DIVINUM OFFICIUM Antiphon

Antiphona ad Benedictus

St. Benedict - Lauds Benedictus

About This Prayer

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

Prayer Text

LATINE
Fuit vir vitae venerabilis, gratia Benedictus et nomine: ab ipso pueritiae suae tempore cor gerens senile.
ENGLISH
He was a man of venerable life, blessed in grace as in name, who from his very childhood had the heart of an old man.

Liturgical Notes

NOTA
FONS
Breviarium Romanum (1962)
USUS
St. Benedict - Lauds Benedictus
HORA
Lauds
GENVS
Antiphon