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St Benedict of Nursia, tr. Hunter Blair, 1907
Chapter 12
AT Lauds on Sunday let the sixty-sixth Psalm first be said straight on1 without an antiphon. After this let the fiftieth Psalm be said, with an Alleluia, and then the hundred and seventeenth and the sixty-second. Then the Benedicite and Psalms of praise,2 a lesson from the Apocalypse, said by heart, a responsory, a hymn, a versicle, a canticle out of the Gospel, and the Litany, and so end.
Notes
- Note G (p. 62).—In directum. Bernard of M. Cassino and Calmet suppose this to mean simple recitation without chant. The more probable interpretation is that the verses are to be said consecutively, unlike, e.g., the psalm Venite at matins, which is interspersed with antiphons. Dom Leclerg, in an article in the “Dictionnaire d’ Archéologie Chrétienne” (fasc. viii., col. 2299) gives reasons for his opinion that a psalm recited in directum was said by the whole choir together, not by alternate sides; and this view is corroborated by a rubric in the Ambrosian Breviary: “Psalmus directus in Dominicis diebus qui ab utroque choro stante dicitur communiter, et non alternatim.” (See Note K.)
- Ps. cxlviii., cxlix., cl.