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"As a continuation of her works, the Benedictine Fathers of Solesmes have edited also the 'Revelations' of Saint Mechtilde, her book on 'Special Grace, and her 'Light of the Divinity'; they are there on that shelf...."
The other services were not much better; indeed, Durtal was reduced to attending vespers at Notre Dame de la Brèche, in the lower town, a chapel where the priest, a friend of the Abbé Plomb, had introduced the use of Solesmes, and patiently trained a little choir composed of faithful working-men and pious boys.
"The fourth division commenced its detrainment at Le Cateau on Sunday, August 23, and by the morning of the 25th eleven battalions and a brigade of artillery with the divisional staff were available for service. I ordered General Snow to move out to take up a position with his right south of Solesmes, his left resting on the Cambrai-Le Cateau road south of La Chapriz.
Who is the author?" "The most extraordinary nun of our time, the abbess of the Benedictine nuns at Solesmes. I regret only that you are going so soon, for I should have been happy to let you read it.
Durtal, nauseated by this odour, was on the point of making his escape, when the Abbé Plomb came in and took his arm. They went out together. "Then you have just come back from Solesmes?" said Durtal. "As you see." "And were you satisfied with your visit?" "Enchanted," and the Abbé smiled at the impatience he could detect in Durtal's accents. "What do you think of the monastery?"
"Even his way of coming up unexpectedly and hurling his opinion at me is not quite the same as it was. This time, it was, indeed, not he who undertook to crystallize my irresolution by announcing my departure for Solesmes; but it comes to the same thing. For, after all, there is something not quite above board in this affair.
Thus a true Benedictine must be at once a saint, a learned man, and an artist." "And what is the daily life of Solesmes?" asked Durtal. "Very methodical and very simple: Matins and Lauds at four in the morning; at nine o'clock tierce, mass for the brethren, and sext; at noon dinner; at four nones and vespers; at seven supper; at half-past eight compline and deep silence.
"I will add that even if that musician had finished his work, that would not prove that his interpretation ought to be preferred to that which has been recently constituted after patient researches by the Abbey of Solesmes, for the Benedictine texts are based on the copy preserved at the monastery of St.
She, who in virtue of her Pentecostal gift of tongues, speaks in sundry times and divers manners, may in due season find words as eloquent of her heart and mind as those which she spoke to Durtal in the aisles of Chartres and in the cadences of Solesmes. July, 1898. By M.T.K. Huysman. [Footnote 3: R. P. Pacher, S.J., De Dante
As a monk remarked, 'when you have heard the Sisters of Solesmes, those of Paris sound provincial." "And you saw the Abbess of Saint Cecilia. "Yes, she it is. But you are making the greatest mistake in imagining that her book was not approved at Rome.
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