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The Confraternity of Ss. Peter & Paul is planning to expand its operations.
The generosity of our members in providing regular donations will give us the opportunity of devoting more time to various
projects we have been contemplating over the past years since our inception
in 2001. Here are a few of the ideas we're working on:
1. Providing upgrade of our website at Breviary
Mobile
This upgrade will provide the daily Office in an easy-to-read
format, without any of the links and decision-making of our main website.
Ideal for liturgical beginners and those with Internet-accessible devices
such as iPhones and Blackberries, this upgrade service will provide an easy
and ideal way to say the Office each day without having to refer to rubrics
and complicated liturgical instructions. We hope to have this site
ready by Easter 2009. The upgrade will be free for members whose
subscription dues are current, and available at a nominal charge for all
others.
2. Establishing the Confraternity as a
not-for-profit organization.
This will enable our members to make tax-deductible donations to the
Confraternity, and will also provide us with a solid legal standing.
Incorporation papers were filed and approved in 2006.
3. Improvements to our Membership Tracking
and Accounting
Because of the increase in regular donations, it will become far more
important to keep track of our finances, and especially as they relate to
the individual members. Accordingly, we need to establish the
Confraternity as a tax-exempt organization. We are currently looking into
ways of automating the subscription process and linking it with our new
upgraded service at www.breviary.mobi.
4. Improvements to our E-Mail Distribution List
This will allow us to keep in touch with our members in a far more regular
and effective way. E-mails could include Confraternity news alerts,
urgent prayer requests and monthly prayer intentions, book sales and special
offers, etc.
5. Improvements
to online bookstore
We are looking to provide copies of the different hours in printed format
available for specific feasts. This would be very useful for any local
Chapter or parish that is intending to solemnize a particular feast by
celebrating any of the Hours of the Divine Office for that day.
6. Instructions for Reciting the Divine
Office online
Corresponding to our very successful e-Book "How to Say
the Breviary" we are hoping to publish a similar second volume dealing with
the unique difficulties of saying the Office online from our website at
www.breviary.net. This
would provide general instructions
for following the Office online in a format that would be easy to understand for the
liturgical beginner.
7. Changes to the Website
Now that we have completed the extensive work adding accentuation marks to the
Latin and switching over the English
translation of the Psalter, we next hope to re-vamp the Scriptural references on the website,
particularly the First Nocturn lessons at Matins. The purpose of this
would be to make the English more closely reflect the original Latin of the
Vulgate, while retaining the beauty and dignity of the current translation.
We also hope to provide improvements to the navigation system.
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