ADVENT WEEK 1 FRIDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER

FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT



PSALTER WEEK I

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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 
for 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.
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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 All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent"
Translation by Gerard Moultrie of Fifth Century Liturgy
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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 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. 



 
Latin Hymn: "Conditor Alme Siderum,"
English Gospel Canticle & Latin Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL

WORD ON FIRE OPTION

Bishop Baron's organization recently began 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: DECEMBER 2022, pages 50-58


The King Shall Come - Lyrics Video
2.7K views / 1 year ago




HYMN SELECTED FROM MY PERSONEL FAVORITES

This fourth hymn option reflects the Blog author's music collection (first vinyl discs, then cassettes, then CDs) that have been used over the years to support celebration of the Hours.  

God Will Be With Me
Weston Priory: Winter's Coming Home
305 views Dec 1, 2020

Let it be, yes, let it be; 
 as you will, so let it be done. 
 Though I do not understand, 
 God will be with me: this I do know.

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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. 

EVENING PSALMS

PSALM 41

Blessed is he who takes thought for the helpless,
  for the Lord will keep him safe in time of trouble.

PSALM 40:2-14
Beátus, qui intéllegit de egéno,*   in die mala liberábit eum Dóminus.




PSALM 46

The Lord is our refuge and our strength,

PSALM 45:2-12

Deus est nobis refúgium et virtus,*



REVELATIONS 15 CANTICLE

Great and wonderful are your deeds,
  O Lord God the Almighty!

REVELATIONS 15 3-4
Magna et mirabília ópera tua,*
  Dómine Deus omnípotens;



LECTIONARY OPTION
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 7: 1-9 modernized


And it came to pass in the days of Achaz the son of Joathan, the son of Ozias, king of Juda, that Basin king of Syria, and Phacee the son of Romelia king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem, to fight against it: but they could not prevail over it.  And they told the house of David, saying: Syria hath rested upon Ephraim, and his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

And the Lord said to Isaias: Go forth to meet Achaz, you and Jasub your son that is left, to the conduit of the upper pool, in the way of the fuller's held. And you shalt say to him: Be quiet: fear not, and let not your heart be afraid of the two tails of these fire brands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.

Because Syria has taken counsel against thee, unto the evil of Ephraim and the son of Romelia, saying: Let us go up to Juda, and rouse it up, and draw it away to us, and make the son of Tabeel king in the midst thereof. Thus says the Lord God: It shall not stand, and this shall not be. But the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Basin: and within threescore and five years, Ephraim shall cease to be a people: And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of Samaria the son of Romelia. If you will not believe, you shall not continue.


Short Responsory
Come to us and save us, Lord God almighty.
Let your face smile on us and we shall be safe

Responsorium breve
℣. .Veni ad liberándum nos,* Dómine Deus virtútum
℟.  Osténde fáciem tuam et salvi érimus


MAGNIFICAT

Out of Egypt I have called my son. He will come and save his people.,

Ex Ægýpto vocávi Fílium meum: véniet ut salvet pópulum suum.



ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG




Evensong sung by the Lay Clerks
 Philip Moore, Responses ii
 Psalms 12-14
 Michael Walsh, St Paul’s service
 Tye, Ad te clamamus
 Hymn 34 Earth was waiting, spent and restless (Picardy

MONASTIC VESPERS




PSALM 102, 103


RECORDED FULL SERVICES



Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance" Hymn: "Conditor Alme Siderum," (5th-10th century, anonymous) Sarum breviary tune, 9th century. Psalm 41 Psalm 46 Canticle: Revelation 15v3-4 Reading: Romans 15v1-3 Responsory: Christ loved us and washed away our sins, in his own blood. Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55 Intercessions: Lord, show us your mercy. The Lord's Prayer (Latin) Concluding Prayers