Breviary in a sentence

However, since Cardinal Quignonez's attempt to reform the Breviary employed this principle—albeit with no regard to the traditional scheme—such notions had floated around in the western Church, and can particularly be seen in the Paris Breviary.

Contents of the Roman Breviary At the beginning stands the usual introductory matter, such as the tables for determining the date of Easter, the calendar, and the general rubrics.

Early modern reforms Until the council of Trent every bishop had full power to regulate the Breviary of his own diocese; and this was acted upon almost everywhere.

Every cleric in Holy Orders and many other members of religious orders must publicly join in or privately read aloud (i.e. using the lips as well as the eyes—it takes about two hours in this way) the whole of the Breviary services allotted for each day.

Except when rarely permitted an oil lamp, he had to stand on a bench to read his breviary by the light through the hole into the adjoining room.

In some periods laymen did not use the Breviary as a manual of devotion to any great extent.

Origin of name This word breviary (Lat.

Roman Breviary: Saint Urban began to make his orison to God; and anon the idol fell down and slew twenty-two priests of the law that held fire for to make sacrifice.

The arrangement of the Psalms in the Rule of St. Benedict had a profound impact upon the breviaries used by secular and monastic clergy alike, up until 1911 when Pope St. Pius X introduced his reform of the Roman Breviary.

The Breviary introduced in 1974 distributed the psalms over a four-week cycle.

The Breviary rightly so called, however, only dates from the 11th century; the earliest MS. containing the whole canonical office is of the year 1099 and is in the Mazarin library.

The collects of the Breviary are largely drawn from the Gelasian and other Sacramentaries, and they are used to sum up the dominant idea of the festival in connection with which they happen to be used.

The complete pre-Pius X Roman Breviary was translated into English (by the Marquess of Bute in 1879; new ed. with a trans, of the Martyrology, 1908), French and German.

The first step in the evolution of the Breviary was the separation of the Psalter into a choir-book.

The preparation of a catechism and the revision of the Breviary and Missal were also left to the pope.

The Psalter main This psalm book is the very backbone of the Breviary, the groundwork of the Catholic prayer-book; out of it have grown the antiphons, responsories and versicles.

The Sarum or Salisbury Breviary itself was very widely used.

The services were at the same time simplified and shortened, and the use of the whole Psalter every week (which had become a mere theory in the Roman Breviary, owing to its frequent supersession by saints' day services) was made a reality.

The term originally signified a chant by alternate choirs, but has quite lost this meaning in the Breviary.

The title Breviary, as we employ it—that is, a book containing the entire canonical office—appears to date from the eleventh century.