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readings versicles lead from the
psalmody to the readings; in the
Little Hours they are the
answer to the chapter.
According to the Church, the
versicles reply...
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short petitions said or sung as
versicles and
responses by the
officiant and the
gathered worshippers respectively.
Versicle-and-response is one of the oldest...
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Catholic prayer-book; out of it have
grown the antiphons,
responsories and
versicles.
Until the 1911 reform, the
psalms were
arranged according to a disposition...
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recent introduction in the
Roman Vespers; the
finale (litanies, Pater,
versicles, prayers)
seems all to have
existed from this
epoch as in the Benedictine...
- format:
opening versicle "O God, come to our aid: O Lord, make
haste to help us" (this
versicle is not used when the
invitatory with the
versicle "Lord, open...
- The
responsory is
begun by a cantor, who
sings the
first part of the
versicles, and the
responses are sung by the choir. The text is
written in the first-person...
- the Lord
declared unto Mary"). The
devotion is
practised by
reciting as
versicle and
response three Biblical verses narrating the mystery,
alternating with...
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appendage to matins. Its
matins began, as in the
monastic matins, with
versicles and the
invitatory Psalm 94 (Psalm 95 in the
Masoretic text)
chanted or...
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Alleluia is
added to all the antiphons,
responsories and
versicles,
except to the
versicles of the
preces at
Prime and Compline.
Instead of the "suffragia...
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mannerism of Emerson ... But the
incoherence and
formlessness of her—
versicles are fatal ... an eccentric, dreamy, half-educated
recluse in an out-of-the-way...
