What is the Invitatory Psalm?
The Invitatory Psalm opens the whole Office of each day: it calls us together to pray and praise God throughout the day’s work. You should recite it at the beginning of the first Hour that you say each day. On the Web we provide two versions of Morning Prayer and the Office of Readings, one including the Invitatory Psalm and the other omitting it. In the downloads, the Invitatory Psalm is presented in a separate page. The Liturgy gives you two options with the Invitatory Psalm. Either you can use Psalm 94(95) always, or you can choose between Psalms 94(95), 99(100), 66(67), and 23(24). On the Universalis Web site, we use the latter approach because it gives more variety; but if you use Universalis from a mobile phone, we always stick to Psalm 94(95) to reduce the amount of text that has to be sent to the phone (the idea is that you can print out the psalm or even memorise it, since it doesn’t change from one day to the next).
