![]() Benedict laid out and as his early monks prayed. Benedict laid out what was to become the Monastic Breviary in his rule, he himself was drawing on ancient tradition, particularly Roman tradition (and ironically, is the only breviary today which maintains the ancient Roman Tradition.) This is one reason of course why I pray the Benedictine Breviary, the division of Psalms is roughly the same as St. The principles of the divine office, the liturgical laws and the characters of the hours were of ancient usage. Three psalms scarcely carries the ancient tradition, although it should be admitted, the two readings in themselves are about the length of the readings of the 2nd and 3rd nocturnes which are divided up in the traditional schema. ![]() The concept of vigils, or Matins, as it existed in the ancient breviary which made it through the middle ages, was wrecked in the Quignonez version, and likewise in the 1970 version. We don’t even have a breviary quite as good as his for the Novus Ordo and on top of that it doesn’t even have all the psalms. Rather, it was condemned because he made a “Novus Ordo” of sorts with the breviary. Moreover, he resisted the trends of the time to restore Latin to pagan usage in order to conform with antiquity. It wasn’t because Quignonez was evil, he was in fact a great churchman, and effected the release of Pope Clement VII from Charles V’s de facto imprisonment. Every hour had three psalms and in consequence of this severe regularity, there disappeared the deep and historical motive which gave to each hour its own characteristics. In the light of tradition and of liturgical principles the only possible verdict in that Quignonez’ Breviary, being constructed on a priori principles, violating most of the liturgical rules, must be condemned…. The 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia, drawing on the consensus of liturgical judgment, said concerning Quignonez: It is modeled after the Quignonez breviary, which had 3 psalms for every office, and was suppressed because it made the prayer of the Church too short and placed psalms without regard for their historical replacement or the tone of the psalm with the time of day. I just fail to see it as an expression of prayer akin to what has always been adopted by the Church, east and west, from the most ancient times. ![]() Already on a few occasions I’ve written about the breviary, but I want to go in a different direction without rehashing too much of what I’ve already thought.Īs I’ve written before, and as one could guess, I do not like the new Liturgy of the Hours in any way shape or form.
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