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Showing posts with label Benedictine Office. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benedictine Office. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2025

Holy week and the Benedictine Office pt 4 - Friday and the Triduum in the Benedictine Office

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The quintessential psalm of the Passion is of course Psalm 21 , not least because it was the start of the set of psalms Christ recited while...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Holy week and the Benedictine Office pt 3 - Thursday and the Triduum in the Benedictine Office

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 In my last post, I pointed to the first three psalms of Sunday Matins as recapitulations of the events of the Triduum, with Psalm 20 pointi...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Holy week and the Benedictine Office pt 2 - The Easter Vigil and the weekly Sunday Resurrection Vigil

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Over the next few days, we trace, in the liturgy, Our Lord's final days on earth, and above all, look forward to the Resurrection. But, ...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 8 - Approaches to interpreting the psalms**

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In the last post in this series  on praying the psalms with St Benedict, I suggested that the key focus of St Benedict in his Office as in ...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict/7 - Time and the Work of God

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So far in this series I've looked briefly at some of the key purposes of the Office - purgation and penance; adoration and intercession...
Friday, March 27, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 6C - The intercessory components of the Office

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In the last two posts in this series I have argued from contextual material that at least in the three groups of monasteries considered he...