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Born at Jarrow in Northumberland, England, Bede was entrusted as a young lad to the care of St. Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth. Having himself become a monk, Bede, “the most observant and the happiest of all monks”, was also one of the most learned churchmen of his time. He wrote very full commentaries on Holy Scripture, which are often used in the Breviary. Leo XIII proclaimed him one of the Doctors of the Universal Church. He died in Jarrow on May 25, 735.
From St. Andrews Daily Missal 1962 ed.

We are a group of Catholic laymen and women that have been producing Liturgical Resources for over 20 years.  Our first project grew out of the UVOC  project to produce Latin / English Propers sheets.  We have sheets produced from the texts found in the St. Andrew Daily Missal for most of the year. We have only posted a small selection on this blog, do get in touch if you are looking for a particular sheet.

Our Second project has been devoted to producing music for us to sing at Mass and Vespers, our long term aim is to produce Latin hymn books for the Liturgical seasons, and also a Hymn book devoted to the Saints.

St. Bede spent much of his life producing English translations, writing Hymns, and also due to his work to propagate the Roman form of the Liturgy, we dedicate this website to him.

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From Miniature Lives Of The Saints For Every Day In The Year, Vol. 2 by Bowden, Henry Sebastian, 1836-1919

October 29. Venerable Bede.

Venerable Bede, the illustrious ornament of the Anglo-Saxon Church and the first English historian, was consecrated to God at the age of seven, and intrusted to the care of S. Benedict Biscop at Wearmouth. He became a monk in the sister-house of Jarrow, and there trained no less than six hundred scholars, whom his piety, learning, and sweet disposition had gathered round him. To the toils of teaching and the exact observance of his rule he added long hours of private prayer, and the study of every branch of science and literature then known. He was familiar with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In the treatise which he compiled for his scholars, still extant, he threw together all that the world had then stored in history, chronology, physics, music, philosophy, poetry, arithmetic, and medicine. In his Ecclesiastical History he has left us beautiful lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints and holy fathers, while his commentaries on the Holy Scriptures are still in use by the Church. It was to the study of the Divine Word that he devoted the whole energy of his soul, and at times his compunction was so overpowering that his voice would break with weeping, while the tears of his scholars mingled with his own. He had little aid from others, and during his later years suffered from constant illness ; yet he worked and prayed up to his last hour, and died as he had lived — ever joyful, giving glory to God.

Desire of Heavenly Wisdom.’The more,’ says the Imitation, ‘a man is united within himself and interiorly simple, so much the more and deeper things doth he understand without labour ; for he receiveth the light of understanding from on high.’4 Unhappy is the man who knoweth all other things, and knoweth not Thee ; but happy whoso knoweth Thee, though he know naught else.’— S. Augustine.The Saint was employed in translating the Gospel of S. John from the Greek up to the hour of his death, which took place on Ascension-day, A.D. 735. ‘He spent that day joyfully,’ writes one of his scholars. And in the evening the boy who attended him said, ‘Dear master, there is yet one sentence unwritten.’ He answered, ‘Write it quickly.’ Presently the youth said, ‘ Now it is written.’ He replied, ‘ Good ! thou hast said the truth — consummatum est ; take my head into thy hands, for it is very pleasant to me to sit facing my old praying-place, and there to call upon my Father.’ And so on the floor of his cell he sang, * Glory be to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ;’ and just as he said, ‘ Holy Ghost, ‘ he breathed his last, and went to the realms above.’Therefore the desire of wisdom bringeth to the everlasting kingdom.’ — Wisdom, vi. ax.

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