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Can you please confirm that the following are all the liturgical books for the ordinary form of the Roman Rite? Please advise if any have been omitted.

Roman Missal
  • Simple Gradual
  • Roman Calendar
  • Roman Missal (Sacramentary)
  • Order of Mass
  • Lectionary
  • Eucharistic Prayers for Masses of Reconciliation
  • Eucharistic Prayers for Masses with Children
  • Eucharistic Prayers for Various Needs
  • Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Sacramentary)
  • Collection of Masses of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Lectionary)
Roman Ritual
  • Marriage
  • Baptism of Children
  • Funerals
  • Religious Profession
  • Initiation of Adults
  • Reception of Baptised Christians
  • Anointing and Pastoral Care of the Sick
  • Commissioning Special Ministers
  • Holy Communion and Worship of the Holy Eucharist outside Mass
  • Rite of Penance
  • Book of Blessing
  • Exorcism
Roman Pontifical
  • Ordination
  • Consecration to a Life of Virginity
  • Confirmation
  • Institution of Lectors and Acolytes
  • Blessing of an Abbot or Abbess
  • Blessing of Holy Oils, Consecration of Sacred Chrism
  • Admission to Candidacy for Ordination
  • Dedication of a Church and Altar
Liturgy of the Hours

Ceremonial of Bishops

Martyrology

P.S. I obtained this list from [ICEL’s (Welcome to ICEL) website.
 
The Graduale Romanum should be in there as well, as well as the Graduale Triplex (which is the Graduale Romanum with the neumes from St. Gall and Laon superposed).

Also the Gregorian Missal.
 
I would also include the Graduale Romanum (you only list the Graduale Simplex), the Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Liber cantus (which includes a few rubrics not mentioned in the Missal or CB), and the Antiphonale Romanum, Liber Hymnarius, et al. I believe they are official liturgical books, though I could be wrong. I don’t know if you’d count the Ordo cantus Missae or Ordo cantus Officii. There’s also the Ordo coronandi Imaginem Beatae Mariae Virginis, Ordo Rituum Pro Ministerii Petrini Initio Rom Episcopi, Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis, Ordo Rituum Conclavis. Depending on your location, there’s the Bendición al cumplir quince años / Order for the Blessing on the Fifteenth Birthday, the Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest, Semana Santa Libro para el altar, and (though I’ve never seen an actual book for these rites) the Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, the Proclamation of the Date of Easter on the Epiphany, and the Reception of the Holy Oils Blessed at the Chrism Mass.
 
stephraim said:
I would also include the Graduale Romanum (you only list the Graduale Simplex), the Passio Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Liber cantus (which includes a few rubrics not mentioned in the Missal or CB), and the Antiphonale Romanum, Liber Hymnarius, et al. I believe they are official liturgical books, though I could be wrong. I don’t know if you’d count the Ordo cantus Missae or Ordo cantus Officii. There’s also the Ordo coronandi Imaginem Beatae Mariae Virginis, Ordo Rituum Pro Ministerii Petrini Initio Rom Episcopi, Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis, Ordo Rituum Conclavis. Depending on your location, there’s the Bendición al cumplir quince años / Order for the Blessing on the Fifteenth Birthday, the Sunday Celebration in the Absence of a Priest, Semana Santa Libro para el altar, and (though I’ve never seen an actual book for these rites) the Proclamation of the Birth of Christ, the Proclamation of the Date of Easter on the Epiphany, and the Reception of the Holy Oils Blessed at the Chrism Mass.
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I can work out some of them but not all the rites you give in Latin, I am no Latinist. However, I cannot work them all out so I’d be obliged if you’d supply the English names. Would some of those you’ve listed, e.g. Ordo coronandi Imaginem Beatae Mariae Virginis be in the Book of Blessings? Aren’t some of them very specific, e.g. Ordo Rituum Conclavis?
 
Matthew_Holford said:
Would you please explain what this means?
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The Roman Gradual is the 1st of the Official music books of the Church. There’s the Simple Gradual, which you mentioned in your list, and the Triple Gradual, which contains the usual chant notation as well as ancient notation from two ancient graduals superposed. So, there’s several methods of notation contained within that one book.
What is the Gregorian Missal?
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I believe the Gregorian Missal is an abbreviated Gradual with English translations underneath the Gregorian Latin melodies. I think it only contains Sundays and Solemnities (and maybe a few ritual Masses, votive Masses)
 
Matthew_Holford said:
Would you please explain what this means?

What is the Gregorian Missal?
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Graduale Triplex

You can see the current “square note” interpretation of this gradual hymn, below which you can also see the St. Gall notation, and above, the notation of Laon, two of the early chant codices from which the chants were interpreted.

