Prayerbook Resources
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Unless otherwise noted prayerbooks are either fully English or Provide an English Translation.
Non-Catholic Books with an asterisk * next to them are to qualify that the books contain some materials which may be problematic from a Catholic Perspective and discernment is needed in approaching them.
Daily Office Resources:
Pray the Daily Office:
North American Edition:
Divine Worship Daily Office, North American Edition (Currently not in print, but will eventually return): https://ordinariate.net/daily-office-out-of-stock
Commonwealth Edition:
Divine Worship Daily Office, Commonwealth Edition: CTS | Blackwell’s
Plainsong Compline (Commonwealth Edition): https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/16149/97/compline_walsingham_southern_cross_v1-0.pdf
Suggested Resources for a Non-Scriptural Reading after the 3rd Collect:
Readings for the Daily Office from the Early Church: Amazon
2nd Reading from the Office of Readings: https://universalis.com/readings.htm
Non Scriptural Lesson From Mattins in the Roman Breviary: https://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/horas/officium.pl
Customary of our Lady of Walsingham: Digitization Project
Pluscarden Abbey Patristic Lectionary: https://rmhealey.com/patristic-lectionary/
A Year with the Fathers: Amazon
Rule of St. Benedict: PDF
Imitation of Christ: Online
The Lessons Of The Temporal Cycle And The Principal Feasts Of The Sanctoral Cycle According To The Monastic Breviary: Amazon
Parochial and Plain Sermons: Amazon
Butler’s Lives of Saints: Online
Other Ordinariate Prayerbooks and Prayer Materials
Morning and Evening Prayer and The 1928 Prayer Book Psalter: Concise Edition (Missing Collects of the Church year and Lectionary Table; contains the other materials needed for Mattins and Evensong according to the NAE): Amazon
Daily Readings for Morning and Evening Prayer: Divine Worship North American Edition - RSV-CE: Amazon
St. Gregory Prayerbook: Amazon
1928 Coverdale Psalter (Divine Name removed to comply with Catholic Liturgical Principles): PDF
Divine Worship Daily Office NAE Minor Hours Booklet with Prime from the CE: Booklet
DWDO NAE Rubrics: PDF
DWDO CE Rubrics: PDF
Table of Contents for Commons DWDO NAE insert: PDF
Historic Guidelines for Mattins and Evensong:
* Ritual Notes (section on how to do Mattins and Evensong): PDF
* The Parson’s Handbook (section on how to do Mattins and Evensong): PDF
Other Books
Anglican Prayerbooks
Scriptural BCP (website which shows all of the scripture citations for scriptures the BCP draws from): Online
Office Books
The English Office (An Anglo-catholic version of the 1662 Mattins and Evensong with enrichments): Amazon
*St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter (Includes everything necessary except lectionary table and collects of the Church Year. Due to it being published by Western Rite Orthodox the Filioque is footnoted on the Athanasian Creed): Lancelot Andrewes Press
The Anglican Breviary (A translation of the Roman breviary into Prayerbook English which uses the BCP Collects, the Coverdale Psalms, and KJV): https://www.anglicanbreviary.net/
The Monastic Diurnal: Lancelot Andrewes Press
The Monastic Diurnal Noted: Lancelot Andrewes Press
Monastic Breviary Matins: Lancelot Andrewes Press
The Anglican Office Book: St. Andrew’s Store
Breviary Offices, from Lauds to Compline Inclusive Translated and Arranged from the Sarum Book and Supplemented from Gallican and Monastic Uses. Printed for the Society of S. Margaret, Boston, U.S.: PDF
Mattins translated and Arranged from the Sarum Book and Supplemented from Gallican and Monastic Uses. Printed for the Society of S. Margaret, Boston, U.S. : PDF
Little Office
The Virgin’s Lamp by J.M. Neale: PDF
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1911) from the Society of Saints Peter and Paul Compiled By Jeremy Arule & Tristan Hayes : PDF
