ORDO WEEK 21 MONDAY EVENING SONG

 




MONDAY EVENING PRAYER

  TWENTY-FIRST WEEK 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.  

This website contains two posts per day. one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. 

The post for each hour contains both a link (DivineOffice.org) with the complete text of the Hour recited by a small group, and a link (SingtheHours.org) with the complete sung text of the Hour, mostly by a single cantor.  By clinking on either of these two links you can celebrate the Hour without making any other choices.   YOU DO NOT NEED ANY OTHER BOOK OR BOOKLET or other virtual resources. 

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. WHILE YOU CAN USE THEIR BOOKLET WITHOUT VIRTUAL RESOURCES, THIS WEBSITE HELPS YOU INTEGRATE VIRTUAL RESOURCES WITH THE BOOKLET.  

Each post also contains the following YouTube links: two additional alternatives for the beginning Hymn, an alternative for each psalm of the Hour, an alternative Gospel Canticle and alternative Lord's Prayer. Each of these sample alternatives has a link to a large selection of alternatives.

Becoming skillful at using these virtual resources 
for both personal and communal prayer is the major goal of this website. 

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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. 




Hymn: "O Boundless Wisdom God Most High"
Translation by Gabriel Gilertt of "Immense caeli conditor"
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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: "Immense Caeli Conditor."
 English Translation 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. Try using a prayer card instead of a ribbon!

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, or last year's has been used. 
 

 WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: AUGUST 2024, pages 230-239

THE CATHOLIC HYMNAL • “Faith Of Our Fathers” (HYMN) 
by Father Frederick William Faber (d. 1863)

1,920 views / Premiered Oct 5, 2021


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.  

Take Lord Receive / HD with lyrics on screen -
 John Foley / Saint Louis Jesuits

Text, Music and Piano Accompanimentt

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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 11  


PSALM 15 

 


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


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LONGER READINGS

FROM TOMORROW'S MASS

TUESDAY OF THE 21ST WEEK OR ORDINARY TIME

 2 THES 2:1-3A, 14-17: 

We ask you, brothers and sisters,
with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
and our assembling with him,
not to be shaken out of your minds suddenly,
or to be alarmed either by a “spirit,” or by an oral statement,
or by a letter allegedly from us
to the effect that the day of the Lord is at hand.
Let no one deceive you in any way.

   Mt 10:24-33:

 Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You cleanse the outside of cup and dish,
but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.

CONTINUOUS READING: SECOND THESSALONIANS



Thanksgiving. 

Prayer.   
 

CONTINOUS READING: GOSPEL OF MATTHEW

MATTHEW CHAPTER 23

Denunciation of the Scribes and Pharisees.

The Lament over Jerusalem


THE GOSPEL CANTICLE 

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THE LORD'S PRAYER





The Lord's Prayer - ICEL Chant 


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