

Thus helping protect its thin pages and making it more durable. The front and back pages of the book, as well as these prayer cards, make it easier to access these texts, without laborious browsing through the Proprium de Tempore. the Orationes for the sundays after Pentecostes. the so called O-Antiphons for the Advent and Antiphons and Orations for the Easter octav, Absolutiones in Officio trium vel novem lectionum,
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Psalmi ad Laudes pro festis (Feastday psalms for Lauds). On some of these are the same texts as on the special front and back pages, such as the Te Deum, Psalm 94 (the Invitatory psalm), the Benedictus, the Magnificat, the final Antiphons of Mary. The breviary comes with an unusually large number of separate prayer cards (eight in total). This edition has a few pages of heavier paper both at the beginning and the end of both volumes, where you find these texts. 94, etc.Ī big help for the user is that commonly used texts are easily accessible. This indeed is a major accomplishment that every user will value and never want to do without again. For example, you would not need to turn to the feast of Epiphany just to find the one antiphon that is to be used. Doing this eliminates unnecessary page flipping or browsing back and forth between the Proprium de Tempore and the current day of the Psalterium. You can notice this with such texts as the Invitatory, the seasonal hymns and most of all with the antiphons. So we followed the excellent practice, in this new edition, of placing the many recurring texts, not in the Proprium de Tempore, but in their correct place in the Psalterium itself. A breviary is well structured if the texts are arranged in a user-friendly manner.

The fundamental idea of breviary and therefore the most important goal of a publisher is to design and structure all the text and the prayers that have to be said over the entire Church year within two easy-to-handle volumes, with the volumes both as thin as possible and as comprehensive as necessary.
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When you click on a thumbnail picture you will be able to download a pdf-file with several sample pages to illustrate the accompanying text.

