Have you reviewed this one yet?

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I’ve contacted Fr. John-Julian about the Divine Office and I’m looking about for the Monastic Breviary for consideration. One thing is that in a mixed tradition household finding something that is not overly Marian (but not devoid of Mary) is difficult.

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That having been said, none of these are specifically hooked into this particular strata of English monasticism. Several of the hymns mentioned here have fallen out of use over the past several centuries and–to the best of my knowledge–are most easily found in Milfull’s Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church. Her translation is entirely literal, though; some re-translating would have to be done to have suitable English devotional texts.

It’s entirely doable–but not until the dissertation gets finished…

Lukacs–you’re on next time I’m up that way!

This is the discussion of “tradition” so often lacking and the historian in me sighs with relief at your discussion here not only of tradition, but of purity–we know better now than to pretend that change wasn’t always happening, that diversity was somehow non-existent, etc.

My question to you, being more expert at these Medieval practices in England, and we could shape them differently depending on which other place in Europe or Africa or the Middle East we chose, I suppose, would it be possible to provide a Benedictine Morning, Noon, Evening, and Compline listing in the Anglican way utilizing these beautiful hymns for each season? And, how about English translations and a mode/tone given us? I know, I’m asking a lot but I ask because few of us have time to do this shuffling, picking, etc., so regularity (which our ancestors knew was an important part of memorization) is important for we who live our prayer lives in the world often on our way or as we work. I may need to look into the Anglican Breviary, or the short Benedictine one by Max Johnson again. Juggling books is problematic, and I don’t like praying from on-line much.

I guess, what I long for is a community prayerbook, hymnbook, and psalter in the Benedictine mode within the English Benedictine past for use within the Anglican way in our time. Somehow, I envy the monks of Mt. Angel with their own “use”.