The Benedictine Tradition in Rome
To get a distant idea of what catastrophic difference exists between how the divine office is sung and how it should be sung...
To get a distant idea of what catastrophic difference exists between how the divine office is sung and how it should be sung...
I can’t just say I prefer what is said on Thursday to what was said on Wednesday.
On the 1st Sunday of Advent it was the Church’s duty, which as a good Mother she fulfilled, to urge us to do penance in view of the end times and judgement at the Second Coming. This week she points to the joy that awaits us after penance and judgement, encapsulated in “Jerusalem”. We are…
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It will begin on December 8, 2024, and will run through December 17, 2024 (the birthday of Pope Francis).
This premise, then, is only probable, not necessary.
It is probably easier for a simple priest who lacks such formation to discern its truth.
I first discovered OnePeterFive back in 2018 (the “summer of shame”) and started writing here in 2019 (here’s my first article, way back then).
Dom Prosper Guéranger wrote in his The Liturgical Year: The whole world is in expectation of its Redeemer; come, dear Jesus, show Thyself to it by granting it salvation. The Church, Thy bride, is now commencing another year, and her first word is to Thee, a word which she speaks in the anxious solicitude of…