tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post3712528999796462552..comments2024-03-25T11:45:15.757+00:00Comments on The Saint Lawrence Press Blog: The Liturgy of a Lenten Ferial DayRubricariushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post-79471101095345426222010-03-08T14:25:52.076+00:002010-03-08T14:25:52.076+00:00I am grateful for your efforts. My own researches ...I am grateful for your efforts. My own researches have turned up nothing as well, and one of my learned confreres agrees that the issue was never authoritatively decided. Obviously this must have been an issue in nuns' choirs, and so perhaps some insight could be gleaned from what their usual praxis was. Certainly the answer of the Carthusianesses is well known, but something different must have obtained amongst the Benedictines, etc.<br /><br />If I might ask, what does your correspondent refer to when he talks about omitting any solemnity with respect to the Gospel pericope at Matins? I am aware of none in the secular rite.<br /><br />It is true, as you point out, that we can know almost nothing about this because of the prevailing post-Tridentine view of the Office as legal obligation rather than liturgy. Too, I think it's worth noting that no one would ever have envisioned a need for the laity to take up the public celebration of the Office on their own, as the clergy seemingly can't be bothered in most places.<br /><br />But I will of course be grateful for whatever you might turn up.Paul Goingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06479425203740052841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post-86869185204704486852010-03-08T10:12:23.919+00:002010-03-08T10:12:23.919+00:00Mr. Goings,
An excellent question. Having discu...Mr. Goings, <br /><br />An excellent question. Having discussed it with the two most liturgically erudite people I know over the weekend I an not convinced there is an 'official' answer.<br /><br />The concensus is that the senior most person read it whether they are a subdeacon, cleric in minor orders, tonsured cleric or a layman, but without any solemnity.<br /><br />Otherwise without a deacon it would not be possible to have Mattins in commmon. This of course does highlight the way the Office was treated as an obligation and not sublime liturgical worship. I have yet to find the equivalent of rubrics for a 'Reader Service' as one would get in the Eastern rites. <br /><br />I will consult Martinucci, Bauldry etc next week but doubt they will throw much light on the question.Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8669950994040167422.post-63276017292087457952010-03-05T17:17:58.507+00:002010-03-05T17:17:58.507+00:00What is properly done about the Gospel incipit in ...What is properly done about the Gospel incipit in a choir of laics or minor clerics?Paul Goingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06479425203740052841noreply@blogger.com