Still say "Glory to..." during the Liturgy of the Hours?

[WilliamYoung]

Hoping someone can give me a definite answer on this one. For 20 years I have been using the condensed version of the Liturgy of the Hours. I just bought the 4-volume series. Here’s my question. In the 4-week psalter, the “Glory to the Father…” is indicated at the end of each Psalm. In the full version, there is nothing. I looked through the instructions of the Office inside, and saw no mention of it. Has the Church dropped it in recent years?

I know this is a minor point, but I still want to pray in union with the whole Church, as she wants us to. Can someone clarify this for me? It seems strange because the complete version is otherwise extremely thorough in its explanation.

William

 

[jbebeau]

William,

Indeed you do continue to say the “Glory to the Father . . .”

If you go to Sunday, Evening Prayer I, in the Psalter, and look at the first psalm, which will be Psalm 141:1-9, it will include the complete text of the “Glory to the Father . . .” and just below that there is a rubric that says: “All psalms and canticles are concluded with the ‘Glory to the Father’ unless otherwise indicated.”

Hope this helps.

-Jeff

 

[PhilotheaZ]

If you go to Sunday, Evening Prayer I, in the Psalter, and look at the first psalm, which will be Psalm 141:1-9, it will include the complete text of the “Glory to the Father . . .” and just below that there is a rubric that says: “All psalms and canticles are concluded with the ‘Glory to the Father’ unless otherwise indicated.”

This is correct. And the “unless otherwise indicated” refers primarily to Morning Prayer for Sunday Week I and Sunday Week III, where one of the Psalms ends with “Let us bless the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit,” etc., so concluding with the “Glory to the Father” would be redundant.

 

[LCMS_No_More]

Yes, absolutely say the “Glory to the Father…” after all Psalms and most Canticles. The only exception I know of is Sunday Morning Prayer (Lauds) for Weeks 1 and 3 o the Four Week Psalter where the Song of the Three Children is said, to which “Let us bless the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” is appended. The rubrics say not to say the “Glory to the Father” with that Canticle.

 

[JMJ_coder]

For an ‘authoritative’ answer, let us consult the General Instruction of the Liturgy of the Hours:

1. At the beginning of each psalm its own antiphon is always to be recited, as noted in nos. 113-120. At the end of the psalm the practice of concluding with the Glory to the Father and As it was in the beginning is retained. This is the fitting conclusion endorsed by tradition and it gives to Old Testament prayer a note of praise and a Christological and Trinitarian sense. The antiphon may be repeated at the end of the psalm.
2. When longer psalms occur, sections are marked in the psalter that divide the parts in such a way as to keep the threefold structure of the hour; but great care has been taken not to distort the meaning of the psalm.

It is useful to observe this division, especially in a choral celebration in Latin; the Glory to the Father is added at the end of each section.

It is permissible, however, either to keep this traditional way or to pause between the different sections of the same psalm or to recite the whole psalm and its antiphon as a single unit without a break.

1. In addition, when the literary genre of a psalm suggests it, the divisions into strophes are marked in order that, especially when the psalm is sung in the vernacular, the antiphons may be repeated after each strophe; in this case the Glory to the Father need be said only at the end of the psalm.