breviary
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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
His only equipment was a breviary, his Mass kit and a large parasol to protect him from the sun.
From Time Magazine Archive
F.L.N. technicians have drawn up a "breviary of errors" made in the name of land reform in other emergent countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then with Father Angelus, his secretary, he read his breviary before reading and decoding the day's dispatches.
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
They had "eggs, bread, wine from the king's cellar, their breviaries, their night-gowns, a palliasse, and a mattress," brought to them there; and they were kept under ocular supervision for four and twenty hours.
From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by Robert Black
It is divided into nine lessons and served for the Franciscan breviaries up to the time when St. Bonaventura made his Legenda Minor.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
Pater-nosters forever, or eternal Misereres! forgetting that in Mardi, our breviaries oft fall from our hands.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
Search the Scriptures for yourselves, search the earliest writers for yourselves, and for yourselves search with all diligence into the authentic and authorized liturgies of your own Church, your missals, and breviaries, and formularies.
From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler
