SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

TUESDAY MORNING PRAYER

SEVENTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME

Behold the Wood of the Cross on which has hung our salvation.
Jesus went out into the desert for forty days and forty nights.

And he went forth again to the seaside; and all the multitude came to him,

and he taught them.

FEBRUARY 21

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 100
Hymn: "The Beauty of the Rising Sun"
Translation Saint Cecilia Abbey of "Pergrata mundo nutiat"
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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
English Hymn: "O Sacrosancta Trinitas."
English 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 439-446

Hymn: "When Morning Gilds the Skies", p. 679
German Hymn translated by Edward Caswell and Robert Bridges
Tune: LAUDES DOMINI Joseph Barnaby
Different Stanzas from Text

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.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS/ SUBSTITUTIONS

* PSALM 85 *

YOU have blessed your land: and turned away the captivity of Jacob.

PSALM 84:2-14
Benedixisti, Domine, terram tuam; avertisti captivitatem Jacob.

CANTICLE ISAIAH 26

The city is ours, with its walls and ramparts, a refuge and stronghold.

ISAIAH 26:1-4,7-9,12
Urbs fortis nobis in salútem;* pósuit muros et antemurále.

PSALM 67

May God have mercy on us, and bless us:
may he cause the light of his countenance to shine upon us,

PSALM 66
Deus misereátur nostri et benedícat nobis;* illúminet vultum suum super nos,

Latin-English Texts and Many Music Links for PSALM 67

Very interesting use of video as a background

LECTIONARY OPTION

The book of Isaiah read at Lauds and Vespers
DRA Isaiah 11: 1-10 modernized

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
Awake, awake; rise up, Jerusalem;
throw away your bonds, captive daughter of Sion.

Eleváre, eleváre, consúrge, Ierúsalem: solve víncula colli tui, captíva fília Sion.

Antiphon
Peter, I do not tell you to forgive seven times,
but seventy times seven, said the Lord.

Non dico tibi, Petre, ut dimíttas sépties, sed usque septuágies sépties, dicit Dóminus.

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

ORDO WEEK 7 TUESDAY MORNING PRAISE