When  the  feast  of  All  Saints  falls  on  a  Saturday,  the
Office  of  the  Dead  is  transferred  to  the  following  Monday,
and  in  that  case  the  Vespers  of  the  Dead  are  said  after
those  of  the  Sunday — following  in  this  the  custom  of  the
place.  After  the  evening  Angelus,  a  peal  is  rung  for  a
quarter  of  an  hour ;  another  about  seven  o'clock,  and  again
after  Matins.  At  the  Benedictus  of  our  Lady's  Office,  the
bell  is  rung  for  Matins  of  the  Dead,  until  they  commence.
The  next  morning  a  peal  is  rung  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour
after  the  Angelus.
At  Vespers  and  Matins  of  the  Office  of  the  Blessed
Virgin,  the  Superior's  chanters  and  chorists  take  their  ordi-
nary places  near  her,  and  in  order  to  make  no  disorder,  the
chorists  are  chanters.
After  the  Benedicamus  Domino  of  Lauds  of  the  Office
of  the  Blessed  Virgin,  Matins  for  the  Dead  are  said.  When


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the  Sister  who  officiates  says  Per  Dominum  of  the  last
prayer,  the  Superior's  chanters  go  to  the  middle  of  the
choir  to  say  the  Invitatory,  Regent  cui  omnia  vivunt,  and  the
Venite.  The  first  chorist  intones  the  first  antiphon,  the
chanter  the  psalm.  The  antiphons  are  doubled,  they  do  not
ask  the  Blessing-  before  the  lessons,  nor  say  Tu  autem  after,
but  the  last  word  is  said  quite  slowly,  and  at  once  the  choir
takes  up  the  response  that  follows  the  lesson.
They  do  the  same  at  the  second  nocturn,  which  falls  to
the  Assistant's  choir.  The  third  nocturn  returns  to  that  of
the  Superior.
The  chorists  go  out  to  say  the  versicle,  when  the  last
verse  of  the  third  psalm  of  each  nocturn  is  begun,  and  at
Lauds  at  the  end  of  the  last  psalm.
