breviary

For decades, many people of my generation have turned to her text-driven work as a breviary of cultural and political insight.

He had a worn leather breviary stuffed with prayers and Mass cards he’d been collecting for years, and he read through them all at the dining-room table every night during the 11 o’clock news.

On the wall hung a little cupboard which held Brother Luke’s few personal belongings and his breviary.

But I was deeply engaged with most of the rest of this exhibition, especially the panels that come together as a personal and secular breviary of dying.

In later years, he served as the librarian of Durham Cathedral and passed many happy months at the Vatican Library poring over its medieval English missals and breviaries.