Lectionarium Cisterciense Rare 1941 Cistercian Lectionary in Latin Trappist VG+

Description: Lectionarium Cisterciense: Depromptum de Breviario Cisterciensi Reformato [Cistercian Lectionary] by Edmund Bernard In Latin. 1941 Typis Cisterciensibus (Westmalle, Belgium), oversize 9 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches tall black grain leather bound, gilt lettering to front cover and spine, grey pattern endpapers, printed in red and black ink with all pages ruled in red, [6], 623, 10 pp. plus undated four-page 'Supplementum Lectionarii Cisterciensis' laid in. Slight to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. A former Cistercian monastic library copy: On the front and rear pastedowns and blank endpapers, a stamp from the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Ghost (now called Our Lady of the Holy Spirit), a Trappist monastery located near Conyers, Georgia, founded in 1944 by twenty monks from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, Thomas Merton's Cistercian monastery. Slight foxing to blank endpapers. An index card mounted to the rear pastedown with several notes from the monastic doxology 'Te decet laus.' Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this rare Cistercian lectionary. OCLC (No. 865283541) locates only one copy at collections worldwide - at Universitat Rovira in Tarragona, Spain. A 1941 lectionary for the Cistercian Order of the Roman Catholic Church. This lectionary gives the readings and the responsorial psalm assigned for each Mass of the year (Sundays, weekdays, and special occasions). The Order of Cistercians are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule. They are also known as Bernardines, after Saint Bernard himself, or as White Monks, in reference to the color of the 'cuculla' or cowl (choir robe) worn by the Cistercians over their habits, as opposed to the black cowl worn by Benedictines. The Cistercians rejected the elaborate liturgical practices of contemporary religious orders, in particular the liturgy of the Benedictine monks of Cluny, which was notoriously excessive and occupied almost the entire monastic day, allowing little time for manual labor. The Cistercians sought to impose a liturgy that was simple and faithful to the Rule of St Benedict, and stripped away appendages that had steadily accumulated over the centuries. They introduced a liturgy that was greatly reduced and centered on the eight canonical hours and a daily conventual mass - a second mass was soon added on Sundays and feast days.

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