I'm not exactly sure how universalis works, but I think to avoid paying royalties to ICEL or the US Bishops conference, they've written a paraphrase of some texts and taken others from the Jerusalem Bible which for whatever reason is not as strictly copyrighted as the New American Bible. Many people find the universalis paraphrase to be nicer than what is in the regular breviary. They also have the standard versions, but these have a price to help universalis pay royalties.
A paraphrase or something like the new English translation prayers on universalis.com?
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I'm not exactly sure how universalis works, but I think to avoid paying royalties to ICEL or the US Bishops conference, they've written a paraphrase of some texts and taken others from the Jerusalem Bible which for whatever reason is not as strictly copyrighted as the New American Bible. Many people find the universalis paraphrase to be nicer than what is in the regular breviary. They also have the standard versions, but these have a price to help universalis pay royalties.
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