B) The Sunday Office
149 (165). The Sunday
Office belongs to Sundays on which no feast occurs which takes precedence
over the Sunday.
The following, however, have a
special arrangement of the Office:
a) Easter Sunday, Low Sunday,
and Pentecost Sunday;
b) The Sunday within the
octave of the Nativity of Our Lord.
105 (166). The Sunday Office
is arranged as follows:
a) at I Vespers:
everything as in the Psalter for the preceding Saturday, and as in the
office of the Season;
b) Compline following
is of the Saturday;
c)at Matins: the invitatorium and hymn as in the Psalter or
as in the Office of the Season; antiphons, and versicle of the one
Nocturn, as in the Psalter for Sunday; the blessings, outside Paschal time, May he, May
the divine, May the gospel; but during Paschal time, the final three;
three lessons with their responsories: outside Paschal time, the first and
second are from current Scripture, the third is from the homily on the Gospel
of the day, but during Paschal time the three lessons are from the homily on
the Gospel of the day; the hymn Te Deum, which
is omitted on the Sundays of Advent and from Septuagesima Sunday until the II
Sunday of the Passion.
d) At Lauds:
Antiphons, unless proper ones are given, are from the Psalter; psalms
from the Sunday Psalter, scheme I or II according to the different Seasons;
little chapter, hymn and versicle, as in the Psalter or in the Office of the
Season; the remainder as in the Office of the Season.
e) At Prime: antiphon,
unless there is a proper one, and psalms ar from the Psalter for Sunday; little
chapter and the rest are as in the Ordinary; short lesson is of the Season.
At Pretiosa the Gospel is read.
f) At Terse, Sext and None:
all as in the Psalter and in the Office of the Season.
g) At II Vespers:
all as in the Psalter and in the Office of the Season.
h) Compline: of
the Sunday.