Wednesday, October 23, 2013

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.)

Benedict describes how to say Terce, Sext and None in a way that communicates to me the seriousness and the rhythm of the Offices, like the seriousness and rhythm of meditation. 

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