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Latin Psalters

The Latin Psalters are the translations of the Book of Psalms

Psalms

Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible , included in the collected works known as the "Writings" or Ketuvim....
into the Latin language. They are the premier liturgical

Liturgy

A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to their particular traditions. The word may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Eastern Orthodox Divine Liturgy and Mass , or a daily activity such as the Muslim salat and Jewish Jewish services....
resource used in the Liturgy of the Hours

Liturgy of the hours

The Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Roman Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the Clergy#Christian_clergy, Christian monasticism, and laity....
of the Latin Rite

Latin Rite

The Latin Rite is one of the 23 sui iuris particular Churches within the Catholic Church. This particular Church developed in western Europe and north Africa, where, from classical antiquity to the Renaissance, Latin was the principal language of education and culture, and so also of the liturgy....
s of the Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church, officially known as the Catholic Church is the world's largest Christianity Ecclesia , representing over half of all Christians and one-sixth of the world population....
. These translations are typically placed in a separate volume or section of the Breviary

Breviary

A breviary is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by, bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office ....
called the Psalter, in which the psalms are arranged to be prayed at the canonical hours

Canonical hours

Canonical hours are divisions of time, developed by the Christianity Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round....
of the day. In the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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, psalter

Psalter

A Psalter is a volume containing the Book of Psalms and which often contains other devotional material. Various schemes for the arrangement of the Psalms are described in Latin Psalters....
s were often lavish illuminated manuscript

Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the Writing is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and Miniature ....
s, and in the Gothic

Gothic art

Gothic art was a Medieval art art movement that lasted about 200 years. It began in France out of the Romanesque art period in the mid-12th century, concurrent with Gothic architecture found in Cathedrals....
period were the type of book most often chosen to be richly illuminated by the clergy.

called the Psalterium Vetus, the psalter of the Old Latin Bible

Vetus Latina

Vetus Latina is a collective name given to the Bible texts in Latin that were Bible translations before St Jerome's Vulgate Bible became the standard Bible for Latin-speaking Western Christianity....
was used in the earliest days of the Latin liturgy in Rome, under Pope Damasus I

Pope Damasus I

Pope Damasus I was pope from 366 to 384.He was born around 305, probably near the city of Idanha-a-Velha , in what is present-day Portugal, or near the city of Castelo Branco , then part of the Western Roman Empire....
.

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The Latin Psalters are the translations of the Book of Psalms

Psalms

Psalms is a book of the Hebrew Bible , included in the collected works known as the "Writings" or Ketuvim....
into the Latin language. They are the premier liturgical

Liturgy

Liturgy of the hours

Latin Rite

Roman Catholic Church

Breviary

Canonical hours

Canonical hours are divisions of time, developed by the Christianity Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round....
of the day. In the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

Psalter

Illuminated manuscript

An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript in which the Writing is supplemented by the addition of decoration, such as decorated initials, borders and Miniature ....
s, and in the Gothic

Gothic art

Versions

Versio Vetus Latina

Also called the Psalterium Vetus, the psalter of the Old Latin Bible

Vetus Latina

Pope Damasus I

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
, it provided the basis for Jerome

Jerome

Saint Jerome was a Christian priest and Christian apologetics best known for translating the Vulgate. He is recognized by the Catholic Church as a canonized saint and Doctor of the Church, and his version of the Bible is still an important text in Catholicism....
's first revision of the psalter.

Versio Ambrosiana

This is the version used in the Ambrosian rite

Ambrosian Rite

Ambrosian Rite, also called the Milanese Rite, is a Roman Catholic Church Liturgy Catholic Liturgical Rites. The rite is named after Ambrose, a Bishop of Milan in the fourth century....
. It was made in the middle of the fourth fourth century from the Septuagint.

