Sext

KNEEL
(PRAYER BEFORE OFFICE)
 Aperi, Domine

STAND and PROFOUND INCLINATION
The Dual Prayer is always said in silence, in the manner prescribed in Common Forms.
Pater noster.
Ave María.		 Our Father.
Hail Mary.
And afterwards the Opening Versicles, as prescribed in Common Forms.
STAND
V.  Deus † in adjutórium meum inténde.
R.  Dómine ad adjuvándum me festína.
Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.  Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper, et in sæcula sæculórum. Amen. Allelúja.		 V.  O God, † make speed to save me.
R.  O Lord, make haste to help me.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.  As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.  Amen.  Alleluia.
Hymnus

Rector potens, verax Deus,
Qui témperas rerum vices,
Splendóre mane illúminas,
Et ígnibus merídiem:

Exstíngue flammas lítium,
Aufer calórem nóxium,
Confer salútem córporum,
Verámque pacem córdium.

*  Præsta, Pater piíssime,
Patríque compar Unice,
Cum Spíritu Paráclito
Regnans per omne sæculum.  Amen.

The Hymn

O God of truth, O Lord of might,
Who order'st time and change aright,
Bright'ning the morn with golden gleams,
Kindling the noonday's fiery beams.

Extinguish thou each sinful fire,
And banish every ill desire:
And while thou keep'st the body whole,
Shed forth thy peace upon the soul.

Ordinary Ending:
Almighty Father, hear our cry,
Through Jesus Christ our Lord most high,
Who, with the Holy Ghost and thee,
Doth live and reign eternally.  Amen.

Table of Proper Doxologies

The Psalms with Antiphons
After the Hymn, immediately before the first Psalm, the appropriate Ant. is begun by the Officiant.  Whereupon the Precentor intones the first of the Psalms. And then are said three Psalms according to the Office of the day.

Sunday Office

Festal Office

Ferial Office
 

 

 

Sunday Office in Advent
On Sundays, the Antiphons are proper:

First Sunday in Advent

Second Sunday in Advent

Third Sunday in Advent

Fourth Sunday in Advent

 

 

Festal Office in Advent
On excepted Feasts, the Antiphon is taken from the Common of the Saints, or from the Proper of Feast, and the psalms are said as indicated in the Proper of the Feast.

THE ORDO

COMMON OF THE SAINTS
Apostles Martyr Several
Martyrs		 Bishop
Confessor

Confessor
not a
Bishop

 Virgins Holy
Women
Dedication
of a
Church
 		 Blessed
Virgin Mary

In the Office of any other Feastday, the Antiphons and Psalms for Sext are of the current weekday.
 

 

 

Ferial Office in Advent
On Ferial Days, the proper Antiphons of Lauds of the preceding Sunday are said until Sapientiatide when the Antiphons proper to the Ferias of Sapientiatide are said; the Psalms as in the Psalter.

THE ORDO

 

 

 
Ordinary of the
Sext Advent Office
STAND

Capitulum                   Jer.  23. 6.
In diébus illis salvábitur Juda, et Israël habitábit confidénter : et hoc est nomen, quod vocábunt eum, Dóminus justus noster.
R.  Deo grátias.

Chapter                   Jer. 23. 6.
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his Name whereby he shall be called: The Lord our Righteousness.
R.  Thanks be to God.

Responsórium
V.  Osténde nobis, Dómine, * Misericórdiam tuam.
R.  Osténde nobis, Dómine, * Misericórdiam tuam.
V.  Et salutáre tuum da nobis.
R.  Misericórdiam tuam.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Osténde nobis, Dómine, * Misericórdiam tuam.

V.  Meménto nostri, Dómine, in beneplácito pópuli tui.
R.  Vísita nos in salutári tuo.

 Brief Respond
V.  Shew us thy mercy, * O Lord.
R.  Shew us thy mercy, * O Lord.
V.  And grant us thy salvation.
R.  O Lord.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Shew us thy mercy, * O Lord.

 V.  O visit us with thy salvation.
R.  That we may see the felicity of thy chosen.

KNEEL

Preces

V.  Kyrie, eléison.
R.  Christe, eléison.  Kyrie, eléison.

Pater noster. 
secreto usque ad
V.  Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem.
R.  Sed líbera nos a malo.

V.  Dómine, Deus virtútum, convérte nos.
R.  Et osténde fáciem tuam, et salvi érimus.
V.  Exsúrge, Christe, ádjuva nos.
R.  Et líbera nos propter nomen tuum.

V.  Dómine, exáudi oratiónem meam.
R.  Et clamor meus ad te véniat.

The Preces

V.  Lord, have mercy upon us.
R.  Christ, have mercy upon us.  Lord have mercy upon us.

Our Father. 
Which words are said aloud, and the rest secretly to:
V. And lead us not into temptation.
R.  But deliver us from evil.

V.  Turn us again, O Lord God of Hosts.
R.  Shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.

V.  O Christ, arise, help us.
R.  And deliver us for thy Name's sake.

V.  O Lord, hear my prayer.
R.  And let my cry come unto thee.
After the Preces is said at once the Salutation with the Collect of the Day as follows:

V.  Dóminus vobíscum.
R.  Et cum spíritu tuo.

Orémus.
 Oratio conveniens
R.  Amen.

V.  The Lord be with you.
R.  And with thy spirit.

Let us pray.
 Collect of the Day
R.  Amen.
After the Collect, the Closing Versicles are said in the following form:

V.  Dóminus vobíscum.
R.  Et cum spíritu tuo.

V.  Benedicámus Dómino.
R.  Deo grátias.

V.  Fidélium ánimæ † per misericórdiam Dei requiéscant in pace.
R.  Amen.

 V.  The Lord be with you.
R.  And with thy spirit.

V.  Bless we the Lord.
R.  Thanks be to God.

V.  May the souls † of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
R.  Amen.

Then is said secretly the final Pater, unless None immediately follow; in which case the Dual Prayer thereof is immediately said, followed by the Opening Versicles, as is prescribed in Common Forms.
Pater noster. Our Father.
The following V. and R. are then said aloud:
V.  Dóminus † det nobis suam pacem.
R.  Et vitam ætérnam.  Amen.		 V. May the Lord † bestow his peace upon us.
 R.  And life everlasting.  Amen.

KNEEL (weekdays) or STAND (Sundays)
Marian Antiphon

From Vespers of the Saturday before the I Sunday in Advent through II Vespers of the Purification; or if this Feast be transferred, through Vespers on February 2nd:

Alma Redemptoris Mater
After the Collect, the Officiant says in a low voice:
V.  Divínum auxílium † máneat semper nobíscum.
R.  Amen.		 V. May help divine † be with us all, for ever abiding.
R.  Amen.

KNEEL
(PRAYER AFTER OFFICE)
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