The following prayer for choirs (scholæ cantorum), intended to be used at the start and end of each practice or session, was devised and adorned with chant by the monks of Solesmes, and indulgenced by Pope St Pius X:
Aña. Repleátur * os meum laude tua, ut possim cantáre; gaudébunt lábia mea dum cantávero tibi. T. P. Allelúja. (Ps. 70, 7 & 23)
V. Laudábo Dóminum in vita mea.
R. Psallam Deo meo quámdiu ero. (Ps. 145, 2)
Orémus.
Oratio (cf. Os. 14, 3; Heb. 13, 15; 11, 13)
Súscipe, quǽsumus, Dómine, sacrifícium labiórum nostrórum: † et, intercedéntibus sanctis tuis Gregório atque Cæcília, tua nobis pietáte concéde; ut, quam offérimus laudem peregrinántes in terris, * hanc tibi perpétuo concínere mereámur in cælis. Per Christum Dóminum nostrum. R. Amen.
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The antiphon is derived from the Introit (shorn of its alleluias), and the versicle extracted from the Offertory, of the Mass of the Whitsuntide Ember Friday.
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