diff --git a/src/hours/compline.ts b/src/hours/compline.ts
index 2c9ae94..d0d7963 100644
--- a/src/hours/compline.ts
+++ b/src/hours/compline.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { getHymnDoxologyId } from './hymn-doxology';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
 import { getMarianAntiphonId, getMarianAntiphonLabel } from './marian-antiphon';
 import { isDoubleOrHigher } from './antiphon';
-import { resolveCommon, appendDoxology, splitNamedAntiphon, resolveResponsory } from './resolve-common';
+import { resolveCommon, appendDoxology, splitNamedAntiphon, openingAntiphon, resolveResponsory } from './resolve-common';
 import complineDefinitionData from '../data/hours/compline.yml';
 
 const complineDefinition = complineDefinitionData as HourDefinition;
@@ -63,8 +63,9 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
         },
       ];
     case 'nunc-dimittis': {
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(resolveCommon('nunc-dimittis-antiphon'));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(day.winner) ? full : incipit;
+      const antiphonText = resolveCommon('nunc-dimittis-antiphon');
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, day.winner);
+      const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
       return [
         { kind: 'canticle', canticleId: 'nunc-dimittis', text: resolveCommon('nunc-dimittis'), antiphon: opening },
         { kind: 'antiphon', text: full },
diff --git a/src/hours/lauds.ts b/src/hours/lauds.ts
index 4401cba..1bfd301 100644
--- a/src/hours/lauds.ts
+++ b/src/hours/lauds.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   getDayCollects,
   getBenedictusAntiphon,
   splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   verifiedText,
   seasonalOfficeSuffix,
@@ -134,10 +135,8 @@ function canticleText(canticleId: string, slice?: [number, number]): ResolvedTex
  * plain weekday default below gets substituted. */
 function resolvePsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   const wd = getPsalmodyOverrideFor(day) ?? laudsAntiphons[day.weekday];
-  const opening = (antiphon: BilingualText) => {
-    const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(verifiedText(antiphon));
-    return isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
-  };
+  const winner = resolveOfficeWinner(day);
+  const opening = (antiphon: BilingualText) => openingAntiphon(verifiedText(antiphon), winner);
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [
     {
       kind: 'psalm',
@@ -237,8 +236,9 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
     case 'lauds-office':
       return resolveOffice(day);
     case 'benedictus': {
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(getBenedictusAntiphon(day));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+      const antiphonText = getBenedictusAntiphon(day);
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+      const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
       return [
         { kind: 'canticle', canticleId: 'benedictus', text: resolveCommon('benedictus'), antiphon: opening },
         { kind: 'antiphon', text: full },
diff --git a/src/hours/matins.ts b/src/hours/matins.ts
index a7c68f8..4c3f114 100644
--- a/src/hours/matins.ts
+++ b/src/hours/matins.ts
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ import {
   seasonalOfficeSuffix,
   verifiedText,
   splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
 } from './resolve-common';
 import { getBiblePlanReadings } from '../propers/bible-plan';
 import { getNocturnReadings, type NocturnReading } from '../propers/nocturn-readings';
@@ -187,8 +188,9 @@ function invitatoryParts(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
 function sundayPsalmNocturn(group: SundayNocturn, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [];
   for (const g of group.groups ?? []) {
-    const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(verifiedText(g.antiphon));
-    const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+    const antiphonText = verifiedText(g.antiphon);
+    const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+    const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
     g.psalms.forEach((n, i) => {
       parts.push(psalmPartWithAntiphon(n, i === 0 ? opening : undefined));
     });
@@ -201,8 +203,9 @@ function sundayPsalmNocturn(group: SundayNocturn, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedP
 /** Nocturn 3's 3 fixed OT canticles under one shared antiphon — see
  * data/hours/matins-sunday-antiphons.yml's own header. */
 function sundayCanticleNocturn(group: SundayNocturn, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
-  const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(verifiedText(group.antiphon ?? {}));
-  const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+  const antiphonText = verifiedText(group.antiphon ?? {});
+  const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+  const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = (group.canticles ?? []).map((c, i) => {
     const verses = c.refs.flatMap((ref) => getScriptureVerses(ref.book, ref.chapter, ref.verses));
     const text: BilingualText = {
@@ -285,11 +288,12 @@ function ferialPsalmody(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
  * as one combined V./R. block via `versicleText`. */
 function ferialAntiphonedNocturn(day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
   const nocturn = ferialAntiphons[day.weekday as Exclude<Weekday, 'sunday'>];
-  const isDouble = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+  const winner = resolveOfficeWinner(day);
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = [];
   for (const group of nocturn.groups) {
-    const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(verifiedText(group.antiphon));
-    const opening = isDouble ? full : incipit;
+    const antiphonText = verifiedText(group.antiphon);
+    const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, winner);
+    const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
     group.psalms.forEach((ref, i) => {
       const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v): ResolvedVerse => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
       const { verses, antiphon } = applyFlexaMark(rawVerses, i === 0 ? opening : undefined);
diff --git a/src/hours/none.ts b/src/hours/none.ts
index c6a32aa..2307f8f 100644
--- a/src/hours/none.ts
+++ b/src/hours/none.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import { getDayLabel } from '../calendar/day-label';
 import { getPsalmsFor } from '../psalter/distribution';
 import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
-import { isDoubleOrHigher, applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
+import { applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
 import {
   resolveCommon,
   getDayCollect,
-  splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   resolveMinorHourAntiphon,
   resolveMinorHourChapter,
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
       // psalms, no closing repeat (unlike Prime): confirmed directly
       // against the engine, Capitulum follows the third psalm immediately.
