SAINT GABRIEL HOURS

Praying with Christ. Every Day. Every Where.

SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER

THIRTI-FIRST SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME

October 1,2009 @7:29am

ORDINARY WEEK XXXI

PSALTER WEEK III

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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES

Three Models (Options) for Praying this Morning

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. On some Sundays in Ordinary time, it becomes an excellent model of a small group of cantors singing the Hour. This is one of those Sundays. Experience the Hours as community prayer even when praying alone and as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.

Invitatory Psalm 95
Hymn: "Eternal Maker of the World"
Translation by W.J. Copland of "Aeterne rerum 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. They use very simple, mainly Gregorian chants. If you desire to sing along, try chanting every other verse while listening every other verse to the cantor. This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir.

Latin only Hymn: "Aeterne Rerum Conditor,"
English Benedictus, 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:
OCTOBER 2022, pages 616-625

The Head that Once was Crowned with Thorns (Tune: St Magnus - 5vv) [with lyrics for congregations]

7,015 views May 8, 2021
Chet Valley Churches

The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns

27,739 views Apr 11, 2017
Martijn de Groot

The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns (St. Magnus) by Jeremiah Clarke with descant

120 views May 7, 2022

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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 63

As Morning Breaks, I Look to You, O God

PSALM 148

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.

ORDO WEEK 31 SUNDAY MORNING PRAYER