Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Chapter 14: The celebration of Vigils on feasts of saints


On the feasts of saints and on all other solemnities Vigils should follow the order laid down for the celebration of Sunday except that the psalms, antiphons and readings that are appropriate to the day should be recited; the order of the liturgy itself remains the same as that described for Sunday. (Ch. 14 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

Benedict dignifies the feasts of saints as solemnities, but for me any saint's day reminds me what I have experienced through meditation -- that the communion of saints is a limitless, joyful, cosmic community with room for me. 

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