![]() ![]() Nevertheless, with all these discrepancies we hope that these recordings will be useful, and we present them in that spirit. Moreover, the recordings were made before 2015, so they do not include the feast of St Mary Magdalen, because her celebration was, at the time of recording, only a memorial and not a feast. For instance, the Epiphany, the Ascension etc will be celebrated on Sunday and not on their proper days. If you are using some other calendar then they may therefore be out of step with what you see in the rest of Universalis. The Divine Office App is an opportunity for you to participate in the recitation of the Liturgy of the Hours, an ancient and meditative collection of psalms. The recordings are based on the English calendar for the diocese of Westminster. It contains the official text and audio of daily prayers from the Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary) and has been approved for use in the United States by USCCB. As he says, the publishers' permission is "on a non-commercial basis" and therefore we in our turn are making the access free. We are happy to provide day-by-day access to Brother Robin's recordings through the Universalis web site. The enclosed memory card has all the mp3 recordings that were used in the production of the seven CD's and I am hoping that you can further extend their usefulness. It seems to me that, with the advent of Universalis, and its extension into audio you may be in a position to help a wider spread of people, especially those with sight difficulties. ![]() With this in view I published an advert in the Catholic Herald and produced a simple website - see. Some time later it occurred to me that they might be welcomed by others with impaired sight and would be a useful extension of the hundreds of hours I spent in their recording! Accordingly I wrote in the publishers, Harper Collins, and got permission to distribute a limited number of copies, on a non-commercial basis, to others registered blind. I also purchased an application to to render these recordings in 'Daisy' format so that he could use his RNIB machine to listen to them. As a result I undertook to record the offices of Readings, Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer. Some years ago a member of our community began to lose his sight and was unable to read the Office. Having noticed the recent introduction of audio options into your Divine Office I am wondering if the enclosed would be of any interest to you. Spoken audio for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.Īs well as the Liturgy of the Hours, there is also a separate subscription available for the readings at Mass: First Reading, Second Reading and Gospel.Ī few months ago we received the following letter from a member of the Rosminians:.Click one of the links below to find out more. The calendar can be set to your own local one instead of being always Westminster, and there are many other good features. You don’t need to keep on connecting to the Internet because the audio gets downloaded just once, when you first subscribe. One subscription covers all the Hours, including the daytime ones. If you are not blind, you can subscribe to the spoken audio in the Universalis apps. The publishers of the recorded texts have allowed them to be recorded on the understanding that they are to be used only as a service to blind people. If you are not blind, do not use these links. Through singing Compline I came to enjoy the way this service is put together – beginning with the Introduction, followed by the three psalms with their antiphons, the hymn and chapter, the Nunc dimittis, the Pater noster, the dismissal, the Marian antiphon – and wondered how the other seven might work.Office of Readings for 7th Monday of Easter ![]() Like many people who are involved with singing courses, Compline is probably the Office I came to know best, popular because it prepares its participants for sleep (these days – this was just what it didn’t precisely do in the original Rule). Planning the music for such a feast of prominent texts gave me wonderful opportunities to explore the whole gamut of polyphonic composition, including recent writing. We have had to modify these timings very slightly to fit in with current schedules. The original sequence would have been: 0600 Prime, 0900 Terce and (probably) Mass, 1200 Sext, 1500 None, 1800 Vespers, 2100 Compline, 0000 Matins, 0300 Lauds. The three-hourly structure went through the day and the following night, just as we shall present it on the broadcasts, though we will begin modern-style at the beginning of the new day just after midnight, with Matins. There was no sense that midnight was the beginning of the day, or that eight hours of uninterrupted sleep was a prerequisite for satisfactory living. ![]()
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