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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Resurrexit sicut dixit!

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    c XVI, Image by Saiko , Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève Just to wish everyone a joyous Easter! And a reminder that the Bened...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Monastic breviary reprint and Nocturnale...

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There is some exciting news for all users of the Monastic Office - the Monastic Breviary of 1963 will soon be available once again! Breviary...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Feast of St Gregory the Great

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Ms.315, tome II, f.1 verso, Bibliothèque municipale de Douai   Today is the feast of St Gregory the Great, easily the most important of Bene...
Monday, March 3, 2025

The earliest layer of responsories? (pt 6)

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GKS 3443 8°: Ordines Romani, XIIIa https://permalink.kb.dk/permalink/2006/manus/101/eng/ In my last post in this series on the Matins respon...

Getting ready for Lent....

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Just a quick reminder that this week marks the start of Lent, so it is time to start preparing if you haven't already! The Office from A...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Responsory Excursus: The Ordines Romani and the Benedictines in Rome (Pt 5)

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Continuing today, my series on the psalm-based responsories , one of the intriguing, and potentially illuminating, dimensions of the psalm-b...
Friday, February 7, 2025

The responspories in their historical context (Pt 4)

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In my last post on the responsories , I highlighted their monastic context.   Today I want to dig a little into what we know of the earl...