LotH hymn for Annunciation, daytime prayer

[LiturgyGuy]

I currently pray the Liturgy of the Hours using Christian Prayer for morning, evening, and night prayer; Daytime prayer for daytime hours; and the iBreviary app for the office of readings. I’ll be getting the complete four volumes in the mail soon.

I’m wondering about the hymn for daytime prayer tomorrow, March 25th, the solemnity of the Annunciation. The saints section for it does not list a specific hymn, and the hymn index doesn’t have any hymn for it, neither does it have a Marian section. There is one hymn for Mary, the Mother of God, but that’s January 1, although it is related. Do you think I should use the January 1 hymn, or a hymn from the ordinary time sections?

 

[Magdalen2013]

In the Liturgical Guide to Hymns, which begins on Page 1502 of the CBC one volume edition of Christian Prayer, look under the list of “Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary” page 1505 and use one of those hymns.

In the St. Paul one volume edition of Christian Prayer, the Liturgical Guide to Hymns begins on 1742, and the “Common of the Blessed Virgin Mary” list on 1747.

 

[OraLabora]

Do you mean mid-day prayer? For mid-day prayer (prayed at either the hour of Terce, Sext or None) there is no hymn for the memorials, feasts or solemnities of saints The hymn of the day is used.

In the sung office, at least in Latin, though the same hymn is used, the melody changes, with increased complexity as the degree of solemnity increases from feria to memorial to solemnity.

From the General Instructions (my bold):

1. ARRANGEMENT OF THE OFFICE FOR SOLEMNITIES

1. Solemnities have an evening prayer I on the preceding day.

1. At evening prayer I and II, the hymn, the antiphons, the short reading with its responsory, and the concluding prayer are proper. Where anything proper is missing, it is supplied from the common.

In keeping with an ancient tradition, at evening prayer I both psalms are as a rule taken from the Laudate Psalms (Ps 113, 117, 135, 146, 147 A, 147 B). The New Testament canticle is noted in its appropriate place. At evening prayer II the psalms and canticles are proper; the intercessions are either proper or from the common.

1. At morning prayer, the hymn, the antiphons, the short reading with its responsory, and the concluding prayer are proper. Where anything proper is missing, it is supplied from the common. The psalms are to be taken from the Sunday of Week I of the four-week psalter; the intercessions are either proper or from the common.

1. In the office of readings, everything is proper: the hymn, the antiphons and psalms, the readings and the responsories. The first reading is from Scripture; the second is about the saint. In the case of a saint with a purely local cult and without special texts even in the local proper, everything is taken from the common.

At the end of the office of readings the Te Deum and the proper prayer are said.

229. At daytime prayer, the hymn of the weekday is used, unless other directions are given. The psalms are from the Gradual Psalms with a proper antiphon. On Sundays the psalms are taken from the Sunday of Week I of the four-week psalter and the short reading and concluding prayer are proper. But on certain solemnities of the Lord there are special psalms.

1. At night prayer, everything is said as on Sundays, after evening prayer I and II respectively.

 

[KD8TZC]

I think what the others have said is good, but personally, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. God isn’t taking notes if you pick the right song or not. He is just filled with joy that you are actually doing the LOTH to the best of your abilities.

God Bless!

John

 

[drforjc]

I think what the others have said is good, but personally, I wouldn’t worry about it too much. God isn’t taking notes if you pick the right song or not. He is just filled with joy that you are actually doing the LOTH to the best of your abilities.

God Bless!

John

Many of us do like to take care to follow the rubrics, though. If it’s worth doing (especially liturgy), it’s worth doing correctly.

It’s not so much worrying that we’re doing it wrong than loving the liturgy enough to want to do it right.

 

[LiturgyGuy]

Many of us do like to take care to follow the rubrics, though. If it’s worth doing (especially liturgy), it’s worth doing correctly.

It’s not so much worrying that we’re doing it wrong than loving the liturgy enough to want to do it right.

Well said, thank you.

My four volumes should arrive today, so that will be nice. For the solemnity yesterday, I referenced iBreviary, which I assume is taken from the four volumes breviary, and it suggested an ordinary time hymn, so I went with that.

Thank you all for your responses!

 

[OraLabora]

Many of us do like to take care to follow the rubrics, though. If it’s worth doing (especially liturgy), it’s worth doing correctly.

It’s not so much worrying that we’re doing it wrong than loving the liturgy enough to want to do it right.

I concur completely. It also is of enormous benefit to me to know that I’m praying the same liturgy as the monks of the abbey I’m associated with. Even though I use the 4-week LOTH instead of the 1-week monastic one most of the time, the collects, hymns, gospel canticle antiphons, etc. are the same, as is the lectionary. So for that reason I try to follow the rubrics to the very best of my abilities.