Some folks may remember, if you have followed the blog for that long, that I had a post concerning the Liturgy of the Hours. Soon after my conversion, I became interested in the Hours, and tended to pray them using Universalis.com.
Over time, I found the LOTH, both in translation and content, a little weak. I realized I was only praying part of a Psalm, and that I wasn’t actually covering all 150 Psalms in the month. I grew disaffected.
This is when I branched out and picked up two good resources: The Anglican Breviary and the Benedictine Monastic Diurnal. Both of these use an older set-up for the Office. The Benedictine Monastic Diurnal uses the original Benedictine arrangement of the Psalms. The Anglican Breviary follows a pre-’61 arranged of the Psalms as well. I recommend both.
However, let us pretend you 1) don’t have spare money, and 2) want to explore all the ways that one can say the Divine Office. The Opus Dei. What can one do?
I myself us the 1961, John XXIII arrangement of the office. Sometimes I need to check whether I’m saying it correctly. That is when I stop by Divinum Officium. This amazing website will arrange the day’s Office for you according to several sets of rubrics (from the 16th Century to the 1960 New Calendar). Its an amazing resource!
And, you’ll finally get to pray all the Psalms, unmolested by busy-body liturgists.
Update: I apparently posted a link to a hyper-reactive blog, instead of Divinum Officium. The link is now fixed. And just for the record, I was making fun of said blog on another site. No hyper-reactive blogs (other than Fr. Z) here. Thank you to those who noticed.
August 7, 2009 at 10:15 PM
The link provided for “Divinum Officium” actually takes one to what appears to be a sensationalist gossip site called “Culture War: The Clash of Faith With the World”. Not what I was expecting.
Perhaps you meant http://www.divinumofficium.com?