Revision of the Liturgy of the Hours

Plans are underway for a revision of the Liturgy of the Hours. The US bishops at their Fall General Assembly, approved a plan for the development of an amended edition of the English-language Liturgy of the Hours for use in the United States. This means the Committee on Divine Worship will begin translation and editing. It will present a full draft to the conference when its work is completed. After this the draft would be submitted to the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments for approval.

 

 The U.S. bishops’ conference will decide which elements of the new Liturgy of the Hours edition to replace or retranslate. However,  the non-biblical readings of the Office of Readings which will remain in their current form. The new edition's psalms will come from the Revised Grail Psalter, translated by the Benedictines at Conception Abbey in Missouri. There are several options as far as the Old Testament and New Testament Canticles are concerned. They may use the current translation, an updated translation from the New American Bible, or new translations from Conception Abbey. Biblical readings will be adjusted according to approved texts.

 

The changes are in light of the new edition of the Roman Missal which has been in use since last Advent.

The liturgy of the Hours, now in use, was published in 1975 and 1976 by Catholic Book Publishing Co., with a 1992 supplement.

 

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