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16 February 2021

16 February, The Holy Rule of St Benedict, Father of Western Monks

CHAPTER XIII. How Lauds are to be said on Week-days

16 Feb. 17 June. 17 Oct.

The Office of Lauds and Vespers, however, must never conclude without the Lord’s Prayer being said aloud by the Superior, so that all may hear it, on account of the thorns of scandal* which are wont to arise; so that the brethren, by the covenant which they make in that prayer when they say “Forgive us as we forgive,” may cleanse themselves of such faults. But at the other Offices let the last part only of the prayer be said aloud, so that all may answer, “But deliver us from evil.”

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