Then the canticle of Zechariah (antiphon, canticle,Glory Be, antiphon.) Go to the Fourth week of Lent, find the correct weekday, and continue with the reading and the responsory. I know they stick the psalm prayer in there such that you’d think it comes before the repeated antiphon, but the General Instructions imply that this is not the case. Recite the psalm prayer after you have finished with the antiphon.Īfter psalmody, switch from the psalter to the front section of your book, the Proper of Seasons. (canticle: a psalm-like passage that is from some other part of the Bible) Anitiphon, psalm, glory be, antiphon. First the psalmody, which usually consists of two psalms and a canticle. Morning Prayer is lot like Night Prayer, just a bit longer. Those who pray privately just say the antiphon before and after. This is a practice more suited to public recitation (like monasteries) where the group is divided into two “choirs” that take turns with responses. Do not feel obligated to do this if you don’t want to. You will notice instructions to repeat the antiphon several times throughout the psalm, reminiscent of the responsorial psalm at mass. If you have a dfferent edition, hunt for the “Ordinary”, which is a bunch of instructional pages inconveniently buried between the Proper of Solemnities and the Psalter. Use this with Psalm 95, which you will find on page 688 in the one-volume Catholic Book Publishing Co. The psalter gives you the invitatory antiphon for the day. Technically, if Morning Prayer is the first hour of the day that you pray, you aren’t supposed to begin with “O God, Come to my assistance, etc” Instead,you should begin with the Invitatory psalm. At the moment, being in the fourth week of lent, we are also in week four of the psalter. Find the week in the psalter that we should be on. But for starters, choose the one that best fits your available time. After a few weeks of Night Prayer, you should be ready to add Morning Prayer or Evening Prayer to your repertoire. In the previous “Boot Camp” post I suggested that rank beginners would do well to start with a week or two of Night Prayer, in order to get a feel for praying the Office without the worry of flipping around in the breviary. But if this is what you are trying to do, then you’ll be edified, instructed, and even entertained. This will be a really boring post for anyone who is not actually trying to learn the Divine Office.Or for anyone who prays the Liturgy of the Hours online or with a mobile app, since it’s mainly about learning to navigate a printed breviary.
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