# Verified against Divinum Officium (Monastic Tridentinum 1617). Confirmed by # running the real engine (not just reading its data files) that this table # is used unconditionally by weekday, regardless of feast rank — Monastic # Prime has no "Festis" override the way secular/Roman Prime does, so a # Duplex-rank feast still gets the plain weekday psalms. Antiphons aren't # modeled yet (each day has its own, e.g. Monday's "Servíte Dómino in # timóre") — that's propers content-authoring, not a distribution-table # concern. prime: sunday: - { number: 118, verses: "1-8" } - { number: 118, verses: "9-16" } - { number: 118, verses: "17-24" } - { number: 118, verses: "25-32" } monday: - { number: 1 } - { number: 2 } - { number: 6 } tuesday: - { number: 7 } - { number: 8 } - { number: 9, verses: "2-19" } wednesday: - { number: 9, verses: "20-39" } - { number: 10 } - { number: 11 } thursday: - { number: 12 } - { number: 13 } - { number: 14 } friday: - { number: 15 } - { number: 16 } - { number: 17, verses: "2-25" } saturday: - { number: 17, verses: "26-51" } - { number: 18 } - { number: 19 } # Editorial redistribution, worked out day-by-day in conversation before # Matins/Terce/Sext/None existed as hours — recorded here so the decision # survives until milestone 3/5 actually consumes it, not because any code # reads `matins`/`terce`/`sext`/`none` yet. # # The problem: Monastic ferial Matins has 12 psalms/day, which felt like # too many; ferial Terce/Sext/None always repeats the same 9 short psalms # (119-127) regardless of weekday, which felt monotonous. The fix: cut # non-Sunday Matins to 9/day, and give the freed-up capacity to Friday and # Saturday's Terce/Sext/None instead of just discarding it. # # Method (do not re-derive without this context, the reasoning isn't # obvious from the numbers alone): # 1. Classify every non-Sunday Matins psalm as "must-stay" (>~15 verses, # or blocked because it's half of a split psalm whose other half is # too long — a split psalm always moves as a pair or not at all) or # "could-move" (short and free to relocate). 43 must-stay, 29 # could-move, verified against a real Monastic 1617 Tue-Sat run # (Mon/Sat cross-checked directly; the verse-count table this was # built from is in the conversation, not repeated here). # 2. Non-Sunday Matins needs 9*6=54 psalms total; only 43 were # naturally must-stay, so the 11 *longest* could-move psalms were # promoted back to must-stay (bringing the total to exactly 54) — # pragmatic, not a liturgical principle: given a forced choice # between two "short enough" psalms, keep the longer one in Matins # and let the truly shortest ones be the ones that actually move. # 3. The resulting 54 were resliced into six fresh groups of 9, in # continuous psalm order, *not* respecting original day boundaries — # this is why e.g. Tuesday's Matins below includes psalms that were # originally Monday's. One adjustment was needed by hand: the raw # reslice split Psalm 103 across Friday and Saturday, so Ps 96 (the # shortest non-103 psalm on Friday) was swapped out to Saturday to # let both halves of 103 land together on Friday. # 4. The remaining 18 could-move psalms are exactly 2 days' worth of # Terce+Sext+None (3+3+3=9 per day) — enough to replace Friday's and # Saturday's, in the same continuous psalm order, filling Terce then # Sext then None. Not enough to also replace Wednesday's or # Thursday's, which keep the traditional 119-127 unchanged. # # Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday's Terce/Sext/None are untouched by any of # this (still whatever Divinum Officium gives natively — Ps 118 sections # for Sunday/Monday, 119-127 for Tuesday) — now recorded below, verified # against clean per-annum runs with no sanctoral override (2026-08-09 Sun, # 2026-08-31 Mon, 2026-10-13 Tue). matins: monday: - { number: 32 } - { number: 33 } - { number: 34 } - { number: 36, verses: "1-26" } - { number: 36, verses: "27-40" } - { number: 37 } - { number: 38 } - { number: 39 } - { number: 40 } tuesday: - { number: 43 } - { number: 44 } - { number: 47 } - { number: 48 } - { number: 49 } - { number: 54 } - { number: 55 } - { number: 58 } - { number: 59 } wednesday: - { number: 65 } - { number: 67, verses: "2-19" } - { number: 67, verses: "20-36" } - { number: 68, verses: "2-16" } - { number: 68, verses: "17-37" } - { number: 70 } - { number: 71 } - { number: 72 } - { number: 73 } thursday: - { number: 76 } - { number: 77, verses: "1-35" } - { number: 77, verses: "36-72" } - { number: 78 } - { number: 79 } - { number: 80 } - { number: 82 } - { number: 83 } - { number: 84 } friday: - { number: 85 } - { number: 88, verses: "2-19" } - { number: 88, verses: "20-53" } - { number: 93 } - { number: 95 } - { number: 101 } - { number: 102 } - { number: 103, verses: "1-24" } - { number: 103, verses: "25-35" } saturday: - { number: 96 } - { number: 104, verses: "1-22" } - { number: 104, verses: "23-45" } - { number: 105, verses: "1-31" } - { number: 105, verses: "32-48" } - { number: 106, verses: "1-24" } - { number: 106, verses: "25-43" } - { number: 107 } - { number: 108 } # Sunday deliberately not modeled here — real Sunday Matins is # structurally different (3 nocturns, canticles) and untouched by this # redistribution; source it directly from the reference engine. terce: sunday: - { number: 118, verses: "33-40" } - { number: 118, verses: "41-48" } - { number: 118, verses: "49-56" } monday: - { number: 118, verses: "105-112" } - { number: 118, verses: "113-120" } - { number: 118, verses: "121-128" } tuesday: &gradual-terce - { number: 119 } - { number: 120 } - { number: 121 } wednesday: *gradual-terce thursday: *gradual-terce friday: - { number: 41 } - { number: 45 } - { number: 46 } saturday: - { number: 69 } - { number: 74 } - { number: 81 } sext: sunday: - { number: 118, verses: "57-64" } - { number: 118, verses: "65-72" } - { number: 118, verses: "73-80" } monday: - { number: 118, verses: "129-136" } - { number: 118, verses: "137-144" } - { number: 118, verses: "145-152" } tuesday: &gradual-sext - { number: 122 } - { number: 123 } - { number: 124 } wednesday: *gradual-sext thursday: *gradual-sext friday: - { number: 51 } - { number: 52 } - { number: 53 } saturday: - { number: 86 } - { number: 92 } - { number: 97 } none: sunday: - { number: 118, verses: "81-88" } - { number: 118, verses: "89-96" } - { number: 118, verses: "97-104" } monday: - { number: 118, verses: "153-160" } - { number: 118, verses: "161-168" } - { number: 118, verses: "169-176" } tuesday: &gradual-none - { number: 125 } - { number: 126 } - { number: 127 } wednesday: *gradual-none thursday: *gradual-none friday: - { number: 57 } - { number: 60 } - { number: 61 } saturday: - { number: 98 } - { number: 99 } - { number: 100 }