Benedict yesterday and today stuff 9/23/23 and on

what prayer looks like: what is liturgical prayer?

“leitogia” used to be a public service to god, publically prayed service to god.

The bobs present example, what is the example, and what does it apply to?

this is bobs present. this can mean this is a present from bob to someone else, or it means this present is a gift for bob. not clear who we are celebrating. Prayer is similar. we are doing work for god, work from god, or god is dooing work. it can mean all of these.

what is liturgical prayers in short?

in short, liturgical prayer is the communal organized prayer that serves as that which orders the whole of monastic life.

what is liturgy based off of?

the psalms.

psalter

an organized way to sing and chant the psalms. they change with the time of the year, season etc.

why do we use the psalms?

1. jesus prayed them, so we should too.

2. its the entire bible. the bible itself gives us a way to pray.

3. the psalsms also have a huge objectiverange, like the creation, sin, redemtpion, mercy and forgiveness.

4. large subjective range: like sorrowfullness, joyus, thanksgiving

why is it neccecary to have a psalter?

1. gives a ruitine: its the thing that shapes us, not us shaping prayer. our lives to not shape how much time we dedicate to prayer.

2. you would end up with crtain prayers being neglected because it would be subject to the will of the one picking the prayer.\

3. you pray them all because it is not about what you get out of the prayer, if it was, once again only favorite prayers would be prayed.

Pros and cons of liturgical prayer:

1. you pray all of it

2. you dont just faloow the mood of the person in chare

3. you dont shorten prayer to fit your life.

   cons

4. its not about how you feel

5. it can be boring

how are the other ways liturgical prayer is expressed?

liturgical calender: to observe the different days of the year with different important anaversaries of feasts and fasts.

EX: september 25th

Dominican cycle: feat of jesus

sanctural cycle: feast of some saint

ferial cycle: feast relalated to some date: ember days:alwasy past the penticost

what happened post vaticism 2?

common liturgy developed to use for catholics of prodistents. (?????? whattt)

what does the liturgical prayer schedule basically go back to? what idea?

the idea of work and prayer.

Mideval history part 1: summary plz:

Gregory, the roman born 540to 604, what was his acomplishment?

he was pope from 590 to his death.

what did greogory the great do?

he invited monks that were aound him to come to his home, and made his home into a monsistary. He established a monistary in rome.

who did gregory white about

st benedict

what was going on in the world durring his time?

there was struggle, people didnt put fat=ith in god anymore because there wer earthquakes, and ppl doubted god

what happened to rome past 200?

rome was a medss post 200, there was poor leadership and tons of political assasinations left and right expesally in the west.

what did they do to try and fix this problem?

large scale immigration of diverse groups were brought into the west?

why did their attempt to fix rome faiL?

because the randome r=tribes they brought in was not working(they were told u work in army for 3 years, then u get land and are a roman s=citisen. )

what were the groups that came in? In what order did they come into rhome?

1. goths, 2. vandels, 3. franks 4. the huns (each group comes in and pushes the previous group out a bit)

what happened in the mid 550’s?

in the 550’s large migrant groups came to england. they were so alrge it caused even more destability… leading tooo

then in attempt to fix the large group of migrants:

they built the hangrians wall, and then they said thats where roman rule ends. it ended in brittain bc they took part of brittan

then the kelts did what?

the kelts, (the romans enemeys) moved to irelend because they were pushed out by the native brittain ppl, the saxons and the jews. at this point they are all pagans.

although all the poepl who were coming in were pagans, what is important to remember?

they were all not the same kind of pagan. They all had weird randome religious back grounds. they all had their own language, religion.

gregory was sent what?

he was sent a letter saying “hey this is all falling apart please come and help!“

gregory asked:

“how do you get unity out of all this?“

what was gregprys solution to the really bad problem for rome? whats it called?

“the gregorish mission“: he sent 40 monks from his monistary in rome to go to englend to help. It took them 2 years to get ther ebceuase they would stop at other monistaries, and help them for about 4 weeks, then move on. they along the way spread their version of monasticism becasue they brought benedictine writings and this is how alla it spread across the world at this time. (the benedictine lifestyle.)

Gregory then got a letter from who saying what?

augustine said to gregory “hey so the pagans broke into the church, and they took out the alter. did all kindsa weird sacrafices and animal blood is all over it. what should we do?“

how did gregory respond to BLANKS letter

he responded to augustine saying “get a bukcet of soap and water. clean her up, and get to work.“

why was the gregorish mission so sucessful?

becuse the people were so despiriate, they were in constnt worry about being assasinated. And of those in power, hard rules were put in place so that others would easily becale to take over power.

what kind of approach did the 40 monks take?

they took a practical, long view aproach.

what did the 40 monks say to the randome disticnt groups?

“hey so the deal is, we will educate your kids, and recognize your legitimacy of power and rescect you and let your heirs be the learder, and protect you from other randome christain groups IF and ONLY IF you convert to christianity. specificlly catholocism. and you must enforce your own people.“

although this plan wasnt a perfect plan bacuse…

because the people only switched to catholic because of incentives, because people do things for imperfect reasons. (ex: the viking dude had 6 wives and several mistresses, then his son had 2 wives and then his grandkids were good practicing catholoics )

what did the chruch say? (????)

““ we work with imperfect people who want imperfect goods”

what happened in 680 to 780 in brittain??

britain is the center of education in the west

what happened in 664?

synod of whitby decides all of england will fallow roman catholic NOT keltic catholic rules