PART III THE CANONICAL HOURS.

The word had various meanings assigned to it by early Christian writers, but the title, Breviary, as it is employed to-daythat is, a book containing the entire canonical officeappears to date from the eleventh century.

For the seven canonical hours, he writes, bear a striking resemblance to the seven ages of man.

He had spent his youth near Rome, and keeping his eye on the Roman usage he assigned the Psalms to the various canonical hours and to different days of the week.

The antiphons he drew from existing sources, and of course the canonical hours were already in existence.

The canonical hours and the formulary of the Mass now in use were also carefully arranged by him."

Everyone reciting the canonical hours longed for a great and drastic change.

As regards the little hoursPrime, Terce, Sext, None and Complinethe freedom of the competent ecclesiastical authorities was as yet unconfined by canonical restrictions.

Under Charlemagne and his successors variations in the canonical hours completely disappeared" (Baudot, op.

There, they were always sure of a welcome and of an invitation to lunch or dinner, when they were treated to the very best the city could afford, and, while keeping strictly within the letter of the canonical law, could feast their hearty country appetites even in Lent.

If he had thought that by cutting off his right hand he could have saved Lancelot's soul (by canonical methods, of course; for who would wish to save souls in any other?), he would have done it without hesitation.

In this period Ewald thinks there was a great stride made in sacred literature, especially in recasting ancient books that we accept as canonical.

All this row of episcopal, canonical, and clerical residences has an air of the deepest quiet, repose, and well-protected, tho not inaccessible seclusion.

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How few years have we numbered since one perceived the large bulky form in canonical attirethe plain, heavy face, large, long, unredeemed by any expression, except that of sound hard senseand thought, 'can this be the Wit?'

Although Pope Clement V., in his celebrated "Institutions," called "Clémentines," had formally forbidden the monks to hunt, there were few who did not evade the canonical prohibition by pursuing furred game, and that without considering that they were violating the laws of the Church.

But perhaps we must turn our back on the Abbey and pursue our walk along the Thames Embankment as far as St. Paul's if we want to discover the very finest flower of canonical culture and charm, for it blushes unseen in the shady recesses of Amen Court.

Complete dissolution of the marriage tie (a vinculo matrimonii) took place only on a declaration of the Ecclesiastical Court that on account of some canonical impediment, like consanguinity, the marriage was null and void from the beginning.

[Illustration: Agnes Sorel175] One of the best informed, most impartial, and most sensible historians of that epoch, James Duclercq, merely says on this subject, King Charles, before he had peace with Duke Philip of Burgundy, led a right holy life and said his canonical hours.

See how negligently he passes by me: with what an Equipage Canonical, as though he had broken the heart of Bellarmine, or added something to the singing Brethren.

Upon your faces, 'tis true: but if judiciously we shall cast our eyes upon your minds, you are a thousand women of her in worth: she cannot swound in jest, nor set her lover tasks, to shew her peevishness, and his affection, nor cross what he saies, though it be Canonical.

Buddha wrote none himself, but in some 300 years after his death his teachings assumed a canonical form, under the name of Tripitaka, or triple basket, as it is called.

All marriages at church must be celebrated within canonical hoursthat is, between the hours of eight and twelve, except in the case of special licence, when the marriage may be celebrated at any hour, or at any "meet and proper place.

In reckoning up his available hours he deducted so much in each day for the due performance of his canonical duties.