       const psalmRefs = getPsalmsFor('none', day.weekday);
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('none', day, antiphons[day.weekday]));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('none', day, antiphons[day.weekday]), resolveOfficeWinner(day));
       return psalmRefs.map((ref, i) => {
         const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v) => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
         const { verses, antiphon } = applyFlexaMark(rawVerses, i === 0 ? opening : undefined);
diff --git a/src/hours/prime.ts b/src/hours/prime.ts
index a7cc4ca..ef7e946 100644
--- a/src/hours/prime.ts
+++ b/src/hours/prime.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   resolveCommon,
   appendDoxology,
   splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   resolveMinorHourAntiphon,
   isSundayOrFeastOffice,
@@ -65,11 +66,11 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, date: string, day: LiturgicalDay): Resolved
       }
       {
         const psalmRefs = getPsalmsFor('prime', day.weekday);
-        const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('prime', day, antiphons[day.weekday]));
+        const antiphonText = resolveMinorHourAntiphon('prime', day, antiphons[day.weekday]);
         // Full text on a Double-or-higher feast, otherwise just the incipit
         // — see hours/antiphon.ts. The full repeat comes later, after the
         // Creed (see 'closing-antiphon'), not tacked onto the last psalm.
-        const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+        const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
         return psalmRefs.map((ref, i) => {
           const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v) => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
           const { verses, antiphon } = applyFlexaMark(rawVerses, i === 0 ? opening : undefined);
diff --git a/src/hours/resolve-common.ts b/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
index e939bf9..f42fb3d 100644
--- a/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
+++ b/src/hours/resolve-common.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { getSaintRecord } from '../calendar/feasts';
 import { resolveActiveOctave, activeOctavesFor, octaveGoverningPrivilegedDay, isAtLeast } from '../calendar';
 import { getTemporalFeastRecord } from '../calendar/temporal-feasts';
 import { isInTriduum } from '../calendar/temporal';
-import { splitAntiphon } from './antiphon';
+import { splitAntiphon, isDoubleOrHigher } from './antiphon';
 import vespersMagnificatAntiphonsData from '../data/hours/vespers-magnificat-antiphons.yml';
 
 type BilingualText = Partial<Record<string, string>>;
@@ -692,6 +692,19 @@ export function splitNamedAntiphon(antiphon: ResolvedText): {
   return { incipit: { text: incipitText, status: incipitStatus }, full: { text: fullText, status: fullStatus } };
 }
 
+/** The antiphon actually shown *before* a psalm/canticle: full text on a
+ * Double-rank winner or higher, incipit only below that (see
+ * `isDoubleOrHigher`'s own doc comment for the underlying rule) — the one
+ * idiom every hour's psalmody independently repeated (`splitNamedAntiphon`
+ * + `isDoubleOrHigher(...) ? full : incipit`) before being centralized
+ * here. The closing repeat after the psalm/canticle is always `full`,
+ * unconditionally, at each call site — this helper only decides the
+ * opening. */
+export function openingAntiphon(antiphon: ResolvedText, winner: DayWinner): ResolvedText {
+  const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphon);
+  return isDoubleOrHigher(winner) ? full : incipit;
+}
+
 /** Fixed wording, same as lauds.ts's weekday-canticle Gloria Patri —
  * appended after every psalm (hours/index.ts) except during the Sacred
  * Triduum. Not "verified" via verifiedText() because it's boilerplate
diff --git a/src/hours/sext.ts b/src/hours/sext.ts
index b012954..24eba44 100644
--- a/src/hours/sext.ts
+++ b/src/hours/sext.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import { getDayLabel } from '../calendar/day-label';
 import { getPsalmsFor } from '../psalter/distribution';
 import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
-import { isDoubleOrHigher, applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
+import { applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
 import {
   resolveCommon,
   getDayCollect,
-  splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   resolveMinorHourAntiphon,
   resolveMinorHourChapter,
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
       // psalms, no closing repeat (unlike Prime): confirmed directly
       // against the engine, Capitulum follows the third psalm immediately.
