Invitatory

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Page from the book of hours by Jean Pichore around 1520. The illumination with the initial shows the versicle of the invitatory.

The Invitatorium ( Latin for "invitation") opens the hour of a liturgical day. It consists of the versicle

℣ Domine, labia mea aperies.
℟ Et os meum annuntiábit laudem tuam.

℣ Lord, open my lips.
℟ So that my mouth proclaim your praise. ( Psalm 51.17  EU )

as well as the responsibly recited Psalm 95 Venite exultemus (“Come, let us rejoice before the Lord”). In the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church , this psalm can also be replaced by other psalms ( Ps 24 , Ps 67 or Ps 100 ). The invitatorium includes an antiphon to the psalm that changes depending on the festival or time of the church year , which ends in the exclamation Venite adoremus (“Come, we adore him”). At Christmas, for example, the antiphon to the invitation is:

Christ natus est nobis: veníte, adoremus.
Christ was born to us: come, we adore him!

The invitatorium always opens before the first hour of the day. The psalm of the invitation with its antiphon can be omitted "depending on the circumstances" if it precedes the lauds .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ General Introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours , 2.I.34
  2. ↑ Book of Hours: the celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours for the Catholic dioceses of the German-speaking area. Herder, 1978.
  3. ↑ General Introduction to the Liturgy of the Hours , no.35

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