The notes below are intended to help in finding or adapting the texts and chants for Matins according to the 1962-3 rubrics.
The Ordinary of the Sundays after Easter can be found either at:
As always, Divinum Officium provides the Roman readings and responsories, not the Benedictine ordering. The correctly arranged texts can be found on the Lectio Divina Notes Blog, and notes on where to find the chants for the responsories can be found here.
Monday to Wednesday are rogation days but these do not affect the Office as such (the litanies and obligations that go with them are attached to the Mass).
Matins for the Vigil of the Ascension is the same as a normal day in Eastertide except that it has three readings and responsories (missing from Divinum Officium in the pre-Tridentine Monastic version), which will be found on the Lectio Divina notes blog.
All of the texts and chants for the feast can be found in the Liber Responsorialis (from page 94).
You can also find a nicely laid out version of the chants and texts as one document over at Gregofacsimil (it is labelled as being Sunday within the Octave, but is the same as for the feast), but note that many of the responsories use verses that are not the same as those in the breviary.
Divinum Officium as usual gives the correct psalms and antiphons, but the Roman version of the readings and responsories; for the correct set, see the Lectio Divina Notes blog.
Once upon a time, the feast of the Ascension warranted an Octave. This was, alas abolished, but many of the texts used are preserved in the 'Ordinary of Ascensiontide'. For Matins:
As these are Class III feasts, the only changes are to the invitatory antiphon, hymn, reading and chapter verse. The reading and responsory will be on the Lectio Divina Notes blog.
The fifth Sunday after Easter
The Ordinary of the Sundays after Easter can be found either at:
- Divinum Officium (which provides the texts for the Invitatory antiphon (Surrexit Dominus), hymn (Rex sempiterne Domine) and the antiphon for each Nocturn;
- the Liber Responsorialis has the texts and chants for the invitatory antiphon and hymn (pg 82); while the antiphons can be found in the Standhofe Psalterium (download PDF). The Liber Hymnarius of 1983 also provides the invitatory (pg 79) and a version of the hymn with different words (pg 76). The Easter tone for the Te Decet Laus can be found both in the LR (Pg 42, alter tonus) and Liber Hymnarius; or
- Gregofacsimil website provides a complete set of texts and chants for the Sunday in one document, including including psalm pointing for the Third Sunday (note that the responsories though differ for each Sunday of Eastertide). The chant provided for Psalm 94 and the hymn tone are different to those provided in the Liber Responsorialis. In addition, the antiphon for the third Nocturn is from the Roman Office and is not that provided in the breviary. The proper chant according to the Standhofe draft Psalterium is as throughout the year (alleluia).
As always, Divinum Officium provides the Roman readings and responsories, not the Benedictine ordering. The correctly arranged texts can be found on the Lectio Divina Notes Blog, and notes on where to find the chants for the responsories can be found here.
Rogation days
Monday to Wednesday are rogation days but these do not affect the Office as such (the litanies and obligations that go with them are attached to the Mass).
Vigil of the Ascension
Matins for the Vigil of the Ascension is the same as a normal day in Eastertide except that it has three readings and responsories (missing from Divinum Officium in the pre-Tridentine Monastic version), which will be found on the Lectio Divina notes blog.
Feast of the Ascension
All of the texts and chants for the feast can be found in the Liber Responsorialis (from page 94).
You can also find a nicely laid out version of the chants and texts as one document over at Gregofacsimil (it is labelled as being Sunday within the Octave, but is the same as for the feast), but note that many of the responsories use verses that are not the same as those in the breviary.
Divinum Officium as usual gives the correct psalms and antiphons, but the Roman version of the readings and responsories; for the correct set, see the Lectio Divina Notes blog.
The 'Ordinary' of Ascensiontide
Once upon a time, the feast of the Ascension warranted an Octave. This was, alas abolished, but many of the texts used are preserved in the 'Ordinary of Ascensiontide'. For Matins:
- the invitatory antiphon is as for the rest of Eastertide, viz Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia;
- the hymn (when not displaced by a feast) is Aeterne Rex Altissime;
- the versicles after the psalms in the first Nocturn are of Ascensiontide (in the psalter);
- the one reading becomes Hebrews 6:18-30 with short responsory 'Dominus in caelo' (not on Divinum Officium); and
- the chapter verse is Revelation 5:12 with versicle 'Exaltare Domine'.
Feasts of SS Augustine of Canterbury and Bede the Venerable
As these are Class III feasts, the only changes are to the invitatory antiphon, hymn, reading and chapter verse. The reading and responsory will be on the Lectio Divina Notes blog.
