Music for Monastic Matins

MUSIC FOR MONASTIC MATINS

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THE PSALTER

ARRANGED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK

FOR THE NIGHT HOURS ACCORDING TO THE RULE

OF OUR MOST HOLY FATHER BENEDICT

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ON SUNDAY AT MATINS

Before Matins is said silently:

UR FATHER, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

AIL, MARY, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and in the hour of our death. Amen.

BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord: Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary: Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell: The third day he rose again from the dead: He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty: From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Ghost: The holy Catholic Church: The Communion of Saints: The Forgiveness of sins: The Resurrection of the body: And the Life everlasting. Amen.

Then is said aloud the Verse:

 O God, make speed  to save me.

. O Lord, make haste to help me.

 Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Ho - ly Ghost.

. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever

shall be, world without end. Amen. Al - le - lu - ia.

Thus alleluia is said at all Hours throughout the year, except from Septuagesima Sunday until Maundy Thursday; for then is said:

Praise be to thee, O Lord, King of eternal glory.

Then is said aloud three times:

O Lord, open thou  my lips..And my mouth shall shew forth thy praise

Then follows

Psalm 3 Domine, quid multiplicati? III

ORD how are they increased that trouble me! * many are they that rise against me.

2 Many one there be that say of my soul, * There is no help for him in his God.

3 But thou , O Lord, art my defender; * thou art my worship, and the lifter up of my head.

4 I did call upon the Lord with my voice * and he heard me out of his holy hill.

5 I laid me down and slept, and rose up again; * for the Lord sustained me.

6 I will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people * that have set themselves against me round about.

7 Up, Lord, and help me, O my God * for thou smitest all mine enemies upon the cheek–bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.

8 Salvation belongeth unto the Lord; * and thy blessing is upon thy people.

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.

The following Invitatory is said on Sundays after Epiphany from the 14th day of January and thenceforth until Septuagesima exclusively and on Sundays after Pentecost from the III Sunday after Pentecost inclusively.

Invitatory Mode iij

LET us wor- ship the Lord * For he is our Ma- ker. Psalm Venite

Ps. 95 Venite, exultemus Domino XCIV

COME, let us sing unto the Lord * let us heartily rejoice in the strength of our salvation.

2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; * and shew ourselves glad in him with psalms.

Let us worship the Lord, for he is our Maker.

3 For the Lord is a great God * and a great King above all gods.

4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth * and the strength of the hills is his also.

For he is our Maker.

5 The sea is his and he made it * and his hands prepared the dry land.

6 O come let us worship and fall down * and kneel before the LORD our Maker.

At the words O come let us worship and fall down, genuflexion is made.

7 Forhe is the Lord our God * and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.

Let us worship the Lord, for he is our Maker. 8 Today if ye will hear his voice,harden not your hearts * as in the provocation,

and as in the day of temptationin the wilderness;

9 When your fathers tempted me * proved me, and saw my works.

For he is our Maker.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation and said * It is a people that do err in their hearts, for theyhave not known my ways:

11 Unto whom Isware in my wrath * that they should not enter into my rest.

Let us worship the Lord, for he is our Maker.

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.

For he is our Maker.

Let us worship the Lord, for he is our Maker.

When the Psalm is finished, is said the Hymn corresponding to the Invitatory.

The following Hymn is said on Sundays after the Epiphany until Quinquagesima Sunday, and from the Sunday nearest to the first of October, that is, from the 28th day of September, until the last Sunday after Pentecost.

Hymn E.H. 50 Primo dierum omnium Mode iv

THIS day the first of days was made, 4 That us, who here this day repair

When God in light the world arrayed; To keep the Apostles' time of prayer,

Or when his Word arose again, And hymn the quiet hours of morn,

And, conquering death, gave life to man With blessèd gifts he may adorn.

2 Slumber and sloth drive far away; 5 For this Redeemer, thee we pray

Earlier arise to greet the day; That thou wilt wash our sins away,

And ere its dawn in heaven unfold And of thy loving-kindness grant

The heart's desire to God be told: Whate'er of good our spirits want.

