Chapter 18: The order for reciting the psalms (paragraph 3)
Vespers each day has four psalms to be sung. (From para. 4 of Ch. 18 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry OSB, 1997.)
St. Benedict's simple statement about Vespers helps me to reflect on that late afternoon/evening part of my day. I often experience late afternoon/evening as a tired, hectic, or moody time. Benedict says simply, there are four psalms to be sung. I know simply, it is time to say the mantra. In loving fidelity to discipline may come the "even-ing" or balancing that is a fruit of the practice.
St. Benedict's simple statement about Vespers helps me to reflect on that late afternoon/evening part of my day. I often experience late afternoon/evening as a tired, hectic, or moody time. Benedict says simply, there are four psalms to be sung. I know simply, it is time to say the mantra. In loving fidelity to discipline may come the "even-ing" or balancing that is a fruit of the practice.
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