LENT WEEK 4 THURSDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

THURSDAY EVENING PRAYER

FOURTH WEEK OF LENT





MARCH 23

PSALTER WEEK IV

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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: "O Lord our God who made the day"
Translation by Saint Cecilia's Abbey of "Deus qui clare lumine?"
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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. 


Hymn: "Aude, benigne conditor ," 
English Gospel Canticle & Latin 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: MARCH 2023, pages 493-500

Hymn: "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say" p. 683
Text: Horatius Bonat 
Tune KINGSFOLD English Folk Meldoy


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


PSALM 144 A

Blessed be the Lord, my help,

PSALM 143:1-8
Benedíctus Dóminus, adiútor meus,†





PSALM 144 B

 I will celebrate a new song for you, God:

PSALM 143:9-15
Deus, cánticum novum cantábo tibi,






Antiphon
Now salvation and reign have now been accomplished by our God.

Nunc facta est salus et regnum Dei nostr

CANTICLE REVELATIONS 11 

We thank you, Lord God Almighty,

REVELATIONS 11:17-18,12:10-12
Grátias ágimus tibi,*   Dómine Deus omnípotens,




Short Responsory
The Lord shepherds me: nothing is lacking.
In life giving pastures he gives me rest.

Responsorium breve
℣. Dóminus pascit me* Et nihil mihi déerit
℟. In páscuis viréntibus me collocávit.* .



Antiphon
The Lord has filled with good things
those who hungered for justice.

Esuriéntes iustítiam Dóminus saturávit et implévit bonis

ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG


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




Edward the Confessor, King of England, 1066
5.30 Evensong sung by the boy choristers
plainchant, Responses
Psalm 70
David Briggs, Jesus College service
Hurford, Litany to the Holy Spirit
Hymn 794i The King of love my shepherd is (Dominus Regit 
me



MONASTIC VESPERS

RECORDED




Psalm 138, 139, 140


RECORDED


FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

DIVINE 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 OFFICES ABOVE
Hymn "O Lord Our God, who made the Day" (DO only)
Hymn: "Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days" 
Psalm 144 (part 1)
 Psalm 144 (part 2)
 Canticle: Revelation 11v17-18; 12v10b-12a 
Reading:  James 4:7-8, 10
Responsory:
Canticle of Mary: Luke 1v46-55 
Intercessions: Lord give life to your people, whom Christ has redeemed
 The Lord's Prayer & Concluding Prayers


ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG


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



Evensong sung by the boy choristers
Responses, plainchant
Psalm 150
Sumsion in D
Humfrey, A hymn to God the Father
Hymn 688: Jesu, the very thought of thee (St Botolph

MONASTIC VESPERS