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Annie
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 12:26 pm |
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Credo Catholic wrote: Annie, how would being a Benedictine working and praying, be different from Opus Dei? Is it a matter of allegiance to a certain organization, it seems that they are similar. I need to work on self discipline, especially now that I don't work outside the home on a regular basis anymore. I'm afraid I spend time praying and thinking and reading books and the forum when I should be doing other things! So the idea of Benedictine "work and pray" sounds helpful. Do the oblates have a written schedule of daily work and prayer times they follow? How would prayer for a Benedictine differ from prayer for a Carmelite? I sometimes sit down for a short prayer and end up spending half an hour before I know it. I know you're working and may not have time to answer so many questions, but whenever you can, thanks.
Sorry Rick and David, this is getting off topic. Do you want me to re-post it someplace else?
The difference is being a member of one group vs. another. I am attracted to the Benedictines at least partly because they were the original group that started the whole thing. Opus dei I am not sure of. I think they have a very different discipline and I don't want to get into it because it is so new. Benedictines have been around for ~1500 years.
I would simply continue doing what I am doing. I get up, get dressed, do Morning Prayer, eat a little to take my pills, go to work, get breakfast at the cafeteria, work, do the Office of Readings at lunchtime, eat lunch, pray the chaplet of Divine Mercy at 3 PM (not part of the Benedictine routine necessarily), go home, do chores, eat supper, do Evening Prayer, do more chores or watch TV, do Night Prayer, go to bed. at some point during the day do lectio divina (meditating on Bible passages) or study the Rule of St. Benedict (you are supposed to do both, again time constraints).
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 12:55 pm |
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| Okay, I'm a big sloth. I need to think about this for a bit. No two days are the same for me, but that may be my doing, or undoing! Thanks for the help. I have some 'splainin to do to the Lord.
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Annie
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 01:17 pm |
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Most folks just do morning and evening prayer, takes about 15 minutes each. i like the Office of Readings best because they contain the patristic writings of which I am completely ignorant. I even learned a cool name "Fulgentius of Ruspe." Who of where?
Start with the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Slim blue volume, easy to pack and take along. I got mine from Amazon.
If you decide you like it, get Christian Prayer and I can help you figure out where all those ribbons go! Just PM me.
Then is the biggie, the 4-volume version. For the true prayer book addict. i got the black leather with gilded edges one, figuring they need to last 40 years and I can leave them to a niece. A quaint gift from their spinster aunt.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 03:33 pm |
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| Actually, I do have the four volume set, bought one at a time, but I get so frustrated turning ribbons back and forth, remembering to say antiphons, getting interrupted and trying to go back, I sort of gave up. Now I use the Magnificat and try to do the morning prayer and reading somewhere near the morning and same in the evening, although I sometimes do it all at one time before or after noon mass when I get there. But using the Magnificat is not as "filling" as the Divine Office. Sounds like the middle version would be good.
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Annie
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 03:41 pm |
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| I took those cheat cards they give you with the invariant prayers and photcopied them a little smaller and pasted them with a glue stick inside the front and back covers of the Christian Prayer book. That helped a lot.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12th, 2007 04:55 pm |
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| Sorry, I've been outside wrestling with the lawnmower! That idea about the cheat cards sounds good. Everyone here has been talking so much about reading the Liturgy of the Hours, it has given me new determination. I just need to establish more of a routine and stick to it. I've started the program of reading the Bible and the Catechism together, and that has been easier of course, so I don't tend to put it off.
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Annie
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Posted: Fri Jul 13th, 2007 12:43 pm |
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Credo Catholic wrote: I've started the program of reading the Bible and the Catechism together, and that has been easier of course, so I don't tend to put it off.
well, there you have done your lectio divina! Any part of it that you can do is good. I have actually been experiencing a lot of dryness in prayer lately so have changed the routine a little but when Advent starts i will be back with the full LOTH routine.
And lawmower-wrestling is the labora part. So, see, you really are Benedictine!
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Posted: Wed Jul 18th, 2007 11:52 pm |
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Annie wrote: And lawmower-wrestling is the labora part. So, see, you really are Benedictine!
Well it's not exactly consecrated work but I'll take your word for it!
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Posted: Sat Sep 15th, 2007 05:42 pm |
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Does anyone use the Universalis site?
http://www.universalis.com/cgi-bin/display/-600/USA/sitemap.htm
I was a non-resident member of an Anglican lay community for a time, and we followed the Rule of St. Benedict so I got used to that. Now I use the forms on Universalis, and sometime during the day/evening pray a Rosary.
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Annie
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Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 10:37 am |
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Liz65 wrote: Does anyone use the Universalis site?
No. It uses unapproved translations. It is all right if you don't have your paper copy with you, which for me would be most of the time (they are heavy!).Last edited on Tue Sep 18th, 2007 10:48 am by Annie
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Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 12:24 pm |
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Thank for the info...I believe I found it from a link at http://www.OSB.com
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Posted: Tue Sep 18th, 2007 12:52 pm |
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| yes, osb is the link for all things Benedictine!
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