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• For the wholehearted follower of Francis (`I am your breviary ! RIDDLE ME THIS
• Ludovic Lesly, “I will embrace him also — though I would have you to know that to understand the service of an ambushment is as necessary to a soldier as it is to a priest to be able to read his breviary.” Quentin Durward
• And this is the evening prayer of that, what we call the breviary, or the divine office. CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2008
• There is mention of this meal in the report of Archdeacon Theodosius and in the anonymous little work called "The Jerusalem Breviary, " as also in subsequent writings.
• I'm not actually convinced tunes for those even exist — the Paris Breviary was a modernist "priest's prayerbook" kind of liturgy and I'm not positive that a supplemental antiphoner ever existed for the innovative stuff they threw in. A couple of Office/chant books in English
• Both writers do not hesitate to admit that the breviary is the great source of the Church of England's The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
• He heaved himself into a more upright position and removed a dog-eared breviary from the folds of his lap. PROSECUTOR
• Augustine preferred the simple numeration of days - first, second, third - a practice that is kept to this day in the Latin breviary (feria prima, feria secunda, etc.).
• For those who would like to compare these texts to that of a medieval Dominican Breviary, one is available in digital form here, showing an exemplar from the Czech Republic. Fifteenth-Century Dominican Breviary in Digital Form
• This said, over the years I have heard it said on a few occasions that the breviary is simply too time-consuming for non-clergy and non-religious to possibly take on. More on the Divine Office: Private Recitation by the Laity