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The Rule of Saint Benedict

Chapter 15. At what times of the year Alleluia is to be said

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Saint Benedict of Nursia

Transcribed from a dated scan; artifacts may remain. Edition notes

FROM the holy Feast of Easter until Pentecost, without interruption, let Alleluia be said both with the Psalms and the responsories. From Pentecost until the beginning of Lent, it is to be said at the Night-Office with the six latter Psalms only. But on every Sunday out of Lent let the Canticles,” Lauds, Prime, Tierce, Sext and None be said with Alleluia: Vespers, however, with an antiphon. The responses are never to be said with Alleluia, except from Easter to Pentecost.

Trans. D. Oswald Hunter Blair (in religion, Dom Oswald Hunter Blair; David Oswald Hunter Blair, 4th Baronet, 1853-1939), a Benedictine monk of Fort Augustus Abbey, Not part of a named series — a standalone Abbey Press printing, 1906. Public domain.

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