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Introductory Verses
Deus, in adjutorium meum intende.
Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina.
Gloria Patri....
Hallelujah.

Hymn: Jam lucis orto sidere

Psalm 53
        Gloria Patri
Psalm 118
        I, II, Gloria Patri
        III, IV, Gloria Patri

* Epistolella, from Romans 13

Responsory
        on Sundays: the second half of the responsory verse is "Hallelujah, Hallelujah";
        on Weekdays, the second half of the responsory verse is "Et miserere mei."

* Capitulum: Exsurge Christe, adjuva nos * et libera nos propter nomen tuum. Hallellujah. Kyrie eleison (3 times)

Dominus Vobiscum, etc.

Oratio I:  Deus qui ad principium hujus diei
Oratio II:  Domine, Deus omnipotens
Oratio III:  Actiones nostras, quaesumus (only this last prayer has the conclusion "per Dominum nostrum Jesum....")

Dominus Vobiscum, etc.
* Kyrie eleison (3 times)
V.  Benedicamus Domino.  R. Deo Gratias.

[in choir, the Martyrology is read.  Then

V.  Exsultabunt Sancti in gloria.
R.  Laetabuntur in cubilibus suis.

Oratio absolute:  Beatae Mariae et Sanctorum tuorum nos, Domine, quaesumus, continua oratione custodi.........Amen.]

V.  Fidelium animae.......per Dei misericordiam.....
R.  Amen.

 

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Updated February 7, 2001

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