But at the ninth hour, penetrating to hades, He there by the brightness of His splendour extinguished the indescribable darkness of hell, and, bursting its brazen gates and breaking the iron bars brought away with Him to the skies the captive band of saints which was there shut up and detained in the darkness of inexorable hell, and, by taking away the fiery sword, restored to paradise its original inhabitants by his pious confession.
At the same hour, too, Cornelius, the centurion, continuing with his customary devotion in his prayers, is made aware through the converse of the angel with him that his prayers and alms are remembered before the Lord, and at the ninth hour the mystery of the calling of the Gentiles is clearly shown to him, which had been revealed to Peter in his ecstasy of mind at the sixth hour.
In another passage, too, in the Acts of the Apostles, we are told as follows about the same time: But Peter and John went up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
St John Cassian, Institutes
None is normally said around mid-afternoon.
The hymn: Rerum Deus (O God creations secret force)
The key fixed text for None is the hymn, Rerum Deus, which is said throughout the year, even on feasts.
Although the same hymn is used throughout the year, the chant tones used for it vary depending on the season and level of the day, and can be found in the Antiphonale following the pattern noted in the post on Terce.
You can also find audio files of many of those used at the Liber Hymnarius website, though the notes on when each tone is used does not always align with the Benedictine usage.
The antiphons of None
The main seasonal antiphons are included in the psalter sections of most Office books, but note that they can be displaced by antiphons of the week or day.
The Antiphonale generally just provides the intonation of the antiphon before the psalms, with the full text following. In the 1962 Office, however, the antiphon is sung in full both before and after the psalms.
The psalms of None
There is no special version of None for feasts, instead the psalms set for the relevant day of the week are used.
None uses three sets of psalms (or stanzas of psalms), for Sundays, Mondays, and Tuesday to Saturday respectively. You can find notes on each of them to help you with the Latin and understand their meaning in the context of the Office more fully by following the links in the table below.
Chapter and versicle
The texts for the chapters and versicles for most of the seasons are included in the psalter section of most Office books. Those for feasts and particular days of the year though, can displace these.
Collects
The collect at Terce is either of the week (the previous Sunday) or day (of the season or feast).
Where there are two collects for each day (for example during Lent), the collect of Lauds is used at Terce.
Finding None in your book
The table below shows the page numbers for the various parts of the hour in the Monastic Diurnal (MD) and Antiphonale Monasticum (AM).
The first column provides links to notes on the rubrics for each component of the hour.
The relevant page numbers in the Monastic Diurnal (MD) and Antiphonale Monasticum (AM) are shown under the relevant days of the week.
You can find notes on the appropriate body postures and so forth in the Introduction to Terce, Sext and None.
NONE
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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday to Saturday
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Opening prayers
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MD 1
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Hymn (Rerum Deus)
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MD 159
AM 90 |
MD 176
AM 103 |
MD 196
AM 118 |
Antiphon
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Of the season, day, date or feast
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Psalms
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MD 160
AM 91 |
MD 178
AM 105 |
MD 198
AM 120 |
Antiphon
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Of the season, day, date or feast
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Chapter
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Versicle
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Closing prayers
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MD 154-5 with collect of the season, day, date or feast
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