ADVENT WEEK 1 THURSDAY 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 
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 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 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.  



Invitatory Psalm 95
Hymn: "Thy Will Be Done"
 by Anthony Carnesi
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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. 



 Invitatory: Psalm 95
Hymn: "Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus," 
by Charles Wesley, 
English 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: DECEMBER 2022, pages 20-29


On Jordan's Bank the Baptist's Cry 
(Tune: Winchester New - 5vv) 
Chet Valley Churches

47K views / 2 years ago

Hymn choice from my personal collection 

This fourth option for a beginning hymn reflects the blog author's music collection that over the years has been used to support celebration of 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.

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 of pad. The repetition of each psalm three time in three different formats provides a pleasing ritual experience. 

MATIN PSALMS 

(Office of Readings)

Psalm 18, I Call On The LORD (a new musical setting)

MIN 11:10 15,009 views  Oct 4, 2014
Karl Kohlhase


LAUDS PSALMS 

(Office of Morning Prayer)

* PSALM 57 *

Click on Link above for Psalm Translations and Musical Links

Have mercy on me, God, have mercy.   My soul flies to you for refuge.

PSALM 56:2-12
Miserére mei, Deus, miserére mei,*   quóniam in te cónfugit ánima mea


Psalm 57 Eikona - Topic

 

704 views  Mar 4, 2020  



Canticle Jeremiah 31

All you nations, listen to the word of the Lord, proclaim it in the farthest islands:

JEREMIAH 31:10-14
Pópulus meus, ait Dóminus, bonis meis adimplébitur.



PSALM 48

Links for Psalm 48

The Lord is great and greatly to be praised   in the city of our God.

PSALM 47:2-15
Magnus Dóminus et laudábilis nimis*


LECTIONARY OPTION

The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 5: 1-7 modernized

I will sing to my beloved the canticle of my cousin concerning his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a hill in a fruitful place. And he fenced it in, and picked the stones out of it, and planted it with the choicest vines, and built a tower in the midst thereof, and set up a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Juda, judge between me and my vineyard. What is there that I ought to do more to my vineyard, that I have not done to it? 

And now I will show you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted: I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down. And I will make it desolate: it shall not be pruned, and it shall not be tilled: but briers and thorns shall come up: and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.

 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

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
I will wait for the Lord who saves me. 
I will hope in him, for he is coming, alleluia.

Exspectábo Dóminum salvatórem meum et præstolábor eum dum prope est, allelúia.

THE GOSPEL CANTICLE 

Canticle of Zechariah
Morning and Evening Prayer at Weston Priory
1,375 views Dec 11, 2020 (1998)


Antiphon: 
 Cry out in the stillness of morning. 
 With joy greet the dawn of this new day. 
 Pour out your heart like water. 
 Lift your hands to God in praise.
Lyrics: Canticle of Zachariah

RECORDED FULL SERVICES





Invitatory
Hymn: "Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus," Charles Wesley, 3/4 time tune
Psalm 57
Canticle: Jeremiah 31v10-14
Psalm 48
Reading: Isaiah 66v1-2
Responsory: Your light will come, Jerusalem, the Lord will dawn on you in radiant beauty.
Canticle of Zechariah
Intercessions
The Lord’s Prayer