Ordo notes for the feast of St Joseph the Worker

Divinum Officium does not provide the monastic version of this feast, but the Roman version of the Office provides the Invitatory antiphon, hymn and antiphons; combine those with the psalms from the Common of a Confessor not a bishop (Liber Responsorialis pg 190).

As this is a (relatively) new feast, most of the chants are not included in the Liber Responsorialis.

The invitatory antiphon and hymn, though, are in the Liber Hymnarius, and virtually all of the necessary chants are however included in an appendix to the Nocturnale Romanum.  Most of the missing responsories come from the Benedictine version of the Feast of St Joseph, Spouse of the BVM and are included in the Liber Responsorialis.

You can find translations of the readings and responsories for this feast over at my Lectio Divina blog.

Second Sunday after the Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday)

The notes below are intended to help in finding or adapting the texts for Matins according to the 1962-3 rubrics.

Divinum Officium

Matins for the Second Sunday after Easter as set out at Divinum Officium (pre-Tridentine monastic) generally conforms to the 1962-3 monastic office save for the readings and responsories.  Note that the first Nocturn readings are from Acts 1 not Acts 13.  The correct texts, including missing responsories, can be found at my Lectio Divina blog.  The final Our Father should also be omitted.

Key texts

There is only one antiphon for each Nocturn, and these are used on Sundays throughout the season.  The texts are in the Clear Creek Matins booklet (Matins according to...); the chants can be found either in the Psalter for Matins of Peter Standhofe (PDF only), or the Nocturnale Romanum.

In terms of the other chants:

• the invitatory antiphon is Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia, which can be found in the Liber Responsorialis (LR), pg 82; Liber Hymnarius, pg 79; or Invitatory booklet; and
• the hymn is Rex Sempiterne Domino, LR 82, Nocturnale Romanum or Liber Hymnarius.

Sources for the chants for the responsories can be found under the label Easter2 on the Benedictine Responsory blog.

Note that the Easter tone for the Te Decet Laus is used, and this can be found both in the LR (Pg 42, alter tonus) and Liber Hymnarius. 

Feast of the Cluny Abbots (April 29)

I have provided some notes on this feast over at Saints Will Arise, but in the interest of preserving a set of Ordo notes here with a view to making it easy in future to find the relevant chants, here are the key points.

At Matins in the 1963 breviary, the invitatory antiphon is Exsultent in Domino, and the chant for it can be found in the Liber Responsorialis, page 162.  The hymn, Rex gloriose Praesulum, is the same as for Vespers so can be found in the Antiphonale Monasticum.  The invitatory antiphon and hymn can also be found in the Liber Hymnarius.

As this is a third class feast, the psalms and antiphons are those of the day of the week in the 1963 rubrics.

The one reading is from Letter 4 of St Peter Damian to St Hugh, but I'm afraid I have been unable to find it online in either Latin or English.

Invitatory for Easter: Surrexit Dominus Vere

The invitatory antiphon at Matins for the Easter Octave and Sundays in Eastertide is Surrexit Dominus, the chant for which can be found either in the Liber Responsorialis or the Liber Hymnarius.  The recording below gives the antiphon and a couple of the verses of Psalm 94 so you can see how it fits together.

Feast of St Mark: Ordo notes**

The Monastic Office for the Feast of St Mark is unfortunately not available on Divinum Officium, but it is essentially the Office from the Common of Apostles and Evangelists in Eastertide.

You can, however, find all of the relevant texts except the readings in the Liber Responsorialis (which can be downloaded for free from the CC Watershed Library).

The Invitatory antiphon (Regem Apostolorum Dominum), hymn (Tristes erant apostoli), psalms and antiphons are from the Common, (starts page 162) or elsewhere in the book (page numbers are given in the Common).

The readings for the Second and Third Nocturns are of the feast, and can be found on my Lectio Divina Blog,

Greater Litanies

This is also a rogation day when there is traditionally a procession associated with the Mass, where the Litany of the saints is sung.  If there is no procession in your location, you can say these prayers privately after Lauds - and those obliged to say the Office (ie priests and religious) are required to do so.

White Sunday: Ordo notes (and singingTe decet laus in Eastertide)

White Sunday (and Pentecost Sunday likewise) is somewhat unusual as the Octave day of a feast, in that it is not a simple repetition of the texts of the feast.  Instead, the Office is largely that of the Ordinary of Eastertide, but reusing many (but not all ) of the responsories from Easter Sunday.

Divinum Officium

Matins as set out at Divinum Officium (pre-Tridentine monastic) generally conforms to the 1963 monastic office save for the readings and responsories, which can be found arranged correctly at my Lectio Divina blog.  The final Our Father should also be omitted.

Finding the chants

There is only one antiphon for each Nocturn, and these are used on Sundays throughout the season.  The texts are in the Clear Creek Matins booklet (Matins according to...); the chants can be found either in the Psalter for Matins of Peter Standhofe (PDF only), or the Nocturnale Romanum.

In terms of the other chants:

• the invitatory antiphon is Surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia, which can be found in the Liber Responsorialis (LR), pg 82; Liber Hymnarius, pg 79; or Invitatory booklet;
• the hymn is Rex Sempiterne Domino, LR 82, Nocturnale Romanum or Liber Hymnarius;
• the responsories can mostly be found in the Liber Responsorialis under Dominica Resurrectionis (pg 82 ff), but note that there are some differences in order from Easter Sunday, and the second responsory for White Sunday, Angelus Domini locutus est, is not in LR, but can be found at Gregorfacsimil or in the Nocturnale Romanum, pg 442.

Note that the Easter tone for the Te Decet Laus is used, and this can be found both in the LR (Pg 42, alter tonus) and Liber Hymnarius.  The version in the Hymnarius (tone no 1 in the page above), used in the recording below, has some differences to the LR version, but they are very minor.

Ordo Notes for Matins of Easter and the Easter Octave

In the 1963 Office, due to the restoration of the Vigil to its proper time in the evening, Matins of the Resurrection is rarely said.  Nonetheless, it is worth knowing that all of the texts and chants for it are provided in the Liber Responsorialis (LR), at pages 82-94.

During the Octave, the 1963 Office has three readings each day, and for Monday and Tuesday provides the option of using either the psalms of the feast, or the psalms of the day.  This reflects the structure of earlier breviaries, in which Monday and Tuesday had twelve readings, but the Office reverted to its normal form, but with three readings each day from Wednesday.

The Invitatory antiphon and hymn each day are as for the Sunday of the Resurrection, in LR, and translations for the readings and responsories can be found on my Lectio Divina blog - note that they differ from the Roman Office in some cases.  Sources for the chants for the responsories can be found on the Benedictine Responsory blog (search on EasterOctMon, etc in the labels section).