3 Unto our prayer that he attend, 6 O Father, that we ask be done

His all-creating power extend, Through Jesus Christ, thine only Son,

And still renew us, lest we miss Who with the Holy Ghost and thee,

Through earthly stain our heavenly bliss. Doth live and reign eternally.

A - men.

The following hymn is said on the III and remaining Sundays occurring after Pentecost until the Sunday nearest to the first of October, that is until the 27th of September inclusive.

E.H.165 Nocte surgentes. Mode j

FATHER, we praise thee, now the night is over, A - men.

Active and watchful, stand we all before thee;

Singing we offer prayer and meditation: Thus we adore thee.

2 Monarch of all things, fit us for thy mansions;

Banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending;

Bring us to heaven, where thy Saints united Joy without ending.

3 All-holy Father, Son and equal Spirit,

Trinity blessed, send us thy salvation;

Thine is the glory, gleaming and resounding Through all creation.

At other times than the aforesaid, the Invitatory and Hymn as in the Proper of the Season for the various Offices.

After the Hymn the appropriate Antiphons are said; on Sundays and in Offices of Semidouible and Simple rite, at the beginning of the Psalms they are precented only up to the Asterisk *, and at the end they are recited entire; in Offices of Double Rite and on Sundays that are celebrated under Greater Double rite they are recited entire both before and after the Psalms.

IN THE FIRST NOCTURN

In Advent, Antiphon. Tone j, 7

Be - hold. E u o u a e

Throughout the year, Antiphon Tone viij, 7

The King. E u o u a e.

Six Psalms are said under corresponding Antiphons, and then is added the Verse, as the occuring Office requires; which also is observed in the second Nocturn.

In Eastertide, Antiphon Tone v, 1

Al - le - lu - ia. E u o u a e.

And under only one Antiphon are said the Psalms of each Nocturn, even on Ferias. 6

And the Antiphons with the Psalms and Vereses appointed both in Advent and throughout the year and in Eastertide, are always kept, apart from the Octaves of Christmas, the Epiphany, the Ascension and Corpus Christi, when it is the Office of a Sunday, whether major or minor.

Psalm 21 Domine, in virtute tua XX

HE King shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord; * exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation.

2 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire * and hast not denied him the request of his lips.

3 For thou shalt meet him with the blessing of goodness * and shalt set a crown of pure gold upon his head.

4 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him a long life * even for ever and ever.

5 His honour is great in thy salvation; * glory and great worship shalt thou lay

upon him.

6 For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity * and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.

7 And why? because the King putteth his trust in the Lord * and in the mercy of the Most Highest he shall not miscarry.

8 All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; * thy right hand shall find out them that hate thee.

9 Thou shalt make them like a fiery oven in time of thy wrath * the Lord shall destroy them in his displeasure, and the fire shall consume them.

10 Their fruit shalt thou root out of the earth * and their seed from among the children of men.

11 For they intended mischief against thee * and imagined such a device as they are not able to perform.

12 Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, * and the strings of thy bow shalt thou

make ready against the face of them.

13 Be thou exalted Lord in thine own strength; * so will we sing, and praise thy power.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son * andto the Holy Ghost;

Asit was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, * worldwithout end. Amen.

This verse, Glory be to the Father, is always said at the end of all Psalms and

Canticles, unless it is otherwise noted.

Ps. 22 Deus, Deus meus XXI

Y God. my God, look upon me; why hast thou forsaken me * and art so far from my health, and from the words of my complaint ?

2 O my God, I cry in the day-time, but thou hearest not * and in the night-season also I take no rest.

3 And thou continuest holy * O thou worship of Israel.

4 Our fathers hoped in thee * they trusted in thee, and thou didst deliver them.

5 They called upon thee, and were holpen * they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.

6 But as for me, I am a worm and no man * a very scorn of men, and the outcast of the people

7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn * they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads, saying :

8 He trusted in God that he would deliver him * let him deliver him, if he will have him.

9 But thou art he that took me out of my mother's womb * thou wast my hope, when I hanged yet upon my mother's breasts.

10 I have been left unto thee ever since I was born * thou art my God, even from my mother's womb.

11 O go not from me, for trouble is hard at hand * and there is none to help me.

12 Many oxen are come about me * fat bulls of Basan close me in on every side.

13 They gape upon me with their mouths * as it were a ramping and a roaring lion.
14 1 am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint * my heart also in the midst of my body is even like melting wax.

