Sunday, August 09, 2009

Third Order Franciscans Are To Pray The Seven Canonical Hours


All are to say the seven canonical Hours, that is, Matins, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline. The clerics are to say them after the manner of the clergy. Those who know the Psalter are to say Deus in nomine tuo and the Beati immaculati up to the Legen pone for Prime, and the other psalms of the Hours, with the Glory be to the Father; but when they do not attend church, they are to say for Matins the psalms the Church says or any eighteen psalms; or at least say the Our Father as do the unlettered at any of the Hours.

Saint Francis of Assisi
FIRST RULE OF THE THIRD ORDER
CHAPTER IV

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