Amazing idea! The Divine Office, and especially the Office of Readings, are among the great treasures of the Church. I stumbled upon the Office of Readings years ago, and wow, some of the best theological, devotional and historical works, in bite sized amounts, to edify and bless and pray along with the Church. Many writings from the saints themselves. Can’t recommend enough.
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I've been working -- on and off again -- on a small labour of love called The Divine Office (or The Liturgy of the Hours). It's the ancient tradition of the Church to pray the hours of the day together, and I wanted to bring that to Nostr.
I'm only publishing the three main hours, so far:
* the Office of Readings,
* Morning Prayer and
* Evening Prayer.
The nostr:npub1dy6trdf8pvgt72h2xap9xsu79l0792urjulwktlnfhq4kahgfqgsa8jjcc bot will soon begin actualising the daily publication and sending out notifications at 4 am, 10 am, and 8 pm Texas time.
The European bot nostr:npub194xnj5fu66xkx259v0fv8626cves8aewdl7d8jd4v02s4hm99a8qzw9m2d will publish at those same hours, in Berlin time. Initially only in English.
https://next-alexandria.gitcitadel.eu/publication?d=liturgy-of-the-hours-for-friday-may-2-2025
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Yeah, I love it.
I'm including links to the source, to make sure that they get credit for it and because they have audio versions of the hours, so you can also just click on those and listen to it in the kitchen or in the car.
That's how I usually do it, but it's nice to have the text in writing, especially once we add highlighting. The hours in the publication are always only from that day, so that I don't completely run roughshod over their copyright, but whatever is in your highlight would stay.
I'll have a permanent yearly office publication, as well, but it will use the older texts, and the 1960 rubric. That one will be published in lots of different languages and could get its own bots. Like a German Luther Bible one.
Here's the repo for it, but my version isn't parsing correctly, yet.