ORDO WEEK 22 WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
Praying with Christ. Every Day. Every Where.
WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER
TWENTI-SECOND WEDNESDAY OF ORDINARY TIME
ORDINARY WEEK XXII
PSALTER WEEK II
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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES
Three Models (Options) for Praying this Evening
The celebration of the Hours Every Day, Every Where will be greatly helped by a variety of models and options. Becoming skillful in understanding and adapting these models to both personal and communal prayer is a major goal of this website.
Each of the three Options contains the full official text of Roman Rite for Morning Prayer. Links to two websites are embedded here for convenience so that one does not have to go to their websites, then locate the desired posting.
Embedded links bring the additional advantage of eliminating YouTube advertisements, and of being able to choose any of three hymns to begin the Hour regardless of which model is chosen.
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: "As Sun Declines and Shadows Fall"Saint Cecilia's Abbey translation of Latin "Sol Ecce Lentus Occident*******************************************************
COMPLETELY SUNG MODEL
Hymn: "As Sun Declines and Shadows Fall"
Saint Cecilia's Abbey translation of Latin "Sol Ecce Lentus Occident
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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. They use very simple, mainly Gregorian chants. If you desire to sing along, try chanting every other verse while listening to each other verse by the cantor. This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir.
Latin Only Hymn: "Caeli Deus SanctissimeEnglish Magnificat and Latin Lord's Prayer*******************************************************
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. They use very simple, mainly Gregorian chants. If you desire to sing along, try chanting every other verse while listening to each other verse by the cantor. This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir.
Latin Only Hymn: "Caeli Deus Sanctissime
English Magnificat and Latin Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL
WORD ON FIRE OPTION
Bishop Baron's organization, Word on Fire, has begun producing 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 to the given tune. Sometimes the translation is slightly different. More rarely the tune, translation, or choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos.
LITURGY OF THE HOURS BOOKLET: AUGUST 2022, pages 640-648
Immortal Invisible God Only WiseText: Walter Chambers SmithTune: SAINT DENIO, Walsh MelodySmuckers SingersSE Samonte - YouTube===================================================
Immortal Invisible God Only Wise
Text: Walter Chambers Smith
Tune: SAINT DENIO, Walsh Melody
Smuckers Singers
SE Samonte - YouTube
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THE FOUR WEEK PSALTER
The Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours spreads the Book of Psalms over four weeks. See the top of this post for the current Psalter Week. Morning and Evening Prayer each day have two psalms.
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, in different translations, drawing from different musical and religious traditions. Some presentations have beautiful slides or videos. A major goal of this website is greater understanding of the Four Week Psalter and its psalms.
ADDITIONAL VERSIONS OF THIS HOUR'S PSALMS
The selections here 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 the reader has prayed the written psalm in the third option above.
PSALM 62
PSALM 67
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.
PURPOSE OF THIS WEBSITE
The advent of websites such as Divine Office.org and Sing the Hours and their widespread availability through electronic devices means that individuals and small groups can Pray with Christ by celebrating the Hours Every Day, Every Where. We are no longer confined by the limits of time, space, and the organization of human and physical resources.
This website organizes some of the resources of the virtual world to help individuals, small groups, and organizations discern the place of Liturgy of Hours in their lives. It promotes the enculturation of the Hours by means of media in the form of personal and organizational spiritualities.
Saint Gabriel, the patron saint of messages and the media, is fittingly the patron of this endeavor. His salutation, "Rejoice, highly favored, the Lord is with you" may be read as a herald of Christ's presence in our lives in prayer and action.