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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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Laeserin 8mo ago

I'm just scraping from DivineOffice.org, so far. I'll build something more complex, of this catches on.

Laeserin 8mo ago

This is one of those things that looks really easy, but parsing and formatting the text took me nearly a week.

kidwarp 8mo ago

Good morning

Stay sovereign

Godspeed

The Beave 8mo ago

Good morning.

Interesting! 💚

JB Hodl 8mo ago

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.

Laeserin 8mo ago

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.

https://github.com/Silberengel/divinum-officium

Laeserin 8mo ago

I'll be publishing to wss://christpill.nostr1.com (if nostr:npub1fd0t73r8vn3nqezdg93fyj5x5u79zucf3jaspkc2dy9sjuqx5z8qftjal4 allows the bots 🙏🏻) and wss://theforest.nostr1.com. Both are publicly readable.

I was also thinking I could make a chronological Bible study bot, for the KJV translation, and have that publish at noon. Or stuff like that. I like the bot idea, in conjunction with the publications, because we can respond to the notes with prayer intentions and good mornings and have other Christians likely to see them. As a sort of prayer chain.

I'm getting eager to get #Biblestr going, TBH. Can hardly wait to fork #Alexandria. The Bible is the ultimate library, after all.

Captain's Nostr Log 8mo ago

I'll allow those bots. unfortunately, I did have to kick Jesus off

Laeserin 8mo ago

These are high-brow Jesus bots.

PolymathicPedagogue 8mo ago

What a neat project!

As a nerd, I'd love to see the Coptic Agpeya, Byzantine offices, and the like make their way onto Nostr as well. Fingers crossed!

David in TN 8mo ago

love this!