{"id":1356,"date":"2019-11-16T20:38:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T01:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/blog\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2019-11-16T20:38:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T01:38:51","slug":"a-book-of-hours-for-our-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mci.archpitt.org\/blog\/a-book-of-hours-for-our-church\/","title":{"rendered":"A Book of Hours for our church"},"content":{"rendered":"

For our round of daily <\/em>liturgical prayer<\/a>, there are a lot of possible needs: books for clergy and people, church and home, with or without music. Until now, it’s taken a LOT of work to find pray-able editions of these books, especially ones that use our translations and music.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the Seminary Press asked me to prepare new editions of the MCI Sunday Matins and Vespers books, and perhaps add new books for daily services.\u00a0 Instead, I’ve submitted a proposal for a full<\/strong> set <\/strong>of books for the Divine Praises – one which I think will meet quite a few different needs.<\/p>\n

Here is the proposal as it stands.\u00a0 I hope to begin working on it later this month.<\/p>\n

1. Service book for Vespers (done<\/b><\/a>): clergy texts, complete rubrics, with details for Sunday evenings in Lent, Great and Holy Friday, and Vespers with Divine Liturgy.<\/p>\n

2. Service book for Matins: clergy texts, complete rubrics, with details for Paschal Matins<\/p>\n

3. Horologion, Vol. 1: The Greater Hours: Vespers and Matins for church or home, ordinary + octoechos (partial for Matins) + commons of saints – basically enough to do SOME sort of Vespers and Matins on any ordinary day<\/p>\n

4. Horologion, Vol 2: The Lesser Hours: Hours and Compline for church or home – ordinary + troparia\/kontakia\u00a0 for the year – enough to do Hours and Compline on almost any day of the year.<\/p>\n

5. Horologion, Vol 3 (maybe): Midnight Office, with octoechos<\/p>\n

6. Musical supplements for Vespers, Matins, and Hours: one book each (the previous books are WITHOUT music, except for a very few things like O Joyful Light; instead, texts are pointed for chanting) – Vespers, Matins, Hours and Compline on any ordinary Sunday or weekday could be sung using just one supplement<\/p>\n

7. Liturgical Psalter<\/p>\n

8. Prayer book (material from the Horologion not included above: morning and evening prayers, Akathists, Paraklis, Molebens, preparation for Confession and Communion, explanation of the Jesus Prayer)<\/p>\n

What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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