ASH WEDNESDAY MORNING PRAISE

 


SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 ASH WEDNESDAY MORNING PRAYER

LENT


FEBRUARY 22

PSALTER WEEK III

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VIRTUAL RESOURCES

Virtual resources provide more than the dry bones of the liturgical text. They celebrate the Hours with sounds and images. Most of all they provide community, both community with those who produced the sounds and images, and the community of those who celebrate at different times and places with the same sounds and images.  

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 each illustrated by a concrete option. 

Becoming skillful at 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 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.  
Each of the three Options has a beginning hymn. These are noted below as an aid to choosing among options.  With a little practice, one can begin with one option and its hymn, then 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 24
Hymn: "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
by Saint Isaac Watts
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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. If English is preferred, either pause the Latin after a verse to pray the English, or mute the Latin and pray the English. 


 Invitatory: Psalm 95
 Hymn: "Attende Domine" (Latin chorus, 
English verses translated by John Rose)
Latin Gospel Canticle & Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL

WORD ON FIRE OPTION

Bishop Baron's organization produces 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 and or the tune will be different.  Sometimes the choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos. 

 WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: FEBRUARY 2023, pages 459-469

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


Text, Music and Piano Accompaniment

HYMN SELECTED FROM MY PERSONAL 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.  

Parce Domine | Gregorian Chant
Whitney Maslak





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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. For additional ideas about using this website see the following link

HOW TO USE THIS WEB PAGE

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ADDITIONAL OPTIONS



PSALM 108

My heart is ready, O God, my spirit is prepared.
  I shall sing and make a psalm in glorification.

PSALM 107:2-14
Parátum cor meum, Deus,†   parátum cor meum,*
  †cantábo et psallam.

Latin-English texts and links for PSALM 108



CANTICLE ISAIAH 61-62

I will rejoice joyfully in the Lord,
  and my spirit shall exault in my God,

ISAIAH 61:10-62:5
Gaudens gaudébo in Dómino,*   et exsultábit ánima mea in Deo meo,





PSALM 146

Praise the Lord, my soul.
  I will praise the Lord my whole life,
   and make music to my God as long as I live.

PSALM 145:1-10
Lauda, ánima mea, Dóminum;† laudábo Dóminum in vita mea,*
psallam Deo meo, quámdiu fúero.

Latin-English texts and music links for PSALM 146




Short Responsory
It is he who will free me from the snare of the hunters.
And from the evil word..

Responsorium breve
℣. Ipse liberábit me* De láqueo venántium.. 
℟. Et a verbo malígno.



Antiphon
When you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites.

Cum ieiunátis, nolíte fíeri, sicut hypócritæ, tristes

BENEDICTUS

CANTICLE OF ZACHARY

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




RECORDEDDIVINE OFFICE. ORG
Excellent model of small household size community praying the office
but with song only at beginning








SING THE HOURS
Excellent model of totally sung office
but mostly by one person



OUTLINE OF TODAY'S OFFICE ABOVE
Invitatory Psalm 95
Hymn: Attende Domine
Psalm 51
Canticle: Jeremiah 14:17-21
 Psalm 100
Reading: Deuteronomy 7:6, 8-9
 Responsory: God himself will set me free, from the hunter’s snare.
Canticle of Zechariah: Luke 1:68-79
Intercessions: Lord, give us your Holy Spirit.
 The Lord's Prayer
Concluding Prayers