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rhetoric governed its composition.
As the present book was going to press, the observations
of Dom Jean Leclerc concerning reading aloud in the patristic
and medieval period came most opportunely to attention. His
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God (pp. 18­19) puts
this neglected matter in the central position in which it belongs:
If then it is necessary to know how to read, it is
primarily in order to be able to participate in the lectio
divina. What does this consist of? How is this reading
done? To understand this, one must recall the meaning
that the words legere and meditari have for St. Benedict,
and which they are to keep throughout the whole of the
Middle Ages; what they express will explain one of the
characteristic features of monastic literature of the