ADVENT WEEK 1 MONDAY MORNING PRAISE






MONDAY MORNING PRAYER

FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT




DECEMBER 2

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 Morning Prayer (Lauds):

Praying with Christ Every Day Anywhere will be greatly helped by three models each illustrated here by a particular option. 

Becoming proficient at 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 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. 



INVITATORY: PSALM 95

Hymn: "All People that on Earth Do Dwell" 
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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. 



 INVITATORY: PSALM 95
Hymn*: Behold a Voice Resounding Clear (
Vox Clara Ecce Intonat). (English) 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:  DECEMBER 2024, pages 230-239

O Come Divine Messiah
150K views / 6 years ago



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.  

Go up to the Mountain
Weston Priory: Christmas Songs
3,391 views Dec 4, 2020
ADV 1 SAT VESP

Refrain: 
 Go up to the mountain, 
 joyful bearer of good news; 
 shout with a full voice: 
 our God is near.
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 familiarity
 with 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 TODAY'S PSALMS

The video selections below 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 looking at the written psalm in the third option.

PSALM 5

Give Ear to My Words, O Lord



Karl Kolhase has done all 150 psalms. Some of the earliest are simply videos of him singing, playing the guitar and talking about his faith. His better videos have a simple background, and the text. He refers to his work as a musical adaptation, however he keeps close to the text (sometimes with an interesting translation) often using some verses as a refrain.

PSALM 29

Exodus Road Band give us a very contemplative musical and visual presentation of this powerful psalm. They have completely redone the text but in ways that are very faithful to the official text. 



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 during the four weeks.  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 TODAY'S OFFICE OF READINGS

ISAIAH CHAPTER 1

Chapter 1:21-27; 2:1-5

FROM TODAY'S MASS


MONDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF ADVENT

 Is 2:1-5 

In days to come,
The mountain of the LORD's house
shall be established as the highest mountain
and raised above the hills.

 Mt 8:5-11

 a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying,

"Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully."
He said to him, "I will come and cure him."
The centurion said in reply,
"Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof;
only say the word and my servant will be heale


THE GOSPEL CANTICLE 


SELECTION FOR WEEKDAYS: PSALTER WEEK II

Diocese of St. Benedict Old Catholic Missionaries


 44,825 views Jun 23, 2012 



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