The notes below provide a guide to the day hours for the Monastic Office as set out in the Monastic Diurnal (MD) and Antiphonale Monasticum (AM), according to the 1960 rubrics and General Calendar for the Benedictine Confederation.
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The first week of April is the Octave of Easter; for the rest of the month, the default texts are those of Eastertide.
During the Easter Octave the day hours use the antiphons and other key texts of Easter Day (with festal psalms at Lauds and Vespers) throughout the week. The key moving parts are the canticle antiphons at Lauds and Vespers (which are of the day in the Octave), and the collect (also of the day). Note that at Lauds and Vespers, two alleluias are added to the final ‘Benedicamus Domino...’ versicle and response throughout the week.
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All as for Easter Sunday (with festal psalms at Lauds and Vespers), except for the canticle antiphons and collect, MD 335*/AM 460-1.
2 April – Tuesday in Octave of Easter, Class I
All as for Easter Sunday (with festal psalms at Lauds and
Vespers), except for the canticle antiphons and collect, MD 336*/AM 462.
3 April – Wednesday in the Octave of Easter, Class I
Canticle antiphons, and collect, MD 336-7*/AM 462-3.
4 April – Thursday in the Octave of Easter, Class I
[The feast of St Isidore is not marked in the Office this year.]
Canticle antiphons and collect, MD 337*/AM 463-4.
5 April – Friday in the Octave of Easter, Class I
Canticle antiphons and collect, MD 337-8*/AM 464-5.
6 April – White Saturday in the Octave of Easter, Class I
Lauds to None: All as for Easter Sunday (with festal psalms at Lauds and Vespers), except for the Benedictus antiphon and collect, MD 338*/AM 465.
1 Vespers of Low
Sunday: Psalms of Saturday under one
antiphon (Alleluia); chapter, responsory, hymn, versicle, Magnificat antiphon and collect, MD 339*/AM 473 ff.
7 April – White/Low
Sunday (Octave Day of Easter), Class I
Prime: Antiphon, MD 344* (AM: As noted in the psalter).
Terce to None: Antiphon, chapter, versicle and collect of the Sunday, MD 344-5*/AM 476.
2 Vespers
of Low Sunday: Psalms of Sunday under one antiphon (AM 476); chapter,
responsory, hymn and collect of 1 Vespers, MD 339*/AM 473 ff; versicle and Magnificat antiphon, MD 345*/AM 477; commemoration of the
Annunciation, Magnificat antiphon, versicle and collect of the feast MD
[101-2]/AM 861.
Monday 8 April – Annunciation of the BVM, Class I (transferred)
All of the feast, MD [102]/AM 861 ff.
The
Office during Eastertide
Eastertide has its own Ordinary texts, including hymns for Matins, Lauds and Vespers, which can be found at MB 615/NM 363-3 for Matins, and MD 346*/AM 466 ff for the day hours.
During Eastertide the invitatory antiphons, antiphons, responsory verse and versicles (at the end of each Nocturn in Matins; associated with the chapters at Prime to None and Compline; and with the canticles at Lauds and Vespers) have the word alleluia added to them if one is not already included in the text.
Note that at Matins, each Nocturn has only one antiphon, and the single short reading is the same each day; at Lauds, Psalm 50 and the two variable psalms of the day are said under one antiphon; and at Vespers, the psalms are all said under one antiphon.
At Sunday Lauds, Psalms 92 and 99 are said instead of Psalms 50 and 117. At Lauds and Vespers there are canticle antiphons for each day of the Eastertide week.
Tuesday 9 April – Class IV
Wednesday 10 April – Class IV
Canticle
antiphons, MD 352-3*/AM 479.
Thursday 11 April – St
Leo I, Class III
Lauds: Antiphons and psalms of the day; chapter, responsory of Eastertide, hymn, versicle and Benedictus antiphon of the Common of a Confessor Bishop, MD (64)/AM 659 ff; collect of the feast, MD [108]/AM 869.
Prime: Antiphon 1 of Lauds of the Common, MD (64)/AM 657.
Terce to None: Antiphon, chapter and versicle of the Common, MD (67-8)/AM 662-3; collect of the feast, MD [108]/AM 869.
Vespers: Antiphons and psalms of the day; chapter,
responsory of Eastertide, hymn, versicle of the Common of a Confessor Bishop,
MD (68)/AM 654 ff; Magnificat
antiphon of a doctor, MD (74)/AM 665-6; collect of the feast, MD [108]/AM 869.
Friday 12 April – Class IV
Canticle antiphons, MD 353*/AM 479-10
13 April – Class IV;
Saturday of Our Lady; St Justin, Memorial
Office
of Our Lady in Eastertide, MD (135)/AM 718-9; note
that at Prime to None the antiphons should have alleluia added to them; for the
commemoration at Lauds, MD [108-9]/AM 869.
1 Vespers of the Second Sunday after Easter,
MD 354* ff/AM 481.
MD 356*/AM
481 ff.
Monday 15 April – Class IV
Ordinary of Eastertide, NM 362-3 (Matins)/MD 346*/AM 466 ff (day
hours); canticle antiphons, MD 360*/AM 483-4; collect (of Sunday), MD 358*/AM
482.
Tuesday 16 April – Class IV
Wednesday 17 April – Class IV
Thursday 18 April – Class IV
Friday 19 April – Class
IV
20 April – Class IV; Saturday of Our Lady
Office of Our Lady in Eastertide, MD (135)/AM 718-9; note that at Prime to None the antiphons should have alleluia added to them.
1 Vespers of the Third Sunday in Eastertide,
MD 362*/AM 487 ff.
21 April – Third Sunday after Easter, Class II
MD 363*/AM 487 ff.
Monday 22 April – Class IV
Tuesday 23 April – Class IV April – St George, Memorial
Canticle antiphons, MD 365*/AM 490; collect, MD 362*/AM 488; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [112-3]/AM 872.
Wednesday 24 April – Class IV
Thursday 25 April – The Greater Litanies and St Mark, Class II
All from the Common of Apostles in Paschaltide, MD (23)/AM 632 ff; collect, MD [113]/AM 873.
Friday 26 April – Class IV; St Cletus, Memorial
Canticle antiphons, MD 362*/AM 488; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [113-4]/AM 873.
27 April – Class IV; Saturday of Our Lady; St Peter
Canisius, Memorial
Office of Our Lady in Eastertide, MD (135)/AM 718-9; note that at Prime to None the antiphons should have alleluia added to them.; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [114-5]/AM 873.
1 Vespers of the
Fourth Sunday in Eastertide, MD 367*/AM 493 ff.
28 April – Fourth Sunday after
Easter, Class II
MD 368*/AM 493 ff.
Monday 29 April – SS Odo, Majolus, Odilo and Hugh, Class III
All of the feast, MD [115]/AM 877 ff.
Tuesday 30 April – Class IV; St
Catherine of Siena, Memorial
Lauds to None: Ordinary of Eastertide; canticle antiphons, MD 370*/AM 496; collect, MD 368*/AM 494; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [121-2]/AM 882.
1 Vespers of St
Joseph, MD [123] ff OR MD [130]/AM
883.
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