ORDO WEEK 20 SATURDAY EVENING SONG

 

SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER I

 WEEK TWENTY-ONE OF ORDINARY TIME 

AUGUST 26

PSALTER WEEK I

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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 importantly they provide community, both community with those who produced the sounds and images, and community with those who celebrate the Hours with the same sounds and images at various times and places.   

There are two posts per day. one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. Each includes:

Both a recitation-in-common YouTube site and a completely sung YouTube site having complete texts.
Two additional YouTube alternatives for the beginning Hymn.
YouTube alternatives for each of two psalms for each Hour.
Links to Longer Readings Options instead of the Short Reading.
YouTube versions of both the Gospel Canticle and Lord's Prayer.

Breviaries which provide the liturgical texts for the Hours have multiple ribbons to help switch between sections of the breviary. Word on Fire provides a monthly booklet containing 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 hymn choices on each post here mean that one never has to flip to the back of their booklet.  
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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

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

Praying with Christ Every Day Everywhere will be greatly helped by a variety of models each illustrated here by a particular 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 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. Don't throw the booklets away!

Each of the three Options contains the full text of the 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. Use as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.  


Hymn: "Creator of Earth and Sky"
Translation by Charles Bigg of
 "Deus Creator omnium" by Ambrose
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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 text or mute the Latin and pray the English text.


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Hymn: "Martine, pro apostolis," 
 English translation by St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, UK,
English Gospel Canticle & Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL

WORD ON FIRE OPTION

Bishop Barron'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 to be changed due to the lack of available videos. I have suggested they choose hymns from YouTube and provide links on their website. A staffer though it was a good idea; nothing has happened.
 

 WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: AUGUST 2023, pages 230-239

Now Thank We All Our God (Tune: Nun Danket - 3vv) 
Chet Valley Churches



39,481 views  Sep 9, 2020
"Now Thank We All Our God" was translated by the women's rights pioneer and prolific translator Catherine Winkworth from the German hymn, 'Nun Danket Alle Gott' written by Martin Rinkart, Bishop of Eilenberg, in 1636.
The tune is 'Nun Danket', written by Johann Crüger in 1647.
It is performed here by the Huddersfield Choral Society.

HYMN SELECTED FROM MY PERSONAL FAVORITES

This fourth hymn option is strongly influenced by the blog author's liturgical music collection (first vinyl discs, then cassettes, finally CDs). For decades this musical collection has supported the celebration of the Hours. Now with YouTube videos, anyone can start a blog like this to link to their favorite hymns for the celebration of the Hours.  

Oh Gladsome Light -

 Orthodox Church in America Vespers



This hymn is one of the oldest non-biblical hymns in Christianity. It is sung at every vesper service in Orthodox churches. 

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THE FOUR WEEK PSALTER 

The psalms were the prayers of Jesus and his disciples. Under the influence of monasticism, praying the whole 150 psalms each week became the norm in both Eastern and Western Christianity.

Since Vatican II, the Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours has spread the Book of Psalms over four weeks rather than one. The practice of praying the psalms in order has been abandoned in favor of psalms specifically selected for Morning and Evening Prayer. 

 A major goal of this website is greater understanding
 of the Four Week Psalter and its psalms.

As noted in the General Instruction, there is an ancient tradition of personal meditation and prayer at the end of each psalm. There are many videos on the internet with psalms sung in a variety of ways, using different languages and translations, and drawing from different musical and spiritual traditions. Some presentations have beautiful slides or videos that can enhance and interpret the psalm.

VIDEOS FOR THIS HOUR'S PSALMS

The video selections are intended as a stimulus to personal prayer and meditation in the period after the group have recited the psalm in the first option, or the cantor has sung the psalm in the second option, or while a person is looking at the written psalm in the third option.

PSALM 141

Holden Evening Prayer - Psalm 141

Holy Cross Music -- Kearney

"This is Psalm 141 and is sung in a round or canon
. The congregation will sing the 'echo' part. In the sheet music in the video,
 I follow along with the mouse (which looks like a little hand)"

PSALM 142

Psalm 142 I Cried To The Lord


Excellent us of video to make this a Christological psalm.

 Janet Isaac Morrison Songs from Bible Scriptures 



Psalm videos were selected to provide as much variety as possible while maintaining substantial ritual consistency by using the same authors or similar musical pieces. Preference was given to videos that covered most of the psalm. No attempt has been made to judge accuracy of translations. Those celebrating should have experienced the official text.        

CANTICLE PHILIPPIANS 2

Jesus Christ, although in the form of God,
  did cling as a prize to his equality with God;

PHILIPPIANS 2:6-11
Christus Iesus, cum in forma Dei esset,*
  non rapínam arbitrátus est esse se æquálem Deo,




Short Responsory


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LONGER READINGS

FROM TOMORROW'S OFFICE OF READINGS

ZEPHANIAH CHAPTERS 1-2

The Day of the Lord: Judgment on Judah

Judgment on the Nations

FROM TOMORROW'S MASS

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY


 Isaiah 22:19-23

I will place the key of the House of David on Eliakim's shoulder;
when he opens, no one shall shut,
when he shuts, no one shall open.
I will fix him like a peg in a sure spot,
to be a place of honor for his family."

   Rom 11:33-36
 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God!
How inscrutable are his judgments and how unsearchable his ways!.
 
 Mt 16:13-20
 Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi and
he asked his disciples,
"Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"
They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah,
still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"



THE GOSPEL CANTICLE 

Holy Is His Name | Magnificat | Canticle / Song of Mary |
 John Michael Talbot 
| Sunday 7pm Choir







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THE LORD'S PRAYER



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ANGLICAN CHORAL EVENING SONG

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


Saturday Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher of the Faith, 1153
5.30 Evensong sung by the Tudeley Singers
Byrd, Responses
Psalm 104.24-end
Dyson in F
Vaughan Williams, O taste and see
Hymn 291: v. 5, 7, 8 and Doxology: Christ is made the sure 
foundation (Westminster Abbey)

RECORDED SERVICES

RECORDED SERVICES


Sing the Hours Vespers August 21, 2021 




Saint Mary Cathedral, Sydney August 21, 2021
Vespers in English

Divine Office Evening Prayer I 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time August 21, 2021 - YouTube