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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Some possible principles for interpreting the Benedictine Rule...

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I've been pondering for some time what the appropriate principles for interpreting the Benedictine Rule might be if one approached it fr...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Pope Benedict: Five reasons for doing lectio divina....

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Lectio Divina is of course central to Benedictine spirituality, with several hours a day of prayerful reading of Scripture and other spiritu...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Gueranger's Manual for Oblates - Part III

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I've been putting up  selections from Dom Gueranger's nineteenth century manual for Oblates.  Here is the next part of Chapter 1. ...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Question: Why does the numbering of the psalms in the Diurnal differ from my Bible?

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I've had a question from a reader that I suspect puzzles many people, so I thought I'd answer it here. The question is: Why does t...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Commemoration of All Hallows Eve

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Today used to be the Vigil of All Saints (aka Halloween), a night when traditionally the veil between Earth and purgatory thinned, the dead...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Saying the Office of the Dead

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We are rapidly coming up to the month of November, traditionally a month when we especially remember and pray for the dead.  And in the Ch...
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Gueranger's Manual for Oblates - Part II: Chapter One

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I previously posted the  introduction to this Manual by Dom Gueranger, and translated into English by an anonymous secular priest.  Here no...
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