If you want something less time-consuming but with Latin-English in a traditional Office, you could go with this:
angeluspress.org/Divine-Office
However, the above office is only Prim-Sext-Compline for Monday-Saturday and Lauds-Prime-Sext-Vespers-Compline for Sundays. Note, the collects and Antiphons are missing for proper feasts. Also, it is not something you can fit in your pocket. Although it is slim, it is almost 8X10" in footprint. In short, this Divine Office has the 1962 Breviary with the offices of the day you were most likely to pray as a busy layman, but the form factor is awkward and you are missing Collects that you will have to find from a traditional missal or online source.
I cringe when I hear the word “traditional” associated to the 1960 Breviary. It really only existed since 1910 when Pius X reformed the Divine Office in a manner just as controversial as the 1970 LOTH. In another 18 years, the 1970 LOTH will be just as old as the 1960 breviary was when when the LOTH came out. The 1910 breviary on which the 1960 is based split the psalms into equal lengths, “invented” new antiphons with no traditional melodies, etc. just like the 1970 LOTH did. Really the only thing “traditional” about it is the calendar, and even then, the calendar underwent extensive reform in the mid-to-late 50s. It was a complete and major overhaul of the Office in use up 'till then and it broke with many traditions (for example the three Laudate psalms prayed together every day at Lauds).
The Divine Office really, is a work in progress and always has been. Indeed though, the MD goes back 1500 years to Saint Benedict who codified its basic schema, so that Office does have deep tradition; it has been adapted through the millennia to follow the calendars of the times and indeed even exists in post-Vatican II form.
That said, and this is my own personal preference, I prefer an Office that goes through the entire psalter on a fixed cycle. So that means when I have time, usually the same post-Vatican II monastic schema used by the abbey I’m affiliated with (one week cycle or a two-week option), and if I don’t (which is the case at the moment) the 4-week LOTH.
I know all the criticisms of the current LOTH, but really, when you dig beneath the surface, most of them don’t hold water. Plus it really was designed for busy people (the clergy had been asking for it for decades, Pius X’s reforms were in fact the first crack at it). If you DO want to inject a bit more tradition into it, I suggest doing it in plainchant for at least part of the Office. There are several excellent options now for that:
- Antiphonale Romanum II (Solesmes, 2010); Vespers of all Sundays in the year, Feasts and Solemnities, noted for Gregorian chant;
- Les Heures Grégoriennes (St-Martin, France, 2008), ALL of the day hours of the current LOTH noted for Gregorian Chant;
- Mundelein Psalter, noted for plainchant in English.
The real, core, tradition of the Divine Office is the chanting of the psalms, which goes back to Jewish liturgy.
