Books
American Altar Missal
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The American Missal is a reprint containing all the original Propers of Sundays and Fasts and Feasts with the American Canon and Proper Prefaces as in the original. In addition, without disturbing the pagination, are four Eucharistic Canons: The Gregorian (Tridentine) in Latin, the Gregorian in English following the Fourth Edition English Missal (1940), the 1549 English Prayer Book, and the American Canon according to the current Antiochene usage. There are additional Prefaces noted to the Solemn and Ferial usage, and several additional Saint’s Days including that for the New Martyrs of Russia and that of the Patriarchs and Prophets.
Book of Common Prayer
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Monastic Breviary Matins
ACCORDING TO THE HOLY RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT
With Additional Rubrics and Devotions for its Recitation in Accordance with
The Book of Common Prayer and The Monastic Diurnal
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• Monastic Breviary Matins is a complete English translation of the ancient Monastic Night Office, and is necessary for those who wish to recite the complete traditional Monastic Divine Office in English.
• Contains beautiful, classic translations of the Psalms, Canticles, Hymns, Responsories, Lessons, Gospels, Collects and other elements of the Monastic Night Office, including the Lives of the Saints and readings from the great Fathers and Doctors of the Church.
• Originally published in 1961 by the Society of the Sacred Cross, an Anglican religious community for women, in Tymawr, Wales.
• A companion volume to The Monastic Diurnal, originally published by Oxford University Press in 1932 and reprinted in 2006 by Lancelot Andrewes Press.
• As with The Monastic Diurnal, this translation conforms to the Coverdale Psalter of the classic Book of Common Prayer, as well as the Authorized (“King James”) Bible.
• Parallel sets of Office texts and rubrics conforming to both the traditional Roman
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- Over 1,200 pages
- Printed on high-quality, thin “Bible” paper with red dyed page edges
- Soft, flexible deluxe imitation leather (vivella) cover
- Durable smyth-sewn binding
- Black text (with rubrics in italics)
Monastic Diurnal
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This book is an English translation of the Day Hours from the Breviarium Monasticum published at Bruges in 1925 after extensive revision and restoration by its Benedictine editors.The Monastic Office was first set forth in all of its essential features and in much of its detail about the year 535 A.D. in the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, the father of Western monasticism. It was the first complete and enduring order of daily praise and prayer in European Christendom.
For fourteen hundred years it has voiced the worship of an ever-increasing circle of devout men and women. It came to England with St. Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, and it was the Prayer Book of those who more than any other group of Religious formed and influenced the Church of England – men such as St. Wilfrid, St. Benedict Biscop, the Venerable Bede, St. Dunstan, St. Anselm. For centuries the Archbishops of Canterbury wore the Benedictine habit, and many of the greater English cathedrals resounded with Benedictine praise.
The Monastic Office was planned from the first for busy men, working at both mental and manual labour. Its recitation was called by St. Benedict the Work of God, ‘Opus Dei’; the primary spiritual labour ‘to which nothing is to be preferred’. – From the Preface
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- The Monastic Diurnal is a liturgical and devotional classic, prayed by generations of English-speaking clergy, religious and layfolk
- We offer a high quality, exact reprint of the 1963 Oxford University Press edition, including all texts necessary for the daily recitation of the traditional Benedictine Hours of Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline
- 880 total pages
- Size, 4” by 6”
- Printed on “Bible paper” with gilt edges
- Two color text (rubrics in red)
- Smith-sewn binding
- Semi-hard black leatherette cover, with title stamped in gold-foil
- Includes six ribbons for easy recitation
- All texts correspond to the Gregorian chant settings in The Monastic Diurnal Noted (also available from Lancelot Andrewes Press)
Monastic Diurnal Noted
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The Monastic Diurnal Noted is a complete Gregorian Antiphonal in English, containing all the Antiphons, Hymn Tunes, and Responsories of the Day Hours of the Benedictine Divine Office (the seven canonical Hours, excluding the midnight office of Matins).
