I agree a traditional Catholic Office would be that way to go.“frankly, my 5 year old could have done a better job with” Could you please give me an example? I must admit I have no idea what you could possibly mean. I particularly scrutinised my Catholic Divine Office in order to see to what you may be referring and I am stumped! Please enlighten me. I cannot imagine a Protestant prayer book being preferred by a practising Catholic. I would be afraid to use it, personally, because of the errors within that faith. Or am I being too ‘traditional’?
I bought mine in a shop in London while on holiday. I bought another one for my friend from Amazon - it was exactly the same but 15 Euro cheaper!! It is the English translation and it is wonderful, imo. God bless.I agree a traditional Catholic Office would be that way to go.
I don’t know if you read it in Spanish (not presuming) but the ICEL English translation doesn’t use elevated language, and added post-psalm prayers not found in the original Latin, which are vaguely spiritual but often sound like politically left-wing slogans. I got a Latin-English version and that helped for a while but it still uses the four-week format.
I think the OP was speaking of The ICEL is working on a new translation, so that version won’t be used for much longer.
The revision of the Liturgy of the Hours (published by Catholic Book Publishing), as I have been informed, is a few years out. They just finished the revision of the Roman Missal for the English and that took 15+ years. I think we are 5-10years out from get the current Divine Office (LotH) revised and into our hands.
You may wish to examine the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, which is used by Eastern Catholics, who are in communion with the Pope of Rome. In some ways, it is similar to the Anglican service.“frankly, my 5 year old could have done a better job with” Could you please give me an example? I must admit I have no idea what you could possibly mean. I particularly scrutinised my Catholic Divine Office in order to see to what you may be referring and I am stumped! Please enlighten me. I cannot imagine a Protestant prayer book being preferred by a practising Catholic. I would be afraid to use it, personally, because of the errors within that faith. Or am I being too ‘traditional’?