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The Breviary Through The Centuries

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The Abbot of St. Jerome does fine service in The Breviary Through the Centuries to both the scholar researching the origin of the breviary and the non-professional wanting to know how this great and now formalized prayer of the Church has come to its present status.
Combining the insights of critical research with a spiritual and ecclesial sense of the depths of the Divine Office, Dom Pierre Salmon sets forth an enlightening picture of the origins and the historical circumstances influencing the evolution of the Church’s prayer and the obligation of its recitation among the clergy. His book presents, in cogent and well-documented form, what will strike many readers as a new evaluation of the development of the Office: that, rather than being from primitive Christian times a common prayer of the universal Church, the Office was originally centered, in diverse forms and in varying degrees, within individual churches, where the hours of praise were recited by priests consecrated to the service of a particular church.

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264.02

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Collegeville, Minnesota, USA : The Liturgical Press., 1962

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Hardcover, 172 hlm, 16x23.5 cm

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English

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264.02

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Religion
Christian Organization, Social Work and Worship

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