The Pontifical Office: Nones

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The Pontifical Office: Nones

FOR GENERAL USE IN SEMINARIES, MONASTERIES, CHURCHES AND HOMES.

Translated, Collected and Written by Father Humbert, O.S.J. Posthumously Published by Philip Pius Coppinger.

 

Nones is said about 3 hours after mid-day. In the Judite tradition, it is unusual in being itself a Mass, since it contains in itself the Sprinkling Rite.

 

`It was very frustrating to me that no permanent prayer rule had survived in order that we Judites might pray the Liturgy of the Hours. Therefore, the task has fallen on me, God’s unworthy Slave, to do something. This was written for the Judites, but can also be used by nuns, priests and laymen (For the latter have I translated this into Common.) The Hours should especially be prayed in seminaries, to raise up prayerful priests. It can be prayed alone or together, or sung in Chant. I have left my settings of the Chants so that people may use them. If every Canonist prayed the Office, the world would be saved. Thy humble Slave in God,

 

-Father Humbert, O.S.J.’

 

C = Main Celebrant or Cantors.

R=Response.

Antiphon = part repeated by all at the beginning and end of the Psalm.

 

C  (All crossing themselves): Adjutorium nostrum in nomine Domini. [Our help is in the name of the Lord.]

 

R : Qui fecit caelum et terram. [Who made heaven and earth.]

 

C : Gloria Patri, et Horeno, et Omnibus Sanctis! [Glory be to the Father, and to Horen, and to all the Saints!]

 

R : Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen! [As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be - world without end. Amen!]

 

Psalm X: Vidi Aquam

 

 

[While this is sung, the celebrant sprinkles the others with holy water from a large sponge and bowl called the Asperges.]

 

Antiphon: Vidi aquam egredientem de templo,

a latere dextro, alleluia:

et omnes, ad quos pervenit aqua ista,

salvi facti sunt, et dicent, alleluia, alleluia!

 

[I saw water coming from the temple,

From the right side, alleluia

And all those who came to this water

Were saved - and they shall say: alleluia, alleluia!]

 

C : Confitemini Domino quoniam bonus:

 

R : Quoniam in saeculum misericordia eius. [I will give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.]

 

C : Gloria Patri, et Horeno, et Omnibus Sanctis.

 

R : Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen!

 

Psalm XI: LAUDATE PUERI

 

Antiphon ((Ignore the one in the vid)): Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat, et humilia respicit in caelo et in terra?

 

C : Laudate, pueri, Dominum, laudate nomen Domini. [Praise the Lord, ye children: praise ye the name of the Lord.]

 

R : Sit nomen Domini benedictum ex hoc nunc et usque in saeculum. [Blessed be the name of the Lord, from henceforth now and for ever.]

 

C : A solis ortu usque ad occasum laudabile nomen Domini. [From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same, the name of the Lord is worthy of praise.]

 

R : Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus, et super caelos gloria ejus. [The Lord is high above all nations; and his glory above the heavens.]

 

C : Quis sicut Dominus Deus noster, qui in altis habitat, et humilia respicit in caelo et in terra? [Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high: and looketh down on the low things in heaven and in earth?]

 

R : Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem : [Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill:]

 

C : ut collocet eum cum principibus, cum principibus populi sui. [That he may place him with princes, with the princes of his people.]

 

R : Qui habitare facit sterilem in domo, matrem filiorum laetantem. [Who maketh a barren woman to dwell in a house, the joyful mother of children.]

 

C : Gloria Patri et Horeno et Omnibus Sanctis.

 

R : Sicut erat...