. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. d not St. Hilaryof Poictiers lay the foundations of the Gallican liturgy, as St. Ambrose didthose of the Lombard liturgy, at the time that St. Chrysostom and revised the liturgies of the Eastern and African Churches ? It was generally the custom to follow the precepts of the so-calledApostolical Constitutions, a primitive work that was supposed to date fromthe second century. These Constitutions ordered the psalms to be recited to 208 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. the congregation in the morning, at t
. Military and religious life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance. d not St. Hilaryof Poictiers lay the foundations of the Gallican liturgy, as St. Ambrose didthose of the Lombard liturgy, at the time that St. Chrysostom and revised the liturgies of the Eastern and African Churches ? It was generally the custom to follow the precepts of the so-calledApostolical Constitutions, a primitive work that was supposed to date fromthe second century. These Constitutions ordered the psalms to be recited to 208 LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. the congregation in the morning, at the third, the sixth, and the ninth hoursof the day, at vespers, and at cock-crow, that is to say, at dawn. But thefaithful, who were long prevented by persecution from openly assembling insacred buildings, at first offered up their prayers in private, or perhapssurrounded only by their families and a few intimate friends. Tertulliantells us that each strove to show the greatest zeal in singing the praises ofGod. In the fourth century, the Christians both of the East and of the West. Fig. 174.—Silver-gilt Cruet, showing its different sides; on one side is depicted the head of Christ, with a nimbus, and on the other that of St. Peter. (First or Second Century.) Museum of the Vatican. were so zealously attached to their psalmody, that none would have willinglymissed saying it at its appointed hour, no matter where he might happento be. Instead of the love songs formerly heard at all hours, and in allplaces, says St. Jerome in a letter to his friend Marcellinus, the labourerat the plough hums an Alleluia, the reaper, bathed in perspiration, repeatshis psalmody as he rests from his toil, and the worker in the vineyard carolsDavids grateful verse as he plies his curved sickle. Long before any churches were open to the public, the apostles broke LITURGY AND CEREMONIES. 209
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