author - "Edward J. Quigley"
pifies the pre-natal stage of life.Lauds, the office of dawn, seems to resemble the beginnings ofchildhood. Prime recalls to him youth. Terce, recited whenthe sun is high in the heavens shedding brilliant light, symbolisesearly manhood with its strength and glory. Sext typifies matureage. None, recited when the sun is declining, suggests man in hismiddle age. Vespers reminds all of decrepit age gliding gentlydown to the grave. Compline, night prayer said before sleep,should remind us of the great night, death.
CHAPTER II.
SHORT HISTORY OF DIVINE PRAISE IN GENERALAND OF THE BREVIARY IN PARTICULAR.
From all eternity the Godhead was praised with ineffable praise by theTrinity--the three divine Persons. The angels from the first moment ofthe creation sang God's praises. _Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, DominusDeus, Sabaoth. Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus_ (Isaias vi. 3).
Cardinal Bona writes
pifies the pre-natal stage of life.Lauds, the office of dawn, seems to resemble the beginnings ofchildhood. Prime recalls to him youth. Terce, recited whenthe sun is high in the heavens shedding brilliant light, symbolisesearly manhood with its strength and glory. Sext typifies matureage. None, recited when the sun is declining, suggests man in hismiddle age. Vespers reminds all of decrepit age gliding gentlydown to the grave. Compline, night prayer said before sleep,should remind us of the great night, death.
CHAPTER II.
SHORT HISTORY OF DIVINE PRAISE IN GENERALAND OF THE BREVIARY IN PARTICULAR.
From all eternity the Godhead was praised with ineffable praise by theTrinity--the three divine Persons. The angels from the first moment ofthe creation sang God's praises. _Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, DominusDeus, Sabaoth. Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus_ (Isaias vi. 3).
Cardinal Bona writes