ADVENT WEEK 1 THURSDAY EVENING SONG
SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD
THURSDAY EVENING PRAYER
FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT
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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. 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.
Hymn: "High Word of God Who Once Didst Come"Translation by Charles Biggs of "?" *******************************************************
Hymn: "High Word of God Who Once Didst Come"
Translation by Charles Biggs 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: "O Gladsome Light." English translation by John RoseEnglish Gospel Canticle & Latin Lord's Prayer*******************************************************
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: "O Gladsome Light."
English translation by John Rose
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 28-37
Creator of the Stars of Night: Advent Vesper Hymn16K views / 7 years agoGregorian Chant Schola of Saint Meinrad Archabbey - Topic
Lyrics Not All Same VersesCreator of the Stars of Night: Advent Vesper Hymn
16K views / 7 years ago
Gregorian Chant Schola of Saint Meinrad Archabbey - Topic
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.
Winter's Coming Home
Weston Priory: Winter's Coming Home
4,137 views /Dec 1, 2020
Of brothers' love; The ev'ning speaks of hearts together now
That harvest's done And gone to rest
For winter's coming home
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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 30
Lord, I will give you all praise, for you have rescued me and not let my foes triumph over me.
PSALM 29:2-13Exaltábo te, Dómine, quóniam extraxísti me,
Latin-English text and music links for PSALM 30
PSALM 32
Blessed is he whose sins are forgiven, whose transgressions are hidden away.
PSALM 31:1-11Beátus, cui remíssa est iníquitas* et obtéctum est peccátum
Latin-English text and music links for PSALM 32
CANTICLE REVELATIONS 11
We thank you, Lord God Almighty,
REVELATIONS 11:17-18,12:10-12Grátias ágimus tibi,*
LECTIONARY OPTION
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and VespersDRA Isaiah 5: 25-30 modernized
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he has stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still. And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. There is none that shall faint, nor labor among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist.
The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 5: 25-30 modernized
Therefore is the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, and he has stretched out his hand upon them, and struck them: and the mountains were troubled, and their carcasses became as dung in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
And he will lift up a sign to the nations afar off and will whistle to them from the ends of the earth: and behold they shall come with speed swiftly. There is none that shall faint, nor labor among them: they shall not slumber nor sleep, neither shall the girdle of their loins be loosed, nor the latchet of their shoes be broken. Their arrows are sharp, and all their bows are bent. The hoofs of their horses shall be like the hint, and their wheels like the violence of a tempest. Their roaring like that of a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea they shall roar, and take hold of the prey, and they shall keep fast hold of it, and there shall be none to deliver it. And they shall make a noise against them that day, like the roaring of the sea; we shall look towards the land, and behold darkness of tribulation, and the light is darkened with the mist.
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. *
AntiphonYou are the most blessed of all women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
Benedícta tu in muliéribus et benedíctus fructus ventris tui.
ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG
CHORAL-EVENSONG-BOOKLET-POST-COVID.pdf (canterbury-cathedral.org)
Evensong sung by the boy choristers
plainchant, Responses
Psalm 8
Sumsion in D
Greene, The sun shall be no more thy light by day
Hymn 57 Ye servants of the Lord (Narenza
MONASTIC VESPERS
Psalms 81 85 86
RECORDED
Deus in Adjutorium – "O God come to my assistance"
Hymn: "O Gladsome Light," Phos Hilaron (3rd century), translation and arrangement copyright John Rose
Psalm 30
Psalm 32
Canticle: Revelation 11v17-18; 12v10b-12a
Reading: James 5:7-8, 9b
Responsory: Come and set us free, Lord God of power and might.
Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55
Intercessions: Look kindly on your children, Lord.
The Lord's Prayer
Concluding PrayersW
2nd verse of Lo How a Rose Ere Blooming
Latin
Evensong sung by the boy choristers
Responses, plainchant
Psalm 12
Bairstow in E flat
Warlock, Adam lay y’bounden
Hymn 25: We praise you, Father (Gonfalon Royal)