Chapter 13: Lauds on ordinary days (paragraph 1)

On ordinary days Lauds should be celebrated like this: the sixty sixth psalm should be said with its antiphon but rather slowly, as on Sunday, to make sure that all are present for the fiftieth psalm which is said with its antiphon.

(From para. 1 of Ch. 13 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

I am that slow-comer: I hear the urgency in Fr. John's voice about commitment and discipline, and yet I also hear his compassionate reminder that, in meditation, I am always beginning again.