15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, & my tongue cleaveth to my gums * and thou shalt bring me into the dust of death.

16 For many dogs are come about me * and the council of the wicked layeth siege against me.

17 They pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my bones * they stand staring and looking upon me.

18 They part my garments among them * and cast lots upon my vesture.

19 But be not thou far from me, O Lord * thou art my succour, haste thee to help me.

20 Deliver my soul from the sword * my darling from the power of the dog.

21 Save me from the lion's mouth * thou hast heard me also from among the horns of the unicorns.

22 I will declare thy Name untomy brethren * in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.

23 O praise the Lord, ye that fear him * magnify him, all ye of the seed of Jacob,

and fear him, all ye seed of Israel.

24 For he hath not despised nor abhorred the low estate of the poor * he hath not hid his face from him, but when he called unto him he heard him.

25 My praise is of thee in the great congregation * my vows will I perform in the sight of them that fear him.

26 The poor shall eat, and be satisfied * they that seek after the Lord shall praise him; your heart shall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember themselves, and be turned unto the Lord * and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him.

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's * & he is the Governour among the people.

29 All such as be fat upon earth * haveeaten, and worshipped.

30 All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him * and no man hath quickened his own soul.

31 My seed shall serve him * they shall be counted unto the Lord for a generation.

32 They shall come, and the heavens shall declare his righteousness * unto a people that shall be born, whom the Lord hath made.

In Advent, Antiphon.

Behold, the King most high cometh with great power to save the nations, alleluia

Throughout the year, Antiphon.

The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord

In Advent, 2nd Antiphon. Tone ij, 4

Strengthen ye. * E u o u a e.

Throughout the year, 2nd Antiphon. Tone iv, 5

The Lord is my shepherd. * E u o u a e.

Ps. 23 Dominus regit me XXII

HE Lord is my shepherd * therefore can I lack nothing.

2 He shall feed me in a green pasture * and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort.

3 He shall convert my soul * and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness, for his Name's sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil * for thou art with me ; thy rod and thy staff comfort me.

5 Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me * thou hast anointed my head with oil, and my cup shall be full.

6 But thy loving-kindness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life * and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

Ps. 24 Domini est terra XXIII

HE earth is the Lord's, and all that therein is * the compass of the world, and they that dwell therein.

2 For he hath founded it upon the seas * and prepared it upon the floods.

3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord * or who shall rise up in his holy place?
4 Even he that hath clean hands, and a pure heart * and that hath not lift up his mind unto vanity, nor sworn to deceive his neighbour.

5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord * and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 This isthe generation of them that seek him * even of them that seek thy face, O Jacob.
7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors * and the King of glory shall come in.

8 Who is the King of glory * it is the Lord strong and mighty, even the Lord mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates,and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors * and the King of glory shall come in.

10 Who is the King of glory * even the Lord of hosts, he is the King of glory.

In Advent, Antiphon.

Strengthen ye the weak hands: be strong, and say: Behold, your God will come

and save you, alle- luia.

Throughout the year, Antiphon

The Lord is my shepherd, therefore can I lack nothing.

In Advent, 3rd Antiphon Tone iij, 1

Be strong. E u o u a e.

Throughout the year, 3rd Antiphon Tone iv, 5

Mine eyes. E u o u a e.

Ps. 25 Ad te, Domine, levavi XXIV

NTO thee, O Lord, will I lift up my soul; my God, I have put my trust in thee * O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.

2For all they that hope in.thee shall not be ashamed * but such as transgress without a cause shall be put to confusion.

3 Shew me thy ways, O Lord * and teach me thy paths.

4 Lead me forth in thy truth, and learn me * for thou art the God of my salvation ; in thee hath been my hope all the day long.

5 Call to remembrance, O Lord, thy tender mercies * and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old

6 O remember not the sins and offences of my youth * but according to thy mercy think thou upon me, O Lord, for thy goodness

7 Gracious and righteous is the Lord * therefore will he teach sinners in the way.

8 Them that are meek shall he guide in judgement * and such as are gentle, them shall he learn his way.