Nuncio Strikes Balance After Two Years of Old Latin Liturgy.
Nuncio Strikes Balance After Two Years of Old Latin Liturgy
South Dakota born Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, the Apostolic Nuncio in Switzerland, struck a balance after two years of reciting the Old Roman Office. Office is the name for the official prayer of the Church which is contained in the breviary. It consists of Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline. These prayers are recited or sung daily by priests, religious and even lay people.
In the Middle of the Night
Archbishop Gullickson reveals that he prays Matins in the middle of the night – quote – “whenever I awake from midnight on, which sometimes, if I have gotten to bed late, may be closer to 3 or 4 am.” Matins works best for him standing up, because "even kneeling at 2am I tend to doze off." The Carthusians, an order of hermits who have their only American monastery in Southern Vermont, are the only religious in the Church who interrupt their …More