Versio Romana

The Roman Psalter, called also the Versio Romana or Psalterium Romanum, traditionally has been considered to be the same as Jerome's first revision of the psalms completed in 384, which was made from the Versio Vetus Latina, and corrected to bring it more in line with the Greek psalms. The Roman version was used in the Roman Missal

Roman Missal

The Roman Missal is the Liturgical books of the Roman rite that contains the texts and rubric s for the celebration of the Mass in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church....
well into the 20th century. In the Divine Office

Divine Office

Divine Office may refer to:* Liturgy of the Hours, the recitation of certain Christian prayers at fixed hours according to the discipline of the Roman Catholic Church...
, however, it was soon replaced by Jerome's second version except in Britain, where it continued to be used until the Norman Conquest in 1066. It is still used today in the Vatican basilica and in St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. It is similar to the version used in the Ambrosian

Ambrosian Rite

Mozarabic Rite

The Mozarabic, Visigothic, or Hispanic Rite is a form of Catholicism worship within the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, and in the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church ....
rites.

Versio Gallicana

The Versio Gallicana or Psalterium Gallicanum was Jerome's second revision, which he made from the Greek of the Hexapla

Hexapla

Hexapla is the term for an edition of the Bible in six versions. Especially it applies to the edition of the Old Testament compiled by Origen of Alexandria, which placed side by side:...
ca. 386-391. This became the psalter of the Vulgate

Vulgate

The Vulgate is an early Fifth Century version of the Bible in Latin, and largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of Vetus Latina....
bible, and the basis for Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, a form of monophony liturgy chant in Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services....
. It became the standard psalter used in the canonical hours

Canonical hours

Canonical hours are divisions of time, developed by the Christianity Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round....
throughout the West

Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
from the time of Charlemagne

Charlemagne

Charlemagne was List of Frankish kings from 768 to his death. He expanded the Franks kingdoms into a Carolingian Empire that incorporated much of Western Europe and Central Europe....
until it was replaced in the 2nd edition of the breviary by the Versio Nova Vulgata in 2000. It is still used today by indult

Indult

An indult in Catholic canon law is a permission, or Privilege , granted by the competent Roman Catholic Church authority ? the Holy See or the diocesan bishop, as the case may be ? for an exception from a particular norm of Canon Law law in an individual case, for example, members of the Consecrated life seeking to be dispensed from their Rel...
in some monasteries

Monastery

Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
and churches and by traditionalist Catholics.

This most influential psalter has a unique style which is attributable to its origins as a translation of the Septuagint

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
. Following the Septuagint, it eschews anthropomorphisms. For instance, the term rock is applied to God

Jehovah

Jehovah, also Yehovah, is an English reading of , the most frequent form of the Tetragrammaton , the principal and personal name of God in the Hebrew Bible ....
numerous times in the Hebrew Psalter, but the Latin term petra does not occur as an epithet for God in the gallicana. Instead more abstract words like refugium, "refuge"; locus munitus, "place of strength"; or adiutor, "helper" are used.

This psalter retains many Hebraism

Hebraism

Hebraism is the identification of a usage, trait, or characteristic of the Hebrew languages. By synecdoche it is sometimes applied to the Hebrews, their Judaism, Zionism, or secular Jewish culture....
s by way of the Greek, the most noticeable being the redundant demonstrative. The relative pronoun is indeclinable in Hebrew, and so is accompanied by a redundant demonstrative. This use is reproduced in the Latin, although Latin has no need for it. For instance, Ps 18:4(19:3), quorum non audiantur voces eorum, which means, "whose voices, their voices, are not heard". Also Ps 32(33):12, Beata gens cujus est Dominus Deus ejus, "blessed is the nation whose God, its God, is the Lord". Ps 121(122):3, civitas, cujus participatio ejus in idipsum, "a city whose share, its share, is compact".

Another Hebraism is the use of the conditional "if" to mean the negative "not". Examples include Ps 88:36(89:34), si David mentiar, "if I lie to David", which means, "I will not lie to David". Ps 94(95):11, Si introibunt in requiem meam, "if they shall enter into my rest", which means, "they shall not enter into my rest. Ps 131(132):3, Si introiero in tabernaculum domus meae, "If I shall enter into the tabernacle of my house", which means, "I shall not enter into the tabernacle of my house". Ps 130(131) has a double negative, Si non humiliter sentiebam sed exaltavi animam meam, "If I was not humbly minded but exalted my soul", which is equivalent to "I was humbly minded and did not exalt my soul".

