{"id":1213,"date":"2010-03-06T16:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T21:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2010-12-17T21:50:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:50:39","slug":"magnifying-the-lord-in-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/06\/magnifying-the-lord-in-german\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnifying the Lord in German"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German-speaking Benedictines, unlike their brothers and sisters in the English-speaking world, have a hard cover edition of the vernacular office which is used\u00a0widely in their monasteries in German-speaking countries. (They also tend to do more of the office in Latin than we do, at least in many places,\u00a0but that\u2019s another topic.) In the English-speaking world there are many local variants of the revised office, and most every larger community has developed its own cursus for the psalms and canticles. The German multi-volume edition, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vier-tuerme-verlag.de\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=213\" target=\"_blank\">Benediktinishes Antiphonale<\/a><\/em>, is available from Munsterschwarzach, Germany (Vier-T\u00fcrme Verlag). One week cursus, antiphons for every psalm, four-line square-note notation, Gregorian psalm tones, everything in German.<\/p>\n<p>All of you who pray the Liturgy of the Hours regularly will be interested in this innovation of the German-speaking OSBs. They don\u2019t sing the <em>Benedictus<\/em> every day at Lauds, nor do they sing the <em>Magnificat<\/em> every day at Vespers. And though they like the New Testament canticles sung as the last \u201cpsalm\u201d in the reformed Roman office and as an option in the new monastic antiphonale from Solesmes, they do not sing these NT canticles there. Rather, they sing a different New Testament canticle every day at the traditional place of the <em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em>, except on bigger feast days when the <em>Ben <\/em>and <em>Mag<\/em> are sung.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list I\u2019ve prepared of the German-language monastic usage:<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Lauds: John 1:1-14<br \/>\nIn the beginning was the Word<br \/>\nSunday Vespers: Revelation 5:12,9f,13<br \/>\nWorthy is the Lamb who was slain<br \/>\nMonday Lauds: 1 Timothy 2:5f, 3:16, 6:15f<br \/>\nThe mediator between God and humanity<br \/>\nMonday Vespers: Ephesians 1:3-10<br \/>\nBlessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ<br \/>\nTuesday Lauds: Revelation 11:7f, 12:10-12, 7:10,12<br \/>\nThey have conquered through the blood of the Lamb<br \/>\nTuesday Vespers: Revelation 15:3f, 4:11<br \/>\nGreat and wonderful are your works<br \/>\nWednesday Lauds: Matthew 5:3-10<br \/>\nBlessed the poor in spirit<br \/>\nWednesday Vespers: Luke 2:29-32<br \/>\nLord, now let your servant depart in peace <em>(Nunc dimittis)<br \/>\n<\/em>Thursday Lauds: Revelation 19:1f, 5-8, 7:10,12<br \/>\nSalvation and power and glory to our God<br \/>\nThursday Vespers: Matthew 11:25-30<br \/>\nI praise you Father, Lord of heaven and earth<br \/>\nFriday Lauds: Colossians 1:15-20<br \/>\nHe is the image of the invisible God<br \/>\nFriday Vespers: Philippians 2:6-10<br \/>\nThough he was in the form of God<br \/>\nSaturday Lauds: Luke 1:68-79<br \/>\nBlessed be the Lord <em>(Benedictus<\/em>)<br \/>\nSaturday Vespers: Luke 1:46-55<br \/>\nMy soul magnifies the Lord <em>(Magnificat)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The thought is that the reintroduction of the New Testament canticles is one of the great fruits of the liturgical reform, but the appropriate place for them is where New Testament canticles (<em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em>) have always been sung, not as part of the psalmody. Several monasteries tried this for several years, and a poll showed that 253 out of 307 members favored it.<\/p>\n<p>I have mixed feelings about removing the <em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em> from their hallowed spot. A friend in Austria once said to me with a sniff, \u201cTypical Germans, they always have to be doing something different.\u201d But on the other hand, it is a challenge to pray the same canticle every morning and evening, and many would find the variety refreshing. Although I\u2019ve never personally had a distracting thought in 20 years of monastic liturgy (!?), I\u2019m told that others have. And as for principles of the sort I like to hang on to, I suppose it depends on how you frame the principle. If it is \u201cThe <em>Benedictus<\/em> and <em>Magnificat<\/em> have always been sung every day,\u201d then that settles it. But if the principle is \u201cOf the eight offices prayed daily, two of them have either <em>Ben<\/em> or <em>Mag<\/em>,\u201d then we can talk about proportionality. That is to say, the practice of daily <em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em> developed as part of a rather heavy daily pensum. Modern OSBS typically gather two or three or four times daily. (Before the council the monks here did all the offices, but they grouped them together and rattled them off quickly so that they only had to gather 3 times a day.) Many lay people pray just daily morning prayer, or just daily evening prayer. For the medieval monk or nun who was in choir\u00a04 or more hours daily, the <em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em> would have been a real high point after lots and lots and lots of psalms and canticles and readings and responsories. For a similar effect today, we might need to do the <em>Ben<\/em> and <em>Mag<\/em> less often, such as once a week. But I\u2019d vote for placing them on Sunday, not Saturday as the German-speakers do. That is, if I&#8217;d vote at all for this proposal, and on that I&#8217;m still undecided.<\/p>\n<p>But on the far side of my rather mathematical thinking there must be some other better principle out there\u2026 such as \u201cPrefer nothing to Christ\u201d or \u201cThat in all things God may be glorified.\u201d With goals like that, surely many layouts for the Liturgy of the Hours are possible. Including the one from Munsterschwarzach, which I think is worth considering seriously.<\/p>\n<p>awr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of you who pray the Liturgy of the Hours regularly will be interested in this innovation of the German-speaking OSBs. 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