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Ron Van Wegen's avatar

If hymns are so important then why are they "all" omitted in the Divine Office (Divinum Officium) during this Easter week?!

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Peter Kwasniewski's avatar

I'm not sure what you're referring to. The monastic and roman breviaries have hymns throughout the week. Is this a problem with the post-Vatican II Liturgy of the Hours?

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Bruno Radešić's avatar

Great and wonderful list!! I wonder whether a hymn Ad cenam Agni providi is the same as Ad Regias Agni dapes? The begining of a hymn is little different, with pes and clivis on the fist two syllables, but the rest of the hymn is the same.

God bless from Croatia!

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Julian Kwasniewski's avatar

Thanks for reading! Yes, I believe the "Regias Agni" version is the Roman Breviary version, with the renaissance revised Latin (i.e. made to sound more like Virgil's Latin than Medieval Latin).

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Bruno Radešić's avatar

Is that maybe pope Urban VIII' s version? I know that he changed some texts of the hymns in the Roman breviary? But melody is also slightly changed. In Croatian language we sing those of "Regias Agni" with pes and clivis on the first 2 syllables. (https://youtu.be/wLzLad7zEjw?si=gzPkReWuDyuYhkIe)

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