The black faux leather flexible cover is embossed with gold-stamped letters and a sturdy sewn spine. It has been printed on fitting Bible paper and formatting was done in the old style with black and red letters and gold-edged pages, along with six colored ribbons.
This beautiful set contains the complete Monastic Office for the liturgical year. It is the 1963 edition, with an appendix that includes additional texts from previous editions. The price is 275 Euro per set (two volumes).
Jubilee Year graces abound. This is definitely a fruit of the Holy Year. It has been a long road to recover sanctity, artistry, and universality in church music. To counter where the liturgical revolution has gone off the tracks, it is required to have equal if not greater resources and organization.
Far from being a springboard from which a great renewal in monastic life was to take place, the liturgical revolution opposed from the start (through a misleading reading of the Council documents), Latin and the very preservation and use of Gregorian Chant.
Now we rebuild and rediscover the treasures from the past that have been forbidden by the sixties ideologues, while entrusted to us by the Church as part of our liturgical inheritance and birthright.
Many thanks for the monks for making this dream a reality. They build on the accomplishments of the past and so fulfill the directives of the Church. They are helping to preserve the theory and practice of liturgical singing and monastic spirituality in the Benedictine tradition.
We pray that abbeys, seminaries, novitiates, and parochial schools will purchase bulk copies and will once again be the scene of the greatest chant activity. The rhythmic theories of Solesmes in all performances of the chant is a guiding element. Chant is intended to be the song of the monks and the Church, of all Catholics. An art form that is not beyond the abilities of all. It is the Church's solution that has been bequeathed to us.
The Monastic Breviary is good for average Catholics to own and to become familiar with. It is a part of a rich monastic heritage and spirituality. It is a good thing to pray and sign from, in addition to other books such as the Graduale Romanum and the Antiphonale Romanum, both printed by the Vatican Polyglot Press.
This is a perfect addition to the liturgical library of any Catholic home and makes a great gift. Most people are familiar with the Liber Usualis (not an official book, but a very useful one), serving as the regular text for Mass, Vespers, and other parts of the liturgy, which until WWII had been the exclusive volume for singing chant in the USA. But there is more, and many graces abound from praying the Psalms of David and chants of the Roman Church.
Let us continue to pray for an authentic renewal of monastic life and for the flourishing of fervent religious vocations.
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