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Benedictine divine office4/7/2023 ![]() ![]() It is a great loss to replace these rich and venerable hymn texts assigned to the Opus Dei with mediocre modern compositions of lesser value and depth. They help us to enter more fully into the season we are celebrating in the Liturgical Year, be it Advent, Christmas, Ordinary Time, Lent, or Paschaltide and to focus our attention on Christ’s redemptive work on behalf of the human race. The Lord’s resurrection and the cycle of night associated with sin and the light of day with redemption in Christ, “the Sun of Righteousness,” are also made manifest in the hymns. Those who use the ancient hymns of the traditional monastic office either in Latin or in vernacular translation, can experience, for example, the work of God creating all things, sung about at Vespers in Ordinary Time. Hence, the hymns are not divinely inspired like the scriptures, but nonetheless they have always had an important place in the Divine Office of the Catholic Church. The hymns are not scripture texts, but use scripture as their basis, so to speak, in order to weave thoughts that inspire us to reflect on God’s goodness to humankind, revealed in both sacred scripture and tradition. D.), Juan de la Concepcion from the seventeenth century, and a number of anonymous or unknown authors of the early Christian centuries, as well as from modern times, all of whom wrote in Latin. D.), Cardinal Robert Bellarmine (+1621 A. D.), Elpis, a woman author of the eighth century, as well as Thomas Aquinas (+1264 A. D.) from the eight century, Rabanas Maurus (+856 A. D.), Paulinus of Aquileia and Paul the Deacon (+799 A. The poetic hymns of the Divine Office are attributed to various ancient authors, most of them saints of the Church: Ambrose (+397 A. Sayings and Stories from the Desert Fathers.How We Pray and Chant – Monastic life has prayer at its very heart. ![]() Abbot’s Archives – Personal reflections from our abbots across the years.Subscriptions – We can add you to our postal or electronic mailing lists for monastery news and homilies. ![]() Take yourself on a virtual tour around our Monastery. ![]()
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