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.