EASTER WEEK 2 FRIDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

FRIDAY EVENING PRAYER  

EASTER WEEK II




APRIL 21

PSALTER WEEK II

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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.   

The posts for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer include:

Two virtual resources providing the whole text for the Hour.
Two virtual alternatives for the beginning Hymn.
A virtual alternative for each of two psalms of the Hour.
A virtual alternative sung version of both the Gospel Canticle and Lord's Prayer

Breviaries which provide the liturgical texts for the Hours usually contain multiple ribbons which are necessary to switch between sections of the book. Word on Fire provides a monthly Breviary contains the texts for Morning and Evening Prayer. It reads straight through just like a book except for the Hymns which are in the back of the book. Four hymns on this post mean that one never has to flip to the back of their book. 

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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

Three Models (Options) for Evening Prayer (Vespers):

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 below emphasizes recitation in common. 
The second model below emphasizes the sung nature of the celebration. 
The third model below 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: "Angel of the Agony"
by Beige O'Hare and Owen Smith
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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: "At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing."
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.  Unfortunately, sometimes the choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos. 

 WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: APRIL 2023, pages 453-460


The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns

30,389 views / Apr 11, 2017
Congregational singing
Metropolitan Tabernacle, London



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 are now available on YouTube along with recent discoveries.  


CHRIST IS RISEN (SATB Choir) 

- Matt Maher/Mia Fieldes/arr. Heather Sorenson

Hal Leonard and Shawnee Press Church Choral


20,641 views / Nov 14, 2019

See Gospel Antiphon: He has covered himself with glory by rising.

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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 116 A

I love the Lord, for he has heard
  the cry of my appeal;

PSALM 114:1-9
Diléxi, quóniam exáudit Dóminus*
  vocem deprecatiónis meæ.

"Psalm 116: I love the Lord", by Sons of Korah (w/ lyrics)
183,412 views  Jul 30, 2015  "Psalm 116" by Sons of Korah.
 Animated using Prezi. Screen capture with Camtasia Studio. 



* PSALM 121 *


I shall lift my eyes to the hills: from whence comes my help

PSALM 120:1-8
Levábo óculos meos in montes: * unde véniet auxílium mihi?


CANTICLE REVELATIONS 15

Great and wonderful are your deeds, O Lord God Almighty!

Magna et mirabília ópera tua,* Dómine Deus omnípotens;


Short Reading
Ephesians 2:13-16

Short Responsory
Christ died for our sins, that he might offer us to God.
In the body he was put to death; in the spirit he was raised to life.


Responsorium breve
℣. Christus mórtuus est pro peccátis nostris,* Ut nos offérret Deo..
℟. Mortificátus quidem carne, vivificátus autem Spíritu.


Antiphon
Remember your mercy, O Lord;
according to the promise you made to our fathers.

Recordáre, Dómine, misericórdiæ tuæ, sicut locútus es ad patres nostros.


ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG


Evensong sung by the Lay Clerks
Harris, Responses
Psalms 53; 54
Robert Sharpe, Evening service on tones vi and ii
White, Christe, qui lux es et dies
Hymn 787i Take my life, and let it be (Nottingham)




MONASTIC VESPERS


Psalms: 141, 142, 144


Short Responsory
Christ died for our sins, that he might offer us to God.
In the body he was put to death; in the spirit he was raised to life.


Responsorium breve
℣. Christus mórtuus est pro peccátis nostris,* Ut nos offérret Deo..
℟. Mortificátus quidem carne, vivificátus autem Spíritu.



Antiphon
Remember your mercy, O Lord;
according to the promise you made to our fathers.

Recordáre, Dómine, misericórdiæ tuæ, sicut locútus es ad patres nostros.

ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

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



Catherine of Siena, Teacher of the Faith, 1380
5.30 Evensong sung by the Lay Clerks
Cleobury, Responses
Psalms 142, 143 
Wood in E
Byrd, Be unto me, O Lord, a tower
Hymn 15: Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis’s Canon)



MONASTIC VESPERS



RECORDED SERVICES


Psalms 141, 144  of Their Two Week Psalter