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Showing posts with label Rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rule. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

SS Julian and Basilissa (January 9)

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Christ with Saints Julian and Basilissa, Celsus and Marcionilla, Pompeo Batoni, 1736-8. Today the martyrology recalls the martyrdo...
Sunday, February 26, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical Code: On Benedictine prayer (Feb 25 or 26/June 27/Oct 27)

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Sodoma, Life of St Benedict, 1505 St Benedict frees a monk And today, the last in this series of posts on St Benedict's liturgica...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: Sing wisely (Feb 24 or 25/ June 26/Oct 26)

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Dunois Hours, c15th Today's chapter of the Rule deals with our dispositions when we say the Office. Caput 19: De Disciplina Psall...
Friday, February 24, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: Should we 'update' St Benedict's psalm scheme? (Feb 24/June 25/Oct 25)

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Chludow Psalter, c850 Today's section of the Rule returns to the beginning of the Office, and the psalms of Matins.  But it also i...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: Vespers and Compline (Feb 23/June 24/Oct 24)

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Stuttgart Psalter Today, a look at the allocation of psalms to Vespers and Compline. Caput XVIII/III Vespera autem cotidie quattu...
Wednesday, February 22, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: Terce, Sext and None (Feb 22/June 23/Oct 23)

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c13th Songs of the Ascent Today's section of the Rule deals with the Little Hours. Caput XVIII/II Ad Tertiam vero, Sextam, Non...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: Prime (Feb 21/June 22/Oct 22)

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Today's section of the Rule deals with the hour of Prime, which is no longer said in many monasteries.  That's a shame in my vie...
Monday, February 20, 2012

St Benedict's liturgical code: the structure of the day hours (Feb 20/June 21/Oct 21)

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Codex Amiatinus Caput XVII: Quot psalmi per easdem horas dicendi sunt JAM de Nocturnis vel Matutinis digessimus ordinem psalmodiae;...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Is there a 'magical' number of hours in the Office? (Feb 19/June 20/Oct 20))

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Hours of Marguerite D'Orleans Caput XVI: Qualiter divina opera per diem agantur UT ait propheta: Septies in die laudem dixi tibi...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Sing alleluia! (Feb 18/June 19/Oct 19)

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Today's section of the Rule deals with the use of the 'Alleluia', effectively a wordly sound of praise that often promoted ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Feast Days (Feb 17/June 18/Oct 18)

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The title of today's chapter of the Rule seems to take us back for a moment, to the Night Office of Matins.  But Dom Gueranger and o...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Lauds/3 (Feb 16/June 17/Oct 17)

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 c1500 Today's section of the Rule deals with the conclusion of the hours of both Lauds and Vespers, and deal with the importanc...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Liturgical Code of St Benedict: Lauds/2 (Feb 15/June 16/Oct 16)

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Today's section of the Rule looks at the structure and content of Lauds on ferial days, or days throughout the week. Caput XIII...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Lauds/1 (Feb 14/June15/Oct 15)

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 Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, folio 182v Today's section of the Rule describes the structure and content of Lauds on ...
Monday, February 13, 2012

St Benedict's Liturgical Code: Matins/4 (Feb 13/June 14/Oct 14)

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Agnès de Kiqeumberg's Matins, c1425 Today's section of the Benedictine Rule deals with the much longer than usual Sunday Nigh...