ADVENT WEEK 1 FRIDAY MORNING PRAISE

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD 

 TUESDAY MORNING PRAYER

FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT



PSALTER WEEK I

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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

Three Models (Options) for Praying this Morning

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 Morning 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 do not contain 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.  




Invitatory Psalm 95
Hymn: "Eternal Glory of the Sky"
Translation by John M. Neale of "?"
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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. 




 Hymn: "Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth," 
"Veni Redemptor Gentium," 
translated by John Mason Neale (19th century
English Gospel Canticle & 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 41-49


O Come Divine Messiah
150K views / 6 years 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.  

Come to Me
Weston Priory: Locusts and Wild Honey

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy burdened, 
 and I shall give you rest. 
 Take up my yoke and learn from me, 
 for I am meek and humble of heart. 
 And you’ll find rest for your souls. 
 Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 
Lyrics: 
Lyrics: Come to Me

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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


* PSALM 51 *

Take pity on me, Lord, in your mercy;
  in your abundance of mercy wipe out my guilt

PSALM 50:3-21
Miserére mei, Deus, * secúndum misericórdiam tuam;



ISAIAH 45

In truth you are a hidden God,  the God and Savior of Israel.

PSALM 99:1-5
Vere tu es Deus abscónditus,*   Deus Israel salvátor.




* PSALM 100 *

Rejoice in the Lord, all the earth, and serve him with joy.

Introíte in conspéctu Dómini in exsultatióne.



LECTIONARY OPTION

The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 6: 1-13 modernized


In the year that king Ozias died, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne high and elevated: and his train filled the temple. Upon it stood the seraphims: the one had six wings, and the other had six wings: with two they covered his face, and with two they covered his feet, and with two they flew. And they cried one to another, and said: Holy, holy, holy, the Lord God of hosts, all the earth is full of his glory.

And the lintels of the doors were moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.  And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts. 

And one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.  And he touched my mouth, and said: Behold this hath touched thy lips, and thy iniquities shall be taken away, and thy sin shall be cleansed.
 
And I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send? and who shall go for us? And I said: Lo, here am I, send me.  And he said: Go, and thou shalt say to this people: Hearing, hear, and understand not: and see the vision, and know it not.  Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and be converted and I heal them.

And I said: How long, O Lord? And he said: Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land shall be left desolate. And the Lord shall remove men far away, and she shall be multiplied that was left in the midst of the earth. And there shall be still a tithing therein, and she shall turn, and shall be made a show as a turpentine tree, and as an oak that spreads its branches: that which shall stand therein, shall be a holy seed.



Short Responsory
℣. The glory of the Lord will shine on you, Jerusalem.
Like the sun he will rise over you..
℟. His glory will appear in your midst..

Responsorium breve
℣. Super te, Ierúsalem, * Oriétur Dóminus
 Et glória eius in te vidébitur.


Antiphon
Behold the one who is both God and man: he comes forth from the house of David and sits on the throne, alleluia.

Ecce véniet Deus et homo de domo David sedére in throno, allelúia

BENEDICTUS

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
  for he has come to his people and brought about their redemption

Benedíctus Dóminus Deus Israel,*  quia visitávit et fecit redemptiónem plebi suæ







ANGLICAN MORNING PRAYER

DEANERY GARDEN CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
An excellent model of how to incorporate liturgical prayer
into our daily lives including plants, animals and the environment
as well the daily events of today and history

RECORDED


RECORDED


0:00 Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"
0:42 Hymn: "Come Thou Redeemer of the Earth," "Veni Redemptor Gentium," Ambrose of Milan (4th century), translated by John Mason Neale (19th century)
2:30 Psalm 51
6:26 Canticle: Isaiah 45v15-25
10:00 Psalm 100
11:30 Reading: See Jeremiah 30v21,22
12:00 Responsory: Your Light will come, Jerusalem, the Lord will dawn on you in radiant beauty. 
12:53 Canticle of Zechariah
15:17 Intercessions: Lord may Your name be glorified.
16:16 The Lord’s Prayer

REHEARSAL

Service leaflet for the above:

Saint Thomas Church, Toronto

During the service the choir moves from west to east, from ‘darkness to light’. First, in near-darkness, the ancient responsory sets out the Advent hope. Shortly after comes the ancient hymn Conditor alme siderum. Then, carols of our redemption alternate with Advent hymns and readings, looking not only toward our celebration of the birth of Jesus, but also of that time when he returns in glory culminating in our prayer ‘Amen: come, Lord Jesus.’

Filmed at Newman University Church in Dublin, Ireland in accordance with COVID-19 restrictions. Note: Though parts of the service may seem to have be filmed at the same time, they were filmed separately to ensure the following of COVID-19 guidelines and social distancing. No service leaflet

Saint James Cathedral, Chicago no service leaflet Music from tonight’s service is sung by the St. James Cathedral Choir virtually or found in previous service archive





MUSIC |  CCLI streaming license # 20362509: 
You’ll Come by Hillsong | Led by Caroline Brooks and Kyle Moore
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel by John Mason Neale |  Led by Caroline Brooks and Kyle Moore
Adam Lay Ybounden | Led by Chancel Quartet
People, Look East (Hymn) | Led by Chancel Quartet
The Angel Gabriel to Mary Came  | Led by Chancel Quartet
Mary's Song (Breathe of Heaven) |  Led by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
On Jordan's Bank  (Hymn) | Led by Chancel Quartet
I Will Wait by Mumford & Sons | Led by Caroline and Kyle Moore






No leaflet

text in video plus below

No service leaflet; Titles in video