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Common questions
What is Hours?
Hours is a free app for iPhone, iPad, and Android, and a web app, for praying the traditional Roman Divine Office under the 1960 rubrics, with the Mass of the day from the 1962 Roman Missal. It presents the appointed Latin office with optional English translations and responsive Gregorian notation.
Which form of the Divine Office does Hours follow?
Hours implements the Breviarium Romanum under the 1960 rubrics promulgated by Pope John XXIII. Those rubrics took effect in 1961 and were incorporated into the 1961 Roman Breviary. Hours also offers the Breviary as it stood in 1954, before the reforms of 1955.
Which Missal does Hours follow for the Mass?
The 1962 Roman Missal, the edition that applies the 1960 rubrics to the Mass. The rubrics of the Office date from 1960 and its Breviary from 1961; the Missal is of 1962. With the 1954 edition chosen, the Mass is taken from the Missal as it stood in 1954.
Is Hours based on the 1962 Office?
No. The Office follows the 1960 rubrics, which took effect in 1961 and were incorporated into the 1961 Roman Breviary. The year 1962 belongs to the Roman Missal from which Hours takes the Mass, which applies the same rubrics.
What is the 1954 edition?
An alternative chosen in Settings: the Office and the Mass as they stood in 1954, before the reforms of 1955, with the octaves and vigils of the older calendar. Otherwise Hours follows the 1960 rubrics and the 1962 Missal.
Does “1960” describe the calendar year?
No. It identifies the rubrical system. Hours calculates the appropriate office for the civil date you select.
Is English required?
No. Latin is the primary presentation. English translations can be shown or hidden from the prayer options.
Does Hours include Gregorian chant?
Yes. Hours renders responsive Gregorian notation for the included chants and provides a cantor guide for tempo, transposition, phrase looping, and synchronized practice.
Does Hours require an account or internet connection?
No account is required. In the iPhone, iPad, and Android apps the Office is included and works without a connection. The web app holds every office it has shown, and the coming week, for use offline.
Which devices does Hours support?
Hours runs natively on iPhone, iPad, and Android phones and tablets, and on the web in any modern browser at liturgia.horarum.com. It supports light and dark appearances, larger text, and layouts adapted to each device and orientation.
Is Hours an official liturgical publication?
No. Hours is an independent prayer and reference aid and is not affiliated with or endorsed by an ecclesiastical authority.