the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as various other schemata for the distribution of the psalms (over a tre week or two-week period), lo- cal adaptations of sung the elements of Office, the possibility of celebrating the Little Hours and Cclrq?line outside choir• • • The point to to 'Which at that tine seemed me be rather delicate, as the reganis ration with Benedictines, was the choice Which of schemata for the bution of the psalms . be to It schena.ta were going be proposed? could feared that the operative criteria governing our choice W)uld be ONil by irreducibly different fran those adopted the Benedictines. A NEW srAGE OF DEVELOPMENT This problen was going to be clarified during the ting 13 14 , 1972 . Deceni:>er held at Sant" Anselm:> (Rane) , on and The tf!e Benedictine Abbot Primate, Presidents of the Liturgy Orders, Dern .Ashwortll, carrnissions of the two Cistercian and Henry Comnission Litu:rgy Secretacy of the of the Benedictine took the Confederation, part in meeting. The point under dis- cussion was the possibility of reaching an agreerrent as regards the general lines of an effective inter-Order as the So collaboration for questions touching on Office. to we draft a a to remaining avoid at merely theoretical level, tried which. would project lend itself to future discussion. 'Ihe general line of this project was the following: There were to be: Different examples or "specinens" of the Office based on the various psalm-distribution schemata. to be charts There was no question of simple of the various as ta, such had previously been circulated, but rather of sarething m:>re ample -sanething which w::>uld indicate antiphons, psalm-titles, versicles, etc., as well as the essential structure of the Hours time, texts (intrcxluction, hyrm • • •)• At the same the of be the hynms, readings and psalms W)Uld not transcribed; be only the proper ences would given . So this the would resemble sanething along lines of the Ordo Cantus by recently pranulgated the Holy See. Missae
the Holy Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as various other schemata for the distribution of the psalms (over a or two-week period), cal adaptations of tre sung elements of the Office, the possibility of celebrating the Little Hours and Cclrq?line outside choir• • • The point 'Which at that tine seemed to me to be rather delicate, as reganis ration with the Benedictines, was the choice of schemata for the bution of the psalms . Which schena.ta were going to be proposed? It could be feared that the operative criteria governing our ONil choice W)uld be irreducibly different fran those adopted by the Benedictines. A NEW srAGE OF DEVELOPMENT This problen was going to be clarified during the ting held at Sant" Anselm:> (Rane) , on Deceni:>er 13 and 14 , 1972 . The Benedictine Abbot Primate, tf!e Presidents of the Liturgy carrnissions of the two Cistercian Orders, and Dern Henry .Ashwortll, Secretacy of the Litu:rgy Comnission of the Benedictine Confederation, took part in the meeting. The point under cussion was the possibility of reaching an agreerrent as regards the general lines of an effective inter-Order collaboration for questions touching on the Office. So as to avoid remaining at a merely theoretical level, we tried to draft a project which. would lend itself to future discussion. 'Ihe general line of this project was the following: There were to be: Different examples or "specinens" of the Office based on the various psalm-distribution schemata. There was to be no question of simple charts of the various ta, such as had previously been circulated, but rather of sarething m:>re ample -sanething which w::>uld indicate antiphons, psalm-titles, versicles, etc., as well as the essential structure of the Hours (intrcxluction, hyrm • • •)• At the same time, the texts of the hynms, readings and psalms W)Uld not be transcribed; only the proper ences would be given . So this would resemble sanething along the lines of the Ordo Cantus Missae recently pranulgated by the Holy See. week dis- lo-
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