Chapter 18: The order for reciting the psalms (paragraph 3)

These same psalms are repeated daily until Sunday and the identical arrangement of hymns, lessons and verses is retained every day.

(From para. 3 of Ch. 18 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)

The image that comes to my mind, as Benedict creates a consistent and comprehensive plan for reciting all of the psalms weekly, is that of pearls on a strand. There is the faithful discipline of attentive beading, and there is the transforming beauty which is liberty of spirit.