Ordinary Office


E)  The Ordinary Office

153 (169).  The Ordinary Office belongs to feasts of the III class, and to the Saturday Office of Our Lady.  It is arranged as follows:

            a)  At Matins:  invitatory and hymn from the Proper or Common; antiphons, psalms and versicle of the one Nocturn from the Psalter for the current weekday, unless proper ones or those from the Common are assigned (n. 161); lessons 1 and 2, with their responsories, from the Scripture as indicated in number 205a; lesson 3 of the feast (n. 205 b), with its own responsory.  The hymn Te Deum is said.
            b) At Lauds and Vespers:  antiphons and psalms as in the Psalter for the current weekday, unless proper ones or those from the Common are assigned (n. 161); the rest as in the Proper or Common.
c)  At Prime:.antiphon and psalms are from the Psalter for the current day of the week; little chapter and the rest are as in the Ordinary; short lesson is of the Season.
At Pretiosa the Gospel is read.
            d) At Terce, Sext, and None: antiphons and psalms as in the Psalter for the current day of the week; the rest from the feast as in the Proper or Common.
            e) Compline: of the current weekday.