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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, ...

Holy week and the Benedictine Office pt 1

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I thought I might complete this Lent series on the psalms of the Benedictine Office with a few notes on on the events of Holy Week in the Be...
Monday, April 14, 2025

The Last Psalms of Vespers - Psalm 128

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St Benedict's decision to make Psalm 128 the last psalm of Monday Vespers took some considerable contrivance.   The placement of Psalm ...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

The 'monastic' last psalms of Vespers - Sunday Psalm 112

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The first half of Psalm 112 on Sunday focuses on the duty of praising the Lord 'from the rising of the sun to its going down', off...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Last 'monastic' psalms of Vespers - Psalm 144.

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Psalm 144 is an exuberant hymn of praise to Christ as King: the first nine verses of Psalm 144 are said at Friday Vespers; the rest of the...
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