Venite

Officiating Matins, I finished the opening sentences and helpfully announced that the day's psalms were number 147 and 148 ... of course, that would have been more helpful after the Venite, which is where the psalms belong.

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This has no antiphons, but a repetition of the first verse at intervals, after the manner of the Invitatory to the "Venite" in the Roman Rite.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

"Venite" has been used for this purpose from the earliest times.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

The psalm "Venite" was recited with its own antiphon in its proper place, that is to say, the last of the psalms of the second nocturn.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

In effect, the psalm "Venite" would seem to be addressed to those who were to come to the vigil rather than to those who were already there.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

Act of Uniformity Amendment Act. It is true that discretion is given to the Minister to add, in its proper place, any canticle he may think fit, but in our judgment the "Venite" should have found a place in the necessary portion of the Service.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

Trinity before the "Venite," and which had become most closely associated in the minds of the people with that joyful season, was omitted.

Studies in the Book of Common Prayer 1900

Then came the "Venite," of which here and there she sang a line or so, just one or two rich notes like those that a thrush utters before he bursts into full song.

Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Instead of the "Venite," let the Psalm of Praise and Thanksgiving after victory, to be found in the

Our cause in harmony with the purposes of God in Christ Jesus : a sermon preached in Christ Church, Savannah, on Thursday, September 18th, 1862, being the day set forth by the President of the Confederate States, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving, for our manifold victories, and especially for the fields of Manassas and Richmond, Ky., 1862

We managed the "Venite" very well, and now mean to try the "Te

Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Katherine Mary Barrow