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The minute study of the ecclesiastical calendar is not now so necessary for each priest, as it was centuries ago. The Ordo Divini Officii recitandi, issued yearly, and prepared with great accuracy, relieves priests of much labour and secures them from many doubts.
Upheaval was the order of the day, kings became exiles and exiles kings, dynasties and creeds were being subverted, and empires seemed rocking as on the surface of an earthquake. They were years of great aspirations, with beliefs in all manner of swift regeneration Magnus ab integro saeclorum nascitur ordo, all varieties of doctrinaire idealisms.
They exhibit the three indispensable gifts of the finest authorship: "simplicitas munditiis," "lucidus ordo," "curiosa felicitas."
God wrought three miracles through Patrick in this place viz., the fountain of water through the ground, his eyesight to the blind man, and his reading the ordo of the baptism without knowing a letter up to that time. And Patrick was subsequently baptized.
See their Euchelogium, Ordo VIII entitled, On the composition of the great ointment in the Costantinop. church ap. Although for many centuries both kinds were ordinarily received, yet the custom of communicating under the form of bread alone is very ancient.
I have said the order given for commemoration in the Ordo should be followed; but not to follow this order does not exceed a venial sin. Even the deliberate omission of a commemoration in Lauds or Vespers is not a violation of a grave precept. When several offices fall on the same day, only one office, the one of highest rank or most important, is said. The others are transferred or commemorated.
'Not a bit, replied he; 'my father is a naturalist and Darwinian; not a sceptic, but Agnosticus suavis or Verecundus, ordo compositae, you know. "Hunt the ghost by all means," said he, when I suggested a ghost "worry," and then as he does sometimes over coffee and a cigarette after dinner he talked with a real keen interest on the whole subject.
Pliny says, "It became the third order in the state, and to the title of Senatus Populusque Romanus, there began to be added, et Equestris ordo." Beside this Romanus populus, which constituted the ruling class under kings, was another body, made up of conquered people. In early times their number was small, nor did they appear as a distinct class until the reign of Tullus Hostilius.
It brings help to those who recite it fervently. A. Before Recitation. Purify conscience. 2. Mortification of passions. 3. Guarding the senses. 4. Knowledge of the work that is to be done. Reading the Ordo Recitandi officium. 2. To recollect ourselves. 3. To invoke God's aid. 4. To unite ourselves with Christ. 5. Thanks to God. 2. Ask his pardon for faults. 3. Say the Sacro-sanctae. 4.
At Rome in holy week this practice was not originally confined to holy Saturday, but was observed on the three days before caster: for the first Ordo Romanus directs, that on holy thursday fire should be struck from a flint outside the church, and blessed.
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