tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post5638932733486499322..comments2024-03-25T11:45:15.757+00:00Comments on The Saint Lawrence Press Blog: Time for Vespers!Rubricariushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post-14288959785735238802012-02-25T10:24:29.747+00:002012-02-25T10:24:29.747+00:00Joshua,
A friend of mine was at the Roman Oratory...Joshua,<br /><br />A friend of mine was at the Roman Oratory in the 1970s. He came across the same practice in some places even then!Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post-53466357165659402582012-02-25T08:27:53.851+00:002012-02-25T08:27:53.851+00:00Compline...
An English Catholic priest, chaplain ...Compline...<br /><br />An English Catholic priest, chaplain with the Allied armies in the Italian campaign during WWII, visited a collegial church in a recently-liberated part of that country. To his surprise, the good canons sang Compline, as well as the rest of the Hours, before noon!<br /><br />Being a somewhat liturgical man, he ventured to query this in his best ecclesiastical Latin: but the canon whom he asked drew himself up to his full height and said, in a voice that brooked no opposition, Habemus privilegium!<br /><br />O for that spirit to return and grace the Church, O Lord!Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.com