The new edition of the Ecumenical Office of Bose
After a long revision, at the end of April the new revised and enlarged edition of the {link_prodotto:id=980}. Ufficio ecumenico per l’anno liturgico came out; it was published for the first time by our community in 1973 and for some time now has been out of print. The recitation and singing of the divine office has given the daily rhythm to life in Bose from the very beginning. From that time on our daily monastic life has felt the need to formulate its own expression of the liturgy of the hours, adapted so as to be prayed by all Christians, even those belonging to different confessions. Thus was born the Preghiera dei giorni and so it grew with us, a book edited, revised, and enlarged several times, so as to offer an organic, ecumenical liturgy of the hours, the fruit of our assiduous daily practice. Comparison, visits, and fraternal exchange with many monastic communities have constantly enriched our search, just as the presence at our liturgy of friends and guests belonging to different Christian confessions has contributed to revive its profound ecumenical sensibility. Although this Preghiera dei giorni has been nourished by the rich patrimony of faith and prayer common to the Churches of East and West, it takes its place within the great Latin liturgical tradition, with particular reference to the monastic liturgy of the hours, and preserves the structure of this liturgy, drawing for its prayers on the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and on various Christian liturgies. In this way we have thought to place at the disposition of those who wish a text that in addition to shaping our daily common prayer can contribute to the prayer life of the Church, especially when Christians of different confessions experience the great gift of being able to pray together.
In mid-May, then, thanks to the collaboration and competence of the choir director Franco Biglino and of the sound technician Renato Campajola, we recorded a new CD of liturgical music, containing thirty psalms of our psalmody. This new CD is to come out in September. The singing is accompanied by our new organ, made by the organ maker Giovanni Pradella of Sandrio in response to the particular needs of our monastic singing; from the end of January we have been using this new organ daily in our church. Both the CD and the Ecumenical Office are offered by us with humility and love to friends and guests as an instrument of personal and community prayer.