The Medieval Monastic Psalter
Many attempts have been made in the early and latter parts of this
century to produce a version of the Hours of the Monastic Office in the
English Language that could be easily used for prayer by those with little
or no training in ancient languages or musical theory. The need to put
forward another attempt comes from certain lackings in previous versions
that made the Editors feel that no previous varison incorporated all the
needs present before them.
This series is divided into many Volumes, for
which Volume I is the Psalter Outside of Paschaltide, Volume II
is the Psalter in Paschaltide (from Low Sunday through the
Octave of Pentecost), and Volume III begins the Proper Offices for
Advent. The Offices of the week of Pascha, while having a Monastic
usage, are not technically part of the Monastic Psalter, as the
Cathedral Use like that of Old Sarum, not the RSB, has provided the
structure for these offices ever since the Monastic Council of Aachen
(Aix-la-Chapelle) in 817 A.D., and thus will be provided for in a
separate Volume of the Proper.
These volumes are unparallel to those frequent
attempts by others since this material pre-dates, for the most part, the
Great Schism and the tragic Fall of Orthodoxy in the West.
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