SAINT ANDREW EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
Praying with Christ. Every Day. Every Where.
EVENING PRAYER
SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE
NOVEMBER 30
PSALMS OF THE FEAST
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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES
Three Models (Options) for Praying this Evening
Praying with Christ 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.
The Instruction for the Liturgy of the Hours promotes both recitation in common as well as singing the Hours.
The first model with its option below emphasizes recitation in common. the second model emphasizes the sung nature of the celebration. The third model with its easy-to- read monthly booklet is very suitable for personal meditative prayer and study, including marking the text.
Each of the three Options contains the full official text of Roman Rite for Evening 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 have the added advantage of eliminating YouTube advertisements.
Each of three Options has a beginning hymn. These are noted below to help you chose among options. You can begin with one option and its hymn then with a little dexterity 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 and as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.
Hymn: "Let Heaven Now Resound With Priase"Translation by Saint Cecilia's Abbey of "Exultet caelum laudibus" *******************************************************
Hymn: "Let Heaven Now Resound With Priase"
Translation by Saint Cecilia's Abbey of "Exultet caelum laudibus"
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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 only every other verse. Listen to the cantor for the remaining verses. This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir.
Hymn: "Captator Olim Piscium" English translation by St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, UK,Latin Gospel Canticle & 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 only every other verse.
Listen to the cantor for the remaining verses.
This corresponds to the ancient practice of alternating between cantor and choir.
Hymn: "Captator Olim Piscium"
English translation by St. Cecilia's Abbey, Ryde, UK,
Latin Gospel Canticle & Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL
WORD ON FIRE OPTION
Bishop Baron's organization 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. Sometimes the translation is different. Sometimes the tune. More rarely the choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos.
WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: NOVEMBER 2022, pages 633-641
Lord of Our Life (Iste Confessor)1.1K views / 5 years ago
Additional Hymn Selections
Iste Confessor Domini (Confessor Bishop, Hymn)
20K views / 11 years ago
Gregorian Notation and Chant
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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. In some cases, a larger psalm is divided into two parts.
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 spiritual traditions. Some presentations have beautiful slides or videos that can enhance the experience of the psalm.
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 116B
PSALM 126
A Song of Ascents: Sung Going Up to Jerusalem
Hebrew version of this psalm, English text translation but no transliteration
Hebrew version of this psalm, English text translation but no transliteration
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 availability through electronic devices means that individuals and small groups can Pray with Christ Every Day, Every Where. We are able to experience communal and sung versions of the Hours without being confined by time, space, or current organizations of human and physical resources. We are able to worship virtually with others both near and far. Morning and Evening are always occurring somewhere in the world!
This website organizes 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 to Mary, "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.