The Monastic Diurnal: Or Day Hours of the Monastic Breviary According to the Holy Rule of St. Benedict with Additional Rubrics and Devotions for Its Recitation in Accordance with the Book of Common Prayer

This book is an English translation of the Day Hours from the Breviarium Monasticum published at Bruges (Belgium) 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, and St. Anselm. For centuries the Archbishops of Canterbury wore the Benedictine habit, and many of the greater English cathedrals resounded with Benedictine praise.This is 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. - From the Publisher