LENT WEEK 4 WEDNESDAY MORNING PRAISE

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

 WEDNESDAY MORNING 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 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 95
Hymn: "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross"
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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. 


English Hymn: "Iam, Christe, sol iustitiae" – 
"Now Christ, Thou Sun of righteousness"
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: MARCH 2023, pages 462-479

Forty Days and Forty Nights (Tune: Heinlein )
Chet Valley Churches



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.  

Holy Ground

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

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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



Extended Reading

Deuteronomy 7:6-15  

6 Because thou art a holy people to the Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be his peculiar people of all peoples that are upon the earth.
 7 Not because you surpass all nations in number, is the Lord joined unto you, and hath chosen you, for you are the fewest of any people:
 8 But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.
 9 And thou shalt know that the Lord thy God, he is a strong and faithful God, keeping his covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments, unto a thousand generations:
 10 And repaying forthwith them that hate him, so as to destroy them, without further delay immediately rendering to them what they deserve.
 11 Keep therefore the precepts and ceremonies and judgments, which I command thee this day to do.
 12 If after thou hast heard these judgments, thou keep and do them, the Lord thy God will also keep his covenant to thee, and the mercy which he swore to thy fathers:
 13 And he will love thee and multiply thee, and will bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy vintage, thy oil, and thy herds, and the flocks of thy sheep upon the land, for which he swore to thy fathers that he would give it thee.
 14 Blessed shalt thou be among all people. No one shall be barren among you of either sex, neither of men nor cattle.
 15 The Lord will take away from thee all sickness: and the grievous infirmities of Egypt, which thou knowest, he will not bring upon thee, but upon thy enemies.

Short Responsory paraphrase
God will free me from the trap of predators.
And from their sharp words.

Responsorium breve
℣. Quoniam ipse liberavit me de laqueo venantium,
  ℟ et a verbo aspero.  (Psalm 90:3 VUC).. 




Antiphon paraphrase
Whoever attends to my word, and trusts in the one who sent me,
 has everlasting life, says the Lord

Qui verbum meum audit et credit ei, qui misit me,
 habet vitam ætérnam, dicit Dóminus.

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

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 OFFICE ABOVE
Invitatory Psalm 95
Hymn: When I survey the Wondrous Cross (DO)
 Hymn: "Fulgentis Auctor Aetheris,"
Psalm 108*
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:
 The Lord's Prayer
Concluding Prayers