austraLasia #2813 Some e-book texts you will want to have
ROME: 2 March 2011 -- Firstly, apologies for a short
break in service. Multitasking, even in this digital era,
has its limits! There's only so much one can do at once. But
with various people now away on Team Visits, the pressure
has eased a little!
However, we have been up to something that might help people
along the way! Any number of requests come in here for this
or that other text - one of the favourites is "Can I please
have the Mass text for Blessed so-and-so". As you are aware,
despite many efforts, it seems that a reprint in English
(and an update) is still in the making, and only the
Almighty Himself knows when. With that in mind, here
is an 'unofficial' but useful solution. The Salesian
Lectionary in English (which had already been largely put
together, again on an unofficial basis, in the US) is now available in
ebook format. This time, a number of changes have been
integrated - changes of date (Zatti got moved from March to
November, recall) or changes of text. We have some
texts officially approved in Latin (collects) but not in
English. Where we have them I have included them in this
'lectionary' in Latin. People can then do as they wish with
them. It is all, of course, for private use only.
The epub section in English doesn't stop there. The
Constitutions, the letters of the current Rector
Major, the last four General Chapter texts,
the recently revised SSCS text, Memoirs of the
Oratory, two key texts for the Salesian Family
(Identity, Mission), an interesting and academic address by
Fr Fabio Attard on the recently beatified John Henry Newman
... and more items are in the making. including the Liturgy
of the Hours for the Salesian Family.
Almost any 'hand held' device, including a number of mobile
phones, are capable of reading epub format these days; it is
the most widely used 'open' format in the game. Mind you, a
mobile phone does not provide much reading 'fun' if the text
goes beyond a few lines. A number of these texts have been
prepared professionally (by us here, but using professional
templates), so, for instance, the Lectionary text should
appear on a decent-sized screen just as it would if you had
a book in hand. If you want that experience, the easy way to
get it is to use Firefox as your browser, and download the
epub reader add-on. The alternative is the larger e-reader
device, and there are many of these, from very cheap to very
expensive.
Just one more important piece of information: you cannot
access these texts unless you are a registered user of
sdb.org. That you can do in 5 seconds flat from the sdb.org
home page 'Register' button. If the above link does not work
to the Lectionary, just go 'Resources' from the top tabs ont
he home page then 'E-SDB' from the drop-down list.
Happy reading.
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