For
those of us old enough to have lived in a preconciliar church, these now-obscure
terms were a part of a seasonal liturgical life, half understood in an already
urban and almost Latinless environment, but nonetheless possessed of a sort of
vague romance that seems so forgotten today: ah, yes, here are the ember days
again, and the litany of the saints that is such a strange and lovely thing to
hear.jw
Many thanks to John
Wickstrom and Otto Lieberknecht for answering my question about the quatuor
tempora. I'm glad the answer was simple!
Patrick
Nugent
Patrick J. Nugent
Earlham College
Richmond, Indiana
47374 USA
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