Hebrew has only two grammatical genders, masculine and feminine, while Latin has three, including neuter. Hebrew's lack of a neuter gender sometimes shows up in very idiosyncratic phrasing in the Gallican Psalter, for instance Ps. 26(27):4, unam petii a Domino, hanc requiram, "One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after", where "thing" is rendered feminine in the verse. A native speaker of Latin would have used a neuter instead: Unum petii a Domino, hoc requiram.

Latin occasionally employs a dangling nominative for rhetorical flourish, but this construction is especially common in the gallicana. Ps. 17(18):31 has, Deus meus, impolluta via ejus, "my God, his way is undefiled" to mean, "the way of my God is undefiled". Likewise Ps. 125(126):1 has, In convertendo Dominus captivitatem Sion, instead of, Cum converteret Dominus captivitatem Sion, meaning, "When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion

Zion

Zion is a term that most often designates the Land of Israel and its capital, Jerusalem. The word is found in texts dating back almost three millennia....
".

Versio juxta Hebraicum

This version was the last made by Jerome. It is often informally called the "Hebrew Psalter" despite being written in Latin. Rather than just revise the Gallicana, he translated these psalms anew from the Hebrew

Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
, using pre-Masoretic

Masoretes

The Masoretes were groups of scribes and Tanakh scholars working between the 7th and 11th centuries, based primarily in Israel in the cities of Tiberias and Jerusalem, as well as in Babylonia....
manuscripts ca. 398-405. This psalter is found in a few of the oldest surviving manuscripts of the Vulgate. It was found in Spanish manuscripts of the Vulgate long after the Gallicanum supplanted it elsewhere. It is not clear that it was ever used in the liturgy.

Versio Piana

Under Pius XII in 1945, a new translation of the psalms, the Versio Piana, Psalterium Vaticanum or simply Novum Psalterium, was published by the Pontifical Biblical Institute

Pontifical Biblical Institute

The Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome, Italy is an institution of the Holy See run by the Jesuits that offers instruction at the university level....
. It was made from a reconstructed Hebrew

Hebrew language

Masoretic Text

The Masoretic Text is the Hebrew language text of the Jewish Bible . It defines not just the Development of the Jewish Bible canon, but also the precise letter-text of the biblical books in Judaism, as well as their niqqud and cantillation for both public reading and private study....
. Its Latin adopted a classical rather than a biblical style. This version is sometimes called the Bea psalter after its author, Augustin Bea. Its use in the liturgy was widely encouraged but not required. It was adopted by some religious orders (e.g. Carmelites

Carmelites

The Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel or Carmelites is a Roman Catholic religious order perhaps founded in the 12th century on Mount Carmel, whence the order receives its name....
and Franciscans) for use in their liturgy, but its use was resisted in some quarters. It can be found in most breviaries printed between 1945 and 1971. Most Roman Catholics born in the 1930s grew up with the Versio Piana and it was the preferred version in many places.

Versio Nova Vulgata

In 1969, a new psalter was published which translated the Masoretic text

Masoretic Text

The Masoretic Text is the Hebrew language text of the Jewish Bible . It defines not just the Development of the Jewish Bible canon, but also the precise letter-text of the biblical books in Judaism, as well as their niqqud and cantillation for both public reading and private study....
while keeping much of the poetry and style of the Gallican psalter. It has proved to be a popular alternative to Jerome's Gallicana. The 1969 psalter follows the Masoretic numbering of the psalms, so Psalm 23 begins "Dominus pascit me." It is the psalter used in the present day Roman breviary.

Enumeration

The enumeration of the psalms differs in the Nova Vulgata from that used in the earlier versions. The earlier versions take their enumeration from the Greek Septuagint

Septuagint

The Septuagint , or simply "LXX", is the Koine Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, translated in stages between the 3rd century BC and 1st century BC in Alexandria....
. The Versio Nova Vulgata takes its enumeration from the Hebrew Masoretic Text

Masoretic Text

Schemata

A scheme (Latin schema, plural schemata) is an arrangement of all or most of the psalms for distribution to the various canonical hours

Canonical hours

Canonical hours are divisions of time, developed by the Christianity Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round....
. In addition to the psalms proper, these schemata typically include psalm-like canticle

Canticle

A canticle is a hymn taken from the Bible. The term is often expanded to include ancient non-biblical hymns such as the Te Deum and certain psalms used liturgy....
s from other books of the Bible

Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
. Historically, these schemata have distributed the entire 150 psalms with added canticles over a period of one week, although the current edition of Roman Breviary (1971,2000) omits a few psalms and some verses and distributes the remainder over a 4-week cycle. Some of the more important schemes are detailed below.

