Question for Roman Catholics concerning your familiarity with Catholic liturgical texts

The Liturgist · Saturday at 11:28 AM

boughtwithaprice said:
I wish they had a Mass for healthcare workers in my diocese which could start at 5am. The earliest I have is 6 am where I live and that is too late in the day to make it a habit. I’ll have to be content to go to noon or 6 pm on my post call days which is not every day but better than nothing

Some dioceses do that. You should talk to clergy in your diocese; since even retired priests will celebrate the Mass daily for as long as they are able, and the Divine Office, it might well be possible to find one who is an early riser who could celebrate a mass for the benefit of healthcare workers.

The Liturgist · Saturday at 11:31 AM

boughtwithaprice said:
Little Office of the Virgin Mary

I love the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is sublime, like the Akathist. I frequently read it and the Office of the Dead, and other Roman offices, from diviniumofficium.com , which also has several historical versions of the Missal (and with regards to the Breviary, they have it in both the Monastic and Tridentine form). Their website sets up the propers automatically, except for the Dominican, Sarum, Mozarabic and other versions of the mass, where it only has the common of the mass.

By the way, is anyone aware of a website that has the entire 1969 Missal with propers set up automatically, and the entire Liturgy of the Hours, in the same format as diviniumofficium? i would find that very useful. I do have a printed copy of the Liturgy of the Hours, but due to my illness its becoming harder and harder to read printed books.

boughtwithaprice · Saturday at 1:25 PM

The Liturgist said:
I love the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary! It is sublime, like the Akathist. I frequently read it and the Office of the Dead, and other Roman offices, from diviniumofficium.com , which also has several historical versions of the Missal (and with regards to the Breviary, they have it in both the Monastic and Tridentine form). Their website sets up the propers automatically, except for the Dominican, Sarum, Mozarabic and other versions of the mass, where it only has the common of the mass.

By the way, is anyone aware of a website that has the entire 1969 Missal with propers set up automatically, and the entire Liturgy of the Hours, in the same format as diviniumofficium? i would find that very useful. I do have a printed copy of the Liturgy of the Hours, but due to my illness its becoming harder and harder to read printed books.

I use the app, Universalis. It has the daily missal and the Liturgy of the Hours in app format which comes with adjustable size of font for easy reading and is organized by date to look up the hours of the past

It costs about 30 dollars per year, and I think it is well worth it. You can pick any liturgical hour without having to page through 4 volumes
It is able to be translated to Latin or audible reading for those visually impaired. I like that it can play the hymns associated with the liturgical season, so I don’t have to imagine what they sound like

Universalis in the App Store

Gnarwhal · Saturday at 4:43 PM

The Liturgist said:
some priests have multi-ritual faculties and are able to celebrate the mass in multiple rites;

Are you familiar with Fr Mitch Pacwa on EWTN? He's biritual and can celebrate both forms of the Latin rite Masses (novus ordo and the TLM) as well as the Eastern Divine Liturgy (though I'm not sure which one). He's also a polyglot and speaks something like 10-13 languages.

The Liturgist · 2025-07-07T08:39:38-0500

boughtwithaprice said:
I use the app, Universalis. It has the daily missal and the Liturgy of the Hours in app format which comes with adjustable size of font for easy reading and is organized by date to look up the hours of the past

It costs about 30 dollars per year, and I think it is well worth it. You can pick any liturgical hour without having to page through 4 volumes
It is able to be translated to Latin or audible reading for those visually impaired. I like that it can play the hymns associated with the liturgical season, so I don’t have to imagine what they sound like

Universalis in the App Store

Ah, the price is higher than I would prefer … divinumofficium is free of charge. The Coptic Reader app charged a one time payment for access to all liturgical texts they have, which was worth it since most Coptic liturgical texts except for a few specialized things like the funeral of a bishop were included.

If anyone knows of a Novus Ordo equivalent of divinumofficium or copticreader, that is to say, one that is free of charge or charges a one time fee, that would be of great interest. Failing that I’ll do Universalis.

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