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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. 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 should be filed within the next few weeks.
2. 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, set up an accounting system, open a bank account,
and look into the possibility of accepting credit card payments directly
from our website.
3. An 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 would include Confraternity news alerts,
urgent prayer requests and monthly prayer intentions, reminders of dues
payment and receipt of payment, etc. We are currently looking into
software that will allow us to fulfill these objectives in the most
efficient manner possible. Suggestions from computer-savvy members
would be welcome!
4. Introduction of an online bookstore.
Items offered will be a variety of liturgical and other books for the use of our
members and other visitors. Contributing members will receive a
discount on all items. We hope to offer such books as a the Roman
Martyrology in English, the Liturgical Year by Dom Gueranger, the Liber
Usualis, the Roman Missal, the Douai-Rheims Bible, a Commentary on the
Psalms by St. Robert Bellarmine, Butler's Lives of the Saints, the Yearly Liturgical Ordo, an annual
liturgical calendar, and so on. Eventually, our aim is to offer
individual Hours of the Divine Office in printed format, and possibly even
the 4-volume Roman Breviary.
5. Compline Booklet
We're currently working on a small booklet that would contain the text of
Compline for the entire year, in Latin and English. We hope to have
this ready sometime in 2007, and will be offering it for sale at our website
bookstore.
6. Instructions for Reciting the Divine
Office
In response to many requests from members who are new to saying the
Breviary, we are going to be working on a booklet that contains the rubrics and general instructions
for the liturgy in a format that would be easy to understand for the
beginner. This would not only contain
detailed instructions on how to recite the Divine Office itself, but would
also relate it to our own website, so that members can more easily find
their way around.
7. Changes to the Website
We need to complete the extensive work adding accentuation marks to the
Latin. We are also in the process of switching over the English
translation to the Psalter to a new one that we hope will be easier to
follow and which will more closely follow the Latin. Eventually, we
will be re-translating the Scriptural references on the website,
particularly the First Nocturn lessons at Matins. Other cosmetic
changes to the website will include improvements to the navigation system.
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