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Updated: June 19, 2025
"They must be different from those of the week," he thought; and he went up into his cell to consult his placards. Rise. Little Office. Prayer till 1.30. 2. Grand Canonical Office chanted. 5.30. Prime, Morning Mass, 6 o'clock. 6.45. Great Silence. 9.15. Asperges, Tierce, Procession. 10. High Mass. 11.10. Sext and special examination. 11.30. Angelus, Dinner. 12.15. Siesta, Great Silence.
But most of all he was moved by the rich, novel sound of the Latin as the priest rolled it forth in the ASPERGES ME, DOMINE, and MISEREATUR VESTRI OMNIPOTENS DEUS, with its soft Continental vowels and liquid R's. It seemed to him that he had never really heard Latin before.
"I do not think that you expect to convince me that a ceremony like the er Asperges is a fundamental of Christianity." "I have taught my people that it is," said the Missioner.
Durtal copied this rule for his use on a scrap of paper. "In fact," he said to himself, "I have to be in chapel at 9.15 for Asperges, High Mass and the Office of Sext, afterwards at 2 for None, then at 4 for Vespers and Benediction, and lastly at 7.30 for Compline.
And, in the same way, Don Vigilio the assistant, having failed to bring the Holy Water basin and sprinkler, the Cardinal, as officiating priest, could merely make the gesture of blessing the room and the dying man, whilst pronouncing the words of the ritual: "Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor."*
Nevertheless the general outlines have been preserved, though certain of the terraces have disappeared, as well as many of the walls of the original enclosure, thus reducing the number of garden plots; in fact but sixteen distinctly defined gardens remain, including the Clos aux Asperges.
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