I submitted my pre-order today for the Baronius Breviary. No doubt many of you have already seen Fr. Z's mini-review of the new set. As promised, a larger and more robust review with many photos of the breviaries will appear on these pages. When you google "Baronius Breviary" this blog shows up just under the Baronius site, so no doubt many will view this review. Believe it or not, many folks still find this blog looking for TAN's Bibles and then stick around to view the other pages here.
One of the things I try to do here is to provide an accurate as possible testimony about important Catholic books on the market because I know money is tight for a lot of people. Things have slowed a little because I am incredibly busy with my job. Although, as some of you no doubt have read around the internet...that will soon be ending...
Your donations have helped defray some of the cost for me and I hope that will help you make a good buying decision. Baronius Press worked hard and had many setbacks. From the looks of things, they have put together a decent product. I am looking forward to telling you about it as soon as possible.
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Saturday, March 03, 2012
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Breviaries Again Printing from Baronius (not yet selling)
I apologize for the hiatus here. My schedule at the school is doubled from last year and I am still struggling with finding the time balance for lots of things I need to do. At any rate, Baronius has yet again updated us on their Breviary printing. It looks like things are back on track. Remember, they originally said it would take a few months from the printing to ordering. So...January? We'll see!
Buy something from them today to help them out. I heartily recommend the Divine Intimacy. It is the best spiritual "direction" book I have ever used.
From Baronius:
----- Update 20th October 2011 -----
We are very aware that this project has been delayed significantly – even the printing is now well over schedule.
Our printer in the Philippines has been beset by a series of typhoons since we gave the instruction to start printing the Breviary. This year the weather has been particularly bad – there have been floods in the area around the plant, electrical shortages and the humidity has been very high for a much longer period than normal, causing technical problems and making it very difficult to print continuously.
The good news is that printing has now resumed, and we are now awaiting a revised completion date from our printer which we will post in the next few days. We understand that the wait for this title has been extremely frustrating. We also realise that we have not always been good at keeping customers updated, and we will try to post more regular updates. We hope we can assure you that we and the printer are doing our utmost to get the Breviaries completed as soon as possible.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
2011 Typhoon Season
We just had a hurricane, but in the Pacific they call them typhoons. These buggers are the reason the Baronius Breviary is being delayed and so I went onto the Information Superhighway to find information about recent typhoon activity.
That's it? Only $480 Million? Can that be right? Even Gov. Christie said the damage in New Jersey was in the billions. Go look at the path of Muifa.
Given that they mention Typhoons, we can deduce that the books are being printed in Asia somewhere. It looks like Japan, Korea, China, and the Philippines have been hit this season along with some other smaller countries thrown in. India has only gotten tropical depressions.
The region where the printer is has been hit by two typhoons recently. I am thinking, given the path of the storm, that Typhoon Muifa was one of them.
Take a look at this:
Typhoon Muifa (international designation: 1109, JTWC designation: 11W, PAGASA Name: Kabayan) was a large, strong and persistent typhoon that effected multiple countries in the pacific, killing 22 and causing widespread damage worth US$480 million.
Muifa is a cool name by the way. Our next hurricane/storm will be called "Jose". The typhoon season is supposed to last until November. Perhaps the breviary will be done in time for Christmas?
Another Baronius Update [Updated!]
An update here, on my birthday, from Baronius Press. A small consolation I suppose.
----- Update 30th August 2011 -----
At the moment, our printer is still encountering problems with printing. He has experienced two typhoons recently, and the amount of water around the factory and the humidity in the air is making it very difficult to produce the books. Therefore, we are expecting the Breviary to be delayed until this is solved.
We only want to be able to take pre-orders once we know that the Breviaries are on the ship, so that we can give an accurate date of delivery (assuming the ship doesn't sink!). As soon as we have positive news, we will post additional information on our website. In the meantime, we thank you for bearing with us, and we will do our best to keep you informed.
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----- Update 20th July 2011 -----
For the last few weeks, our printer has not been able to carry on production of the Breviary due to exceptional weather circumstances. At the moment, we do not have an exact schedule, but we anticipate to receive an update in the next week or so. As soon as we have new schedule confirmed it will be post it here.
