Sunday 12 July 2009

Carthusian Office...

Psallite Sapienter has an excellent post on an old 1717 edition of the Carthusian Breviary. Click on the link to have a nosey!
Posted by Patrick Sheridan at 18:22

2 comments:

  1. JoshuaJuly 14, 2009 10:40 am

    Very kind of you to note this! There used to be a nice downloadable file of the Carthusian Office of Our Lady, but - before I downloaded it - the person who put it online took it down. So, hurry...

    Do you make any use of Our Lady's Hours?

    Am enjoying your bloggings, by the way; if you like, tell us more about the Marian echoes evident in Varda, Galadriel, etc.; I recall from reading Tolkien's letters years ago that he somewhere writes of this.

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  2. Patrick SheridanJuly 14, 2009 1:27 pm

    Joshua,

    I was not aware of a downloadable file of the Carthusian Office of Our Lady - I shall search for it (when I have time). Yes I do have a Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary - but, it's in accordance with the rubrics of '62 unfortunately - still, it's a handsome little blue tome.

    Yes, there are various allusions in Tolkien's correspondences about Marian archetypes in Varda, Galadriel etc. The most interesting of these, I think, is a letter he sent to Robert Murray, SJ in 1953. It's letter no. 142 if you still have a copy, although, as you say, I may put something up about it later on...Thanks for your comment!

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