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He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2020

At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day.

From Time Magazine Archive

After that he exercises by walking along the Apostolic Palace's rooftop terrace while reciting the rosary and reading his breviary.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the cover of the black volumes were the arms of the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice: the breviary was bought in 1956.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brass candlesticks and old Venetian glass were huddled away in inlaid cabinets, and half-hidden with old illuminated breviaries and pinned rolls of lace.

From My Friend the Chauffeur by Frederic Lowenheim

Most priests will have observed that missals and breviaries differ with regard to the rite of the Feast of St. Andrew Avellino, some giving it as a double, others as a semi-double.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, December 1864 by Various

Opposite the wall two or three priests bending over their breviaries mumbled the prayers for the dying.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

At this institute training in all languages was given, and breviaries, mass and devotional books, and handbooks were printed for the use of the missions.

From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz