Tuesday, December 2nd ST BIBIANA, VM [E10] Semidouble Psalms and antiphons of Tuesday throughout Remainder from Common 12 [F110] except as shown below Matins ...
Wednesday, December 3rd ST FRANCIS XAVIER, C Greater Double Psalms and Antiphons of Wednesday throughout Remainder from Common 9 [F90] except as shown below ...
Yes, the breviary.net people used the AB as a quick source of translations for the whole breviary. This was basically because re-translating the whole thing...
This is certainly not meant as a complaint, but has anyone noticed how most of the breviary.net site rubrics are taken verbatim from the Anglican Breviary...
Thursday, December 4th ST PETER CHRYSOLOGUS, BCD [E12] Double Psalms and antiphons of Thursday throughout Remainder from Common 8 [F83] except as show below ...
For those who would like to follow traditional Roman usage for the Immaculate Conception, here is the arrangement for II Nocturn lessons ... 8 December, II...
Hopefully the cutting and pasting is correct (I used the translation from http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P9INEFF.HTM ). I'd be grateful for corrections...
It's not that traditional. The present Office only dates from 1863. The traditional office dating from the 7th Century was called in Latin "In Conceptione...
Friday, December 5th FERIA Simple Collect of 1st Sunday in Advent [C6] Matins Invitatory and Hymn for Advent [A13] One Nocturn Lessons and Responds of Friday...
Ah, tradition (Tevye starts fiddling now). :-) At the risk of ruffling the confessional waters, I guess I meant by traditional Roman the breviary of Pope St....
--does anyone know how the Blessed Pope John XXIII reforms affected the matins readings? Dear Jonathan, The mattins readings on the feast itself remain...
Which is a pity as that Breviary is the currently valid version of the Roman Breviary, as confirmed by the present Pope in his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum...
Indeed, though that only applies to RC clerics with a canonical obligation to recite the office. I heard that there might be a revision of the 1962 missal so...
Saturday, December 6th ST NICHOLAS, BC [E14] Double Psalms and antiphons of Saturday throughout (see Note 1) Remainder from Common 7 [F67] except as shown...
Sunday, December 7th THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT Semidouble Collect as at Lauds [C15] throughout Matins Three nocturns Lesson and Responds at all three...
Monday, December 8th THE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY [E17] I Class Double with Common Octave Doxology 1 All honour, laud and glory be [A5] All as in...
Tuesday, December 9th SECOND DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY [E23] Semidouble Doxology 1 [A5] Psalms and antiphons of Tuesday ...
Dear Mark, Thank you for your very helpful daily ordo posts. I have a question that I imagine only you can answer and that is what the reasoning behind the...
Dear Michael Common Vigils are ignored in the Office during Lent, Advent and on Ember Days. The reason the Vigil exists none the less in the Kalendar is, I...
Wednesday, December 10th THIRD DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF THE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Semidouble Doxology 1 [A5] Psalms and antiphons of Wednesday ...
... of the ... members of ... The note for the day before Immaculate Conception and St Thomas Apostle is: De Vigilia ... nihil fit in Officio. The note for...
A commemoration of the vigil is made in mass, and the last gospel was that of the vigil instead of the prolog of st. John. For private masses priests also had...
Thank you Mark. That makes sense and you are, of course, right to point out that the occurence with the (Greater) Double Feast of St. Ambrose need not always...
Regarding 7 December--in the explanatory notes of my 1945-era hand missal, after a brief vita of St. Ambrose: "To add to the solemnity of the feast of the...
Dear Mark, Your daily ordo and the notes are invaluable! Yet I have a question regarding Prime for today. Your Ordo is as follows: SECOND DAY IN THE OCTAVE OF...
Dear Gregory If you look further down the list of Prime Versicles [A28], you will see that "Thou that deignedst" is not just the Versicle for Christmas but...
What the rubric means is: 1) The brief response "Thou that deignedst" is used throughout the Octave regardless of whether the Office is of the Octave or of a...
In my copy of the 1568 Roman Breviary (1st Edition facsimile) the General Rubrics are six and a bit pages long. By the time of the reforms under Pius X (1912)...
The Marquess of Bute's 1908 English translation of the Roman Breviary includes the General Rubrics then in force at the start of volume 1. If these are of...