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Getting started

This page describes the stand alone and extended web versions
Click here to download the latest files of the stand alone version

Click here for the similar description of the original (Divino Afflatu only) and for some details on the web version
Click here for some known problems and deficiences.

Click here for the list of missing offices.

Please help.

 The stand alone programlet allows navigation without mouse using the keyboard. See more details here.

Press in any page:
  • the fist letter of an Hour (M, L, P, T, S, N, V, C) to call the page of that Hour
  • F or End to finish the popup (if any), the horas page or the program itself
  • D calls the Database editor either from the masin or from the horas page
In the horas page, press:
  • A to call the prayer 'Aperi Domine' to start, E to call the prayer 'Sacrosanctae' to end
  • Enter to bring the next cell to the top
  • the sequence digit for any cell, using F1 F2 F3 F4 for the first digit if the number is 10 or larger, so F2 0 is 20. Digit 0 in itself brings to the beginning, F9 to the end
  • If the above or automatic positioning through reading would run out of the screen, press Insert to pull downward, or Delete to pull upward the text.

  • Down arrow, Up arrow moves the screen forward of backward.
  • Page Down, Page Up also moves the screen forward of backward with larger amount.

  • H stops the speaker. Restore by pressing R. If you page down or up the window, the correct view will be restored only when the reding goes to the next cell. Restart the cell and the reading also by calling it with the above described numbers or by clicking on Top or Next tabs on the cell.

You may let the computer to read the office aloud with you, if 'column 1' or 'column 2' option is selected in voice widget. Click on help in 'options' voice mode or in 'Controls' tab for details In the main folder of the programlet Disablecreensave and Enablescreensave icons help to controll the screensaver function.

 The programlet comes up with the page:

main page


The fist row shows the Officium which is collected, the second line (if any) is the officium which is commemorated. Feasts are shown in red, the vigilias and offices of Santa Maria in blue, the Feria or Simplex commemoratio is black.

In the next line the widget after the title allows to reset the date. The programlet always comes up with the current date, you may select a different date, by pressing
  • &darr down arrow for the prevous day
  • ↑ up arrow for the nex day
  • typing in a new date.
After the change you must press the button next to the widget, to get the new office

The images only remind, that the Officium is collected from the
  • Ordinarium = the frame of the Horas
  • Psalterium = the body of the Horas, the psalms
  • Proprium de tempore = the days as they are part of the seasons of the Chuch year
  • Proprium Sanctorum = the feasts of the saints
  • Commune Sanctorum = the common part of the officiums for the saints
You may see details at technical information or rubrics pages.

The eight buttons in blue show the eight ours of the Officium Divinum; you may select one by clicking on the tab, or by pressing the first letter of the name. If you recite the horas in sequence (In the standalone versione as default, for the web version if your browser allows cookies) then the already completed horas will be listed in the same color as the titles.

If you get here, you already used the Help button from the bottom. Try now Options button to, to get one of the tables below :

Options


Click on Param tab if not that table is the default and check or uncheck the priest box, so you will recite the Dominus vobiscum or the Domine exaudi as for those below the diaconate is required.

Click the tabs at the top to get the other tables (Param, Colors, Voice), Clicking that tab or clicking O.K. saves the values what you changed, click the X at the top right corner to escape.
Click on Help on the table, to information about the parameters
Click on Restore original tab restores the default values if you messed up

Options table for the web version is the same as the one for the original version Click OK to get back to the main table again. If your computer allows cookies, this values and the ones on the bottom row will be saved for the next session

For the web version without cookies you may parameter the address line with one or more of the following parameters: 
?expand=all&version=Rubrics 1960&lang2=English&priest=1&screenheight=800
The first parameter has to be started with ? the subsequent ones by &. After the = sign any value from the appropriate table could be used

The widgets on the bottom row allows you to control how the collection is shown. Click now on skeleton and click on Completorium button.

The programlet shows the skeleton of the easiest to collect Hora

competorium-skeleton


Only the Psalmi and the Preces are changeable, the rest is from the Ordinarium. Other horas are more complex, click on the name of each hora, the black comment indicate the source of the chapter.

If you click on any radiobutton next to the chapter title, that part will be expanded. Click an another to change the expanded part, or on the same chapter's button again, to revoke the expansion.

The picture shows the final Oratio expanded, and the equivalent of the Dominus vobiscum the Domine exaudi as popup.

expanded and popup


To pray the hora, you select any other mode than skeleton:
  • all types everything, including the common prayers
  • psalms only indicates the common prayers
  • nothing types only the ordinarium, the psalms, lections and othe longer items are only indicated.
In the last two cases you may

horastable


  • click the button next to the indicated name, and the text will come up in a separate window, the popup

  • Click on Top brings the cell to the top, Next brings the next cell to the top.

  • Reload in the right cell reloads the text files from the database, useable if you edit that files

  • The number in the right cell is for reference

In the text of the Divine Office,
  • ✝ indicates blessing yourself: in the Latin fashion, with your hand flat, touch with the fingers your forehead, breast, left then right shoulder.
  • ✠ indicates blessing your lips by a sign of the Cross made over them with your thumb.
  • ☨ indicates blessing your heart by a sign of the Cross made over it with your thumb.
In the text of the Mass,
  • ☩ indicates those places where the Priest make the sign of the Cross during the rite.
  • ✝ indicates blessing your forehead, lips, and heart by three signs of the Cross made over them with your thumb (at the reading of the Holy Gospel).

Edit Allows you to see or edit the database files, standalone version allows edit

edit


The table also allows you to search for a string whitin a folder:

edit1


You may also change the date by clicking on Kalendar tab.
Select an other date, by clicking the day of month in the last column. Also you may change the year month at the top or the version at the borrom of the page.

kalendar


At the bottom the following two widgets allow you to select the version and mode. See details at version page.

Also you may select the language for the second colums. If you select the same language as the first column is, only that language will be shown in a single column.

The last widget allows to turn back to the office of the current day (click hodie) or or to select some votive offices.

I hope this little programlet helps you to understand the Officium Divinum better, and may be helps some people will start to pray the Divinum Officium in daily basis fully or at least partially.

T.A.D.M.N.

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