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Friday, March 13, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 5C - Three models for praying without ceasing/3: St Benedict on good works

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So far in this series  we have looked at two theories on how 'praying without ceasing' can be realised: a literal interpretation, ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 5B - Three models for praying without ceasing /2: Perpetual prayer at Agaune

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The martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban legion Source: wiki commons In the last post in this series  I talked about the monaster...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 5A: Three models for 'praying without ceasing'/1: The drousing virgins of Arles

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When the twentieth century liturgists and historian Dom Adalbert de Vogue looked at the purpose of the monastic Office, he argued that its ...
Friday, March 6, 2020

Praying the Office with St Benedict 4: On praise and adoration

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Gentile da Fabriano Image source: Wikipedia One of the much debated aspects of the Divine Office over the last fifty years or so has ...
Thursday, March 5, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict/3B - The drivers of liturgical diversity in late antiquity*

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In the previous post in this series, I pointed out the huge diversity of late antique monastic and other forms of the Divine Office. So ...
Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Psalm 27 - Overview

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Just to continue my process of putting at least marker post for each psalm, including information on its liturgical uses, some brief notes ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Praying the psalms with St Benedict 3A: Was there ever 'a' monastic Office? The diversity of the Office in late antiquity

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One of the key questions about early monastic liturgy is just how much choice monastic founders such as St Benedict had when it came to sel...