Ordo for the Thirteenth week after Pentecost

Sunday 14 August – Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Class II

Matins: Second Sunday in August

Lauds: Psalm schema 1 (50, 117, 62); hymn Ecce iam lucis; canticle antiphon and collect, MD 472-3*

Prime to None: All as for Sunday in the psalter, with collect, MD 473*

I Vespers of the Assumption, MD [230] ff with a commemoration of the Sunday, MD 473*

(Note that there is a choice of Office: the ‘new’ Office composed after the formal declaration of the dogma, MD [230] ff, or the older version, MD [238] ff)

Monday 15 August -Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Class I

Lauds: MD [233] ff or MD [241] ff – Festal psalms with texts of the feast

Prime to None: Antiphons and chapters of the feast

Vespers: All as for I Vespers except for Magnificat antiphon

Tuesday 16 August - Class IV [EF: St Joachim]

All as in the psalter; collect, MD 473*

Wednesday 17 August- Class IV [EF: ST Hyacinth]

All as in the psalter; collect, MD 473*

Thursday 18 August - Class IV; St Agapitus, memorial

All as in the psalter; collect, MD 473*; for the commemoration, MD [245]

Friday 19 August - Class IV [EF: St John Eudes]

All as in the psalter; collect, MD 473*

Saturday 20 August - St Bernard, Class III

Matins: One reading, of the feast

Lauds and Vespers: Antiphons and psalms of the day, rest from the Common of a Confessor, MD (78), collect, MD  [245]

Prime to None: Antiphons etc from the Common; collect of the feast, MD [245]

I Vespers of third Sunday of August, MD 451*; fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, MD 473-4*