Notes on the Benedictine Office for March are set out below.
MARCH 2023
Wednesday 1 March – Ember Wednesday of Lent, Class II [In Wales: St David, Class I, with a commemoration of the Ember Day]
canticle antiphons and collects, MD 197*/AM 348.
Thursday 2 March – Thursday in
the first week of Lent, Class III
Friday 3 March – Ember Friday of Lent, Class II
canticle antiphons and collects, MD 198-9*/AM 350-1.
Saturday 4 March – Ember Saturday of Lent, Class II [EF: and St Casimir, Memorial]
Benedictus antiphon and collect, MD 199*/AM 351; 1 Vespers of the Second Sunday of Lent, MD 199*/AM 351 ff.
Sunday
5 March – Second Sunday of Lent, Class I
Monday 6 March – Monday in the second week of Lent, Class III;SS Perpetua and Felicitas, Memorial [or Optional Class III]
Ordinary of Lent, MD 190*/AM 338 ff; canticle antiphons and
collect of the day, MD 206*/AM 355-6; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [74]/AM 828.
Tuesday 7 March – Tuesday in the second week of Lent, Class III; St Thomas Aquinas, Memorial [or Optional Class III]
Canticle antiphons and collects, MD 206-7*/AM 356-7; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [75]/AM 828-9.
Wednesday 8 March – Wednesday in the second week of Lent, Class III [Gower:
SS John of God and Camillus de Lellis, Memorial; EF: St John of God, Memorial]
Canticle antiphons and
collects, MD 207-8*/AM 357-8.
Thursday 9 March – Thursday in the second week of Lent, Class III; St Frances of Rome, Memorial/Optional Class III
Canticle antiphons and collects, MD 208-9*/AM 358-9; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [75-6]/AM 830.
Friday 10 March – Friday in the second week of Lent, Class III; The Forty Martyrs, Memorial
Canticle antiphons and collects, MD 209-10*/AM 359-60; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [83]/AM 835.
Saturday 11 March – Saturday in the second week of Lent, Class III
Matins to None: Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons
and collects, MD 210*/360; 1 Vespers of the Third
Sunday of Lent, MD 210*/AM 360 ff.
Sunday 12 March – Third
Sunday of Lent, Class I
Monday 13 March – Monday in the third
week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary of Lent, MD 190*/AM 338 ff; canticle antiphons and collects of the day, MD 217*/AM 366.
Tuesday
14 March – Tuesday in the third week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 217-8*/AM 366-7.
Wednesday 15 March – Wednesday in the third week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 218-9*/AM 367-8.
Thursday 16 March – Thursday in the third week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 219-20*/AM 368-9.
Friday 17 March – Friday in the third week of Lent, Class III [EF/Gower: St Patrick, Memorial; **In Australia and NZ; Ireland and many US dioceses: St Patrick, Class I]
Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 220*/AM 369-70.
Saturday 18 March – Saturday in the third week of Lent, Class III; St Cyril, Memorial
Canticle antiphons and collects, MD 220-1*/AM 370-1; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [83]/AM 835; 1 Vespers of the Fourth Sunday of Lent, MD 221*/AM 371 ff.
Monday 20 March – St Joseph, Class I (transferred)
MD [87]/AM 841 ff, with a commemoration of the Lent day at Lauds
only, MD 227-8*/AM 376 and a commemoration of St Benedict at Vespers, MD [91]/AM 847 ff.
Tuesday 21 March – St Benedict, Class I
Wednesday 22 March – Wednesday in the fourth week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 229-30*/AM 378-9.
Thursday 23 March – Thursday in the fourth week of Lent, Class III
Ordinary
of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 230*/AM 379-80.
Friday 24 March – Friday in the fourth week of Lent, Class III [EF/Gower: St Gabriel, Memorial/Optional Class III]
Matins to None: Ordinary of Lent; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 230-1*/AM 380-1; 1 Vespers of the Annunciation, MD [100]/AM 858 ff with a commemoration of the Lent day, MD 230-1*/AM 380-1.
Saturday 25 March – Annunciation of the BVM, Class I
MD [102]/AM 861 ff; with a commemoration of the Lent day at Lauds,
MD
231-2*/AM 381 and of Passion Sunday at Vespers, MD
232*/AM 387 ff.
MD 234*/AM 388 ff.
Monday 27 March – Monday in (First)
Passion Week, Class III; St John Damascene, Memorial
Ordinary of Passiontide, MD
240*/AM 385 ff; canticle antiphons and collects of the day, MD
246-7*/AM 393; for the commemoration, MD
[106-7]/AM 866.
Ordinary of Passiontide, MD 240*/AM 382 ff; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 247-8*/AM 394-5.
Wednesday 29 March – Wednesday in Passion
Week, Class III
Ordinary of Passiontide, MD 240*/AM 382 ff; canticle antiphons and collects,
MD 248-9*/AM 395-6.
Thursday 30 March – Thursday in Passion Week, Class III
Ordinary of
Passiontide, MD 240*/AM 382 ff; canticle antiphons and collects, MD 249-50*/AM
396-7.
Friday
31 March – Friday in Passion Week, Class III [EF: Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin
Mary, Memorial]
2 comments:
Divinum officium says vespers for March 19 should be Vepsers I of St. Joseph
Divinum Officium is incorrect - a Class I Sunday has precedence over a Class I feast.
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