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Exciting!Well, 5 minutes to Vespers, 1st Vespers of the first Sunday in Advent!
Exciting!Well, 5 minutes to Vespers, 1st Vespers of the first Sunday in Advent!
The problem though is that an Office with proper antiphons is tough… the antiphons for tonight get chanted once a year unlike the antiphons for ordinary days that get chanted weekly. So you never get that good at them except for the rare ones that use a common melody for different texts.Exciting!
Rhiannonh, I’m so sorry that you so deeply misunderstand the divine office and other “set prayers.” You obviously have no idea of the richness of a prayer life based on liturgy and vocal prayer, it’s exactly the opposite of what you claim here. Yes, you are very very wrong in your assumption.But I am concerned that those who pray by set prayers alone, forget to try and listen and will not be able to respond to Gods love in prayer because they do not experience free spirit. I don’t know and may well be very wrong in my assumption because that is all it is . . . I like prayer to be free and whilst Nuns may get plenty of free time prayer? Their whole day is around services that are set before them and don’t get to experience any of the ‘fun’ we non Holy Order people have . . . I have a certain amount of feeling for the ordained who have to say morning and evening prayer every day. That becomes just a matter to be got through? Even if they are being genuine enough it is a matter to be got through.