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Introduction to the Roman Breviary
By William J. Lallou. Written in 1950, so the four books he mentions do not correspond to the four-volume set in use today.
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Source for praying the Liturgy of the Hours. Once you have entered your time zone and country, you can bookmark pages for daily prayer. (This site does not use the official Liturgy of the Hours translation due to copyright issues).
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Canonical Hours
Essay on the practice of reciting the Divine Office according to set hours.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Divine Office
Brief essay on the historical development of the Liturgy of the Hours.
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Article on the office of Prime, now suppressed.
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Essay on the office of Terce, the earliest of the "little hours" in the day.
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Article on the midday office.
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Essay on the daytime hour recited in mid-afternoon.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Vespers
Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Music of Vespers
Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Nocturns
The convoluted history of this nighttime prayer.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Compline
Scholarly essay on what is essentially a bedtime prayer, often recited privately.
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Article on the canonical hour once known as Matins, then as Lauds, now as Morning Prayer. One of the two principal hours.
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Not Morning Prayer, but a nighttime prayer, which has now been replaced by the Office of Readings.
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Catholic Encyclopedia: Reform of the Roman Breviary
Article on the 1911-1913 revamping of the breviary so as to allow recitation of all of the Psalter each week. Feasts were also ranked according to liturgical importance, and some offices were no longer obligatory or were even suppressed.
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