Category Archives: Benedict’s Rule of Order Adapted for Families

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In what is known as Bastiat’s broken window fallacy, Bastiat explains what is wrong with the idea that wealth destruction somehow builds wealth.  It sounds kind of obvious when put that way, but plenty of otherwise knowledgeable people do make this argument. War is the most common application of the Broken Window Fallacy, and that’s just […]

From this online resource On weekdays the Morning Office shall be celebrated as follows. Let Psalm 66 be said without an antiphon and somewhat slowly, as on Sunday, in order that all may be in time for Psalm 50, which is to be said with an antiphon. After that let two other Psalms be said […]

From this website: From Easter until the Calends of November let the same number of Psalms be kept as prescribed above; but no lessons are to be read from the book,on account of the shortness of the nights. Instead of those three lessons let one lesson from the Old Testament be said by heart and followed by a short responsory. But […]

This post adapted from Benedict’s Rule of Order, chapter 9, How Many Psalms are to be said at the Night Office,, which you can read by clicking that link. Benedict’s monks got up at orderly times and recited Psalms and prayers, listened to a benediction, as well as other readings.  He prescribed some of them, […]