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  • The desire for God and love of his Word are therefore reciprocally nourished and bring forth in monastic life the unsupressable need for the opus Dei, the studium orationis andlectio divina, which is listening to the Word of God, accompanied by the great voices of the tradition of the Fathers and Saints, and also prayer, guided and sustained by this Word.

    Archive 2008-11-23 papabear 2008

  • The desire for God and love of his Word are therefore reciprocally nourished and bring forth in monastic life the unsupressable need for the opus Dei, the studium orationis andlectio divina, which is listening to the Word of God, accompanied by the great voices of the tradition of the Fathers and Saints, and also prayer, guided and sustained by this Word.

    The New Beginning papabear 2008

  • The term syncategorema comes from a famous passage of Priscian in his Institutiones grammatice II, 15, in which a distinction is made between two types of wordclasses (partes orationis) distinguished by logicians, viz. nouns and verbs on the one hand, and syncategoremata, or consignificantia, on the other.

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Nolunt aperire molestiam quam patiuntur, sed conqueruntur tamen de capite, corde, mammis, &c. In puteos fere maniaci prosilire, ac strangulari cupiunt, nulla orationis suavitate ad spem salutis recuperandam erigi, &c.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Bursill-Hall, G. L.: 1971, Speculative G.ammars of the Middle Ages: The Doctrine of the partes orationis of the

    Thomas of Erfurt Zupko, Jack 2006

  • On either side of theTerribilis quotation is the first part of another biblical saying:“Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur” —“My house shall be called the house of prayer.”

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • On either side of theTerribilis quotation is the first part of another biblical saying:“Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur” —“My house shall be called the house of prayer.”

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • On either side of theTerribilis quotation is the first part of another biblical saying:“Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur” —“My house shall be called the house of prayer.”

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Balsami in manus palma, non poteris sustinere eam linialiter in feruore splendentis Solis ad spacium recitandæ Dominicæ orationis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Hinc satis propè est mons Garizin cum vetusto templo orationis

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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