Category:Office hymns

Office hymns are used as one part of the Divine Office or Liturgy of the Hours in the Western Rite, including the services of Lauds (morning prayer), Vespers (evening prayer), and Compline (prayer just before going to bed), although the texts are used at other times as well, as in the procession to the altar of repose on Maundy Thursday. These Latin hymns are frequently sung in English in Anglican services. They have also been translated and paraphrased in other languages and used as simple hymns and chorales. They are not to be confused with Category:Sequence hymns.

A book devoted to hymns for the Office is called a hymnary or hymnarium. Notable polyphonic collections are Dufay's Hymnarium, Lasso's Hymni per totum annum anno 1581, Victoria's Hymni totius anni (1581) and Palestrina's Hymni totius anni...4ibus vocibus (1589).

Season/Feast	date	Title	Author
Advent		Conditor alme siderum	anon.
Christmas	Dec. 25	Christe Redemptor omnium...
Holy Innocents	Dec. 28	Salvete flores martyrum	Prudentius
Epiphany	Jan. 6	Hostis Herodes impie
Epiphany II and non-penitential Sundays throughout the year		Lucis Creator optime
Weekdays of Lent	up to Passion Sun.	Audi benigne Conditor
Sundays of Lent	up to Passion Sun.	Ad preces nostras
Passion Sunday		Vexilla Regis
Octave of Easter		Ad coenam Agni
Ascension		Jesu nostra redemptio
Pentecost		Veni Creator Spiritus
Corpus Christi		Pange lingua




Common of a Confessor		Iste confessor




John the Baptist	6/24	Ut queant laxis
Mary Magdalene	07/22	Lauda mater Ecclesia


All Saints	Nov. 1	Christe Redemptor omnium...	attr. Rabanus Maurus

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