Posted on 06/11/2010 8:24:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
I've lost my breviary, I just can't find it. I had to say Vespers, Compline from the old breviary. I've got an English/Latin version. I used to use bits of it before I went off to the seminary. I used to love it.
For some reason I have never loved the post-concilliar Office I have been saying for the last thirty years. I admit I struggle with it and I am not sure why.
I certainly find those intercessions so irritating, especially in the English version, I don't like the choice of hymns, I hate having to go find and then select hymns when they are proper to the season. I think what I dislike most is the brevity of the modern Office, three psalms and it is done! There is only one psalm at Compline. I have a lay friend who calls it the "Little Office of Paul VI".
It is the "littleness" of it that is unsatifying, the psalter is said over four weeks rather than one, in a way it feels rather restless, the very opposite of the older form but being able to immerse yourself in the lengthy psalms, actually feels more like prayer. So, for the moment don't even mention it to St Anthony.
Is there a version of this in english?
The breviary?
“...keep doing THIS in remembrance of me...”
He lost the liturgical book he needed for the evening prayer service.
See now THIS is the kind of thread that should be “caucussed” since a non-Catholic trying to understand Catholicism is just going to get confused by the article. It makes no sense.
The breviary?
I think Grunthor was referring to the post, not the breviary.
I forgot my mantra :(
I’ve lost my liturgical book, I just can’t find it. I had to say the evening prayers of the final church service of the day...
For some reason I have never loved the post-Vatican II final church service of the day...
I certainly find these intercessions so irritating...I think what I don’t like is the shortness of the modern final church service of the day, three psalms and it’s done! Ours has only one psalm. It’s like a mini-service.
I wish I could go back to the old way and immerse myself in the older psalms; it feels like prayer, and I actually get something out of it.
Does this translation help? :)
“Does this translation help?”
Immensley, thank you.
I didn’t even know what a breviary was.
Thank you. I am Catholic and your translation helped. Big words scare me. As soon as I look them up, I forget their meaning.
Neither did I. I had to look it up.
np
I didn’t even know what a breviary was.
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I think it’s where they raise tightie-whities...
Colonel, USAFR
For some reason I have never loved the post-Vatican II final church service of the day..."
I know the feeling. I had a copy of the post-V II Little Office of the BVM, and it was A W F U L. I shook my head every time I used it. I found a copy of an old 1914 version from St. Bonaventure Press, and have used it for years. It is so stained and tattered from nightly use it is hard to read, but I will never go find that other thing.
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