Terce

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

Nunc, Sancte, nobis, Spíritus,
Unum Patri cum Fílio,
Dignáre promptus íngeri
Nostro refúsus péctori.

Os, lingua, mens, sensus, vigor
Confessiónem pérsonent.
Flamméscat igne cáritas,
Accéndat ardor próximos.

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

The Hymn

Come Holy Ghost, who ever One
Art with the Father and the Son;
Come Holy Ghost, our souls possess
With thy full flood of holiness.

By ev'ry power, by heart and tongue,
By act and deed, thy praise be sung:
Inflame with perfect love each sense,
That others' souls may kindle thence.

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 Terce 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
Terce Advent Office

STAND

Capitulum                   Jer.  23. 5.
Ecce dies véniunt, dicit Dóminus, et suscitábo David germen justum : et regnábit rex, et sápiens erit : et fáciet judícium et justítiam in terra.
R.  Deo grátias.

Chapter                   Jer. 23. 5.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
R.  Thanks be to God.

Responsórium
V.  Veni ad liberándum nos, * Dómine, Deus virtútum.
R.  Veni ad liberándum nos, * Dómine, Deus virtútum.
V.  Osténde fáciem tuam, et salvi érimus.
R.  Dómine, Deus virtútum.
V.  Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.
R.  Veni ad liberándum nos, * Dómine, Deus virtútum.

V.  Timébunt Gentes nomen tuum, Dómine.
R.  Et omnes reges terræ glóriam tuam.		 Brief Respond
V.  Come and help us, * O Lord God of Hosts.
R.  Come and help us, * O Lord God of Hosts.
V.  Shew the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
R.  O Lord God of Hosts.
V.  Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
R.  Come and help us, * O Lord God of Hosts.

 V.  The heathen shall fear thy Name, O Lord.
R.  And all the kings of the earth thy majesty.

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 Sext 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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