upon "Nunc dimittis" at either Compline, in Of the mode of fulfilling the Ferial Service in the by the First of the Second Form. Let the Refponfory be faid by fome one of the First Form; all the reft as in the preceding Sunday, except that in this week-day, at all the Hours, there are Petitions with proftrations. At Terce, let the Hebdomadary Boy of the Refponfory begin the Antiphon on the Pfalms, and fing the Refponfory. Let the reft be as in the preceding Sunday. At Sext let every thing be just as at Terce; and at None let the Antiphon on the Pfalms be begun by the First Clerk of the Second Form, and let the Refponse be fung by the next to him. For the rest in the other Hours; at Vefpers let the First of the First Form begin the first Antiphon, the fecond Antiphon the oppofite to him of the fame Form. Let all the others run hither and thither in the fame Form. Let the Hebdomadary Boy of the Refponfory fing the Response, let the reft be as above at Matins. At Compline let fome one of the First Form begin the Antiphon on the Pfalms, as the Hebdomadary Conductor pleases, the rest as in Sunday, except that here there are Petitions. Adaptation of the fame to other Week-days throughout the year. Let the mode and order of the Service of this Week-day be obferved in every other Week-day throughout the year, when it is the Office for the Time; except that without Advent and Quadragefima, the Hebdomadary Boy of the Refponfory is not bound to be prefent at Terce, nor at the other Hours of the day, and except in Quadragefima, for then at None the Antiphon on the Pfalms is begun by the Hebdomadary Boy, and let the Refponfory be fung by the fame; alfo at Vefpers, and at other times than in Advent and in Quadragefima no Refponfe is faid. Moreover, in Eaftertide at Vefpers and at Matins only one Antiphon is faid, not even in Lauds: nor are there Petitions with proftration. Moreover, in Quadragefima all the Hours of the day are faid before Mafs, but after Mafs without interval "Placebo," and the Vefpers of the day, then Veipers of S. Mary. After dinner, however, an affembly being fummoned, the Vigils of the Dead are faid. Then is there reading in affembly, without change of drefs. Afterwards let Compline follow. In the first Monday in Advent the Invitatory is fought from the Precentor; let fome one of the Second Form fing it in the place of the Hebdomadary Conductor. Let the Verfes be begun in the Superior Grade as the Conductor fhall arrange. Every thing elfe which pertains to the general duty of the Conductor, the fame Conductor fhall perform, either by himself or another. Let the firft Antiphon be begun by the Firft of the First Form; the fecond by his oppofite of the First or Second Form; and the others run hither and thither in order, fo that the fifth be begun by the firft Clerk of the Second Form on the part of the Choir. In Lauds let the first and third Antiphons be begun by the aforefaid two Boys. Let the others be begun in the Second Form. The order of Clerks which had before begun being continued, let all things which pertain to Matins be fulfilled as in Sunday, except that on a week day let all the Hymns be begun in the Superior Grade. And befides, the Prieft, faying the Collects, does not change place or veftment at Vefpers and at Matins. Moreover, let not the Altar of the manner of executing the Office in the Feaft be incenfed in week-days at Matins, or Vefpers, at "Benedictus," or "Magnificat." At Prime let the Antiphon upon the Pfalms be begun by the First of the First Form on the part of the Choir; let the Antiphon upon "Quicunque vult" be begun of S. Thomas the Apofle. *** At Matins let the Invitatory be fung by three, in filken Copes, of the First and Second Form. *** Of the adaptation of the fame to other Feafts when the Invitatory is Triple. This mode and order of Service fhall be observed in all Feafts and Octaves of ix. Leffons when the Invitatory is triple ✶✶✶ and all the reft at Vefpers and at Compline as in Feafts of ix. Leffons, when the Invitatory is faid by three. Of the mode of executing the Office in Simple In the Leffer Simple Feafts of ix. Leffons let the mode and order be obferved of the Service of Simple Sundays, which have the Refponfe in the Second Form. *** In Feafts of iii. Leffons without Conductors of the Choir, and in every Commemoration of The Bleffed Virgin, the Invitatory is faid by two, that is to fay in thefe *** In what Feafts of iii. Leffons the Invitatory is faid by Two. But is to be known that if these afore faid Feafts happen within Septuagefima, the Invitatory fhall be Simple. [It appears that on all Simple Sundays, i. e. which were not Feaft days, the Mafs was celebrated after Terce. So alfo on Week-days. But on the First Monday in Advent Mafs was faid in the Chapter for the faithful departed before Terce. In Lent the Mafs was after None, except in Feafts, when the Mafs for the Feaft was faid before Terce. In Christmas Day there were three different Maffes, one after "Te Deum" in Matins, another after Terce, and a third at what particular time is not mentioned. "A fimilar mode of fervice is obferved in all Double Feafts which are not continuous, and alfo in the continuous, except that it is not always the Prieft of Superior Dignity who fulfils the Office, but of the Second Degree. A fimilar mode is kept up alfo in every Feast, and in Octaves, and in Week-days within the Octave, with Conductors of the Choir." In Feafts of iii. Leffons the mode is the fame as in Week-days.] |