Hymnal

The hymns, sequences and canticles of the Roman tradition, gathered by hour and season.

He who sings prays twice. Most of these were written to be sung in choir — at Lauds and Vespers, in procession, before the Cross, before the Blessed Sacrament — and they carry the faith in a form the memory keeps. Read slowly, they are prayers; many have been on Christian lips for more than a thousand years.

Hymns of the Hours

From cockcrow to nightfall: the hymns the Roman Breviary sets at each hour of the day.

Aeterne rerum Conditor 2 min Splendor paternae gloriae 2 min Iam lucis orto sidere 1 min Nunc, Sancte, nobis, Spiritus 1 min Rector potens, verax Deus 1 min Rerum, Deus, tenax vigor 1 min Lucis Creator optime 1 min Iam sol recedit igneus 1 min Te Lucis Ante Terminum Te Deum Te decet laus 1 min

Advent & Christmas

Rorate coeli 3 min Creator alme siderum 1 min En clara vox redarguit 1 min The O Antiphons 4 min Veni, veni Emmanuel 3 min Adeste, Fideles 2 min Iesu, Redemptor omnium 2 min A solis ortus cardine 2 min Salvete, flores Martyrum 1 min Crudelis Herodes 1 min

Lent & Passiontide

Audi, benigne Conditor 1 min Parce Domine 3 min O sol salutis 1 min Vexilla Regis 3 min Gloria, laus et honor 3 min Crux fidelis 8 min The Reproaches 8 min Stabat Mater 5 min

Easter to Pentecost

Exsultet 10 min Victimae paschali laudes 1 min O filii et filiae 4 min Ad regias Agni dapes 2 min Aurora caelum purpurat 1 min Regina Caeli 3 min Salutis humanae Sator 1 min Aeterne Rex altissime 2 min Come, Holy Spirit, Creator Blest 5 min Veni, Sancte Spiritus 3 min Beata nobis gaudia 2 min

The Blessed Sacrament

Pange Lingua 3 min Tantum Ergo 1 min Sacris Solemniis 3 min Panis Angelicus 1 min Verbum Supernum 2 min O Salutaris Hostia Lauda Sion (Sequence) 7 min Adoro Te Devote Ave verum 1 min O sacrum convivium 1 min Ubi caritas 2 min Iesu dulcis memoria 3 min

Our Lady

Ave maris stella 2 min Quem terra, pontus, sidera 1 min O gloriosa virginum 1 min Loving Mother of the Redeemer Hail, Queen of Heaven Hail, Holy Queen Sub Tuum Praesidium Akathist Hymn to the Theotokos and Ever-Vrgin Mary 6 min Inviolata 2 min Salve Mater misericordiae 3 min

Feasts & Saints

Te, Ioseph 3 min Ut queant laxis 1 min Decora lux aeternitatis 1 min Quicumque Christum quaeritis 1 min Custodes hominum 1 min Te, splendor et virtus Patris 1 min Placare, Christe, servulis 2 min Exsultet orbis gaudiis 1 min Deus, tuorum militum 1 min Sanctorum meritis 2 min Iste Confessor 1 min Iesu, corona Virginum 1 min Caelestis urbs Ierusalem 2 min Christus vincit 5 min

Canticles

The songs of Scripture outside the Psalter, and the Church's own.

Benedictus Magnificat Nunc Dimittis 1 min Gloria in excelsis Deo 2 min Canticle of the Three Children 6 min Canticle of Isaiah 2 min Canticle of Hezekiah 3 min Canticle of Hannah 3 min Canticle of Moses 4 min Canticle of Habakkuk 4 min Venite, exultemus Domino 2 min Jubilate Deo 1 min

For the Dead

Dies irae 4 min Media vita 2 min Lux aeterna 1 min