2 Liturgy of the Hours questions

[Luigi_Daniele]

I think the guy(s) who edited my French LOH mustn’t have a wife to point out their goofs . The rubric indicates personal intentions after prayer for the dead.

Most personal intentions are done silently, in the silence between the last intention and the Kyrie (for the monastic office), or the Pater Noster (for the Roman office).

The Benedictine prayer for the dead, incidentally, was not in the intercessions, traditionally, but after the final blessing, followed also by prayer for absent brothers. It is still retained for the Little Hours and Vigils, but is not used at Lauds and Vespers.

Amico mio, can you give a layout of what the Monastic Office would look like, using the LotH? By this I mean, the title of every section.

For example

**Etc

Etc

Etc

…**

Kyrie

(closing) Prayer

Dismissal

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

Also, amico mio…

have you found a proper (right word? I mean guide) to pray the Monastic Diurnal?

 

[OraLabora]

OK here goes, since you’re using the diurnal I’ll stick to the day hours, and I’ll use the “traditional” monastic structure which is still valid post Vatican II:

Lauds:

Opening (if the first hour of the day, “Lord open my lips”, followed by an antiphon and the invitatory psalm 94(95), else “God, come to my assistance”)

Ps 66 without antiphon
Ps 50 with antiphon
2 more psalms with antiphon (different ones each day)
Old Testament canticle with antiphon
Ps 148, 149 and 150 under one antiphon and one Gloria Patri (every day)
Short reading
Brief responsory
Hymn
Versicle
Benedictus (Gospel Canticle) with antiphon
Intercessions
Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie (said one time each)
Pater
Collect
Closing rites (in private prayer: “May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil… etc”.

Tierce-Sexte-None

Opening (God come to my assistance)
Hymn
Psalmody
Short reading
Versicle
Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie
Our Father said in secret up to “and deliver us from evil”
Collect
Conclusion (“Let us praise the Lord… and give Him thanks”)

Vespers:

Opening (God come to my assistance…)
4 psalms
the rest as at Lauds except Magnificat instead of Benedictus

Compline:

Opening (God come …)
Examination of conscience
Penitential rite e.g. confiteor
Ps. 4, 90 and 133 said directly (without antiphon)
Hymn
Short reading
Versicle
Kyrie-Christe-Kyrie
Our Father said in secret up to “and deliver us from evil”
Collect
Concluding rite
Marian antiphon (e.g. this time of year, Salve Regina)
In some monasteries: the Angelus is said at the end.

In the post-Vatican II era it is permissible (in fact normal) to have the hymn of Lauds and Vespers right after the opening rite, with the versicle omitted. The use of the hymn in its traditional position is still allowed though.

Also at Compline, the versicle can be eliminated and replaced with the responsory “Into your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit”, and the Gospel canticle “Nunc Dimittis” (canticle of Simeon). That is what is normally done in the Roman Office, in the Monastic Office it can be done ad libitum.

 

[Luigi_Daniele]

May God bless you! Thanks