Benedicti was used anywhere in England, despite the importance of the Rule in English monastic life. Above all, however, it is a living community of Benedictine monks. In particular, there is no evidence that the form of the Office described in the Regula S. The Liturgy of the Hours, also known as the Divine Office or the Work of God (Opus. It is the last of 7 Offices of the day for the Monks and Nuns. There is no evidence that separate forms of the Office were used by secular and monastic churches – and these labels are in any case problematic when speaking of the early centuries. I hope you can enjoy this format of the Divine Office of Compline. is dedicated to liturgical and private prayer, the monks of Saint Benedict. Either approach could legitimately be claimed as ‘Roman’. Abbot Xavier Connelly Faithful to the Holy Sacrifice & Divine Office Recognizing. The little evidence that survives suggests that some English churches kept pace with these developments while others conservatively maintained the earlier tradition. Outside England, the Roman Office was subjected to various modifications, both in Rome itself, where the Office continued to evolve, and in Frankish Gaul, where the Roman Office was adapted and standardized in distinctive ways. This seventh-century Roman Office was enriched with material from various traditions while maintaining its structural integrity. A Roman form of the Office was introduced to England in the early seventh century, perhaps by the Roman missionaries, and by the middle of the eighth it had effectively supplanted the forms of the Office derived from British, Irish, or Gallican traditions that must previously have had some currency in England but which have left no trace and whose forms cannot be reconstructed with any certainty. The history of the Divine Office in England from the Augustinian mission to the first decades of the tenth century, which has been reconstructed in the preceding chapters, may be briefly summarized as follows. Through the Divine Office, each time we pray it, we approach Eden and walk with the God in the garden of our souls, as we answer God’s call to His beloved that is each one of us in the Canticle of Canticles: Thou that dwellest in the gardensmake me hear thy voice ( Canticle of Canticles, 8:13 ).
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