BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//eriebenedictines.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:723358ee-cdd9-40aa-a610-95b6abbbe3bb X-WR-CALDESC:The same psalms--4\,91 and 134--are said each day at Compli ne.\n\nThe remaining psalms not accounted for in this arrangement for the day hours are distributed evenly at Vigils over the seven nights of the we ek. Longer psalms are to be divided so that twelve psalms are said each ni ght.\nCompline\, the night prayer of the community was built around th ree psalms designed to do what we all need to do at night: recognize that what we did that day was not perfect\, hope that the next day will be bett er\, praise the God whose love and grace brought us through another day an d go to bed trusting that the God who sees our every action is more concer ned with our motives than with our failures.\n\nAbove all else we urge that if people find this distribution of the psalms unsatisfactory\, they should arrange whatever they judge better\, provided that the full complem ent of one hundred and fifty psalms is by all means carefully maintained e very week\, and that the series begins anew each Sunday at Vigils. For mem bers who in a week's time say less than the full psalter with the customar y canticles betray extreme indolence and lack of devotion in their service . We read\, after all\, that our holy ancestors\, energetic as they were\, did all this in a single day. Let us hope that we\, lukewarm as we are\, can achieve it in a whole week.\n\nFinally\, Benedict implies very cle arly in this chapter on the order of the psalms that a full prayer life mu st be based on a total immersion in all the life experiences to which the psalms are a response. The order of the psalms is not nearly so important to Benedict as the fact that the entire 150 psalms are to be said each and every week. The Benedictine is not to pick and choose at random the psalm s that will be said. The Benedictine is not to pick some psalms but not ot hers. The Benedictine is to pray the entire psalter in an orderly way\, re gardless of mood\, irrespective of impulses\, despite personal preferences . Anything other than regular recitation and total immersion in the psalms is\, to Benedict's way of thinking\, spiritual sloth. Ours is to be a ful l spiritual palate. Readings may be shortened if situations warrant but th e psalms never. We are to tap into every human situation that the psalms d escribe and learn to respond to them with an open soul\, an unfettered hea rt and out of the mind of God. X-WR-RELCALID:924e1f1e3cd989138073460446171618 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20241103T020000 RDATE:20251102T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20250309T020000 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9597fc51-09b7-4be1-ab63-2784979b406d DTSTAMP:20260425T080011Z DESCRIPTION:The same psalms--4\,91 and 134--are said each day at Complin e.\n\nThe remaining psalms not accounted for in this arrangement for the d ay hours are distributed evenly at Vigils over the seven nights of the wee k. Longer psalms are to be divided so that twelve psalms are said each nig ht.\nCompline\, the night prayer of the community was built around thr ee psalms designed to do what we all need to do at night: recognize that w hat we did that day was not perfect\, hope that the next day will be bette r\, praise the God whose love and grace brought us through another day and go to bed trusting that the God who sees our every action is more concern ed with our motives than with our failures.\n\nAbove all else we urge t hat if people find this distribution of the psalms unsatisfactory\, they s hould arrange whatever they judge better\, provided that the full compleme nt of one hundred and fifty psalms is by all means carefully maintained ev ery week\, and that the series begins anew each Sunday at Vigils. For memb ers who in a week's time say less than the full psalter with the customary canticles betray extreme indolence and lack of devotion in their service. We read\, after all\, that our holy ancestors\, energetic as they were\, did all this in a single day. Let us hope that we\, lukewarm as we are\, c an achieve it in a whole week.\n\nFinally\, Benedict implies very clea rly in this chapter on the order of the psalms that a full prayer life mus t be based on a total immersion in all the life experiences to which the p salms are a response. The order of the psalms is not nearly so important t o Benedict as the fact that the entire 150 psalms are to be said each and every week. The Benedictine is not to pick and choose at random the psalms that will be said. The Benedictine is not to pick some psalms but not oth ers. The Benedictine is to pray the entire psalter in an orderly way\, reg ardless of mood\, irrespective of impulses\, despite personal preferences. Anything other than regular recitation and total immersion in the psalms is\, to Benedict's way of thinking\, spiritual sloth. Ours is to be a full spiritual palate. Readings may be shortened if situations warrant but the psalms never. We are to tap into every human situation that the psalms de scribe and learn to respond to them with an open soul\, an unfettered hear t and out of the mind of God. DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241025T235900 LOCATION:Chapter 18 SUMMARY:The Order of the Psalmody END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR