Divine Office? Roman Breviary?

[AnneTce]

Are these the same thing
Divine Office?
Roman Breviary?
Are these Traditional?

The LOTH is post 1960s though ?

I need clarification here

Thanks

[CaptCrunch73]

Here's a good article to give you a general idea of breviarys.

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2009/06/more-on-divine-office-private.html

I've found the current LoTH to be mind numbing so I've picked up a used copy of Lauds, Vespers and Compline in English from Abebooks. We'll see what happens when Baronius releases it's breviary.

[Richard C]

The Divine Office can collectively refer to all the forms (LOTH, Roman Breviary, and all the unique breviaries used by monastic orders).

The general form used by the Church at large was the Roman Breviary until after Vatican II. I think it was last updated in 1963. It's "traditional."

I believe the Liturgy of the Hours was promulgated in 1970 (at the earliest), and the greatest change was it moved to a four-week psalter as opposed to the old one-week form.

I've also found a Vatican II Divine Office copyright 1967 at a used bookstore but I don't know anything else about it except the preface said it provisional, in force until a commission finished the new office (LOTH).

[Scriptorium]

They all refer to the prayers priests and religious pray composed of mostly the Psalms. Before the 1970 these were called the Office, the Divine Office, or the Breviary. There were various versions, one of which was the Roman one. After the 60s, this was reformed and renamed the "Liturgy of the Hours". Some orders didn't adopt this, so LOTH is essentially Roman.

[aquinas138]

At the risk of being pedantic, the Divine Office is the sanctification of the various hours of the day by the prayer of the Church.  This is done by hymns, psalms, readings and various prayers.  It is found in various forms in every one of the rites of the Catholic Church. 

The "Roman Breviary" is a particular set of books containing the texts of the Divine Office according to the Roman Rite; it contains no musical notation.  To celebrate the Divine Office solemnly, another book with the notation would be needed, particularly the Antiphonale Romanum.

The "Liturgy of the Hours" is used in two ways: (1) as a synonym for the Divine Office, i.e., the sanctification of the hours by prayer, and (2) the 4-volume English translation of the Liturgia Horarum, which is the post-Vatican II form of the Divine Office.  This latter does not contain musical notation.

Many religious communities have either their "use" (often just a variation of the Roman office) or their own distinctive rite, though in the post-Vatican II period, many have just adopted the Liturgy of the Hours.  The Eastern Catholic Churches and Orthodox communities also celebrate the Divine Office, but most of them do not have a book that neatly corresponds to the Roman Breviary, i.e., a single book containing all the texts.