Universalis, your very own breviary in pixels...

Sunday, 31 August 2008

Is this not cause for optimism?

I have long linked to Universalis, an excellent cite that allows anyone with internet access to pray any of the canonical hours, any day.
For free. (The books are very expensive, and not always easy to negotiate for the neophyte, what tih propers and ordinaries and temporal cycles and what all...)
Apparently, not only does this guy, (guy? what am I assuming that? maybe not an individual, even... hmmm,) fill a great need, but one that people who can afford it are willing to PAY FOR, and in light of which he/she/they, having found sure financial footing, has given away money donated to the project in it's earlier days.
Sweet.
I also note in reading the blog issues of copyright, and an entity "owning" the official liturgical texts of the Church, and disallowing its free dissemination, not unlike those, (much discussed around the parish of St Blog's recently,) regarding the new English Ordinary of the Mass.
Copyright is a vexing problem, and as always when money changes hands, there is no easily contrived justice, (although I think the lengths to which copyright can be extended in this country now are patently absurd and unjust.)

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