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Monday, March 18, 2024

The Office in Passiontide

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Just a reminder that from Sunday, we are now in the season of Passiontide. That means that the 'Ordinary' (antiphons, chapters, vers...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

On the observance of Lent

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 Today is Ash Wednesday, and traditionally in monasteries, Chapter 49 of the Benedictine Rule, dealing with the observance of Lent is read, ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

1963 vs 1953: To go forward or back?

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Apologies for being slow in getting to this final part of my series on the 1953 vs 1963 breviaries, but here it is.  In the last several pos...
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Sunday, January 7, 2024

1953 vs 1963 Pt 3: The hours

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Continuing my series on the differences between the 1953 and 1963 breviaries, I want to focus today mainly on the psalter section of the br...
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

1953 vs 1963 breviary comparions Pt 2 - the temporal cycle

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As I mentioned in a previous post, through Advent I used a 1953 breviary, adapting it to the 1960 rubrics - a task made easier I should note...
Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New year...and welcome to the most liturgically wreckovated time of the year!

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Adoration of the Magi - Roman catacombs c3rd Source: Giovanni Dall'Orto, Wiki commons For most of the year, I don't have major probl...
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Saturday, December 30, 2023

1953 vs 1963: Monastic breviary comparisons

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There is increasing interest, these days, in the use of older breviaries, at least amongst liturgical nerds and in some parts of traddy worl...
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