The Primer; Or, Lay Folks' Prayer Book Introduction (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...Primaria instituta Canonicorum Praemonstratensium, dist. 1, c. 1, 2, in Martene, de ant. Eccl. rit. (Antv. 1764), III, p. 325. 'Consuetudines, c. 50, in Guignard, p. 137. 4 "Po3t missam dicitur prima de Sancta Maria" (Primaria instituta, dist. I, cap. 2). current was still set in the channel we have been following, and with a force they could not stem; with all their popularity and power, the direction of the future in this matter was not with them. The Black Canons, as in their organization, so in their practice, adopted a directly contrary policy. The Cistercians and Praemonstratensians, imitating Cluny, though with modifications, were a highly centralized organization, having a personal head, the abbat of Citeaux or Premontre and a common centre, those abbeys themselves, wherewith the whole order was brought into continual and direct communication by means of frequent general chapters held in these mother-houses. The Black Canons adopted the older Benedictine system, with no necessary dependence on a central point, and no common head. Their houses assumed, therefore, more the character of diocesan institutions. And whilst Citeaux and Prdmontre each drew up a complete sot of office books to be copied down to every jot and tittle, and followed with minute exactitude in every house of their respective orders,1 the devotion and piety of the Black Canons in their early fervour imitated as far as possible the practices to be found in the monasteries and churches of best-established repute in their own neighbourhood. Thus in the constitutions for these canons regular drawn up by Peter de Honestis, of the monastery of St. Mary do Portu near Ravenna, confirmed by Pope Paschal II. in 1117, which were very soon widely observed in Italy and...