Therefore some feast days are celebrated on different days than one would find on the new Roman Rite Calendar.
The Monastic Diurnal follows generally the 1962 Roman Rite Calendar that is maintained by those parishes that offer the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass). This diurnal would be a necessary tool for worship if one were to visit the Benedictine monasteries who still maintain the traditional monastic office such as Fontgombeault (France), Norcia (Italy), Farnborough (England), or Clear Creek here in the United States.
Divine office psalter week full#
The Monastic Diurnal includes the full Office of the Dead (including the Matins portion of that Office), the Penitential Psalms with the Litany, the Itinerary (prayer service for traveling) and a few other special prayer supplements. Benedict insisted that the monks should pray all 150 psalms a week, so the 1963 monastic office has a weekly psalter. Vespers has 3-5 psalms and Compline has the same three psalms each night (4, 90(91), 133(134)). Therefore one finds seven psalms and one Old Testament Canticle for the hour of Lauds, three psalms for each of the day hours (Prime/First Hour, Terce/Mid-morning, Sext/Mid-day, None/mid-afternoon). This Monastic Diurnal is a 1963 re-print and it follows the psalm cursus (schedule) outlined in the Rule of St. Most Oblates would not be able to pray Matins simply because it is too long and quite complicated. Including Matins for the traveling Benedictine would be unnecessary because the presumption would be that the religious would return before nightfall. The Monastic Diurnal was created for the sake of Oblates and Benedictine Religious who must travel outside the monastery for the day and that is why the Office of Matins is left out.
Michael’s Abbey Press): A diurnal includes all the traditional hours of the Divine Office except the Office of Matins. Printed in black and red throughout and bound in real Moroccan leather with a flexible cover, gilt edges and six marker ribbons. Ideal for novices, monks and nuns when traveling, Benedictine oblates, guests at monasteries, and all who wish to draw upon the riches of the ancient and traditional Benedictine office. The Latin text is the traditional Vulgate psalter. A republication of the 1963 edition of the Benedictine hours of Prime, Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline, in Latin and English in parallel columns for all the feasts and seasons in the traditional Benedictine calendar, with an updated table of movable feasts.
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