Antiphonale Monasticum II

This is the second volume of the Antiphonale monasticum 2005 (De tempore), given the title of PSALTERIUM. Beginning with the first Vespers of Sunday, the psalterium includes all the daytime offices until Saturday at None: Lauds, Little Hours, Vespers and Compline. The psalms of Lauds, Vespers and Compline are distributed according to the traditional Benedictine curriculum.

At Lauds, we now find the canticles of the Old Testament over four weeks, as in Liturgia Horarum. And an appendix provides the canticles of the New Testament of Vespers. Given the variety of uses of the communities, the psalms of the Little Hours (old psalms of Prime, psalm 118-127) have been grouped together and provided with psalmic antiphons.

For the ferial offices, the book contains all the pieces necessary for singing: hymn, antiphons, psalms, short responsories, verse, antiphons of the Benedictus and the Magnificat, prayer of the Hour. One can also find all the prayers of the temporal at the end of the book. These provisions make it possible to use a single book for the daytime offices of the per annum time.

This volume also contains the Office for the Dead which has been renovated in line with Liturgia Horarum. While retaining the traditional pieces of the Office for the Dead, it makes room for a set of special antiphons for Easter Time.

Hardcover.