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Canticles are simply defined as "liturgical songs not Psalms taken from Scripture." The Canticles for Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline are all "Gospel Canticles"; all are taken from that section of the Bible - and in fact, all are taken from the Gospel of Luke. The most well-known Cantic...

Ann Ball, a prolific author who wrote lives of the saints alongside Catholic cookbooks, died of a heart attack shortly before midnight on Sunday, her family announced in an email. Though a schoolteacher for many years, she later took over the operation of a security company. Following a regular work...

PSYCHE, NATURE and PRAYER Francis of Assisi’s “Song of Brother Sun�, as interpreted by Eloi LeClerc in The Canticle of Creatures, illustrates concretely the points I have tried to make above, and the kind of poetic prayer, imaged from nature, that is the thesis of this paper, as well. In The C...