psalm.
 
I like using 95 because usually most of the ferial invitatory antiphons are based on it. The festal/Commons ones are also often based on it, through the phrase “Come let us worship”
 
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