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"The pre-Vatican 2 Office of Matins (now called the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours) has 3, 6 or 9 readings according to the status of the day - double of 2nd class or whatever. It's all much simpler now. An obvious example of this is the readings at the Office of Matins (known as Tenebrae) celebrated during the Triduum in Holy Week and now much revived in a certain style of Anglican Church. One has to say that some of the readings in the old pre-Vatican 2 office are rather more inspiring than those in the more modern (post Vatican 2) Liturgy of the Hours, some of which are quite dire - as are some of the office hymns (notably that for St David's day!). \n  \nPerhaps we're drifting far too far from the ethos of carol services though. (Those of us who enjoy intricate liturgical discussion do so on Fr Hunwicke's marvellous Anglican blog or on the RC ones of Frs Sean Finnegan and Ray Blake.) In a funny sort of way I quite enjoyed having two non-Biblican readings amongst the eight at the service I played for yesterday. I'd never heard Scrooge being quoted as saying \"Bah, humbug\" in a reading at a service before and I thought it worked rather well. \n  \nMalcolm "
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