LENT WEEK 1 SUNDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER II

FIRST WEEK OF LENT


FEBRUARY 26

PSALTER WEEK I

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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 Evening:

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 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. 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.  


Hymn: "God of Mercy and God of Grace"
by John Taylor
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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. 


"Audi Benigne Conditor,"
Translated by John Mason Neale
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 550-558


O Merciful Creator Hear Lyrics (Ford)



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.  

Iste Confessor Domini (Confessor Bishop, Hymn)
20K views / 11 years ago


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

PSALM 110

The Lord has said to my lord: “Sit at my right hand

PSALM 109:1-5,7
Dixit Dóminus Dómino meo:*   «Sede a dextris meis




PSALM 114

When Israel came out of Egypt,  Jacob’s people from a land of strangers,

PSALM 113A:1-8
In éxitu Israel de Ægýpto,*   domus Iacob de pópulo bárbaro,







Antiphon
The Lord is King, our God, the Almighty! Alleluia.

Regnávit Dóminus Deus noster omnípotens, allelúia.

CANTICLE REVELATIONS 19


Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
  because his judgments are true and just.

Praise our God, all his servants,
  and you who fear him, small and great.

For the Lord reigns, our God, the Almighty:
  let us rejoice and exult and give him glory.

The marriage of the Lamb has come,
  and his spouse has made herself ready.

Salus et glória et virtus Deo nostro,*




Short Responsory
Blessed are you, O Lord, in the firmament of the stars
Praiseworthy and glorified for all ages.

Responsorium breve
℣.  Benedíctus es, Dómine,* In firmaménto cæli. . 
℟.  Et laudábilis et gloriósus in sǽcula.




Antiphon
If you then, who are evil, know how to give your children what is good, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

Si vos, cum sitis mali, nostis dona bona dare fíliis vestris, quanto magis Pater de cælo dabit Spíritum Sanctum peténtibus se!

ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

CHORAL-EVENSONG-BOOKLET-POST-COVID.pdf (canterbury-cathedral.org)


Evensong sung by the girl choristers and Lay Clerks 
Ebdon, Responses
Psalm 50.1-15
Gray in f
Croft, O Lord, rebuke me not
Hymn 135 Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau)
Organ voluntary: Eben, Longing for death


Psalms: 110, 111, 112, Week I Revelation Canticle