The Matins Lectionary: The Complete Readings from the Traditional Roman Breviary

For centuries, the Divine Office formed the heart of the Church’s daily prayer. Among its richest hours was Matins, an early morning offering of Psalms, Sacred Scripture, the lives of the saints, and the luminous wisdom of the Church Fathers. The Matins Lectionary restores this spiritual treasury in full, presenting the complete cycle of readings from the Traditional Roman Breviary as they existed before the 1960 reform of Pope John XXIII, when nearly sixty percent of the Patristic and hagiographical readings were removed.

 In his Motu Proprio promulgating the simplified Breviary, Pope John XXIII urged clerics to secure the writings of the Fathers, “so rich in wisdom and piety,” and to read and meditate upon them constantly. This volume answers that call, placing back into your hands the very readings that nourished monks, priests, and lay faithful for generations