Short Office of the Holy Ghost from T.T. Carter Compiled By Tristan Hayes : PDF
Minor Hours + Manual of Prayers
* Private Devotions of John Cosin: PDF
* Private Devotions of William Laud: PDF
* The priest's prayer book: Containing Private Prayers and Intercessions: PDF
* The Priest's prayer book : with a brief pontifical: PDF
* The Priest’s Book of Private Devotions: Online
Manual of Prayers
* Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes: Part I PDF | Part II PDF | Amazon
* Private Prayers by E.B. Pusey: PDF
* The True Church of England-man's companion in the closet: PDF
*St. Augustine Prayerbook APA Edition: Anglican Parishes Association
*Balm for the Weary and the Wounded Manual of Devotions (Manual of Devotions Compiled by Southern Episcopalian Chaplain during the American Civil War): PDF
*The Confederate Soldiers' Pocket Manual of Devotions (Manual of Devotions Compiled by Southern Episcopalian Chaplain during the American Civil War): PDF | BOOK
*Selections from the Book of Common Prayer (Manual of Devotions Compiled For Union Soldiers During the American Civil War): PDF
*Soldier's Prayer Book (Manual of Devotions Compiled For Union Soldiers During the American Civil War): PDF
*Prayers for the use of all persons who come to the baths of Bath for cure: PDF
*A manual of prayers for the use of the scholars of Winchester College: PDF
*Family prayer for busy people by John Ker: PDF
*Anglican Prayers for Busy People by John Ker: Amazon
* Prayers at Mass, with the Order of Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament and Other Eucharistic Devotions for American Catholics: PDF
Sarum Prayerbooks
Office Book
The Psalter, or, Seven ordinary hours of prayer, according to the use of the illustrious & excellent church of Sarum: PDF
Little Office + Manual of Prayers
The Encheiridion, Or Daily Hours of Private Devotion, According to Sarum Use, Tr. and Arranged by a Layman of the English Church [J.D. Chambers]. PDF
The English Primers 1529-1545 (Lists prayerbooks): PDF
The Prymer or Lay Folks' Prayer Book 1895: PDF
Roman Catholic Prayerbooks
Office Books
The Monastic Diurnal St. Michael’s Abbey
Roman Diurnal 1962: Fraternity Publications | Clear Creek Abbey | Angelus Press
Roman Breviary: Clear Creek Abbey | Angelus | Baronius | Online
Liturgy of the Hours: Online
Little Office
Little Office of Baltimore: Tan Books
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary
My Daily Psalms Book (Pocket Psalter which lays out the psalms and Canticles of the Roman Breviary) Amazon
The primer : or, Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary 1780: PDF
Manual of Prayers
Handbook of Prayers
The Garden Of The Soul, Or, A Manual Of Spiritual Exercises And Instructions For Christians by Bishop Challoner: PDF
The Complete Manual of Catholic Piety by William Gahan: Ebook
A Manual of prayers : for the use of the Catholic laity : prepared and published by order of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore : PDF | Tan Books
Preces Gertrudianae : Prayers of St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde of the Order of St. Benedict: PDF
St. Vincent's Manual : Containing A Selection Of Prayers And Devotional Exercises: PDF
Prayer-book for religious: a complete manual of prayers and devotions for the use of the members of all religious communities: PDF
Fulton Sheen’s Wartime Prayer Book: Sophia Institute
Other
Roman Martyrology
The Raccolta or Collection of Indulgenced Prayers & Good Works 1910: PDF
Eastern Orthodox Prayerbooks
*A Psalter for Prayer: Pocket Edition (Conforms Coverdale Psalms to the Septuagint and lays them out for the Kathisma Prayers): Amazon
Western Rite Orthodox Prayerbooks
*St. Ambrose Prayerbook: Lancelot Andrewes Press
Eastern Catholic Prayerbooks
The Prayers of the Holy Psalter (A Melkite Prayerbook which can be printed off and stapled; it provides the Kathisma Prayers and the Masoretic and LXX/Vuglate Numbering to use with a Bible): Online