In keeping with modern Benedictine usage, Prime as a separate office is omitted. Like other modern revisions, this book does not attempt to retain St. Benedict's recitation of the entire Psalter every week. Unlike others, however, the psalm distribution normally associated with Benedictine Little Hours, Vespers, and Compline has been retained on a weekly cycle. The remaining Psalms are used at Matins on a monthly cycle. The Psalter contains the basic Office for Sundays and weekdays.
Rubrics provide detailed directions for use.
An Ordinary of the Season is provided for the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Paschaltide, . The Common of Saints contains the entire Office for a saint's festival under the headings of Apostles, Martyrs, Holy Men, Holy Women, and The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Office for commemorating the Dedication of a Church or a Monastic House is also included in the Common. The Proper of Saints provides all the variable parts of the Office for commonly observed saints' days, according to the current usage of the Eastern Province of the Community of St. Mary, together with directions for their use. The Office of the Dead is used in its entirety in the Eastern Province of the Community of St. Mary only on November 2, All Souls' Day, but Matins of the Office of the Dead is recited on days of a funeral, a first anniversary of a sister's death, and for the monthly commemoration of all the recently departed.