The Gregorian Missal is a Latin-English (also available in Latin-French, Latin-Italian and Latin-German) missal for Sundays and Feasts, in Gregorian square notation for the Latin with the vernacular translation alongside. The pieces are identical to the Graduale Romanum, but for Sundays and Feasts only.

Also for the Divine Office, the following sources are available for the current (post-Vatican II) Office:
  1. Liber Hymnarius, all the hymns from the monastic and Roman offices;
  2. Antiphonale Monasticum: the current Monastic Antiphonary, Latin only, Gregorian notation;
  3. Antiphonale Romanum II, the first volume released of the new Roman Antiphonary (in spite of the “II” in the title), Vespers for Feasts, Solemnities and all Sundays of the year in Gregorian notation (Latin only);
  4. Heures Grégoriennes (out-of-print), an antiphonary, in Gregorian notation, for all the day hours of the current Roman Office (Latin-French)
I’m not sure if the public can purchase the Ordo Cantus Officii. In any case it is not usable as a chant resource, it is used as a source for the official chants for those assembling chant books for choir use.

You can also pick up a Kyriale, for the Ordinary of the Mass in Latin.

except for 4) above you can source all of this from www.solesmes.com, or their official agents in N. America (Paraclete Press I think, for the US, and the benedictine Abbey of Saint-Benoît-du-Lac for French Canada).

Also, another useful resource, the Martyrologium Romanum (Roman Martyrology), current version only available in Latin, which has all the rubrics and Gregorian notation to proclaim the daily reading from the Martyrology, liturgically (currently usually after Lauds).
 
The Order of Crowning an Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary is not in the Book of Blessings. You’re probably thinking of the Order for the Blessing of an Image of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They are different.

Yes, three of the books I’ve listed are very specific: they deal with burial, election, and beginning the office of the Bishop of Rome.

There’s the Book of Holy Week, the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (which contains the chants and, as I’ve said, a few extra rubrics for singing of the Passion on Palm Sunday/Good Friday), the Order for Sung Mass, the Order for Sung Office, the Roman Antiphonal (for Vespers) and the Book of Hymns (which I believe includes hymns, Invitatories/Antiphons for the Office).
 
OraLabora said:
Also, another useful resource, the Martyrologium Romanum (Roman Martyrology), current version only available in Latin, which has all the rubrics and Gregorian notation to proclaim the daily reading from the Martyrology, liturgically (currently usually after Lauds).
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The Martyrology can also be done at a daytime hour or on its own.
 
stephraim said:
The Martyrology can also be done at a daytime hour or on its own.
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Correct, which is why I said “usually”. At the abbey I am affiliated with, it is actually read during dinner in the refectory.

It used to be done after Prime, pre-Vatican II (and where Prime still exists; some Benedictine monasteries, even though doing the OF, have retained Prime, using the Monastic version of the Liturgy of the Hours).
 
OraLabora said:
some Benedictine monasteries, even though doing the OF, have retained Prime, using the Monastic version of the Liturgy of the Hours).
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Not to derail this thread too much, do you use the Antiphonale Monasticum, and is it true its structure of psalm distribution is more akin to the Pre-Conciliar Divine Office?
 
stephraim said:
Not to derail this thread too much, do you use the Antiphonale Monasticum, and is it true its structure of psalm distribution is more akin to the Pre-Conciliar Divine Office?
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I use it when I have the time, that is usually in the winter season. I am using it now, and am using Psalterium Monasticum for most of it as it’s a more convenient book to use.

It is actually identical to the Office laid out by Saint Benedict in his famous Rule. That is, the entire psalter is recited in a week. With many repetitions though (e.g. psalms 66, 50, 148-149-150 every day at Lauds, 4, 90 and 133 every day at compline, the Gradual psalms every day at the little hours; the latter two so those offices could be recited from memory while working in the fields, or in the dark for Compline) so you psalmody 255 times in a week. Very heavy office! When I do it, I spread Vigils over two weeks (which is now allowed by the new antiphonary although the Nocturnal volume hasn’t yet been published).

So it is actually heavier than the pre-Conciliar office. The latter as you may know was significantly reformed by Pius X in 1910, at which point it departed significantly from the Monastic Office:
  1. Vigils went from 12 to 9 psalms;
  2. The practice of reciting psalms 148, 149 and 150 together at Lauds was ended;
  3. The psalms were divided into more or less equal sections.
The Monastic Office is the granddaddy of all of the Liturgy of the Hours. The current Benedictine Office is using the same basic psalm layout as specified by St. Benedict 1500 years ago. No current office, not even the 1962 breviary, can make that claim.

