peoples’ office—beyond the primary function of celebrating the paschal mystery by way of the natural rhythm of the day—was corporate ‘prayer and praise’. The monastic office on the other hand, emerged in the same period as the daily prayer of a very different sort of community. Monastic men and women also kept morning and evening as times of communal liturgical prayer, to which other hours were added that were initially prayed privately. In the cathedral tradition only a limited selection of psalms