Instead of overt images of sentimental expression (in favor at the time), the abbey church helps us to see that light, shadow, volume and space, and the relationship of honest materials to each other are often a more intense expression of a God and of a mystery we cannot define in human terms and images.
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Newly Professed Monks of St. John’s Abbey
Congratulations to the monks who made solemn and simple vows on July 11, the Feast of St. Benedict.
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The committee would vote on each new reader’s performance and either accept or reject him. If the rejected one still would like to read, he could seek help from one of the five mentioned above or anyone else and try again after passing an audition before the committee.
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Should there be one acolyte or two? Who should be an acolyte? How should an acolyte be selected?
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Father Abbot decided before the meeting that for the present the Brothers would be invited to Office but that there would be no integrated station. They will occupy their usual stalls upstairs.
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The committee received a “communication” regarding unnecessary mastication of the host. Response: see Last Supper account.
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The problem of tabernacles was once again raised.
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For the present the Sunday schedule will be as follows: 5:30 – Rising; 5:50 – Matins-Lauds – followed by Breakfast; 10:30 – Conventual Mass; 11:50 – Terce-Sext-None; 4:30 p.m. – Vespers; 6:00 – Supper; 10:00 – Compline (in Brothers’ Chapel and in English).
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The guitar was again discussed and its merits and demerits were considered.
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It was suggested toward the end of the meeting that the concelebrants might stay and sing a verse of the concluding hymn. Since time was short, there was no positive comment on this point.
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