In addition to the psalms, the schema lists canticles, that is, bibical

Bible

The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity. The exact Books of the Bible is dependent on the religious traditions of specific denominations....
texts from outside of the book of Psalms that are chanted as if they were psalms.

In addition to the psalter, the schema uses an ordinary which includes the texts that are to be chanted every day. These include the Invitatory

Invitatory

The Invitatory is the psalm Venite exsultemus, traditionally numbered 94 in the Septuagint or 95 in the Masoretic text, used to start Nocturns in the Divine Office....
, normally psalm 94(95), and the canticles Benedictus Dominus
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)

The Benedictus , given in Gospel of Luke , is one of the three canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the birth of his son, John the Baptist....
, Magnificat
Magnificat

The Magnificat is a canticle frequently sung liturgy in Christian church services. The text of the canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke where it is spoken by the Virgin Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth....
, and Nunc dimittis
Nunc dimittis

The Nunc dimittis is a canticle from a text in the second chapter of Gospel of Luke named after its first words in Latin language.Simeon the Righteous was a devout Jew who, according to the book of Luke, had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Saviour....
.

Schema of St. Benedict

St. Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia

Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
around the year 540 wrote a scheme for use in his monastery. This scheme is still used in some Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy....
monasteries today.

Schema of Pope St. Pius V

As commissioned by the Council of Trent

Council of Trent

The Council of Trent was the 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Considered one of the Church's most important councils, it convened in Trento between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods....
, St. Pius V

Pope Pius V

Pope Saint Pius V , born Antonio Ghislieri was Pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the implementation of the Council of Trent, the Counterreformation and the standardisation of the liturgy....
published a reform of the Roman Breviary in 1568 for use by the churches

Particular Church

In Catholic theology and Canon law , a particular Church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or someone recognized as the equivalent of a bishop....
of the Roman rite

Roman Rite

The liturgy of the Catholic Church of Rome is called the Roman Rite. The quite distinct term Latin Rite usually refers not to a liturgical rite but to the particular Church within the Roman Catholic Church that was sometimes referred to also as the Patriarchate of the West....
. The scheme used in this breviary differs in some details from the Scheme of St. Benedict, but follows its overall pattern.

Schema of Pope St. Pius X

In 1911, St. Pius X

Pope Pius X

Pope St. Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914, succeeding Pope Leo XIII ....
reformed the Roman Breviary, re-arranging the psalms so that there was less repetition and so that each day of the week had approximately the same amount of psalm-chanting.

The following canticles are used in this schema:

Audite verbum Domini; Ier 31, 10-14
Benedicite omnia; Dan 3,57-88
Benedictus Dominus
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)

The Benedictus , given in Gospel of Luke , is one of the three canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the birth of his son, John the Baptist....
; Lc 1, 68-79
Benedictus es; 1 Chr 29,10-13
Incipite Domino; Iudt 16,2;16-20
Magnificat
Magnificat

The Magnificat is a canticle frequently sung liturgy in Christian church services. The text of the canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke where it is spoken by the Virgin Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth....
; Lc 1,46-55
Magnus es; Tob 13,1-10
Miserere nostri; Eccli 36, 1-16
Nunc dimittis
Nunc dimittis

The Nunc dimittis is a canticle from a text in the second chapter of Gospel of Luke named after its first words in Latin language.Simeon the Righteous was a devout Jew who, according to the book of Luke, had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Saviour....
; Lc 2,29-32
Vere tu es; Is 45, 15-26

The schema is:

Schema of Pope Paul VI

In 1971 with the release of a new edition of the Breviarium Romanum under Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI , born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini , reigned as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and monarch of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978....
, a new schema was introduced which distributed 147 of the 150 psalms across a four-week cycle. In addition to the three omitted psalms, some 59 verses of other psalms are removed along with parts of two verses. These omissions are intended to make the psalms easier to understand so that the Divine Office can better be prayed by the laity. The reduced psalmody resulting from dividing the psalter over 4 weeks instead of 1 is also intended to ease lay participation.

