With the sweeping liturgical changes in all parts of the Church following the Second Vatican Council and the increasing use of contemporary idiom reflected in the 1979 edition of The Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church, the need for a revision of The Monastic Diurnal became evident. The MDR, like its predecessor, is the fruit of two decades of research in the Paleographie Musicale facsimiles of medieval manuscripts and other primary sources and of thousands of hours of discussion, sharing, praying, and many adaptations and revisions by the Sisters of the Eastern Province of the Community of St. Mary. We needed both a background in Latin and
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