3/15/2024 0 Comments Divine office book![]() ![]() The Baltimore Office of Prime does, however, faithfully reproduce that office’s traditional Sunday distinctives, namely the Athanasian Creed ( Quicumque vult). Prime traditionally had some daily variability in its Psalms, which the Baltimore Office eliminates by omitting the middle Psalm (117, 23, 24, 25, 22, 21 or 118 depending on the day of the week) and retaining only the first and last psalms, 53 and part of 118, which are invariant. Compline in the Roman Rite has a fixed set of psalms used throughout the week-4, 30, 90, and 133, and only the concluding Antiphons of the Blessed Virgin vary according to the season. Prime and Compline form the morning and evening bookends of the Baltimore Office, and were particularly suitable for that task because they do not naturally vary much day to day. Thus, they occupy a unique position as faithful American variations of a Roman liturgical tradition going all the way back to St. Moreover, as they were produced prior to 1911, they precede all the 20th century overhauls of the Roman Office by Pius X and Paul VI. These were all rendered in traditional “Prayer Book” English, with Vespers printed bilingually to facilitate the laity’s attendance of public Vespers in churches. * The Office of the Dead (Matins and Lauds) The original Offices as they were printed in the bishops’ 1888 Manual of Prayer were as follows: So the idea has a long historical pedigree. Simplified versions of the Divine Office have been among the laity’s favorite devotions for centuries-and in fact “Books of Hours”, based on the Little Office of Our Lady, are the most common type of medieval books that have survived to today. Like the better-known Baltimore Catechism, it gets its name from the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884), under whose authority it was published. Includes everything for the Hours of Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline Prime, Sext, and Compline for each other day of the week.The Baltimore Office is a shortened version of the Divine Office that was specifically recommended for the laity by the American bishops in 1888. In timeless Latin with parallel English translations. Melodies in Gregorian notation for those who chant the office in common. The prayers to be said before and after reciting the Divine Office Our Lord, our Lady, and the Saints prayed these psalms.Īn 11-page Introduction explaining the Divine Office and how to pray it, including guidelines on how to interpret the psalms in a Catholic manner When understood correctly (this edition has a short explanation preceding each psalm), these are the intentions for which Holy Mother Church wants us to pray for ourselves, for the Church and for all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ. This is better than private prayer it's the prayer of the entire Mystical Body because you pray with one heart with the millions of other clerics, religious and laymen around the world who have prayed and are praying these exact same prayers, AND because you adopt the intentions of the psalmist as you pray. JOIN YOUR VOICE WITH THE CHURCH AND HER MEMBERS Prime is the perfect Morning Prayer, Compline the perfect night prayer, and Sext is for the middle of the day. Here you have the most critical hours of the Divine Office for the layman in the world. But the Church gave us the answer from the very beginning when she structured her official prayer around a framework of the psalms prayed eight times a day so that within one week, all 150 psalms are said. It's so easy to lose sight of God in our busy world. What does it gain a man to have his whole life perfectly organized but to lose his soul? OFFICIUM DIVINUM It includes everything for Sunday Lauds, Prime, Sext, Vespers, and Compline and also Prime, Sext, and Compline for the other days of the week. 221 pages | leatherette sewn hardcover | 2 ribbons ![]()
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