We have taken the decision that the Roman Breviary will be sold exclusively to individual customers by Baronius Press and not sold via any other retailers or vendors.
I imagine there are quite a few upset retailers now, who have been waiting to carry "the big one" for several years and having to put up with customers constantly asking if they have heard anything. Nevertheless if we want Baronius to be around for many more years we need to understand they have to protect their profits.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Baronius Breviary - Deo Gratias!
Finally! Baronius has posted their pre-order of the new Breviary. The set will cost about $350. They have also posted some new inside scans on their site.
Today was the one day I didn't check the site. But thank you Fr. Ramil for the heads up!
And a word from Baronius on their website, with my comments/responses and highlights. For some reason, the text won't turn red tonight. My comments are in italics.
We wish to thank all those who have supported the completion of this project with their prayers and by purchasing our existing titles. [No problem!] This was the most ambitious project Baronius has attempted to date and in our attempts to give it the attention and time such an important publication deserved it ended up taking significantly longer than we originally planned.
As we have previously explained to many customers, work on the Breviary has been delayed by a series of difficulties, including being let down by some contributors [!] working on elements of the project and various technical issues. We ourselves have been frustrated by these problems which have held up progress with the Breviary.
The process of submitting the work for a concordat cum originali took the best part of a year. We anticipated that it would be a long process, however, we knew that it was absolutely essential to take this step as it means that the Church grants its approbation for the Latin text to be used liturgically in its services. [I am glad they did this the right way, even if it added to the time it took.]
The editor also introduced some additional rounds of proof reading and checking to try and eliminate as many errors as possible. These also delayed publication by at least six months, but again we thought it was the best course to follow.
Several customers had suggested that we should have concentrated on the Breviary rather than publishing various other titles. Baronius Press is only a small independent company and the Classics and the other titles have provided the income we needed to be able to continue the work on the Breviary. [I am looking forward to the new Knox Bible as well. It is important to support small Catholic publishers. Have you seen their Divine Intimacy? It is fantastic.]
Furthermore, at the end of last year we took the step of changing printers. We thought that this move was important for a number of reasons, not least because of the continual delays we had experienced with producing books with the previous printer. This move has also caused a delay of a couple of months in the Breviary's production, as we needed to reprint titles we were running out of stock of before we could schedule in the Breviary for printing. Those were finished a few weeks ago and the Breviary now has the full attention of our new printer. The estimated time for the Breviary to be produced and delivered to our warehouse is 3-4 months. We estimate that we will be able to start shipping copies to customers around the beginning of August 2011. Please bear in mind that this is a provisional date and we hope and pray that it is accurate.
A provisional price of $350/ £230 has been set for this title. [A little higher than anticipated. But consider that a new Latin Liturgia Horarum will set you back almost $900.] We are aware there has been some criticism on various Catholic on-line discussions that we should have been able to announce the price before now. [If they had announced the price, they would have been criticized if they had to change it.] We have had an idea how much it would be for quite some time, but as Baronius is juggling several currencies, we did not want to say it will be such-and-such-a-price, and then find that due to an unforeseen fluctuation of exchange rates, we are forced to change it. We trust customers will understand our prudence in this matter.
The reason we are being as candid as we can be about these matters is that we know many benefactors have been extremely disappointed that the Breviary has not appeared sooner. Please be assured we too share your frustrations with the difficulties that have beset the project. [See everyone, they were listening! I imagine reading criticism and not being able to do or say anything about it to change the process was very difficult.] However, we hope that you understand some of the problems we have faced and forgive us [forgiven] for the very long time it has taken to get this far. We believe that this is a very important project and are ourselves extremely keen to see the Breviary delivered as soon as possible to those wishing to use it. We hope that when delivered, you will agree that it has been worth the wait, and wherever in the world you may be, we hope that this will be a useful tool that can be used for many years, to the greater glory of God.
Monday, October 25, 2010
Baronius With Two New Titles...for the Soul!
No, the one we're all waiting for isn't one of them. But they have produced two nice looking classics. Take a look!
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