LOTH and Mass readings/prayers in sync

[scriabin]

I’ve started LOTH this past Advent and I’m now just realizing that the Morning concluding prayer and the daily Mass opening prayer are often the same. Is there a liturgical reason for this, or is it just a neat thing to do for its own sake?

Also, I thought it was my imagination or at least liturgical serendipity that the daily Mass readings often dovetailed the LOTH reading/prayers. Is there something to this or is it just my imagination?

 

[tee_eff_em]

It is because the liturgy of the Church is a unified whole, not separated pieces (IMHO).

BTW, on weekdays of Ordinary time, when the prayers often do not match up, the opening prayer of the Mass is the same as the Sunday of the week.

tee

 

[bpbasilphx]

In most rites, the Office and Eucharistic Liturgy have quoted liberally from each other.

 

[puzzleannie]

and antiphons for the gosple canticles at least in the Sunday propers, are drawn from the day’s gospel, esp when the gospel of all 3 cycles has a common theme, such as good shepherd.

 

[tee_eff_em]

and antiphons for the gosple canticles at least in the Sunday propers, are drawn from the day’s gospel, esp when the gospel of all 3 cycles has a common theme, such as good shepherd.

Yes – In the full LotH the Sunday canticle antiphons are in an A, B, C cycle synchronized with the Sunday Gospel readings. In the one-volume Christian Prayer, this is abridged by providing EPI with its antiphon from year A, MP with its antiphon from year B, and EPII with its antiphon from year C.

tee

 

[AJV]

Yes – In the full LotH the Sunday canticle antiphons are in an A, B, C cycle synchronized with the Sunday Gospel readings. In the one-volume Christian Prayer, this is abridged by providing EPI with its antiphon from year A, MP with its antiphon from year B, and EPII with its antiphon from year C.

tee

Is there an English translation available of a full set (EP I, MP, EP II) of Sunday antiphons for Years A, B and C? I was under the impression that although the Latin is updated in such a maner, such a change had not yet trickled down to the English where the antiphons are still in the 1970 Latin form of EP I (A), MP (B), EP II (C). I have a 4 volume edition but it doesn’t reflect this change.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Is there an English translation available of a full set (EP I, MP, EP II) of Sunday antiphons for Years A, B and C? I was under the impression that although the Latin is updated in such a maner, such a change had not yet trickled down to the English where the antiphons are still in the 1970 Latin form of EP I (A), MP (B), EP II (C). I have a 4 volume edition but it doesn’t reflect this change.

I don’t actually own the English 4-volume (nor 3-volume) set – I was judging (and presuming) by my partial Latin set of Liturgia Horarum – Mea culpa.

tee

 

[jbebeau]

I can answer this one!

The edition typica altera of the Liturgia Horarum was issued in 1985 (the Latin) and contained a list of 3 antiphons, for EP1, MP, and EP2, for the Gospel Canticle. The 3 antiphons corresponds to the cylce of the readings for Mass. The only English translation of them I have found is in the book “Lauds and Vespers: Latin-English” published Newman House Press with Fr. Peter Stravinskas as editor.

The current English translation is based upon edition typica issued in 1971 and only contains one antiphon for the Gospel Canticle. Each year of the Lectionary cycle representing EP1, MP, and EP2.

I’m glad you noticed the consistency with the orations. I remember when I first noticed this as well. The same is true for the Proper of Saints. Both MP and EP are the same. A different oration is provided for ferials in the 4 week Psalter.

On a side note, the Latin doesn’t have the Psalm Prayers, and the present ones are English compositions. I personally don’t use them. There were Latin Psalm Prayers. They were to be in the 5 vol. of the LotH, along with the Hymns that were omitted because of lack of space, and the 2nd cycle of the Office of Readings. So technically the LotH as we have it today is incomplete. Actually there are still a few things in the liturgy the is incomplete.

The prayer at Mass during the week isn’t necessarily from the preceeding Sunday, the rubrics allow the priest to draw the prayer from any of the 34 Masses of Ordinary Time.

A final note of interest. Speaking with the director of the Canadian Bishops Liturgy Committee, after completing the Missal in approx. 2009, the next thing ICEL will be working on the the LotH. Almost all the orations will have been translated, they need to chose a versions of scripture for the OR, and a translation for the Psalms.