Breviary app · Divinum Officium 1962
The Divine Office app for the traditional Breviary
The eight canonical Hours of the Roman Breviary of 1962, from Matins to Compline, assembled for each day of the calendar — the Latin and the English side by side, on your phone, without a connection.
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The whole Breviary of 1962, Hour by Hour
The Office is assembled for the day — the feast, its rank, its commemorations — so you open the Hour and pray it, without hunting through the ribbons.
- Eight Hours. Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline — Prime included, as the Breviary of 1962 has it.
- The proper of the day. Antiphons, hymns, chapters, lessons and prayers of the feast or the season, as the rubrics of 1962 order them.
- Latin and English. Each line of the Latin with its English beneath, for those who pray in Latin and those still learning it.
- The Little Office of Our Lady. The Officium parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis, for those who pray the shorter Office.
- Offline. The days ahead are prepared on your phone: Vespers in a church without signal, Compline on a train.
Breviary, not Liturgy of the Hours
Looking for a Liturgy of the Hours app?
Many who search for a Liturgy of the Hours app are looking for the Divine Office of the Roman rite. The Liturgy of the Hours is the reformed office of 1971: a psalter spread over four weeks, Prime suppressed, Matins replaced by an Office of Readings. Iter Fidei does not serve it.
What the app serves is the traditional Breviary — the Roman Breviary as it stood in 1962, the whole psalter in a week, the eight Hours kept. It is the Office priests and religious prayed for centuries, and the one many lay people take up today to pray with the Church at her ancient hours.
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Journal
The Divine Office Vespers: Meaning, Order, and How to Pray It
The Divine Office Liturgy of the Hours: What It Is and How It Differs
The Divine Office iBreviary: What It Offers, and a 1962 Breviary App- The Divine Office What Is the Divine Office? The Breviary Explained
- The Divine Office The Breviary: The Book of the Divine Office
- The Divine Office Compline: Night Prayer
The Divine Office What Is Divinum Officium? (And a Mobile 1962 Alternative)
The Divine Office app, in a few questions
Is there a Divine Office app for the 1962 Breviary?
Yes. Iter Fidei serves the Roman Breviary of 1962 — the eight Hours, the proper of each day, Latin and English. It does not serve the Liturgy of the Hours of 1971. Pray today's Office on the site
What is the difference between the Divine Office and the Liturgy of the Hours?
Both name the Church's prayer at the hours of the day. The Divine Office, or Breviary, is the form received until 1962; the Liturgy of the Hours is the reformed book of 1971, with a four-week psalter, without Prime, and with an Office of Readings in place of Matins. What is the Divine Office?
Is there a free breviary app?
Joining early access is free; at launch the app will be offered by subscription, without advertising. Meanwhile one Hour of the 1962 Breviary, Latin and English, can be prayed free on this site every day. Today's Breviary
Can I pray the Divine Office offline?
Yes. The days ahead are kept on your phone, so the Hours open without a connection.
Does it include the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary?
Yes. The Little Office of Our Lady is in the app beside the Breviary, for those who pray the shorter Office.
Can a lay person pray the Breviary?
Yes. Lay people are not bound to it, but the Church has always commended it to them, and many pray Lauds, Vespers or Compline alone. The app opens any Hour at its time. Compline, the night prayer