#Divine office 1962 series
For those who are interested, a detailed study of the various reforms was published as a series of articles on under the title, Compendium of the Reforms of the Roman Breviary 1568-1961.įor this reason, you will see currently-in-print guidebooks to the Extraordinary Form Breviary making reference to the “New Breviary”, not to be confused with the Ordinary Form Liturgy of the Hours. The details of these reforms are beyond the scope of this article, but they do demonstrate that liturgical change was arguably more extensive and frequent with regards to the Breviary than with regards to the Roman Missal. In 1960 Pope John XXIII modified the rubrics again and also changed the structure of Feasts in the calendar. In 1955 Pope Pius XII simplified the rubrics of the Breviary. The changes are less noticeable to the casual reader than the difference in flow and feel of the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible versus the New American Bible, for example. In a cursory perusal of the revisions, the changes to the text do not significantly affect the meaning of the Psalms. This makes it easy for a curious reader to compare the “Before and After” Latin texts. Instead of revising the text of the Liber, the publishers decided to put the new Psalm texts in an appendix, leaving the old Psalter in the main body of the Liber.
Perhaps because of the difficulties in typesetting in the pre-computer era, something interesting happened in the case of the Liber Usuális, the book used by a cantor to chant the Propers of Mass and the Divine Office. The first such change to the Breviary occurred when Pope Pius X in his letter Divíno Afflátu ordered a new Psalter and modified rubrics to be used in the Breviary as of January 1, 1913. For the Breviary, this means the 1961 edition, which was the result of several iterations of modifications during the 20th century. Tridentine Community News (January 23, 2011): Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio, Summórum Pontíficum specifies that those following the Extraordinary Form must use the books in force in 1962.
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