Liturgical Books
It is the ensemble of texts, music (books and instruments), movements, vestments, vessels, and even the buildings and the interaction of all of these used by a group of people to worship God. Liturgy encompasses two main types of service: the Mass and the Divine Office.
Liturgical Books | Books of the Mass - Columbia University
Book of the Gospels. Mass Prayers with Sung Chants Indicated by Smaller Script. Fully Notated Recitational Passages for the Priest
Liturgical Books | Organization of Liturgical Books - Columbia …
The calendrical organization of the liturgical year becomes concrete in the organization of liturgical books, whose texts are typically arranged in this order: In books for the Mass: Calendar (the calendar in the book) Temporale from Advent through Holy Saturday; Canon of the Mass (with its surrounding texts)
Liturgical Books | Books of the Office - Columbia University
It combines the separate books that contained prayers (the collectar), Matins lessons (the Office lectionary), chants (antiphoner and choir psalter), and ordinary chants and readings (the diurnal). The individual texts may be indicated only by their incipit.
Liturgical Books | The Divine Office - Columbia University
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Liturgical Books | The Mass
The Mass as a liturgical service is perhaps more readily known to today’s public than the Divine Office, since it is regularly attended by the laity. It consists of two parts: the first is much like the Divine Office, in that it contains prayers and readings from the Bible (often collected in a lectionary for the Mass), such as were customary ...
Liturgical Books | Computus - Columbia University
Liturgical Books Search; Reuse; Credits; Computus. Easter is the most important event in the Christian year, and the calculation of its date was paramount. The Computus served as a guide for this purpose. Computus in its simplest definition is the art of ascertaining time by the course of the sun and the moon.
Liturgical Books | Chant Books for the Office
Chant Books for the Office An antiphoner (or antiphonary or antiphonal) contains the sung parts of the Divine Office that are specific to Sundays, feasts, and the Common of Saints. The chants found in an antiphonal include the antiphons sung with the psalms and canticles, the responsories of Matins and Vespers, and sometimes the hymns.
Liturgical Books | Calendar
The main feature of the calendar in a liturgical book is that it is perpetual. Because of this, it cannot associate names of the days with the sequential list of days in each month, nor can it include the moveable feasts of the temporale.
Liturgical Books | Directions
The public and ritual nature of liturgical services implies the necessity of correct postures, gestures, and movements from one area to another. Because of this, a complex set of directives came into being to aid in the performance of the liturgy.