DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona ad Benedictus

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An antiphon sung at Lauds during Ordinary Time. Antiphons frame the psalms, giving them their proper liturgical meaning for the day.

LATINE
Mulier, quae erat in civitate peccatrix, stans retro secus pedes Domini, lacrimis coepit rigare pedes ejus et capillis capitis sui tergebat, et deosculabatur pedes ejus et unguento ungebat.
ENGLISH
A woman that was in the city, a sinner, standing behind at the feet of the Lord, she began to wash his feet, with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head, and affectionately kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
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HORA
Lauds
TEMPVS
ordinary
GENVS
Antiphon