Ordinary Form Liturgy of the Hours in Latin?

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Does anyone know where I could find the Liturgy of the hours as it is now, (Office, Morning, Midday, Evening, Night) in latin. I’m not looking to get the pre Vatican II litrugy of hours in Latin, which is all I can find online, I’m looking for the post Vatican 2 liturgy of the hours in latin
 
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The iBrievary app has options to change the language to Latin, among other languages
 
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Does anyone know where I could find the Liturgy of the hours as it is now, (Office, Morning, Midday, Evening, Night) in latin. I’m not looking to get the pre Vatican II litrugy of hours in Latin, which is all I can find online, I’m looking for the post Vatican 2 liturgy of the hours in latin
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The best official editions available today are PDF ebooks that match the official printed Liturgia Horarum page-for-page (hence the selection of the PDF format rather than EPUB or MOBI), optimized for ereaders. They are available for purchase at Breviario Digitale www.breviariodigitale.com at very reasonable rates (11.50 EUR per volume; there are four volumes).

These are not apps, these are the official books editio typica altera, to which navigation tabs have been added for easier flipping.
 
I pestered the Libreria Editrice Vaticana for two years after they announced a reprinting of the Liturgia Horarum. They kept telling me to check back after three months, but after two years of that, I gave up. I guess there wasn’t enough commercial interest to justify the reprint.

The digital copy is ok. I have those, but the index tabs quit working on my kindle, and that was the primary attraction for actually flipping from page to page on the ereader. So I ended up checking eBay for a couple of years and finally found a used set for sale.

You want the Editio Typica Altera (second typical edition) as this has the ABC Sunday Antiphons of the Benedictus/Magnificat that actually mirror the cycle of readings for that day. These antiphons were created in 1985, yet American Catholics still do not pray them because they were never translated. This is why, when praying the English LOTH, the Sunday Antiphon for MP/EP doesn’t exactly line up with the Mass readings. Thankfully, that is currently underway (due in a few years). You will know you have the right version if you look on the title page and see JPII’s Papal Coat of Arms (Not Paul VI). Also, I don’t recommend the Midwest Theological Forum version since the books are much bigger. Get the Vatican edition, it’s much more portable IMHO.

Here’s the link to the digital ebooks:
http://www.breviariodigitale.com/pages.cfm?id=77
 
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