This website was created and designed by the late
Laszlo Kiss. Mr. Kiss, longtime resident of Forrest Lake, Illinois, died
suddenly at his home on Monday, 11 July 2011, shortly after returning
from a walk with his wife Marta. He was three days shy of his 73rd
birthday. Mr. Kiss was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 14 July 1938, and
married Marta Noske on 31 January 1968. He worked in Budapest as a
computer engineer until emigrating to the United States of America in
1982. In 1983, he developed “Image,” one of the first computer-controlled
manufacturing systems in the world (still in use to this day). He retired
in 2000, and, among other things, selflessly devoted hundreds of hours to
creating the website divinumofficium.com, which provides free access to
many different versions of the Divine Office (or breviary), the
traditional daily prayer book of the Roman Catholic Church. His funeral
was held at St. Peter's Catholic Church in Volo, Illinois, on the Feast
of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (16 July). Mr. Kiss is survived by three
brothers in Hungary, and in the States by his loving wife Marta (of
forty-three years), their two sons Zoltan and Chaba, and their two
grandchildren Sophie and Ryan.
On Monday, 15 August 2011, the Solemnity of the
Assumption of Our Lady, The Divinum Officium Project was founded, with
the permission of Laszlo's son Chaba, to preserve and further Laszlo's
work and to promote the worship of the Triune God through the Divine
Office. Currently, The Divinum Officium Project consists of a diocesan
priest as well as a team of software developers who maintain the site and
ensure its accuracy. We are always happy to welcome new volunteers who
are familiar with the Church's rites and/or Perl programming. Please see our
GitHub repository
for details.
T.A.D.M.N.
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