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