The Ferial Office During Advent

In the Dominican Breviary, the ferial office in Advent draws heavily from the Book of Jeremiah for the Little Chapter (Lauds, Terce, Sext, and Vespers). The versicle before Lauds is from Isaiah 6. Each one builds upon the Old Testament Prophets' anticipation of the coming of the Messiah, just as the Church now does during Advent.

The ferial days in Advent have the rank of III Class, until December 17.  During these days, when a III Class feast occurs in the Proper of the Saints, a commemoration is made of the ferial day at Lauds and Vespers.  From December 17 through December 23, the ferial days have the rank of II Class.  During this period, when a III Class feast occurs, the ferial office is prayed and a commemoration of the III Class feast is made at Lauds and Vespers.  The preces are prayed on all of these ferial days.

COMPLETE: The 1967 Dominican Breviary in English Online

I am pleased to announce that the complete 1967 Dominican Breviary, in English, is now available on this blog site.

If you click on the link above, entitled "1967 Dominican Breviary in English" you will be taken to a table of contents page.  Each entry in the table is a hyperlink to pdf texts of the breviary.  The table of contents is arranged in the order that the actual breviary is arranged.

In the 1967 English edition, all of the preliminary texts, Ordinary, Psalter, Commons, Appendices, etc., are the same in both editions.  The only thing that changes between the two volumes is the Proper of the Seasons, and the Proper of the Saints.  In addition, at the end of the Proper of the Saints in Volume II, there are two sections with additional office texts.

The first is called "Office of the Saints O.P." whose feasts are in some places celebrated with I or II Class rank, For the Second Order.  So this section contains texts for additional lessons for Matins, or 1st Vespers, etc., so that the office of the saints can be celebrated as I or II Class.

The second is called "On The Missions", and contains additional office texts for the saints associated with the Missions, so that they can be celebrated in certain places as I or II Class.  These saints are St. Teresa of the Child Jesus, and St. Martin de Porres, O.P., and Bl. John of Vercelli, O.P..

WARNING:  Some of the files are rather large (in excess of 100 MB) and the pdf viewer on your browser may not support a file that large for preview.  If that happens, you can simply download the file.  Please let me know if you find any missing pages, or double pages.  I will fix them as soon as I can.

Perhaps, some day, I can do the same thing for the 1962 Breviarium SOP, so that both editions will be online for anyone who wishes to do research or possibly even use them to pray.

Veritas!

UPDATE: The 1967 Dominican Breviary in English Online

After a long hiatus, I have restarted the project of putting the entire 1967 English translation of the Dominican Breviary online, here on this blog site.  Thanks to the help of a generous follower of this blog, Volume I was completed a few years ago.

I am now in the process of completing the project, by scanning and packaging the temporale and sanctorale from Volume II.  Once this is done and uploaded, the entire 2-volume breviary will be complete and available for anyone who wishes to view it.

As of today, the Prayers & Homilies for Sundays after Pentecost is complete and uploaded.  It can be viewed by clicking on the link above.  The temporale from Volume II has been scanned.  I am hoping to have the sanctorale scanned by tomorrow.

Hopefully, the entire project will be complete by New Years Day.

UPDATE:  The Proper of the Seasons from Volume II is now uploaded too.

1967 English Translation of Breviarium S.O.P. - ONLINE

Thanks to the generous help of a reader of this blog, Mr. Joseph P. Bradley, MD, OP, I have been able to make substantial headway with my long-desired project to put the entire 1967 English translation of the 1962 Breviarium SOP online, in a convenient and usable format.

My goal was to have a page on this blog, that is essentially a Table of Contents of the entire breviary, with hyperlinks to the various sections.  Toward that end, Mr. Bradley was kind enough to devote the time to scanning Volume as a pdf document last Fall, and the page is now set up and available for public use.  All that is missing are the Propers of the Season and Saints from Volume II, which we hope to have available by late Spring/early Summer 2019.

To access the online version of the Breviary, simply click on the banner link above, which says "1967 Dominican Breviary in English".

It will take you to the Table of Contents page.  Simply click on the hyperlink and the pdf document for that section should appear.

Once the two Propers from Volume II are uploaded there will be a complete copy of the 1967 English translation online for the first time, that I am aware of.  I hope everyone who enjoys this blog, or who has some devotion to the traditional Office of the Order of Preachers, will use and enjoy this page.