CHAPTER XII.

How the solemnity of Lauds is to be performed.

For Sunday’s Lauds, first, let the sixtieth Psalm be said plainly, without an antiphon; after which, say the fiftieth with an “Alleluia;” then the hundred-and-seventeenth, and the sixty-second; then the “Blessings,”¹⁵⁸¹⁵⁸The Cant. Of the Three Children. “the Benedicite.” and “Praises”¹⁵⁹¹⁵⁹Pss. cxlviii. cxlix, cl. of which almost every verse begins by the word “Laudate,” were called “Laudes”., one lesson out of the Apocalypse said by heart, a responsory, a hymn, a versicle with a canticle out of the Gospel, and the Litanies, and so conclude.