Members and fellow-travelers of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter (OCSP), which has jurisdiction over parishes in the United States and Canada, have been waiting, fruitlessly, for so much as mere crumbs of official information about the status of the Daily Office in the Ordinariate’s Divine Worship form, allegedly sitting in Rome awaiting approval. Although select groups of people have access to the draft texts, they guard it under pontifical orders with a strictness that would make you think the North American Ordinariate was sitting on nuclear launch codes.

However, lucky for everyone, the OCSP is only one of three Ordinariates in the world for folks of Anglican heritage. The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, based in Australia, has been significantly more forthcoming about their own draft version of the Office, having put the full text in their online Ordo for the…