Liber Pro vs Hours

Liber Pro takes the 1961 Liber Usualis, a book of over 2,300 pages of Gregorian Chant for use throughout the liturgical year, and literally puts it at your fingertips on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Liber Pro adds to this tome a linked table of contents, user-defined bookmarks, vertical and horizontal paging and zooming, browser-like navigation, a dynamic liturgical calendar, and more. Liber Pro is more than just an eBook. It is also a complete 1961 Roman Calendar, capable of calculating the moveable feasts throughout the year automatically. This means you can select a date; view the proper, common, and feria for that date; and jump instantly to the relevant pages in the Liber Usualis. FEATURES: Browser: - 1961 Liber Usualis: over 2,300 pages - Scroll, zoom, and page with touch gestures - Simple “Back” and “Forward” buttons traverse browsing history - Browse in portrait or landscape orientation - Option to hide view selector for additional viewing area - Selectable paging direction: up and down or left and right - Selectable overlay eases page viewing - Two-finger tap brings up markup palette (In-App Purchase Required) Calendar: - Calculates the day’s feast from the calendar of 1961 - Links to the starting page of the proper, common, and feria of the day - Select today, the next or previous day, the next or previous week, or choose a day with a date picker Bookmarks: - User-defined bookmarks retain page, position, and zoom - List of bookmarks can be reordered and individual bookmarks deleted Table of Contents: - Extensive table of contents provides links to Masses, offices, rubrics, and much more History: - Provides links to the 100 most recently visited pages this session Search: - Text-based search of the Liber - Tap a search result to jump to the page Annotations: - iPhone/iPod - Three drawing tools plus selection tool - Freeform or four-point-fill drawing modes - Four colors available plus ability to white page text out - iPad - Includes all annotation features available for iPhone/iPod - Additional highlighter tool - Four point line-to mode - Twelve color palette

Hours is a companion for praying the Roman Breviary according to the 1960 rubrics or the earlier rubrics of 1954, and for following the Mass of each day. Latin office texts and neumes, from Matins to Compline with optional English translations. THE COMPLETE DAILY OFFICE • Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline • Two editions: the 1960 rubrics, and the Divino Afflatu rubrics as they stood in 1954 • Calendar, liturgical season, rank, and observance for the selected day THE MASS • The propers and Ordinary of each day's Mass in Latin with optional English, from the 1962 Roman Missal with the 1960 Office or the 1954 Missal with the earlier Office • The propers sung from the Graduale and the Ordinary from the Kyriale, with every setting of the Kyriale in Search CHANT Responsive native Gregorian notation adapts to iPhone, iPad, orientation, and text size. A built-in cantor guide supports tempo, transposition, phrase looping, tap-to-start practice, and synchronized highlighting with tone audio. Hours follows the 1960 Roman rubrics, which took effect in 1961 and were incorporated into the 1961 Roman Breviary, and offers beside them the earlier rubrics of 1954. It is an independent prayer and reference aid, not an official liturgical publication, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Holy See or another ecclesiastical authority.