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Credit: Alan Holdren/CNA. Rome, Italy, Apr 23, 2014 / 04:34 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fr. Paolo Padrini, creator of the iBreviary application, said that part of his goal for the recent release of the program in Arabic is fostering religious freedom in countries persecuted for their faith. “This, I feel, is a very useful service. It’s a gateway to religious freedom. An instrument of religious freedom, or an instrument of prayer and also an instrument of peace,” Fr. Padrini told CNA on April 15. Fr. Padrini is a parish priest in Tortona, northern Italy, and is a consultant with the Pontifical...

Praying the Divine Office on Holiday When You Haven’t Got Your Breviary With You by David Clayton on June 16, 2012 How do you pray the Liturgy of the Hours when the books are too heavy to put into your suitcase and your normal routine is disrupted? I have just returned from a visit to England and Spain to see my family. For various reasons I haven’t been able to leave the US for a couple of years. I couldn’t wait to see everyone again and I had a great time. Lots of time spent with family and friends, walks...

The Anglican Breviary is based on the old Roman Breviary (1962, Tridentine, Extraordinary Form), except is it slightly revised in accordance with the Daily Office from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. All seven day-offices (plus Matins) are condensed into this one volume which is no larger than a standard personal Bible. It is perfect for personal or family devotion. (Official parish use of this book is not possible at this time.) Both Anglican Catholics and (Traditional) Roman Catholics will love this Breviary. The arrangement of the book is a little different than the usual breviary, and takes some getting...

I've lost my breviary, I just can't find it. I had to say Vespers, Compline from the old breviary. I've got an English/Latin version. I used to use bits of it before I went off to the seminary. I used to love it. For some reason I have never loved the post-concilliar Office I have been saying for the last thirty years. I admit I struggle with it and I am not sure why. I certainly find those intercessions so irritating, especially in the English version, I don't like the choice of hymns, I hate having to go find and...

This is an online dynamic version of the Breviarium Romanum according to the rubrics of 1961... each office of each day is constructed on the fly so that all of the appropriate prayers, hymns, psalms, commemorations, etc. are displayed with no input required from the user or needing to follow different links to obtain the required information.

There are plans for audio accompaniments, Gregorian chant, as well as additional prayers...

The Daily Psalms: Wednesday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 44Eructavit Cor Meus The excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his Church. 1 Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. 2 MY heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. 3 Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever. 4 Gird...

The Daily Psalms: Saturday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 104Confitemini Domino A thanksgiving to God, for his benefits to his people Israel. 1 Alleluia. GIVE glory to the Lord, and call upon his name: declare his deeds among the Gentiles. 2 Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works. 3 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. 4 Seek ye the Lord, and be strengthened: seek his face evermore. 5 Remember his marvellous works which he hath done; his wonders, and the...

The Daily Psalms: Friday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 77Attendite God's great benefits to the people of Israel, notwithstanding their ingratitude. 1 Understanding for Asaph. ATTEND, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth. 2 I will open my mouth in parables: I will utter propositions from the beginning. 3 How great things have we heard and known, and our fathers have told us. 4 They have not been hidden from their children, in another generation. Declaring the praises of the Lord, and his powers, and his wonders which...

The Daily Psalms: Thursday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 61Nonne Deo The prophet encourageth himself and all others to trust in God, and serve him. 1 Unto the end, for Idithun, a psalm of David. 2 SHALL not my soul be subject to God? for from him is my salvation. 3 For he is my God and my saviour: he is my protector, I shall be moved no more. 4 How long do you rush in upon a man? you all kill, as if you were thrusting down a leaning wall, and a tottering fence....

The Daily Psalms: Tuesday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 34Judica Domine Nocentes Me David, in the person of Christ, prayeth against his persecutors: prophetically foreshewing the punishments that shall fall upon them. 1 For David himself. JUDGE thou, O Lord, them that wrong me: overthrow them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of arms and shield: and rise up to help me. 3 Bring out the sword, and shut up the way against them that persecute me: say to my soul: I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and ashamed that seek...

The Daily Psalms: Monday Douay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 13Dixit Insipiens The general corruption of men, before our redemption by Christ. 1 Unto the end, a psalm for David. THE fool hath said in his heart: There is no God. They are corrupt, and are become abominable in their ways: there is none that doth good, no not one. 2 The Lord hath looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there be any that understand and seek God. 3 They are all gone aside, they are become unprofitable together: there is...

The Daily Psalms: SundayDouay Rheims Version   MATINS: First Nocturn   Psalm 1Beatus Vir The happiness of the just: and the evil state of the wicked. 1 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence. 2 But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. 3 And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season....

Welcome to the Maronite Podcast. This is a daily reading of the Prayers of the Faithful or Divine Office for the Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church.   The Universal Catholic Church is a communion of autonomous ritual Churches. Each Church is unique and contributes in her way to the richness and diversity of the Universal Catholic Church. Although united in the Holy Spirit by the same faith and the same seven mysteries, each Church witnesses to Christ throughout history according to her theology and spirituality using her own culture, language, music, philosophy etc. The Universal Catholic Church recognizes that the mystery...

One of the major limitations of the 1928 BCP is that it does not offer much in the way of variation in the various liturgies it contains. This is one of the reasons why, I think, people began borrowing elements from the Roman Catholic liturgy, such as use of the missal and breviary. The 1979 American BCP was a big step in the right direction in terms of variety, but what are those of us who use the 1928 supposed to do? Clergy encourage us to read Morning and Evening Prayer, but it can become dry very easily. Is there...