SONGS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOD

MONDAY EVENING PRAYER

WEEK TWENTY-FOUR OF ORDINARY TIME

SEPTEMBERT 18

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 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: "O Fount of Life, True Life Itself"
Translation by Saint Cecilia's Abbey of "Luminis Fons, Lux et erigio lucis"
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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.

Hymn: "Light Ever Radiant."* ICEL ©2023
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: SEPTEMBER 2023, pages 393-401

Firmly I Believe and Truly
(Tune: Shipston - 5vv)

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.

Gentle and Humble
The Monks of Weston Priory - Topic

LYRICS

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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 136

Section A.

Section B
Some Hebrew Verses with English Translation
that could form a background to praying Section B

Both Sections

A woman sings the verses;
one could respond with "His mercy endures forever"

PSALM 135:1-9
ARCHIVE 2021

CANTICLE EPHESIANS 1
Blessed be God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Benedíctus Deus et Pater Dómini nostri Iesu Christi,*

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LONGER READINGS

FROM TOMORROW'S OFFICE OF READINGS

EZEKIEL CHAPTER 8-9

Vision of Abominations in the Temple.

Slaughter of the Idolaters

Chapter 8:1-6,16-18-9:1-11

FROM TOMORROW'S MASS

TUESDAY OF WEEK TWENTY-FOUR

NOTE THE PODCAST AND SPANISH OPTIONS

1 Tm 3:1-13:

"a bishop must be irreproachable,

married only once, temperate, self-controlled,

decent, hospitable, able to teach,

not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle,

not contentious, not a lover of money.

He must manage his own household well,

keeping his children under control with perfect dignity

Lk 7:11-17

As he drew near to the gate of the city,

a man who had died was being carried out,

the only son of his mother, and she was a widow.

For those who want to do continuous reading:

1 TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2

GOSPEL OF LUKE CHAPTER 7

The Healing of a Centurion’s Slave

Raising of the Widow’s Son.

The Messengers from John the Baptist.

Jesus’ Testimony to John

The Pardon of the Sinful Woman.[

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THE GOSPEL CANTICLE

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

ALTERNATIVE VIDEOS FOR MAGNIFICAT

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THE LORD'S PRAYER

ALTERNATIVE VIDEOS FOR THE LORD'S PRAYER

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