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| Chapter XI. Of the points in which the service held on Sunday differs from what is customary on other days.
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Chapter XI.
Of the points in which the service held on Sunday
differs from what is customary on other days.
But we ought to know
this, too, that on Sunday only one office754
is
celebrated before dinner, at which, out of regard for the actual
service755
| 755 Collecta. This
word, from which our word “Collect” is possibly derived, is
used for an assembly for worship in the Vulgate in Lev. xxiii. 36; Deut. xvi. 8; 2 Chron.
vii. 9; Neh. viii. 18: and
compare the phrase, “Ad Collectam,” in the Sacramentary of
Gregory for the Feast of the Purification. | and the Lord’s communion, they use a
more solemn and a longer service of Psalms and prayers and lessons, and
so consider that Tierce and Sext are included in it. And hence it
results that, owing to the addition of the lessons, there is no
diminution of the amount of their devotions, and yet some difference is
made, and an indulgence over other times seems to be granted to the
brethren out of reverence for the Lord’s resurrection; and this
seems to lighten the observance all through the week, and, by reason of
the difference which is interposed, it makes the day to be looked
forward to more solemnly as a festival, and owing to the anticipation
of it the fasts of the coming week are less felt. For any weariness is
always borne with greater equanimity, and labour undertaken without
aversion, if some variety is interposed or change of work
succeeds.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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