The current Monastic Office has been reformed though, in this way:
  1. It is possible to drop Prime, and distribute the psalms from Prime into the Little Hours (Terce, Sext, None);
  2. The collects, liturgical year, intercessions, readings, all come from the current Liturgy of the Hours.
I was at a monastery in France a few weeks ago that still uses this format (and an OF Mass). Compline chanted from memory in the dark was particularly moving.
 
OraLabora said:
I use it when I have the time, that is usually in the winter season. I am using it now, and am using Psalterium Monasticum for most of it as it’s a more convenient book to use.

It is actually identical to the Office laid out by Saint Benedict in his famous Rule. That is, the entire psalter is recited in a week. With many repetitions though (e.g. psalms 66, 50, 148-149-150 every day at Lauds, 4, 90 and 133 every day at compline, the Gradual psalms every day at the little hours; the latter two so those offices could be recited from memory while working in the fields, or in the dark for Compline) so you psalmody 255 times in a week. Very heavy office! When I do it, I spread Vigils over two weeks (which is now allowed by the new antiphonary although the Nocturnal volume hasn’t yet been published).

So it is actually heavier than the pre-Conciliar office. The latter as you may know was significantly reformed by Pius X in 1910, at which point it departed significantly from the Monastic Office:
  1. Vigils went from 12 to 9 psalms;
  2. The practice of reciting psalms 148, 149 and 150 together at Lauds was ended;
  3. The psalms were divided into more or less equal sections.
The Monastic Office is the granddaddy of all of the Liturgy of the Hours. The current Benedictine Office is using the same basic psalm layout as specified by St. Benedict 1500 years ago. No current office, not even the 1962 breviary, can make that claim.

The current Monastic Office has been reformed though, in this way:
  1. It is possible to drop Prime, and distribute the psalms from Prime into the Little Hours (Terce, Sext, None);
  2. The collects, liturgical year, intercessions, readings, all come from the current Liturgy of the Hours.
I was at a monastery in France a few weeks ago that still uses this format (and an OF Mass). Compline chanted from memory in the dark was particularly moving.
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Thanks. While I may not be able to use the Little Hours, I’ve been looking for something to “beef up”, for lack of better terminology, Matins, Lauds, and Vespers at our parish (and in personal recitation). I understand the reforms of Pius X and the Concilium which ease the recitation of those in pastoral work, but I really find the current Office lacking. I’d love to sing Compline from memory in the dark.
 
stephraim said:
Thanks. While I may not be able to use the Little Hours, I’ve been looking for something to “beef up”, for lack of better terminology, Matins, Lauds, and Vespers at our parish (and in personal recitation). I understand the reforms of Pius X and the Concilium which ease the recitation of those in pastoral work, but I really find the current Office lacking. I’d love to sing Compline from memory in the dark.
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A few notes about the Little Hours, that may be of interest. This assumes that Prime is still in there.

Psalmody for Prime, Terce, Sext and None on Sundays consisted of parts of psalm 118 (note I use the Vulgate numbering), as do Terce, Sext and None on Mondays.

The rest of the week (Tues-Sat):

Terce, psalms 119, 120 and 121
Sext, psalms 122, 123 and 124
None, psalms 125, 126 and 127

So theoretically you only had to recite each of those offices once in 5 days, to be able to say you prayed the entire psalter in a week.

In the schema I am using (I don’t say Prime), I’ve distributed the psalms from weekday Prime over Terce, Sext and None on Wednesday and Thursday. For Sunday Prime (sections I-IV of ps. 118), I’ve done that by increasing the number of sections in the other hours of Sunday and Monday (as suggested in the psalter).

I work from home and Tuesday is my day at my city office, so I don’t typically do the Little Hours that day. On Friday, I do the gradual psalms as above, and on Saturday I don’t do the Little hours as that’s my free day. So I managed to get all psalms in, though I do Vigils over 2 weeks (very early in the morning).

Incidentally Antiphonale Romanum II, available on the Solesmes web site, has the entirety of Vespers for Sundays, Feasts and Solemnities, for every liturgical season, in Gregorian notation. It’s a very easy to use in choir as the office is basically laid out in its logical order. I think you’ll find for parish use, it is quite fine. You might find the Monastic Office too heavy for parish use, unless you split it up over a 2 week cycle. You can do for instance, Monastic schema B in that manner; that might be a better schema for your use as it is only 150 psalms in a week, no repetitions, or less if split over 2 weeks, and Matins only has 6 psalms instead of 12, but you’d have to prepare your own chant books.
 
stephraim said:
Was any of this helpful, Matthew?
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I am sure that it will prove to be so. Please give me time to digest the info and I’ll give you a more definitive answer. I may even have some more questions:)
 
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