Can lay people invoke this prayer?

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I know the Dominus vobiscum can’t be invoked by lay and the Deus in adjutorium meum intende can because of the Divine Office. Now my question is can the Adjutorum nostrum in nomine Domini be invoked by lay people?
 
I have come across that prayer in my Little Office and it can be recited. On a rare occasion I did come across Dominus vobiscum it is o.k. to use in personal prayer are in a prayer where it must be recited such as the Little or Divine Office. While then again I will eat popcorn and watch the replies 🍿
 
I would love it if someone told me what these prayers are, I have never heard of them.
 
truthquester said:
I would love it if someone told me what these prayers are, I have never heard of them.
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The question was specifically about the words “Our help is in the name of the Lord,” which comes from Psalm 124. It is a truth that can be invoked or proclaimed by anyone, including lay people.
 
Any such phrase can be invoked by anyone in private prayer. I think you are confusing the rubrics of what may and may not be recited by priests or lay in the Mass with what may be recited outside of the Mass by priests and lay. There is no prohibition against invoking God’s blessing on others, as long as it is not done as if in a priestly role by lay persons. Lay people may ask the Lord to bless others, but not invoke a blessing on others.
 
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Mentally or vocally?
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It’s a verse and response in the context of the Divine Office (Prime to be precise). Certainly this can be said, even vocally, in the context of the Divine Office, without a priest or deacon. Women religious have done so for millennia. They don’t always have a priest available at every Office of the Divine Office.
 
KnightOfSPUD said:
I know the Dominus vobiscum can’t be invoked by lay and the Deus in adjutorium meum intende can because of the Divine Office. Now my question is can the Adjutorum nostrum in nomine Domini be invoked by lay people?
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Do you mean in the liturgy, or outside of it? Because these are all prayers directly from scripture. I’m not sure why you think the laity might be barred from saying any of them.
 
No, may not. Not even in a private prayer. As last Brevarium Romanum prescribes, the lay people or lower clergy (not deacons, priests and bishops) may use Domine exaudi orationem meam: Et clamor meus ad Te veniat! instead of Dominus vobiscum: et cum spiritu tuo!. Clear enough? 🙂 In the past was different but… Rubrics are clear in Breviarium Romanum 1960 and in Divinum Officium (post Vatican II).

May God bless you!
In Domino,
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Attempto said:
No, may not. Not even in a private prayer. As last Brevarium Romanum prescribes, the lay people or lower clergy (not deacons, priests and bishops) may use Domine exaudi orationem meam: Et clamor meus ad Te veniat! instead of Dominus vobiscum: et cum spiritu tuo!. Clear enough? 🙂 In the past was different but… Rubrics are clear in Breviarium Romanum 1960 and in Divinum Officium (post Vatican II).

May God bless you!
In Domino,
Attempto
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The OP was clear that (s)he was not talking about the Dominus Vobiscum, of which all concur is the province of the clergy from deacon upwards.

It is the verse **Adjutorum nostrum in nomine Domini **.

It is a verse and response at Prime and not a blessing, said after the Credo and before the Confiteor. It is after the Confiteor that the the priest says “Dominus Vobiscum”. Since it is a verse and response the cantor intones the verse, and the assembly responds. In a women’s religious community, the cantor is generally one of the nuns or sisters.

Source: Breviarum Monasticum 1950.
 
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