This high quality reprint combines the two original volumes into one single volume. The first volume includes the music of Vespers, the Little Hours and Lauds of Great Feasts. The second volume includes the music of Sunday and Ferial Lauds, with Matins of the Sacred Triduum and Matins of the Dead.
The Monastic Diurnal Noted is the brilliant work of the Reverend Canon Winfred Douglas, the renowned English church musician and pioneer of adapting Gregorian plainchant to English. Both volumes were prepared posthumously by the Sisters of the Community of Saint Mary. This reprint is a photographic reproduction of the original editions of 1952 and 1960.
Please Note – This volume, The Monastic Diurnal Noted, is distinct from The Monastic Diurnal, first published in 1932 by Oxford University Press (currently being reprinted by Lancelot Andrewes Press). The Noted volume is actually a Gregorian chant companion to the Oxford University Press text.
From the Preface to the new reprint edition, by Mother Miriam, CSM:
“Sister Hildegarde in the Western Province of the Community of St. Mary and Sr. Benedicta in the Eastern Province worked closely with Canon Douglas up until his death in 1944 to perfect his English adaptation of the timeless Latin plainsong. Sister Hildegarde finished the musical notation of the 1952 Monastic Diurnal. All the calligraphy was done with a simple Osmiroid pen. With the patience of an ancient monastic scribe she made each page a work of prayer and careful craftmanship so that the contemplative tradition of singing the psalms unaccompanied might continue in the vernacular. Thanks to Lancelot Andrewes Press and modern technology, both Canon Douglas’ scholarship and artful adaptation of language and music to English singing and even Sister Hildegarde’s penstrokes are being preserved … It is the continued prayer of the Community of St. Mary that those who use this book along with St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter will be blessed by standing in the ancient monastic stream of grace….”
The Diurnal is a beautiful hardbound book with acid-free paper, containing nearly 800 pages.
The Rule of Saint Benedict
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Publisher’s Note (Roman Catholic Books): “The great achievement of Saint Benedict, through which the essentials of Western civilization were preserved amid the chaos and confusion of the Dark Ages and confusion of the Dark Ages, cannot be overestimated. And the Rule which he established for his monks has had an influence throughout European history which has extended far beyond the cloisters of his own community. One of the earliest surviving manuscripts written in England is a copy of the “Rule”; and the great number of other copies which have come down to us forms a notable testimony to the veneration and respect which it commanded.
Abbot McCann presents in this book an edition of the Latin text which he intends should be of service both to the monk in choir and to the general reader. Though not professing to be a critical textual edition it is based on the Authentic Text established by modern scholars, with modifications only in the interests of orthography and the explanation of vulgarisms. Facing each page is an English translation, carefully revised and evolved over many years of experiment and trial to be at once accurate and readable. Full and helpful notes are given for the convenience of students on all points of difficulty in the Late Latin syntax, and vocabulary of the text. And to assist the monastic Lector, who by ancient custom must recite the Rule of Prime section by section throughout the year, the appropriate dates are given alongside the text.”
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St Ambrose Prayer Book
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The prayer book is 450 pages. It is comparable to the St. Augustine’s Prayer Book but edited for the devotional practices of Orthodox Faithful of the Western Rite. This Prayer Book promises to be handsomely formatted, covered like the Monastic Breviary in a soft cover material “Vivella” with gilt edges, with ribbons. For details, read this PDF file which gives details about the prayer book. A trade discount on bulk orders of 10 or more are available for churches and book stores.
St Dunstan Plainsong Psalter
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The latest printing is on thin paper 900 ppi, beautiful Vivella soft leatherish cover, round corners, gold stamping on green, and at 530 pages weighs only one pound. These handsome volumes are priced at $ 29 USD. The hardcover book for pews is still available.
We are a stavropegial monastic community of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) under the Omophorion of His Eminence, Hilarion, Metropolitan of Eastern America and New York.
