SAINT ANDREW APOSTLE EVENING SONG

 



 EVENING PRAYER

SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE     


NOVEMBER 30

PSALMS OF THE FEAST

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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

Three Models (Options) for Praying this Evening

Praying with Christ Every Day, Every Where will be greatly helped by a variety of models and options. 

Becoming skillful in understanding and adapting these models 
to both personal and communal prayer is a major goal of this website. 

The Instruction for the Liturgy of the Hours promotes both recitation in common as well as singing the Hours. 

The first model with its option below emphasizes recitation in common. 
the second model emphasizes the sung nature of the celebration. 
The third model with its easy-to- read monthly booklet is very suitable for personal meditative prayer and study, including marking the text. 

Each of the three Options contains the full official text of Roman Rite for Evening Prayer.  

Links to two websites are embedded here for convenience 
so that one does not have to go to their websites, then locate the desired posting.
 Embedded links have the added advantage of eliminating YouTube advertisements.

Each of three Options has a beginning hymn. These are noted below to help you chose among options.  You can begin with one option and its hymn then with a little dexterity switch to another option.

RECITATION IN COMMON MODEL

DIVINE OFFICE.ORG OPTION

Excellent model of small (household size) community reciting the office with sung hymn at the beginning. Experience the Hours as community prayer even when praying alone and as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.  




Hymn: "Let Heaven Now Resound With Priase"
Translation by Saint Cecilia's Abbey of "Exultet caelum laudibus"
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COMPLETELY SUNG MODEL

SING THE HOURS OPTION

Excellent model of totally sung office mostly by one very talented young person. His father is an excellent translator of Latin Hymns. Although they use some Latin, there is always an English translation. They use very simple, mainly Gregorian chants. 

If you desire to sing along, try chanting only every other verse. 
Listen to the cantor for the remaining verses. 
This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir. 





Hymn: "Captator Olim Piscium"
 English translation by St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, UK,
Latin Gospel Canticle & Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL

WORD ON FIRE OPTION

Bishop Baron's organization has begun producing a monthly booklet that contains Morning, Evening, and Night Prayer for each day. It reads straight through like a book except for the beginning hymns for each hour which are all in the back of the booklet.  

Below is a close approximation to the hymn they have chosen. Often the video has more or different verses. Sometimes the translation is different. Sometimes the tune. More rarely the choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos. 

 WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: NOVEMBER 2022, pages 633-641

Lord of Our Life (Iste Confessor)
1.1K views / 5 years ago


Text, Music and Piano Accompaniment

Additional Hymn Selections

Iste Confessor Domini (Confessor Bishop, Hymn)
20K views / 11 years ago


Gregorian Notation and Chant

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THE FOUR WEEK PSALTER 

WALKING AND SINGING WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD

For health reasons, I walk forty to fifty minutes each morning and evening on a treadmill. The two above offices total about thirty-five minutes. Adding some of the additional options below brings the time to over forty-five minutes. The three options are interleaved by opening three tabs on the computer in front of the treadmill. With a little more dexterity, they could be interweaved on a cellphone or pad. The repetition of each psalm three time in three different formats provides a pleasing ritual experience. 

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS  


Antiphon
 You are the men who have stood faithfully by me in my trials. Alleluia.

Vos estis qui permansístis mecum in tentatiónibus meis, allelúia


PSALM 116 B

Still I trusted, even when I said
  “I am greatly afflicted,”

PSALM 115:10-19
Crédidi, étiam cum locútus sum:*
  «Ego humiliátus sum nimis».



Antiphon
I am here among you as one who serves. Alleluia.

Ego in médio vestrum sum, sicut qui minístrat, allelúia.

PSALM 126

When the Lord gave Zion back her captives,
 we became like dreamers.

PSALM 125:1-6
In converténdo Dóminus captivitátem Sion,*
  facti sumus quasi somniántes.


Antiphon
I shall not call you servants any more, I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I learned from my Father. Alleluia.
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Iam non dicam vos servos, sed amícos meos,
 quia ómnia quæcúmque audívi a Patre meo, nota feci vobis, allelúia.

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CANTICLE EPHESIANS 1

Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Benedíctus Deus et Pater Dómini nostri Iesu Christi,*

Short Responsory
Tell of the glory of the Lord; announce it among the nations. Alleluia, alleluia.
Speak of his wonderful deeds to all the peoples.

Responsorium breve
℣. .Annuntiáte inter gentes glóriam Dómini, * Allelúia, allelúia
℟. In ómnibus pópulis mirabília eius.*


Antiphon
The Lord says, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.
 For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.’

Misericórdiam volo et non sacrifícium, dicit Dóminus; 
non enim veni vocáre iustos, sed peccatóres.



ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

CHORAL-EVENSONG-BOOKLET-POST-COVID.pdf (canterbury-cathedral.org)




Luke the Evangelist
5.30 Evensong sung by the Lay Clerks
Matthew Martin, Iustorum animae
Philip Moore, Responses 
Psalm 94.1-19
Philip Moore in A ii
Boyce, The heavens declare the glory of God
Hymn 394 Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord 
(Woodlands







PSALMS 111, 112, 123