

- #DIVINE OFFICE APP FOR BLACKBERRY HOW TO#
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You have to find a prayer-book or breviary that has the office, and in a style that suits you.
#DIVINE OFFICE APP FOR BLACKBERRY HOW TO#
Then you have to figure out how to get through even one “hour” or service while flipping pages to as many as four different parts of the book. Meanwhile, you are supposed to be praying. Praying this ancient way on a smart phone, iPod, or tablet has a lot of advantages. All the confusion, searching and page flipping are gone. Every prayer, psalm and reading comes up effortlessly, freeing you to pray the words. Here is a quick run down on four solid apps: one Catholic, two Anglican, and one Presbyterian.
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“iBreviary: Pro Terra Sancta.” ****1/2* (out of five) (And by the way, these are unsolicited and uncompensated reviews.) iBreviary: Pro Terra Sanctaġ. Platforms: iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Web. Languages: English, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Romanian (Soon in Portuguese, German, and Arabic).
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I love the fact that without any cost I can pray the full Liturgy of the Hours.

The richness of the readings, both biblical texts and a range of commentaries on them from the saints, are a great blessing. The interface is beautiful, with rubrics in red and the text to be prayed in black, all on a parchment background. A great feature is that if you are going to be traveling and can’t count on wi-fi you can download an entire week at one time.
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The first downside of iBreviary (or any full version of the Liturgy of the Hours) is that it is hard to get a well-rounded diet of prayer unless you take on the whole daily cycle. You then click “Breviary” on a list of five options.You then click “Pray” to pull up the menu.You click “Today” to begin the download.There is far more on iBreviary than the Office, so you have to navigate through lot of content before you can pray: Little in the way of intercession will be found outside Morning and Evening Prayer.Īnother drawback is specific to the app: it does not automatically retrieve the current day’s Office.Unlike the Anglican office one only encounters the Confession of Sin in “Night Prayer” (a.k.a Compline).Substantial readings from Scripture other than the Psalms are only in the “Office of Readings” (a.k.a.That can be a problem if you are just starting out, using only one of the hours, or if your personal discipline includes just a couple of hours. You then click the specific hour you want to pray. The clicks aren’t going to wear our your fingertip or anything, but it would be better if you could just click “PRAY!” and have the right hour of the current day pop up. All you can hope for is that those that aren't obeying those signs, start to.It is created in Italy, and the English translation includes errors fairly frequently. They are always clever, yet also good advice. Keep reading those messages on the signs along I 95. Don’t speed up just because they are in a hurry.

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