Antiphones for the minor hours

[Jvrlns]

Hi everyone,

I started reciting the LOTH some time ago on ibreviary. I tried to do it in Spanish but I changed to English because the Spanish version doesn’t have the complementary psalms and I wanted to do all the minor hours. The complementary psalms in the English version have their own antiphones.

Then, I found the LOTH approved by the Spanish Bishop’s Conference in 4 books in epub format at www.almudi.org, but the complementary psalms don’t have their own antiphones. My question is. Is there a way to chose antiphones for those psalms from the LOTH and if so how is it done?

The way I was doing it with the English version on ibreviary was to recite the complimentary psalms with their antiphones at terce and none, and the proper of the season at sext. At sext I would use the antiphone for terce for the fist psalm and the ones for sext and none for the second and the third psalms respectively. Now, with the epub version I just recite the antiphone for the minor hour at the beginning of the first psalm and at the end of the last one. How should it be done? Thanks for the advice.

 

[Jvrlns]

Anybody?

 

[OraLabora]

Are we talking for seasons other than Ordinary Time, e.g. Lent?

The practice it to say all three psalms or psalm parts of a minor hour (including mid-day or Sext) under a single antiphon proper to the season.

In Liturgia Horarum, the antiphons are given under “Daytime Prayers”.

For Lent, the Latin/English antiphons are:

Terce: Advenerunt nobus dies paenitentiae ad redimenda, ad salvandas animas./The time of penance has come to atone for our sins and seek our salvation.

Sext: Vivo ego, dicit Dominus; nolo mortem peccatoris, sed ut magis convertatur et vivat./As I live, says the Lord, I do not with the sinner to die, but to turn back to me and live.

None: Per arma iustitiae virtutis Dei, commendemus nosmetipsos in multa patientia./Armed with God’s justice and power, let us prove ourselves through patient endurance.

If you go to iBreviary, they will show them for Daytime Prayer for each of the minor hours.

So assuming you use the complementary psalms for Terce and None, but mid-day psalms for Sext, you would use the above antiphons in their respective hours, and say all the psalms under a single antiphon at that hour. You should not be using the complementary psalter antiphons for the other two hours. Those should only be used in Ordinary Time on regular days, or memorials and feasts without proper antiphons.

If on the other hand you say only one daytime prayer, you would use the psalms of mid-day prayer under one antiphon only, and the antiphon would be chosen from the above according to which hour you recite mid-day prayer (T, S or N).

Hope this helps.

 

[Jvrlns]

Hi OraLabora,

Ok. So, I should be using only one antiphone, the one corresponding to each of the minor hours, and for one of the hours I should use the psalms for the proper of the season and not the complementary.

Thanks a lot!