Divine Office – Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary)

Divine Office – Liturgy of the Hours of the Roman Catholic Church (Breviary)


May 19, Recent Events and Our Way Forward

May 17, 2017

Dear Community,
I take this opportunity to reiterate some of the recent events and ask for your help on our way forward.
You know by now, we have been asked to close off access to new community members while our content is reviewed for the purpose of granting us permission to use the 1970 version of the New American Bible. We have been allowed to continue to serve our current membership, to which we are very grateful. We will allow new registrations on our site for only one more week. We ask even our mobile app users to go to our http://DivineOffice.org website and register so you will be counted as our existing community.
When we first made the announcement to register, many of you praying with us, had difficulties doing so. We have worked hard since that announcement not to lose any of you or deny you access. Thank you for your patience through out all of it.
At the same time the hard work, to secure permissions and replace content with the licensed content, is only beginning. And is already stressing our resources because, as you may already know, we have been required to stop the sale of our mobile apps (our primary source of income). Not everyone can afford to help, but if you can, please support this ministry as best you can with a monthly contribution.
We are also in the process of replacing some of the hymn music we are now using, also for copyright reasons. If you own license free recordings of music and want to share them with the community, we will integrate your content. Or maybe ask in your parish for such license free recordings, it will go a long way to save some of the ministry’s financial resources. You can send this content to admin@divineoffice.org. Or write to us at support@divineoffice.org, we can start a discussion there, if you have ideas on the subject and want to help.
Also an important request, we want to hear from any of you who are vision impaired or have a disability. Please send us an email to
support@divineoffice.org and let us know about you so that we may better assist your needs. We have been in contact with some of you recently, for registration purposes, so we know how grateful you were, just for only being able to get in, but we can do better by you, so please write to us.
We know Divine Office is a great good in the world, and you uphold it by your presence, your prayers, your help, and your witness. Our thanks to all of you willing to keep this important work from extinction and with your help we expect to emerge with the full blessings of our Church, which will be a significant boost to our mission to bring everyone everywhere into praying Liturgy of the Hours.
May God’s blessings and grace be with you
Dane Falkner
God’s servant and producer of Divine Office
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