Catholic Book Reviews | The Oratory Prayer Book

The Prayer Book is available from the Oxford Oratory Website

[CS-zpto]

This looks like just what I've wanted to use and carry in my purse. I'm going to order one now. Thanks for all your great reviews.

[jess]

Pretty cool little prayer book! Thanks for the review!

[clevelandfan]

I’m really glad to see this come out because it’s really exactly the type of thing we’ve been begging publishers to actually make - a general prayer book which is actually compact. You’re right that it seems like it could have just a bit more - I think a selection of 10-20 psalms would be the perfect icing on the cake. However, I’m definitely going to pick up a copy. Recently most of my prayer rule is straight out of the blue RSV that you showed, since I don’t have time for a full breviary anymore, but coupling those together should let me bring back some structure. Thanks for an awesome review!

[albertsmyth]

Forgive me for mentioning it, but the star doesn’t represent Oxford, it represents St Philip Neri as it’s from his coat of arms. Sorry.

[mb]

Does this volume include the Te Deum, the Song of the Three Children, or the Athanasian Creed? Does it have any blank pages?

[nathanielramos]

Hi im just wondering if this kind of booklets, cards or novena pamphlets with the image of Jesus or Mary and saints, do i need to bring them to the priest and have it blessed or not?

[justin_messer]

Serapion was an ecclesiastic from the Egyptian desert who wrote what is considered to be the oldest outline or sacramentary of the Divine Liturgy. I believe he wrote it during the mid 4th century, sometime after Nicaea I. There is a Wikipedia article on it. I believe there is a translation done in the 19th century that is available on internet archive. I think it forms the core for the Alexandrian rite liturgy much in the same way St Hippolytus’s letters form the core of the Roman Liturgy. I believe the Sacramentary of Serapion is the first recorded attestation of the trisagion in the liturgical worship.

Also, would you prefer this over, say, the St Augustine/St. Ambrose prayer book?

Edit — checking now, the logos store does have a copy of the sacramentary available for electronic use with the logos Bible software for about 5 bucks US