Sunday, November 28, 2021

Quick Reference Guide for the daily Office - Sundays in Advent up to the Third Sunday

 For those wanting the page numbers for the 'Ordinary' texts...

Sunday Matins


Not found in the Diurnal, refer to the Monastic Breviary.

Note:

Invitatory antiphon: from Sunday I to Sunday III Regem venturum

                                From Sunday III to 23 December, Prope est

Hymn: Verbum supernum

Nocturns I&II: Antiphons of Advent, readings and responsories of the Sunday of Advent

Nocturn III: Canticles of Advent

Sunday Lauds (at first light)

  • Starts MD 37;
  • Psalm schema 1: Psalms 50, 117, (jump over 92, 99), 62, then canticle, Psalms 148-150;
  • Antiphons, chapter, hymn (Vox clara), versicle and Benedictus antiphon and collect of [the Sunday of] Advent

Sunday Prime (early morning)

  • Starts  MD 146;
  • Antiphon is the first antiphon of Lauds of the Sunday
  • Concluding prayers MD 8;
  • Note that the ‘Capitular Office’ said in monasteries (including the reading of the Rule and the Martyrology) is not included in the Diurnal.

Sunday Terce (mid-morning)

  • Opening prayers MD 151;
  • Hymn Nunc Sancte MD 151;
  • Antiphon (said before and after psalms) is the second antiphon of Lauds;
  • Psalms MD 152-154;
  • Chapter from Lauds
  • Versicle for the Sunday; 
  • Closing prayers as at MD 154 (from Kyrie);
  • Collect for the particular Sunday.

Sunday Sext (noon)

  • Starts  MD 155;
  • Antiphon 3 of Lauds
  • Chapter and versicle of the particular Sunday
  • Collect set for the particular Sunday.

Sunday None (mid-afternoon)

  • Starts MD 159;
  • Antiphon 5 of Lauds
  • Chapter and versicle of the Sunday
  • Collect set for the particular Sunday.

Sunday Vespers (evening)

  • Starts MD 203 (opening prayer as on MD 1);
  • Antiphons as for I Vespers of the particular Sunday;
  • Sunday psalms
  • Chapter, responsory and hymn as for I Vespers
  • Antiphon for the Magnificat (MD 209) for II Vespers of the Sunday
  • Concluding prayers MD 210-11 with collect of the Sunday (or feast)

Sunday Compline (before bed)

  • Starts MD 257;
  • Marian antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater, MD 265

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