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[NYer]

Welcome to the Maronite Podcast.

This is a daily reading of the Prayers of the Faithful or Divine Office for the Antiochene Syriac Maronite Church.  

The Universal Catholic Church is a communion of autonomous ritual Churches. Each Church is unique and contributes in her way to the richness and diversity of the Universal Catholic Church. Although united in the Holy Spirit by the same faith and the same seven mysteries, each Church witnesses to Christ throughout history according to her theology and spirituality using her own culture, language, music, philosophy etc.

The Universal Catholic Church recognizes that the mystery of God is so vast that it cannot be contained in one individual Church's culture. In fact, Pope John Paul II referred to Eastern Churches as the other lung of the Universal Catholic Church.

The Maronite Church is rich in her theology, spirituality, culture and traditions. We hope that by providing this forum for you to both listen and participate in the Maronite Church's unique daily prayer life that you may find yourself closer to God and through his blessings may experience a better understanding of and foster a stronger love for the Maronite Church.

The prayer books we are using can be obtained from the Eparchy of St. Maron of Brooklyn: 

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This podcast is brought to you by Fr. Armando Elkhoury, Administrator of St. Rafka Maronite Mission in Denver, CO and Chris Pond, OCDS.

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[Miss Marple]

No. It is in English. It was a used one offered for sale at my RCIA class, and was published in 1976. I can't figure out where the day's readings are. Nor can I understand whether I am to repeat certain phrases, refer back to previous pages, etc.

I think I am going to ask our priest to offer a class in how to use a breviary. It doesn't do much good owning one and having good intentions to pray the Divine Office if you don't know how to do it!!

[Slugworth]

In the SSPX, Prime & Sext are not chanted, they are recited recto tono. Compline is the only office they sing in full chant. On Sundays and major feasts, Lauds are usually recited instead of Prime, and Vespers are sung in full chant.

Yes, that is more correct. Sorry for the confusion.

[jrny]

Sounds like a great idea. I am not well versed in the post-V2 Divine Office. If you were trying to pray the 1962 Office, I would offer to help you.

[jrny]

While I am no longer an SSPX adherent, I have fond memories of participating at many public Divine Office services while spending a summer week at the Retreat House in Ridgefield, CT or while in High School in St. Mary's, KS.

That being said, I think (and wish) that the SSPX and FSSP (a little Trad ecumenism here) should sponsor an organization similar to those on Breviary.net which would be committed to the 1962 Office rather than the 1954 Office. What do you think?

[ELS]

I think it would be great to have an online resource like breviary.net for the 1961/2 Roman Breviary. Both the SSPX and FSSP currently publish the 1961/2 Roman Breviary (OK, one is a diurnale, but now we're just picking nits ...), so it probably wouldn't be as big of a project to place it online as starting from scratch. Maybe they could get seminarians to do the grunt work. ;-)

I came across a photo of some FSSP members chanting Terce in their parish in Rome (if you click on the picture, you will see a larger version):

[jrny]

The work from scratch I alluded to would be the publication of complete musical text for the Roman Office. Or, IOW, the same Breviaries that the SSPX and FSSP use, with all the Gregorian notes in addition to the text. Such a book would likely be 3-4 times the thickness of the Liber, so it would probably have to be published in 4 volumes.

As for placing the Breviary on line just like Breviary.net does, I suppose a scanning project would suffice to accomplish this. The 1961 Breviary is MUCH easier to learn and pray than the 1954, so we wouldn't have as much cumbersome work to do in order to get this online.

It really surprised me that a die-hard old rubrical sedevacantist group took such initiative to get lay people praying the Office via Breviary.net. I always expected the FSSP and perhaps the SSPX to be in lead on this issue.

[ELS]

When I said "from scratch" I meant having to type all of the text anew. Given that they have published the Breviary, I assume they have the content in electronic form already. That would make going from a print version to an online version much easier. I wasn't referring to a print version with the Gregorian notation.

If the print version is in an electronic format, then going to an online version would not require scanning. Besides, Web pages load faster when they are primarily text as opposed to images (unless you were talking about scanners with OCR capability).

If an online version of the 1961/2 Roman Breviary is ever made, I agree with comments you have made on previous threads that it would be nice to have the prayers fully laid out so one wouldn't have to navigate all around the site (as is necessary on breviary.net).