7 THE CELEBRATION OF SEXT IN THE REFECTORY A REPORT ON THE BRICQUEBEC GENESIS t:ine For sare past there were already sane rranbers of ananaly aware and the c::amnmity keenly of the overloaded nature of the SUnday succession of Terce - High Mass - Sext - grace before meals - dinner - grace after meals.This led us to to SU]gest the camnmity, little by little, that, was to thanks the by there possibilities afforded us the loi-cadre, amther and i;x:>ssible doubtless nore desirable way of doing things. this we As the first stage, detached Terce fran ensanble so to groups. pro- as vide for its recitation in This experience of an Office celebrated outside its usual settirg gave us an initial preparation enabling us to cept still further evolutions. was There another factor which likewise intervened. ning the the Towards the of 1970, celebration of Little !burs to beJan integrate elanents of prayer more specifically to day which. ,f()I]'OO:d attached the period of the or the tie :hlJrJediate the In the oontext of celebration. this way the prayer of Sext quite naturally evoked the work which had :imrediately preceded, which. Oa;in the ireaJ. few-minutes were as well as d in just a • • •we not er, iJl teeling, ext meal long by the w,lth tha,t follCMed its prayers was af ter, fOJ::IOOd and Mention fore a sanewhat re;retable doublet. made several times of the possibility of a celebration in the refectocy;'·but this
7 THE CELEBRATION OF SEXT IN THE REFECTORY A REPORT ON THE BRICQUEBEC GENESIS For sare t:ine past there were already sane rranbers of the c::amnmity keenly aware of the ananaly and overloaded nature of the SUnday succession of Terce - High Mass - Sext - grace before meals - dinner - grace after meals.This led us to SU]gest to the camnmity, little by little, that, thanks to the possibilities afforded us by the loi-cadre, there was amther i;x:>ssible and doubtless nore desirable way of doing things. As the first stage, we detached Terce fran this ensanble so as to vide for its recitation in groups. This experience of an Office celebrated outside its usual settirg gave us an initial preparation enabling us to cept still further evolutions. There was another factor which likewise intervened. Towards the ning of 1970, the celebration of the Little !burs beJan to integrate elanents of prayer more specifically attached to the period of the day or the tie which. ,f()I]'OO:d the :hlJrJediate oontext of the celebration. In this way the prayer of Sext quite naturally evoked the work which had :imrediately preceded, as well as the ireaJ. which. d Oa;in in just a few-minutes • • •we were not long iJl teeling, er, tha,t ext follCMed by the meal w,lth its prayers fore and af ter, fOJ::IOOd a sanewhat re;retable doublet. Mention was several times made of the possibility of a celebration in the refectocy;'·but this pro-
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