our civilization is not the sane as that of RJmans practice, ha-lever , the In • • • CMil there 's anple opportunity for a certain degree of convergence - prayer before leaving for the m:>ming work (or else mid-noming break the , the "oof fee break") , prayer before noontiroe break for dinner, prayer before leaving the work. for the af temoan • • certain camru:nities, there can be a problem with reqard to COrpline, so of ten as we want (In to Vespers be an Hour which gathers together the tire camruni:ty. This means that the for Vespers has to be quite late; and that it oould pe:rhaps take on aspect time the quite of the f inal cmmunity prayer , i.nnediately before retiring for the night. ) • • At any rate, in keeping with n° 88 of the Constitution on the gy, we have to respect the i.e., the relationship between each Hour and oorresponding time the vePitas HoraPUm, to of day or night; we have respect , too, the oonditions of present day life; that is to say , we texts have brate situation as really experienced -sanething which very used in the to the the Liturgy of the pre-supposei practice of even f airly recent tines is Hours o..ir no longer during Lent , in order to spect t t e r of the thinkable -when, the 1e law (which wanted us to f ast till Vespers) , f inished all the day Hours (Vespers included) we before noon; or when, on Holy Saturday , we celebrated the Paschal "Vigil" beata n o ("O at x") 9 A.M. aro OOOOIS Trans., Gethsemani Abbey M:>nt-des-Cats
our CMil civilization is not the sane as that of the RJmans • • • In practice, ha-lever , there 's anple opportunity for a certain degree of convergence - prayer before leaving for the m:>ming work (or else the mid-noming break , the "oof fee break") , prayer before the noontiroe break for dinner, prayer before leaving for the af temoan work. • • (In certain camru:nities, there can be a problem with reqard to COrpline, so of ten as we want Vespers to be an Hour which gathers together the tire camruni:ty. This means that the time for Vespers has to be quite quite late; and that it oould pe:rhaps take on the aspect of the f inal cmmunity prayer , i.nnediately before retiring for the night. • • ) At any rate, in keeping with n° 88 of the Constitution on the gy, we have to respect the vePitas HoraPUm, i.e., the relationship between each Hour and the oorresponding time of day or night; we have to respect , too, the oonditions of present day life; that is to say , we have to brate the situation as really experienced -sanething which the very texts used in the Liturgy of the Hours pre-supposei o..ir practice of even f airly recent tines is no longer thinkable -when, during Lent , in order to spect the 1e t t e r of the law (which wanted us to f ast till Vespers) , we f inished all the day Hours (Vespers included) before noon; or when, on Holy Saturday , we celebrated the Paschal "Vigil" ("O beata n o x") at 9 A.M. Trans., Gethsemani Abbey aro OOOOIS M:>nt-des-Cats
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