Ruling the Spirit. Claire Taylor Jones

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      Introduction

      Mitt wie grosser minnender begird sy geflissen wer den orden an allen stuken ze haltend, da von wer fil ze sagen [Of the great and loving desire with which she zealously observed the order in every detail there would be much to tell].

      —Töss Sisterbook, Life of Margret Fink

      Toward the beginning of her Büchlein der Gnaden Überlast (Book of the Burden of Grace, c. 1345), Christina Ebner illustrates the power of the Dominican liturgy with a tale about Sister Hailrat, the Engelthal convent’s first choir mistress. The event occurred in the early days of the convent, during the first Advent in which they performed the Office according to the Dominican Rite.

      In dem ersten advent da sie nach dem orden sungen … da sie nu komen zu dem virden suntag im advent, da sie sungen die metin, da sie nu komen hintz dem funften respons “Virgo Israel,” und der vers “In caritate perpetua,” daz sank sie teutsch und sank so unmenschlichen wol, daz man brufet, sie sunge mit engelischer stimme…. Diser heilig covent wart von grozer andaht sinnelos und vilen nider als die toten und lagen also biz sie alle wider zu in selber komen: do sungen sie ir metin mit grozer andaht auz.¹

      During the first Advent that they sang according to the order … when they came to the fourth Sunday in Advent, while they were singing matins and had come to the fifth responsory СКАЧАТЬ