Contents of the Divine Offices
1. Psalms 9(Matins) 5(Vespers) 4(Lauds) 3(Others)
2. Canticles Vespers (Magnificat) Compline (Nunc Dimittis) Lauds (Benedictus Dominus)
3.Lessons or Chapters w/responsatories
4. Hymn
5. Introductory and Concluding Prayers
8 Divine Offices
Matins
Lauds
Prime
Terce
Mass
Sext
None
Vespers
Compline
Trope
A category of plainchant that flourished in the 10th-12th century. Comprising musical and textual additions to the mass (ordinary and proper)
Sequence
Does not have a reciting tone, Syllabic, With stanzas, And has the form A BB CC… (paired)
Liturgical Drama
Medieval Plays (12th-13th centuries) representing biblical stories with action and occasionally monophonic music, not part of the official liturgy.
Proper of the Mass
Indroit, Gradual, Alleluia or Tract, Offertory, Communion
Ordinary of the Mass
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Ite Misse Est or Benedictimus Dominus.
Liturgical Books-Mass
1. Text Only – Missal
2. Music Only – Graduale
3. Text and Music – Liber Usualis
Liturgical Books- Office
1. Text Only – Breviary
2. Music Only – Antiphonale
3 Text and Music – Liber Usualis
Liturgical Day
Matins
Lauds
Prime
Terce
Mass
Sext
Vespers
Compline
The Liturgical Year
1. Christmas Season
2. Easter Season
3. Post Easter
4. Post-Pentecost Season
Christmas Season
A. Sundays in Advent 1,2,3,4
B. Christmas -25 December
C. Epiphany – 6 Jan
D. Sundays after Epiphany: 1-6
Easter Season
A. Septuagesima- 70 days before Easter
B. Sexegesima
C. Quingesima AshWed -Beginning of Lent
D. Quadragesima -first sunday of Lent 2,3,4
E. Passion Sunday
F. Palm Sunday
G. Easter Sunday -1st sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox
Post Easter
A. Low Sunday- 1st sunday after easter 2,3,4,5,6
B. Pentecost -Whitsunday
Post-Pentecost Season
C. Trinity Sunday – 1st sunday after pentecost 2,3,4…23-28 sundays after pentecost