Re: >^..^< The cats on 28 April 2007

In article <1177891675.407331.174800@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Harry Andruschak <adoptsoldcats@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 29, 4:06=EF=BF=BDpm, goldf...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Goldfarb) wrot=
e:
In article <f136ck$cm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Keith F. Lynch <k...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently read of a criminal defendant whose lawyer claimed he was
religious. =A0The judge asked him to recite the 23rd psalm from memory.
He did so. =A0The judge was impressed, and granted him low bail.

Heck, I could recite a creditable approximation of it from memory,
and I'm an atheist.


Heck, in the Good Old days, Monks and Nuns were required to memorize
all 150 in Latin, AND recite them in an ongoing basis.

Yes, in the *really* old days. Fairly early on, though, those
who either had too weak a memory to memorize them all, or had too
much work to do, were allowed to recite 150 Our Fathers instead.
They even got to carry a string of 150 beads to keep track of
'em, which became known as paternosters (there's still a place in
London called Paternoster Row, where they were sold), and these
predate the kind of rosary we're used to by, I believe, several
centuries.

The current
Divine Office has a 4 week cycle.

I have a pre-Vatican-II breviary (in four volumes, one for each
season) that gets through the entire Psalter in a week. This
practice was originally set up by St. Benedict (who pointed out,
"I'm making it easy on you, the great saints used to do the
entire psalter every day"), though the arrangement in my breviary
is somewhat different from the one in St. Benedict's Rule.

I doubt, if at my age, I'll ever be
able to recite much of them from memory. Not even Psalm 51, which I am
required to recite twice a day. Too much cat hair up my nose and into
my brain. (That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.)
At our age we don't have much memory any more. I know five or
six Psalms in Latin, from having sung them in many different
arrangements (particularly by Handel) when I was younger and had
more brain cells.

Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx
.

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