During Lent also the Vesper 'Four Verses' are different for every day, except that there are none on Friday, and those on the first four Saturdays are from Ps.

cxviii, and on the six Sundays the 'Four Verses' are from lxix, lxii, ci, lxii, lxii, lviii. Psalm liii precedes Beati immaculati at Prime, and Psalms iv, xxx, 1-6, xc and cxxxiii are said daily, as in the Roman Rite, at Compline.Īt Lauds a single Psalm, known as Psalmus Directus, differing with the day of the week, is also said.ĭuring Lent Psalm xc is said as Psalmus Directus at Vespers, except on Sundays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and the 'Four Verses of a Psalm' at Lauds on Saturdays are alternately from the twelfth and first parts of Ps. Psalm cxviii, besides being used on Saturdays, is distributed among the four lesser Hours exactly as in the Roman Rite Psalm l is said at Lauds every day except Sunday, when the Benedicite, and Saturday, when Psalm cxvii, takes its place, and with the Preces (when these are used) at Prime and Terce throughout the year and at None during Lent, while at the Preces of Sext Psalm liii is said, and at those of None Psalm lxxxv, except during Lent. xv), Cantemus Domino, and half of Psalm cxviii take the place of Decuriœ at the three Nocturns.Īt Vespers, Psalms cix to cxlvii, except cxvii, cxviii, and cxxxiii, which are used elsewhere, and cxlii, which is only used in the Office of the Dead and as Psalmus Directus at Lauds on Fridays, aro divided between the whole seven days of each week in their numerical sequence, and in the same manner as in the Roman Rite. And on Saturdays the Canticle of Moses (Exod. ii), Confirmatum est and the Canticle of Jonas (ii), Clamavi ad Dominum, or of Habacuc (iii), Domine audivi. At the Matins of Sunday and Solemnitates Domini and on Feriœ in Easter and Whitsun weeks and the octave of Corpus Christi, there are no psalms, but three Old Testament canticles, Isaias xxvi, De nocte vigilatâ the Canticle of Anna (I K.

Psalms i to cviii are divided into ten decuriœ, one of which, in its numerical order, divided into three Nocturns, is recited at Matins on the Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays of each fortnight, each Nocturn being said under one antiphon. The Ambrosian distribution of the Psalter is partly fortnightly and partly weekly.

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