The Saint Bede's Breviary

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I've added a few votive offices to the breviary, but have never provided a full listing of them... Here's a link to a section at the bottom of this page that lists out the votive options that can be prayed instead of or in addition to your regular Offices: The Votives

Given the state of the Covid-19 pandemic, I have reworked my prayer-book style Office for the Dead. There are two versions here. Form 1 is a mild revision of the version that has been posted here; Form 2 retains much of the traditional material and theology, but attempts to highlight the prayer book's concept of baptismal ecclesiology. It emphasizes the covenant relationship in Baptism and the full unbroken communion of the Church between the living and the dead.

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Select a Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December Select a Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Enter a Year: Select an Office: Morning Prayer Noon Prayer Evening Prayer Compline

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For more options and to individualize your breviary, enter and save your preferences. Select a Month: January February March April May June July August September October November December Select a Day: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Enter a Year: Select an Office: Morning Prayer Noon Prayer Evening Prayer Compline Aggregated Morning & Evening Select a Rite: Rite I Rite II Select a Style: Bare-Bones Prayer Book (The minimum required by the rubrics) Old School Prayer Book (1928 style yet within the 1979 rubrics) Basic Prayer Book (What it says) Amplified Prayer Book (Extras--readings, hymns, and antiphons) High Church Prayer Book (Amplified + elements for Our Lady) House Use (An idiosyncratic Anglo-Catholic use) Select a Sanctorale: As Printed in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer TEC's Offical Lesser Feasts & Fasts (2006) TEC's (now superceded) Holy Women, Holy Men TEC's "Available" Great Cloud of Witnesses TEC's Trial Lesser Feasts & Fasts (2018) Ordo of the Order of the Holy Cross Ordo of the Order of Julian of Norwich The Church of England's Exciting Holiness Current Roman Catholic As Printed in the Knott Missal/English Missal As Printed in the People's Anglican Missal The Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter House Kalendar (BCP+English Missal)

The Votive Offices and Additional Devotions

The English spiritual tradition includes a variety of liturgical devotions that can be (and have been) used in a variety of ways. In some times and places they have been used in place of the Daily Office; in others, they have been used as supplements to it. My personal view is that the normative liturgical offices for Anglicans remain the appointed Morning and Evening Prayer services as laid out in the appropriate Book of Common Prayer. However, it is fitting that we remain aware of these other liturgical riches and what they offer to our common devotional life. In that spirit, here are a few votive offices. (Other votives remain in preparation...)

Offices of the Dead

Two versions of the Office for the Dead are offered here. The first is the set which was traditionally used in addition to the regular Daily Offices. The second follows the pattern of the '79 prayer book's Morning and Evening Prayer using suitable psalms, readings, and antiphons. (It uses your regular settings for determining traditional [Rite I] or contemporary [Rite II] language.)

Matins for the Dead (Dirige): Traditional language | Contemporary language

Lauds for the Dead: Traditional language | Contemporary language

Vespers for the Dead (Placebo): Traditional language | Contemporary language

Morning Prayer for the Dead

Evening Prayer for the Dead

The Great Litany

The Great Litany may be used either with the latter part of Morning Prayer or as an independent devotion: The Great Litany