Origenian Breviary Volume IV: The Divine Office for the Fourth Week
Hardcover
Series: Origenian Breviary, Book 4
Religion General General Christianity
ISBN13: 9781946814401
Publisher: Triad Press
Published: Jun 5 2026
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Origenian Breviary is the official Daily Office of the Ancient Apostolic Primitive Catholic Church (AAPCC), a jurisdiction whose spiritual theology draws on Apostolic ecclesiology, Eastern hesychasm, the contemplative tradition of Origen of Alexandria, Desert Father asceticism, and the broader Western Catholic liturgical inheritance. Its animating purpose is theosis - the gradual transformation and deification of the soul through unceasing prayer, psalmody, sacred silence, and communion with God.
Volume IV contains the complete Divine Office for the Fourth Week of the four-week psalter cycle, under the theme of Mission, Sacrifice, Silence, and Return in Divine Life. All eight canonical Hours are provided for each of the seven days of the week: Matins (Ad Matutinum), Lauds (Ad Laudes), Prime (Ad Primam), Terce (Ad Tertiam), Sext (Ad Sextam), None (Ad Nonam), Vespers (Ad Vesperas), and Compline (Ad Completorium) - fifty-six Hours of the Office in full.
The volume is complete in itself. A clergyman, monastic, oblate, or lay faithful using this volume has everything needed for a full week of prayer without reference to any other source. Front matter includes an Editorial Preface situating this volume within the four-week cycle as its culminating movement, a condensed rubrical guide providing all practical instructions needed to pray the Hours, and a thematic introduction to Week IV and its spiritual character - the soul's passage from contemplative union into apostolic mission, sacrificial love, and the holy silence from which renewal comes.
Those coming to this volume for the first time are directed to Volume I for the full theological introductions, canonical documents, and Master Liturgical Calendar that undergird the entire Breviary.
As in Volumes I through III, three levels of observance are recognized and provided for: full monastic observance of all eight Hours; a clerical observance of Matins or Lauds, Vespers, and Compline with one or more Day Hours; and a minimum observance of Lauds and Vespers intended for lay faithful in ordinary life. The General Instructions address the pastoral needs of all three groups with equal care.
This fourth volume also contains a scholarly annotated bibliography of the primary sources, patristic texts, and modern studies that have informed the theological and liturgical vision of the Origenian Breviary as a whole - a resource for clergy, scholars, and serious students of the tradition. It stands as the final volume of a complete four-volume Divine Office, the first of its kind produced under the auspices of the Ancient Apostolic Primitive Catholic Church.
Published under the authority of the Most Reverend Kenneth J. Canterbury, Presiding Bishop, Schola Origenis.
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