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"Pictures from illuminated manuscripts take shape; they become scenes which Books of Hours enclosed in the O of Orate, fratres. The snow falls; it is Carolingian weather... Then the rooks fell silent; the light dwindled over the grey fields; and life ebbed with a shudder like a soul leaving the body."

In the current issue of the Catholic liturgical monthly, Orate Fratres, the Rev. Joseph Lortz, professor of church history at Germany's M�nster University in Westphalia, declares that Roman Catholicism must share the guilt.

Facing the congregation he said, "Orate, fratres."

Meanwhile the monks, The lights removed in reverence of his sleep, Sat mute nor stirred such time as in the Mass Between 'Orate Fratres' glides away, And 'Hoc est Corpus Meum.'

The Cardinal incenses the offerings and the altar, washes his hands, and recites the Orate Fratres and Our Father.