Ordo for the week of September 19-25, 2021, LAP Monastic Diurnal (according to the pre-1952 rubrics) [with additions of the Anglican Joint Synods APA Ordo Calendar]: https://www.patreon.com/posts/lap-monastic-xvi-56309836 I have also uploaded a special set of prayers for Benedictines, especially oblates or associates, who pray regularly for a monastery: https://www.patreon.com/posts/preces-of-st-56275100
Ordo for September 19-25, 2021. Free to view and download here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/56287876
My wife, Sarah, has begun to write ordos for the Lancelot Andrewes Press Monastic Diurnal. It is according to the rubrics given in the book, with Sundays after Trinity (according to western Easter), with options given to follow the Anglican Joint Synods APA annual ordo calendar. Trinity XV to Trinity XVI can be freely viewed … More Monastic Diurnal – Ordo and links
Based on the Simple Kalendar of the Anglican Breviary. Free to view and download here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ab-ordo-trinity-56008706
In Medieval times the feast of the Suffering Icon of the Saviour was celebrated widely. This feast has since dropped out of the kalendar and is shrouded in the mists of history. The feast shared many propers with the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and can be found in the Sarum Breviary … More Lessons for the Beirut Icon of the Saviour
Saturdays, as good Anglo Catholics will know, is especially associated with the veneration of Saint Mary. In this sense Saturday is unlike other weekdays since they lack such association. Saturday is much more like a Sunday – where the dedication is to the Lord Jesus Christ. However, in ancient Christian Office books, such as the … More The Saturday Office of Our Lady
SUNDAY ~ July 14th – all from the Ordinary & Psalter, and the Proper of the Season. Comemoration of St. Bonaventure (Table 8 & Collect from Proper of the Saints). At Matins: no notice is taken of the Feast of St. Bonaventure. At Lauds: no Preces, Collect of Trinity IV & commem. of St. Bonaventure, no … More Ordo Trinity IV & Week following (UK)
… I last paid any attention to this blog. There is a reason for this. The past year or so I have been working with and on the Breviary as used and published by the Society of St. Margaret during the latter part of the 19th Century. This Breviary was, in substance, given to them … More Its been a while since …
Amalarius (or Amalar) of Metz mentions that the Church celebrates four offices during the day and four during the night. The latter four he also calls “vigils.” This pattern of four per part of the day are biblically grounded via Nehemiah 9 vs. 1-3: “1.And in the four and twentieth day of the month the … More Amalarius and the biblical roots of the Divine Office (i)
“David is first, midst, and last.” This phrase is (erroneously) attributed to St. John Chrysostom and can be found cited in St. John Mason’s Neale’s Commentary on the Psalms (Vol. 1). The importance of Psalmody for Christians can be easily deduced from the the old Psalters. The entire book of Psalms is recited once every week … More The Psalms, are first, midst and last.
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