![]() The Divine Office App is The Best Catholic iPhone and iPad App. In comparing it to other Liturgy of the Hours apps, what truly sets this app apart is it’s audio playback – enabling users, like myself, to pray the Office while on the go. I have been using a more complex version called the Monastic Diurnal for a few years, and was looking for something simpler, and I seem to have found it, even if the book is five times thicker (and in three volumes instead of one.) I will use this book in my private recitation for years to come.This is a phenomenal app! I am so impressed by it’s beauty of design and ease of use. Overall I think this is a really nice translation of the Office. The scripture readings also use a variety of translations instead of just the one. ![]() It still uses the Grail Psalms, so that's no different, but the intercessions, antiphions, collects, and so forth are all slightly different. The translation is very nice, with a bit more linguistic flair than the US LOH, but it is hardly any more difficult to read, which makes me wonder why the different translations exist in the first place. Despite the thickness of the volume, it lays open in the hand nicely, and is not too heavy. It is a very thick book, well over a thousand pages, with a thick and sturdy sewn hardcover leather binding. This is the first volume of the full and complete book of daily prayers and readings approved for Catholics in most English-speaking countries outside the United States. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 27, 2014 Most important volume of the Liturgy of the Hours I can't imagine living without these books now, and I recommend them without hesitation. (See the photos I uploaded for a better idea). This one is beautifully produced, crisply printed with six ribbons and a deep blue hardback cover - I don't agree with other reviewers' comments that the cream paper is too thin, it's not particularly opaque but actually feels quite a bit sturdier than most Bibles and Missals I've owned. You also get alternate (extra) readings for the Proper of Saints for England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Australia, many of these readings providing very useful biographical or autobiographical material on a given saint as a complement to that day's Mass.įor me, these readings are among the best parts of the whole breviary, and so these books are absolutely worth getting. The main draw here over the cheaper single-volume "Daily Prayer" is the fantastic Office of Readings, which gives a scriptural reading (different from the readings at Mass, drawn from a variety of different English translations and sometimes featuring selections from books which don't feature at Mass at all) and a non-scriptural reading, often a homily or commentary on the preceding scripture reading, for every single day of the year. As a result, this is the most important of the three volumes if you're new to the Office. It's not particularly easy to grasp at first but with a little patience, it'll become second nature. ![]() All three contain many hours of prayer for each day of the year, as well as a healthy sampling of hymns, poems and prayers for specific purposes this one has an added bonus in the form of the fifty-page introduction and user guide, the General Instruction, which takes you step by step through how to use the books if you're unfamiliar with how the Liturgy of the Hours works. Between them, they contain everything that's in the smaller volumes, plus a lot of extra material. This, the three-part Divine Office set, is the full-length version, the biggest of the lot. There's no need for anyone to own all seven of these books, as the Divine Office contains everything in Daily Prayer, which in turn contains everything in Morning and Evening Prayer, etc etc each time you step up, it renders the previous step redundant. In ascending order of size, it goes:Įach of these is effectively a step up, an expanded version of the last. These volumes are the pinnacle of a whole range of Collins books featuring content from the Liturgy of the Hours in the same style. Volume 2 covers Lent and Easter, and volume 3 the rest of the year - I've posted very similar reviews on each of those pages too. ![]() This is the first (of three) volume of the "full" modern Catholic breviary, the Liturgy of the Hours this one covers Advent and Christmas, as well as containing the overall introduction and instructions for the series. (I've added some photographs (under "Customer images") of the book you actually receive.) ![]()
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