The Monastic Diurnal
PRAY THE BENEDICTINE OFFICE AT HOME
Our Monastic Diurnal is an English translation of the Day Hours of the Benedictine Office from the Breviarium Monasticum published at Bruges in 1925 after extensive revision and restoration by its Benedictine editors.
The Monastic Office was first set forth in all of its essential features and in much of its detail about the year 535 A.D. in the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism. It was the first complete and enduring order of daily praise and prayer in European Christendom.
For fourteen hundred years it has voiced the worship of an ever-increasing circle of devout men and women. It came to England with St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was the Prayer Book of those who more than any other group of Religious formed and influenced the Church of England – men such as St. Wilfrid, St. Benedict Biscop, the Venerable Bede, St. Dunstan, St. Anselm. For centuries the Archbishops of Canterbury wore the Benedictine habit, and many of the greater English cathedrals resounded with Benedictine praise.
The Monastic Office was planned from the first for busy men, working at both mental and manual labour. Its recitation was called by St. Benedict the Work of God, ‘Opus Dei’; the primary spiritual labour ‘to which nothing is to be preferred’. – From the Preface.
The Benedictine Office of the Monastic Diurnal is a liturgical and devotional classic, prayed by generations of English-speaking clergy, religious and lay folk.
We offer a high quality, exact reprint of the 1963 Oxford University Press edition, including all texts necessary for the daily recitation of the traditional Benedictine Hours of Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline
880 total pages
Size, 4 1/4” by 6 1/4”
Printed on “Bible paper” with gilt edges
Two color text (rubrics in red)
Smith-sewn binding
Semi-hard black leatherette cover, with title stamped in gold-foil
Includes six ribbons for easy recitation
All texts correspond to the Gregorian chant settings in The Monastic Diurnal Noted
This is a soft cover production.
PRAY THE BENEDICTINE OFFICE AT HOME
Our Monastic Diurnal is an English translation of the Day Hours of the Benedictine Office from the Breviarium Monasticum published at Bruges in 1925 after extensive revision and restoration by its Benedictine editors.
The Monastic Office was first set forth in all of its essential features and in much of its detail about the year 535 A.D. in the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism. It was the first complete and enduring order of daily praise and prayer in European Christendom.
For fourteen hundred years it has voiced the worship of an ever-increasing circle of devout men and women. It came to England with St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was the Prayer Book of those who more than any other group of Religious formed and influenced the Church of England – men such as St. Wilfrid, St. Benedict Biscop, the Venerable Bede, St. Dunstan, St. Anselm. For centuries the Archbishops of Canterbury wore the Benedictine habit, and many of the greater English cathedrals resounded with Benedictine praise.
The Monastic Office was planned from the first for busy men, working at both mental and manual labour. Its recitation was called by St. Benedict the Work of God, ‘Opus Dei’; the primary spiritual labour ‘to which nothing is to be preferred’. – From the Preface.
The Benedictine Office of the Monastic Diurnal is a liturgical and devotional classic, prayed by generations of English-speaking clergy, religious and lay folk.
We offer a high quality, exact reprint of the 1963 Oxford University Press edition, including all texts necessary for the daily recitation of the traditional Benedictine Hours of Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline
880 total pages
Size, 4 1/4” by 6 1/4”
Printed on “Bible paper” with gilt edges
Two color text (rubrics in red)
Smith-sewn binding
Semi-hard black leatherette cover, with title stamped in gold-foil
Includes six ribbons for easy recitation
All texts correspond to the Gregorian chant settings in The Monastic Diurnal Noted
This is a soft cover production.
PRAY THE BENEDICTINE OFFICE AT HOME
Our Monastic Diurnal is an English translation of the Day Hours of the Benedictine Office from the Breviarium Monasticum published at Bruges in 1925 after extensive revision and restoration by its Benedictine editors.
The Monastic Office was first set forth in all of its essential features and in much of its detail about the year 535 A.D. in the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism. It was the first complete and enduring order of daily praise and prayer in European Christendom.
For fourteen hundred years it has voiced the worship of an ever-increasing circle of devout men and women. It came to England with St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was the Prayer Book of those who more than any other group of Religious formed and influenced the Church of England – men such as St. Wilfrid, St. Benedict Biscop, the Venerable Bede, St. Dunstan, St. Anselm. For centuries the Archbishops of Canterbury wore the Benedictine habit, and many of the greater English cathedrals resounded with Benedictine praise.
The Monastic Office was planned from the first for busy men, working at both mental and manual labour. Its recitation was called by St. Benedict the Work of God, ‘Opus Dei’; the primary spiritual labour ‘to which nothing is to be preferred’. – From the Preface.
The Benedictine Office of the Monastic Diurnal is a liturgical and devotional classic, prayed by generations of English-speaking clergy, religious and lay folk.
We offer a high quality, exact reprint of the 1963 Oxford University Press edition, including all texts necessary for the daily recitation of the traditional Benedictine Hours of Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline
880 total pages
Size, 4 1/4” by 6 1/4”
Printed on “Bible paper” with gilt edges
Two color text (rubrics in red)
Smith-sewn binding
Semi-hard black leatherette cover, with title stamped in gold-foil
Includes six ribbons for easy recitation
All texts correspond to the Gregorian chant settings in The Monastic Diurnal Noted
This is a soft cover production.