       const psalmRefs = getPsalmsFor('sext', day.weekday);
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('sext', day, antiphons[day.weekday]));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('sext', day, antiphons[day.weekday]), resolveOfficeWinner(day));
       return psalmRefs.map((ref, i) => {
         const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v) => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
         const { verses, antiphon } = applyFlexaMark(rawVerses, i === 0 ? opening : undefined);
diff --git a/src/hours/terce.ts b/src/hours/terce.ts
index 97eb054..121a57e 100644
--- a/src/hours/terce.ts
+++ b/src/hours/terce.ts
@@ -5,11 +5,11 @@ import { getDayLabel } from '../calendar/day-label';
 import { getPsalmsFor } from '../psalter/distribution';
 import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
-import { isDoubleOrHigher, applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
+import { applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
 import {
   resolveCommon,
   getDayCollect,
-  splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   resolveMinorHourAntiphon,
   resolveMinorHourChapter,
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
       // psalms, no closing repeat (unlike Prime): confirmed directly
       // against the engine, Capitulum follows the third psalm immediately.
       const psalmRefs = getPsalmsFor('terce', day.weekday);
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('terce', day, antiphons[day.weekday]));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(resolveMinorHourAntiphon('terce', day, antiphons[day.weekday]), resolveOfficeWinner(day));
       return psalmRefs.map((ref, i) => {
         const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v) => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
         const { verses, antiphon } = applyFlexaMark(rawVerses, i === 0 ? opening : undefined);
diff --git a/src/hours/vespers.ts b/src/hours/vespers.ts
index 6c1da84..f07c926 100644
--- a/src/hours/vespers.ts
+++ b/src/hours/vespers.ts
@@ -4,12 +4,13 @@ import { resolveEveningDay } from '../calendar/vespers';
 import { getDayLabel } from '../calendar/day-label';
 import { getPsalmVerses } from '../psalter';
 import { getOpeningVersicleId } from './opening-versicle';
-import { isDoubleOrHigher, applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
+import { applyFlexaMark } from './antiphon';
 import {
   resolveCommon,
   getDayCollects,
   getMagnificatAntiphon,
   splitNamedAntiphon,
+  openingAntiphon,
   resolveOfficeWinner,
   verifiedText,
   seasonalOfficeSuffix,
@@ -47,8 +48,9 @@ function normalizePsalmRef(ref: PsalmRefLike): { number: number; verses?: string
  * in full once, after the last. Mirrors lauds.ts's psalmParts, extended
  * for verse-range entries (see PsalmRefLike). */
 function psalmParts(group: VespersGroup, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
-  const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(verifiedText(group.antiphon));
-  const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+  const antiphonText = verifiedText(group.antiphon);
+  const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+  const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
   const refs = group.psalms.map(normalizePsalmRef);
   const parts: ResolvedPart[] = refs.map((ref, i) => {
     const rawVerses = getPsalmVerses(ref.number, ref.verses).map((v) => ({ n: v.n, text: v.text, status: v.status }));
@@ -161,8 +163,9 @@ function resolvePart(part: HourPart, day: LiturgicalDay): ResolvedPart[] {
     case 'vespers-office':
       return resolveOffice(day);
     case 'magnificat': {
-      const { incipit, full } = splitNamedAntiphon(getMagnificatAntiphon(day));
-      const opening = isDoubleOrHigher(resolveOfficeWinner(day)) ? full : incipit;
+      const antiphonText = getMagnificatAntiphon(day);
+      const opening = openingAntiphon(antiphonText, resolveOfficeWinner(day));
+      const { full } = splitNamedAntiphon(antiphonText);
       return [
         { kind: 'canticle', canticleId: 'magnificat', text: resolveCommon('magnificat'), antiphon: opening },
         { kind: 'antiphon', text: full },