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And prompt at the word of command, Pamfilo, while all listened intently, thus began: Probably from the name of the pronged or hooked implement with which they dragged the corpses out of the houses. The canonical hour following prime, roughly speaking about 9 a.m. The canonical hour following sext, i.e. 3 p.m.
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.
It was the hour of morning recreation, between Terce and Sext, and the religious were lolling about and talking, and one lay brother was sweeping up the leaves that had fallen from the tree, for the winter had come and the branches were bare. The lay brother was Brother Paul, and he made sidelong looks at John, but kept his head down and went on with his work without speaking.
"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.
When Mark found Brother George he had already doffed his habit, and was dressed in his farmer's clothes to go working on the land. "I'll speak to Mr. Hett before Sext. Meanwhile, you can assure him that the key of the Tabernacle is perfectly safe. I wear it round my neck." Brother George pulled open his shirt, and showed Mark the golden key hanging from a cord.
Recited soon after dawn, Prime was the figure of childhood; Tierce of youth; Sext the full vigour of age; None the approaches of old age, while Vespers were an allegory of decrepitude. They belonged, moreover, to the Nocturns, and were sung about six o'clock in the evening, at that hour when, at the time of the Equinoxes, the sun sets in the red cinder of the clouds.
The preces feriales at Lauds and Vespers are the same in structure. They have the same structure in Terce, Sext, None, but differ in character. The preces dominicales at Prime and Compline have a form of their own, additions being made in the preces of Prime when said on a feria. At Vespers Preces Feriales are said on ferias of Advent and Lent when office is of feria.
De Offic. ii. 17; Middleton. In Pis. 1. Pro Murænâ, 20. Plutarch, in Vitâ. Ad Atticum, i. 18, ii. 1. See Montesquieu, Grandeur des Romains, ch. xii. Ad Atticum, i. 19. Ad Atticum, lib. iii.; ad Fam. lib. xiv.; pro Sext. 22; pro Dom. 36; Plutarch, in Vitâ.
Durtal, as he knelt, allowed himself to be rocked by the psalmody, too tired to be able to pray himself. Then, when Sext was ended, all the fathers meditated, and Durtal caught a look of pity from the prior, who turned a little towards his bench. He understood that the monk implored the Saviour for him, and perhaps asked God to show him the way in which he might conduct himself on the morrow.
At ten she recited tierce, sext, and none; and then, prostrate at the foot of her crucifix, she examined her conscience, and imposed on herself penances in proportion to the number and grievousness of her faults.
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