Regarding the dirty little secret of the Divine Office - yep, the Ordinariate has its own (gorgeous) version as well. One time I tried praying Compline out of it with my little Bible study, mainly because it's the only breviary I own so I just made some copies. I made it clear ahead of time that while it's not the "standard" translation,…
Regarding the dirty little secret of the Divine Office - yep, the Ordinariate has its own (gorgeous) version as well. One time I tried praying Compline out of it with my little Bible study, mainly because it's the only breviary I own so I just made some copies. I made it clear ahead of time that while it's not the "standard" translation, it is a valid Catholic version of the Offices. Most people seemed to like it - for most of them it was their first time praying an Office at all. I did get one person who made an issue of it later, though. "We have a perfectly good Catholic version, why would you confuse people with something that isn't even the Catholic version." SMH
I've been praying with this myself for the last 9 months or so. I typically just pray morning and evening prayer, so it's been nice to have a lot more biblical reading and pray through the entire psalter.
I wonder what Cranmer thinks about his great act of schism/apostasy/heresy/whatever being swallowed up and redeemed by the Church he rejected and betrayed. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Regarding the dirty little secret of the Divine Office - yep, the Ordinariate has its own (gorgeous) version as well. One time I tried praying Compline out of it with my little Bible study, mainly because it's the only breviary I own so I just made some copies. I made it clear ahead of time that while it's not the "standard" translation, it is a valid Catholic version of the Offices. Most people seemed to like it - for most of them it was their first time praying an Office at all. I did get one person who made an issue of it later, though. "We have a perfectly good Catholic version, why would you confuse people with something that isn't even the Catholic version." SMH
If anybody wants a lovely breviary that probably won't ever get revised: https://www.ctsbooks.org/product/daily-office/
I've been praying with this myself for the last 9 months or so. I typically just pray morning and evening prayer, so it's been nice to have a lot more biblical reading and pray through the entire psalter.
I wonder what Cranmer thinks about his great act of schism/apostasy/heresy/whatever being swallowed up and redeemed by the Church he rejected and betrayed. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Just last week, I spilled tea on my breviary and said "Well, at least there will be a new translation soon!" Guess not. Thanks for the recommendation!