LOTH Psalms for feasts of the Apostles

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Today is the feast of St. Bartholomew. I’m trying to pray Vespers and something caught my eye that is confusing me. Normally, on a feast like today I would go with the psalmody in the Commons of Apostles, which seems logical to me… but then I just noticed that the Ordinary says “For solemnities and feasts, the psalms and canticles are taken from the first Sunday of the Psalter…” Does that only mean if there are no specific psalms specified in the Propers or Commons? Otherwise, what would be the point of having specific psalmody for the apostles? Thanks!
 
I’m not sure you read that correctly, or maybe I’m looking at a different paragraph in the instructions.

In GILH 134, it says

On solemnities and feasts … At Morning prayer the psalms and canticles are taken from the Sunday of the first week of the psalter. … At Evening Prayer II on solemnities and Evening Prayer on feasts the psalms and canticles are proper.

Since St. Bartholomew doesn’t have any proper psalms for Evening Prayer, I would use the ones from the Common of Apostles as you were planning.

Similar instruction is given in GILH 226 for solemnities, and GILH 231 tells you to do the same as on solemnities.
 
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On solemnities and feasts … At Morning prayer the psalms and canticles are taken from the Sunday of the first week of the psalter. … At Evening Prayer II on solemnities and Evening Prayer on feasts the psalms and canticles are proper.

Since St. Bartholomew doesn’t have any proper psalms for Evening Prayer, I would use the ones from the Common of Apostles as you were planning.
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Thanks! I think the issue is I was looking at the brief instructions in the Ordinary in the 4 volume LOTH set…not the full GILH.
 
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Thanks! I think the issue is I was looking at the brief instructions in the Ordinary in the 4 volume LOTH set…not the full GILH.
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Yeah, it appears to be an inconsistency between the Ordinary and the GILH. It’s also that way in the Ordinary in Vol 1 and in Christian Prayer, too.
 
Do you guys know if Christian Prayer differs from the 4 volume set
In the MP EP and NP that is
Thanks
 
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Yes, that note should only be applying to Morning Prayer. Some editions, to save space or for whatever reason, place some of the red text in what I feel are odd places. iBreviary, for instance, puts all of the red above the relevant section which makes more sense to me, but Christian Prayer has each rubrical note below the immediately relevant item.
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Do you guys know if Christian Prayer differs from the 4 volume set
In the MP EP and NP that is
Thanks
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As far as I know, the only real difference is that CP may have the “long form” of some of the readings where certain editions of the 4-volume set typically have the short form. (Similar to how some readings for Mass in the lectionary have a short form and long form from which the priest may choose.)
 
I’m late to the party, but for feasts of Apostles, for Vespers, the psalms are always from the common.

The antiphons can be from the proper of the feast, if there are any, otherwise from the common.

For Lauds, the psalms are always from Sunday I with antiphons from the proper or common as specified.

This is pretty much the case for all feasts of saints.
 
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