Although the psalter of the 2000 edition of the Liturgy of the Hours uses the translation of the Nova Vulgata, the numeration used is that of the older editions of the Vulgate, with the new numeration in parenthesis where it differs. For instance, the psalm beginning Dominus pascit me is numbered 22(23), and Venite exsultemus is numbered 94(95).

Because some of the psalms are so much longer than others, the longer psalms are divided into divisios, that is parts to be chanted separately. This follows the Benedictine practise, and was first introduced into the Roman Office by Pope Pius X. These parts are labelled with Roman numerals. In particular, psalm 118(119) was divided into 22 parts, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which are labelled 118(119)i - 118(119)xxii. Most of the longer psalms were divided into 3 parts, labelled i - iii.

The psalmody of each of the hours

Liturgy of the hours

Lauds

Lauds is one of the two "major hours" in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours. It is to be recited in the early morning hours, preferably near dawn....
contains a canticle of the Old Testament

Old Testament

In Western Christianity, the Old Testament refers to the books that form the first of the two-part Christianity Bible Biblical canon. These works correspond to the Hebrew Bible , with some variations and additions....
in place of the second psalm, and Vespers

Vespers

Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Roman Catholic, Byzantine Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican, and Lutheran Liturgy of the canonical hours....
contains a canticle of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
in place of the third psalm.

The Canticles

There are 34 canticles in the psalter and 3 in the ordinary. The three canticles in the ordinary are from the gospels

Four Evangelists

The Four Evangelists refers to the authors of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament that bear the following ancient titles:*Gospel according to Matthew ,...
. The 26 psalter canticles for Lauds are from the Old Testament

Old Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the name given to the second major division of the Christianity Bible, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....
excluding the gospels. The texts of the canticles and the references given below are from the Nova Vulgata.

Alleluia; Ap 19, 1-2. 5-7.
Audite caeli quae loquor; Deut 32, 1-12
Audite qui longe estis; Is 33,13-16
Audite verbum Domini gentes; Jer 31:10-14
Benedicite Dominum omnes electi; Tob 13, 8-11. 13-14ab. 15-16ab.
Benedicite omnia opera Domini Domino; Dan 3,57-88. 56
Benedictus Dominus
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)

The Benedictus , given in Gospel of Luke , is one of the three canticles in the opening chapters of this Gospel. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the birth of his son, John the Baptist....
; Lc 1, 68-79
Benedictus Deus et Pater; Eph 1, 3-10
Benedictus Deus vivens in aevum; Tob 13,2-8
Benedictus es Domine Deus Israel; 1 Chr 29, 10-13
Benedictus es Domine Deus patrum nostrorum I; Dan 3,26. 27. 39. 34-41
Benedictus es Domine Deus patrum nostrorum II; Dan 3,52-57
Cantate Domino canticum novum; Is 42, 10-16
Cantemus Domino; Ex 15,1-4b. 8-13. 17-18
Christus Iesus; Phil 2,6-11
Christus passus est pro vobis; 1 Petr 2,21-24
Confitebor tibi Domine; Is 12,1-6
Deducant oculi mei lacrimam; Ier 14,17-21
Deus patrum meorum; Sap 9,1-6. 9-11
Dignus es; Ap 4,11; 5,9.10.12
Domine audivi auditionem tuam; Hab 3,2-4. 13a. 15-19
Ecce Dominus Deus in virtute venit; Is 40,10-17
Ego dixi In dimidio dierum meorum; Is 38,10-14. 17-20
Erit in novissimis diebus; Is 2,2-5
Exsultavit cor meum in Domino; 1 Sam 2,1-10
Gaudens gaudebo in Domino; Is 61,10 - 62,5
Gratias agamus Deo Patri; Col 1,12-20
Gratias agimus tibi; Ap 11,17-18; 12, 10b-12a
Incipite Deo meo in tympanis; Iudt 16,1-2. 13-15
Laetamini; Is 66,10-14a
Magna et mirabilia; Ap 15,3-4
Magnificat
Magnificat

