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FranOP4-vol LOTH (USA)•

I'm really looking forward to the updated supplement. I just wonder what "soon" means in this context. A couple years?

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raitchi2•

Well considering it took 10 years from Liturgiam Authenticam (2001) to the new Roman Missal (advent 2011) to re-translate close to 200 pages of Latin text (which has already been translated many times before), I would anticipate this will take another decade or so.

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you_know_what_youLittle Office of the BVM•

preparing an official two year cycle of readings for the Office of Readings (long talked about!), which will comprise a fifth volume of the Liturgia Horarum, and that this is intended to be included in the upcoming revision of the English books."

I don't know if a 5th volume is the way to go. Does that mean one year you'll carry around 1 book, and the other, maybe 2, and then the next back to the 1?

Better to do it like the Germans: single volume containing everything except the first and second readings and responsories for OOR. That single volume would suffice for those who want to pray the complete office minus OOR (no need for separate 1-volume "Christian Prayer"). Huge bonus.

Then you could pair it with a small set of OOR volumes (maybe 8 paperbound titles). It would look like this in general use.

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FranOP4-vol LOTH (USA)•

I was wondering how the two year cycle would work, and was surprised to see the 5th volume, as it seems pretty clunky. I hadn't researched how it's done elsewhere, but like the way you posted.

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bobmoungerUniversalis•

Do you have a link to the german set?

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you_know_what_youLittle Office of the BVM•

Here you go. It's 16 small volumes (8 per year, since the Germans did originally implement the 2-year OOR lectionary) at €15 each.

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bobmoungerUniversalis•

Thanks!

So if I search for stundenbuch, I see these lectionary volumes but unless I am missing something it looks like there are three volumes for the psalms per annum @ 58 €

advent-christmas

lent-easter

ordinary time

16 * €15 + 3 * €58 = €414 = $450 = £350 wow

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you_know_what_youLittle Office of the BVM•

Yeah, I just noticed that. That's probably because I figured the smaller volume had more of the temporal stuff, not just the OOR seasonal readings (but also sanctoral). I still think you can get by (in a theoretical future) with a single volume minus OOR, relying on a temporal+sanctoral side-by-side volume.

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