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But we ought to know this, too, that on Sunday only one office is
celebrated before dinner, at which, out of regard for the actual service
and the Lord's communion, they use a more solemn and a longer service of
Psalms and prayers and lessons, and so consider that Tierce and Sext are
included in it. And hence it results that, owing to the addition of the
lessons, there is no diminution of the amount of their devotions, and yet
some difference is made, and an indulgence over other times seems to be
granted to the brethren out of reverence for the Lord's resurrection; and
this seems to lighten the observance all through the week, and, by reason
of the difference which is interposed, it makes the day to be looked
forward to more solemnly as a festival, and owing to the anticipation of it
the fasts of the coming week are less felt. For any weariness is always
borne with greater equanimity, and labour undertaken without aversion, if
some variety is interposed or change of work succeeds.
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