Mater Ecclesiae will be celebrating its annual 40 Hours’ Devotion of the Blessed Sacrament beginning with the Opening Mass on Friday, September 23, 2011 @ 7:30pm. Following the Mass will be a Procession/Litany of the Saints to open the Adoration period proper. Following the opening ceremonies, the Office of Compline will be chanted as written in the Liber Usualis and on our website here. Compline will be that of the Ember Friday observing the following:
Antiphon & Psalms of Friday, “Te lucis” hymn in the Ferial Tone, all except the Officiant kneel at the Collect, simple “Salve, Regina”.
At 6am on Saturday, September 24, the Offices of Matins & Lauds will be prayed recto tono and without ceremony. These together should take approximately an hour to pray. Again, the Office will be that of the Ember Day taking note of the following:
At Matins – Invitatory & Hymn from the Ferial Office per annum for Saturdays, 9 Antiphons & Psalms of Saturday, 3 Lessons from the Proper for the Ember Day, No “Te Deum” but a third Responsory
At Lauds – 5 Antiphons & Psalms from the Second Schema of Lauds for Saturday, Chapter/Hymn/Versicle from the Ferial Office per annum, Proper Benedictus Antiphon from Ember Saturday, Ferial Preces prayed kneeling after the Benedictus, kneel for the Collect, Commemoration of Our Lady of Ransom (Sept. 24) also prayed kneeling.
Resources for Compline are available on this website. John Rotondi has two Breviaries to loan out for Matins & Lauds, but if attendance will be greater, resource sheets will be distributed. If anyone else has a 1962 Breviary in Latin with the Vulgate Psalms (not the Pius XII Psalter), please let us know. More on this to follow.