Extracts from House Chronicles

Rule of St Benedict for the Day

WE have already settled the psalmody of Matins and Lauds; let us now look at the remaining Hours. At Prime let three psalms be said, one by one and not under the same Gloria; and before the psalms begin, but after the verse Deus in adjutorium, the hymn proper to that Hour. Then, at the end of the three psalms, let there be the lesson, versicle, Kyrie eleison, and concluding .. read more »