Second Vespers of the Sunday after the Ascension of Our Lord will be chanted on Sunday, May 16 @ 1:30 pm. Vespers will be sung but not solemnized, and no Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will follow after Vespers for this particular Sunday.
Please take note of the following to assist in your participation therein:
1. If utilizing the Vesperal booklet linked on this website, please print out pages 167-172,201,195-198,202-203 and 176.
2. If utilizing a Liber Usualis or similar chant book, please note that Vespers for this particular Sunday no longer utilizes the five antiphons/psalms from the Feast of the Ascension (that was changed following the suppression of the former Octave of the Ascension in 1955/1956). Rather, the Triple Alleluia Antiphon with the five Sunday Psalms (all sung in Tone 7c2) as during the other Sundays in Eastertide is now prescribed also for the Sunday after the Ascension. The Chapter and everything which follows remains the same as in the the Liber Usualis. Oftentimes, the old rubrics were not expunged in their respective places in the Liber leading to confusion about matters such as these.