LENT WEEK 4 WEDNESDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER 

FOURTH WEEK OF LENT

MARCH 22

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: "As Sun Declines and Shadows Fall"

Saint Cecilia's Abbey translation of Latin "Sol Ecce Lentus Occident

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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. 

Latin Hymn: Parce Domine

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: MARCH 2023, pages 230-239

Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Tune: Repton - 5vv) 
Chet Valley Churches

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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.  

Abba, Father
JohnMichaelTalbot

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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 139

Lord, you have judged me, and you know me:

PSALM 138:1-12

Dómine, scrutátus es et cognovísti me,*

Latin-English Text and Music Links for PSALM 139

PSALM 139

For you formed my innermost being

  as you  fashioned me in my mother’s womb.

PSALM 138:13-18,23-24

Quia tu formásti renes meos,*

  contexuísti me in útero matris meæ.

CANTICLE COLOSSIANS 1

Let us give thanks to God the Father,

  who has made us sufficient to share in the light

that is the saints’ inheritance.

COLOSSIANS 1:12-20

Grátias agámus Deo Patri,*

  qui idóneos nos fecit in partem sortis sanctórum in lúmine;

Antiphon

I am not able to do whatever I want, but as I listen and decide; 

and therefore my decree is just, says the Lord.

Non possum ego a meípso fácere quidquam, sed sicut áudio et iúdico; 

et iudícium meum iustum est, dicit Dóminus.

ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

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

Evensong sung by the girl choristers

plainchant, Responses

Psalm 108

Bairstow in E flat

Ireland, Ex ore innocentium

Hymn 772 Rock of ages, cleft for me (Petra

RECORDED SERVICES

FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICESDIVINE 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 "A Sun Declines and Shadows Fall" (DO only)

Hymn: ""Audi Benigne Conditor"

Psalm 139 A

Psalm 139 B

Colossians 1v12-20

 Reading: Philippians 2v12b-15a

Responsory.

Magnificat 

Extended Reading

Philippians 2:12-18 

With fear and trembling work out your salvation.

 13 For it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to accomplish, according to his good will.

 14 And do ye all things without murmurings and hesitations;

 15 That you may be blameless, and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom you shine as lights in the world.

 16 Holding forth the word of life to my glory in the day of Christ, because I have not run in vain, nor labored in vain.

 17 Yea, and if I be made a victim upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice, and congratulate with you all.

 18 And for the selfsame thing do you also rejoice, and congratulate with me.

Short Responsory
I said: ‘Lord, have mercy on me.’
‘Heal my soul, for I have sinned against you.’

Responsorium breve

℣.  Ego dixi: Dómine,* Miserére mei

℟. Sana ánimam meam, quia peccávi tibi.

Antiphon

I am not able to do whatever I want, but as I listen and decide; 

and therefore my decree is just, says the Lord.

Non possum ego a meípso fácere quidquam, sed sicut áudio et iúdico; 

et iudícium meum iustum est, dicit Dóminus.

ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

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

Evensong sung by the girl choristers

Responses, plainchant

Psalm 149

Holly Smith, Evening canticles for upper voices

Ireland, Ex ore innocentium

Hymn 128i: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth

Intercessions: 

The Lord's Prayer