I love love love this. Thank you. The Daily Office/ Liturgy of the Hours is a beautiful devotion. There's a place relatively near me--a monastery--where you can book a room and do a DIY retreat and stay with monks and pray the Hours with them. It's always appealed to me but I've never done it.
One thing I love about this is how the liturgy of the hours is the seasonal liturgy in microcosm. If Autumn is the sunset bell, then Spring is the dawning resurrection. We even celebrate All Saints/All Souls day in Autumn (also known as All Hallows Eve/Dia de muerta in english and hispanic cultures, as I understand it), and the paschal Resurrection in spring. I have a vague recollection of Ember days having a tie-in with seasonal harvests, but I don't remember the connection. The breathing in and breathing out of our lives--the days, the months, the seasons, the years--it's all authored by the same God, so it is no wonder that the Church and our lives have this synchronicity. It is beautiful in it's intricacy.
The tides of life are closely and spiritually connected with the tides of faith. I like how you have presented it here--"all must end, in order to begin once more." Very well said.
I love love love this. Thank you. The Daily Office/ Liturgy of the Hours is a beautiful devotion. There's a place relatively near me--a monastery--where you can book a room and do a DIY retreat and stay with monks and pray the Hours with them. It's always appealed to me but I've never done it.
One thing I love about this is how the liturgy of the hours is the seasonal liturgy in microcosm. If Autumn is the sunset bell, then Spring is the dawning resurrection. We even celebrate All Saints/All Souls day in Autumn (also known as All Hallows Eve/Dia de muerta in english and hispanic cultures, as I understand it), and the paschal Resurrection in spring. I have a vague recollection of Ember days having a tie-in with seasonal harvests, but I don't remember the connection. The breathing in and breathing out of our lives--the days, the months, the seasons, the years--it's all authored by the same God, so it is no wonder that the Church and our lives have this synchronicity. It is beautiful in it's intricacy.
The tides of life are closely and spiritually connected with the tides of faith. I like how you have presented it here--"all must end, in order to begin once more." Very well said.
John O’Donohugh really captures things so beautifully