The Roman Breviary

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Peace!

I’m a Salesian Seminarian here in the Philippines. Do you know where can I get inexpensive Roman Breviary (Latin-English)?

It would be great to pray as the saints did.

I Hope that you can help me.

Thank you and may God bless us all!

Caritas Numquam Excidit!
 
You can pray any way you want but many of the saints never prayed with a breviary, let alone one in a specific language.

***if anyone should want to pray by himself, let him go in simply and pray, **
  • Rule of St. Benedict. Chapter 52.*
Doesn’t your seminary have breviaries for you?

-Tim-
 
Thats a wonderful idea!!!

I love the Latin Mass, so I assume the Latin breviary would be awesome.

Now, if you look up “Latin Breviary” or “Traditional Roman Liturgy” online you should find something.
 
Farnsworth Abbey has one. Not horribly expensive and nice quality.

I have prayed for your vocation.🙂
 
Dizet said:
Peace!

I’m a Salesian Seminarian here in the Philippines. Do you know where can I get inexpensive Roman Breviary (Latin-English)?

It would be great to pray as the saints did.

I Hope that you can help me.

Thank you and may God bless us all!

Caritas Numquam Excidit!
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Are you talking about the pre-Vatican II breviary? If that’s the case, only the saints canonized since 1910 would have prayed it, assuming they were clergy or religious. The laity in general did not pray the breviary before Vatican II nor were they encouraged to. The pre-1910 Roman Breviary of Pius V was abrogated in 1910 by Pius X. The Pius X breviary is very different from the Pius V breviary.

On the other hand, Benedictine saints have prayed from the same breviary since 1500 years, and some (future) Benedictine saints still pray it today as it is still in effect in post-Vatican II form.
 
TimothyH said:
You can pray any way you want but many of the saints never prayed with a breviary, let alone one in a specific language.

***if anyone should want to pray by himself, let him go in simply and pray, ***
  • Rule of St. Benedict. Chapter 52.
Doesn’t your seminary have breviaries for you?

-Tim-
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When I was a seminarian, I was responsible for buying my own breviary. They were my personal set that remained with me then as a priest. Actually, I have more than one set since I am in a polyglot environment and may say the Office in any of five different languages.
 
TimothyH said:
You can pray any way you want but many of the saints never prayed with a breviary, let alone one in a specific language.

-Tim-
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That is very true and especially so if the saint was not clergy or religious, for whom the breviary was not encouraged before Vatican II. Moreover even many religious, especially the non-ordained lay brothers of a monastery, would pray one of the Little Offices rather than the breviary in the last few hundred years (but in the time of St. Benedict all monks would have prayed the Divine Office; this charism was restored after Vatican II, which reversed the trend that probably started around the time of Cluny).

But the saints all did pray.

If one wants a prayer that was held in common by as many saints as possible, the Rosary would be a better choice than the breviary.
 
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