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Divine Office

THE Divine Hours follow the monastic divine habit of praying several hours a day.

The Lancelot Andrewes Press is selling a Monastic Breviary Matins. Learn more or order here. This completes the monastic hours. Lancelot Andrewes Press is offering a rubrics for Monastic Breviary and Monastic Diurnal for $12.99. Look here for details.

The Monastic Matins for the week starting  4/26/09 and 4/19/09.

Thanks to Brother Benedict (OSB Obl.) for putting together the Diurnal Ordo for this week starting 4/26/09 and 5/3/09. There is the Solemnity of Saint Joseph on May 6th and Vision of Saint Michael the Archangel on May 8th. St. Elias Propers for July 20th are here.  Check out the diurnal propers for the Feast of the Holy Family, celebrated on the Sunday within the Epiphany Octave. You can join the Google Group The Monastic Diurnal to be emailed the Ordo or check here for the weekly Ordo.  If you use Facebook, you can join the Traditional Benedictine Office in English.

Noted Compline - Compline is suggested for those people starting to pray the Divine Office.  Compline changes the least through the year of the Hours.

Here is a potentially useful family references for singing the offices complete with music for Compline and Prime.

Abbey of Le Barroux (which celebrates exclusively according to the 1962 Missale Romanum and the 1963 Breviarium Monasticum) has a complete Ordo for 2008, which they have made available for free download here.

Thanks to Fr. John Fenton of Holy Incarnation Orthodox Church in Detroit, Michigan, we have Vespers and Lauds guides for days:

Fr. John Fenton has but together vesper booklets for Holy Week:

How to Pray the Divine Office According to Saint Benedict.

 The Anglican Breviary and the Ancient Western Divine Office an article from a Parish newsletter

Need some help with abbreviations?  Here is a pdf with some of the common abbreviations. Here is a little booklet with abbreviations and usage tips for neophytes.  If you have more that you would like to add, please email me.

Here is a handout of moveable Gregorian feasts and of moveable Orthodox feasts.

Here is a tutorial to assist you in using your Monastic Diurnal.

Here is a novena to St. Benedict.

Oblates: Their Vocation and its History presented by Frater Benedictus

Benedictinism in the Modern World presented by Frater Benedictus

Benedictine Way of Life presented by Frater Benedictus

Order of Saint Benedict FAQ of Monastic Diurnal
Purchase The Monastic Diurnal to follow The Hours of the Monastic Breviary Vespers Outline to be used with the Diurnal Lauds Outline to be used with the Diurnal.
Purchase The Noted Monastic Diurnal to have Benedictine Plainsong Chant of the Monastic Breviary Purchase the St. Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter to follow the Order of Matins and Evensong  

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