September

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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SEPTEMBER 2024

  

1 September – Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost/First Sunday of September, Class II

 All as in the psalter with canticle antiphons and collect, MD 474-5*/AM 606-7. 

Monday 2 September – Class IV 

All as in the psalter for throughout the year with collect, MD 474-5*/AM 606. 

Tuesday 3 September – St Pius X, Class III 

MD [258]/SupAnt 128. 

Wednesday 4 September – Class IV 

Thursday 5 September – Class IV 

Friday 6 September – Class IV 

7 September – Class IV; Saturday of Our Lady 

Office of Our Lady, MD (129)/AM 714 ff. 

1 Vespers of the Second Sunday of September: Magnificat antiphon, MD 453*/AM 583; collect of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, MD 475*/AM 607. 

8 September – Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost/Second Sunday of September, Class II; Commemoration of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

All as in the psalter with canticle antiphons and collect, MD 475-6*/AM 607-8; at Lauds only, commemoration of the Nativity of the BVM, versicle, Benedictus antiphon and collect, MD [261]. 

Monday 9 September – Class IV; St Gorgonius, Memorial 

All as in the psalter for throughout the year with collect, MD 475*/AM 607; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [264-5]/AM 1037. 

Tuesday 10 September – Class IV 

Wednesday 11 September – Class IV; SS Protus and Hyacinth, Memorial 

For the commemoration at Lauds, MD [265]/AM 1037. 

Thursday 12 September – Class IV 

Friday 13 September – Class IV 

Saturday 14 September – Exaltation of Holy Cross, Class II 

All of the feast, MD [266]/AM 1040 ff, no commemoration of the Sunday at Vespers. 

15 September – Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost/ Third Sunday of September, Class II

 [The feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not marked in the Office this year.] 

All as in the psalter with canticle antiphons and collect, MD 476-7*/AM 608-9. 

Monday 16 September – Class IV; SS Cornelius and Cyprian, Memorial 

All as in the psalter for throughout the year with collect, MD 476*/AM 609; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [278]/AM 1040. 

Tuesday 17 September – Class IV; St Hildegard, Memorial/Optional Class III 

For the commemoration at Lauds, MD [278-9]/AM 35*&1052. 

Wednesday 18 September – Ember Wednesday, Class II 

All as in the psalter except for the versicle and canticle antiphon (Hoc genus) at Lauds and Vespers, and collect (except at Prime), MD 454*/AM 584. 

Thursday 19 September – Class IV 

Friday 20 September – Ember Friday, Class II 

All as in the psalter except for the versicle and canticle antiphon (Mulier quae erat) at Lauds and Vespers, and collect (except at Prime), MD 455*/AM 585. 

Saturday 21 September – St Matthew, Class II; Commemoration of Ember Saturday 

All of the feast, MD [279]/AM 1053, with a commemoration of Ember Saturday at Lauds, MD 456*/AM 586, and at Vespers, a commemoration of the Sunday, MD 456-7*/AM 586-7, collect, MD 477*/AM 610. 

22 September – Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost/Fourth Sunday of September, Class II

 [The feast of St Maurice and Companions is not marked in the Office this year.] 

All as for Sunday in the psalter with canticle antiphons and collect, MD 477*/AM 609-10. 

Monday 23 September – Class IV; St Linus, Memorial 

All as in the psalter for throughout the year with collect, MD 477*/AM 610; for the commemoration at Lauds, MD [280-1]/AM 1053. 

Tuesday 24 September – Class IV 

Wednesday 25 September – Class IV 

Thursday 26 September – Class IV 

Friday 27 September – Class IV, SS Cosmas and Damian, Memorial 

For the commemoration at Lauds, MD [281]/AM 1054. 

28 September – Class IV; Saturday of Our Lady 

Office of Our Lady, MD (129)/AM 714 ff. 

1 Vespers of St Michael, MD [282]/AM 1055 ff; commemoration of the Sunday, Magnificat antiphon and versicle of the Fifth Sunday of September, MD 457*/AM 587, collect of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, MD 478*/AM 611. 

Sunday 29 September – Dedication of St Michael the Archangel, Class I; Commemoration of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

 All of the feast, MD [284]/AM 1058 ff; at Lauds and Vespers, commemoration of the Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost, MD 478*/AM 610-1. 

Monday 30 September – St Jerome, Class III 

MD [290]/AM 1064.