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March 9, 2021Newman House Press is once again taking pre-orders for the second printing of Divine Worship: Daily Office, the form of the divine office for North America’s Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, as the ACS can now confirm.
Those interested in pre-ordering a copy of Divine Worship: Daily Office should use this official form from Newman House Press. The orders are emailed to and handled by NHP’s John Davis. People who ordered for the first printing, which ran out at 500 copies, should start receiving notices soon about having their orders fulfilled with the second printing.
Each copy of Divine Worship: Daily Office (North American edition) is $30, not including shipping and handling. Ordinariate parishes, communities, and groups would do well to leverage the discount rates to provide for their own liturgical use as well as cover the needs of their people: 25% discount for orders of 10-49 copies, and 40% discount for orders over 50.
St. Alban’s Catholic Church, the Ordinariate parish community in Rochester, N.Y. has executed a five-step strategy with great success of inviting and educating people in praying the Daily Office at home and in church. Father Nathan Davis has held in-person and Zoom classes, including teaching people around the Ordinariate, and a weekly Sunday Evensong has now taken off.
ACS readers will note that Jackson Perry and myself provided an update and overview of the errata in the North American edition of Divine Worship: Daily Office. Regarding the second printing, I’ve confirmed that only some of the second printing’s errata were fixed, apparently enough to make it usable through the year. Those making corrections can use the online list of errata maintained at John Covert’s prayer.covert.org website to pencil them in as they go through the book.
Widespread adoption of Divine Worship: Daily Office by the laity – not simply obligated clergy – is key for the Ordinariate’s mission. As Fr. Christopher Lindlar pointed out to the ACS in an interview on the forthcoming Commonwealth edition of Divine Worship: Daily Office, “discipleship and evangelisation flow from prayer.” The Daily Office is foundational for Anglican spirituality in the Catholic Church, and this mainstay of prayer and immersion into scripture has powerfully formed evangelizing disciples of Jesus Christ for centuries.
The best gift the Ordinariate clergy and lay leaders can give their parishes, communities, and groups is the gift of praying the Daily Office at home and at church, and transforming their people into missionary disciples in a world that desperately needs them.Peter Jesserer Smith is the ACS Vice President and a staff writer for the National Catholic Register.
Editor’s note: You can download a copy of the pre-publication form for Divine Worship: Daily Office (North American edition) here.
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