The Magnificat is a canticle frequently sung liturgy in Christian church services. The text of the canticle is taken directly from the Gospel of Luke where it is spoken by the Virgin Mary upon the occasion of her Visitation to her cousin Elizabeth....
; Lc 1,46-55
Miserere nostri Deus omnium et respice nos; Sir 36,1-7. 13-16
Nunc dimittis
Nunc dimittis

The Nunc dimittis is a canticle from a text in the second chapter of Gospel of Luke named after its first words in Latin language.Simeon the Righteous was a devout Jew who, according to the book of Luke, had been promised by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the Saviour....
; Lc 2,29-32
Tollam quippe vos de gentibus; Ez 36,24-28
Urbs fortis nobis in salutem; Is 26,1-4. 7-9. 12
Vere tu es Deus absconditus; Is 45,15-25

Week 1

The first week of the psalter is used for the first week of Advent, the week beginning with the first Sunday falling on or after December 25th, the weeks beginning on the first and fifth Sundays of Lent, the fifth week of Easter, and the 1st, 5th, 9th, 13th, 17th, 21st, 25th, 29th, and 33rd weeks of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time is a season of the Christian liturgical calendar. The English name is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum ....
.

Week 2

The second week of the psalter is used for the second week of Advent, the week beginning with the first Sunday falling on or after January 1st, the weeks beginning on the second and sixth Sundays of Lent, the second and sixth weeks of Easter, and the 2nd, 6th, 10th, 14th, 18th, 22nd, 26th, 30th, and 34th weeks of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time is a season of the Christian liturgical calendar. The English name is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum ....
.

Week 3

The third week of the psalter is used for the third week of Advent, the week beginning on the third Sunday of Lent, the third and seventh weeks of Easter, and the 3rd, 7th, 11th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 27th, and 31st weeks of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time is a season of the Christian liturgical calendar. The English name is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum ....
.

Week 4

The fourth week of the psalter is used for the fourth week of Advent, the days of Lent from Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday

In the Western Christianity calendar, Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty-six days before Easter. It falls on a different date each year, because it is dependent on the Computus; it can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10....
until the following Saturday, the week beginning on the fourth Sunday of Lent, the fourth week of Easter, and the 4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, 20th, 24th, 28th, and 32nd weeks of Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time

Ordinary Time is a season of the Christian liturgical calendar. The English name is intended to translate the Latin term Tempus per annum ....
. If Christmas Day does not fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the fourth week of the psalter is used during Christmastide until the first Sunday of Christmas

Holy Family

The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Mary , and St. Joseph....
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Missing psalms and verses

The psalms missing from this schema are 57(58), 82(83), and 108(109). The missing verses are:

5,11
20(21),9-13
27(28),4-5
30(31),18-19
34(35),3a-3b. 4-8. 20-21. 24-26
39(40),15-16
53(54),2. 7
54(55),16
55(56),7c-8
58(59),6-9. 12-16
62(63),10-12
68(69),23-29
78(79),6-7. 12
109(110),6
136(137),7-9
138(139),19-22
139(140),10-12
140(141),10
142(143),12

Although the Invitatory

Invitatory

The Invitatory is the psalm Venite exsultemus, traditionally numbered 94 in the Septuagint or 95 in the Masoretic text, used to start Nocturns in the Divine Office....
, i.e. psalm 94(95), is missing from the psalter, it is present in the ordinary and is thus chanted every day. Psalms 77(78), 104(105), and 105(106) are sung only during Advent

Advent

Advent is a Liturgical year of the Christianity, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus; in other words, the period immediately before Christmas....
, Christmas, Lent

Lent

Lent, in Christianity, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. Conventionally it is described as being forty days long, though different Christian denominations calculate the forty days differently....
and Easter.

Psalterium Monasticum

The Psalterium Monasticum is a book produced by the monks of Solesmes Abbey in 1981. It contains a one week cycle for the chanting of all 150 psalms. This schema was produced for use in the reformed liturgy of 1971 as an alternative to the 4-week scheme of Paul VI.

External links

A very nice, practical and versatile version to pray the psalter on line.

of the psalm De profundis, giving the Roman, Gallican, Pian, and Neo-vulgate versions of psalm 129.

of the psalm Beatus vir, giving the Roman, Gallican, Neo-vulgate, Pian, and Ambrosian versions of psalm 1.