Question about traditional Roman vespers
  • RobertRobert
    Posts: 343
    Wondering if someone familiar with EF vespers and/or liturgical history can help me with a question:

    In my St. Bonaventure Publications reprint of the 1953 Liber Usualis, it seems that the Chapter at Sunday Vespers is always identical to the Epistle from Mass of the same day. However, from other sources I look at it would seem that the Chapter is invariably from 2 Corinthians ("Benedictus Deus, et Pater DNJC...")

    Has the Chapter at Sunday Vespers traditionally corresponded to the Epistle at the day's Mass? Or is this a fairly recent innovation or restoration?
  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 387
    "...it seems that the Chapter at Sunday Vespers is always identical to the Epistle from Mass..."

    I looked in Antiphonale Romanum 1912 (so, older than the now valid EF divine office). The chapter of the Sunday vespers is stable in the ordinary time, but proper on Sundays of "special times". Then it seems to be always taken from the epistle of the day, but never identical (in extent) to it.
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