Extracts from House Chronicles

Rule of St Benedict for the Day

The order of psalms for the Day Hours being thus arranged, let all the remaining psalms be equally distributed among the seven Night Offices, by dividing the longer psalms and assigning twelve psalms to each night. But we strongly recommend that if this arrangement of the psalms is displeasing to anyone, he should arrange them otherwise, as shall seem better to him; provided always that he take care that the .. read more »