De ratione
Pocket Breviary is a calm, offline-first reader for the traditional Latin Breviarium Romanum and the Tridentine Mass. It serves both 1962 (John XXIII rubrics) and pre-1955 (Pius X psalter, full pre-Pius-XII calendar).
Sources
The liturgical text is rendered live from the Divinum Officium project's hand-keyed corpus. The typesetting, navigation, lexicon and offline cache are this site's own.
Principles
- Content is sovereign, chrome is invisible.
- Defaults beat options. Most users want to pray, not to configure.
- One menu glyph holds everything that isn't today's prayer.
- Beautiful typography over decorative ornament.
- Persistence without surveillance: no accounts, no analytics.
Contact
Mendum invenisti? — salve@pocketbreviary.com. You can also use the inline "Nuntiāre mendum" form inside the menu.