LENT WEEK 5 THURSDAY EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
Praying with Christ. Every Day. Every Where.
THURSDAY EVENING PRAYER
FIFTH WEEK OF LENT
MARCH 30
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 of all they provide community, both community with those who produced the sounds and images, and the community of those who celebrate at different times and places with the same sounds and images.
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 each illustrated by a concrete 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 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. 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 and as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.
Hymn: "Abide With Me"by Melinda Kirigin-Voss *******************************************************
Hymn: "Abide With Me"
by Melinda Kirigin-Voss
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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, or mute the Latin and pray the English.
Hymn: "O Merciful Creator, Hear."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. If English is preferred, either pause the Latin after a verse to pray the English, or mute the Latin and pray the English.
Hymn: "O Merciful Creator, Hear."
Latin Gospel Canticle & Lord's Prayer
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PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL
WORD ON FIRE OPTION
Bishop Baron'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.
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. Sometimes the choice of hymn has been changed due to the lack of available videos.
WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: MARCH 2023, pages 230-239
What Wondrous Love Is This | Lent Songs | | Sunday 7pm Cho
94,204 views / Premiered Mar 13, 2021
HYMN SELECTED FROM MY PERSONAL FAVORITES
This fourth hymn option reflects the blog author's music collection (first vinyl discs, then cassettes, then CDs) that have been used over the years to support celebration of the Hours.
Iste Confessor Domini (Confessor Bishop, Hymn)
20K views / 11 years ago
Gregorian Notation and Chant
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THE FOUR WEEK PSALTER
A major goal of this website is greater understanding
of the Four Week Psalter and its psalms.
The Psalms were the prayers of Jesus and his disciples. The psalter was the daily prayer of monks who fled to the desert. Psalms likely formed part of the daily prayer of virgins who gathered in the inner rooms of large households which possessed books. There were not many books in ancient times; they were read aloud at social gatherings. Psalms were likely memorized at gatherings of household churches in early Christianity. They remain the heart of the Hours in the Roman Rite.
Since Vatican II, the Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours has spread the Book of Psalms over four weeks. The older practice of praying the psalms in order has been abandoned in favor of psalms specifically selected for Morning and Evening Prayer.
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 both 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 30
PSALM 32
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. 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.
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. 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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THE GOSPEL CANTICLE
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COMBINING THE ABOVE RESOURCES
HYMNS
There are four hymns that can be chosen for the opening hymn. Can we use more hymns in our celebration of the Hour? Before Vatican II hymns did not begin Morning and Evening Prayer; they were sung after the reading with its responsory but before the Gospel Canticle. We are in the company of many centuries if we add one of the hymns before the Gospel Canticle. Hymns at the end of the Hour like the hymns after the dismissal at Mass are not part of the official text; we should feel free to use any of these hymns to conclude the Hour.
PSALMS
Choosing among the recited psalms of DivineOffice, the sung psalms of SingtheHours, or using the Word on Fire monthly booklets with psalm videos need not be an either/or choice. If we spend 30 or 45 minutes a day walking or using a treadmill, we can use most or all of these resources to accompany us. Think of it as walking and praying with the People of God. Begin with the psalm recited by the DivineOffice.org community, then the same psalm sung by Paul Rose, and conclude with a Psalm video. It provides repeated experiences with slight changes that produce pleasing variety, a key to good liturgy.
Choosing among the recited psalms of DivineOffice, the sung psalms of SingtheHours, or using the Word on Fire monthly booklets with psalm videos need not be an either/or choice.
If we spend 30 or 45 minutes a day walking or using a treadmill, we can use most or all of these resources to accompany us. Think of it as walking and praying with the People of God. Begin with the psalm recited by the DivineOffice.org community, then the same psalm sung by Paul Rose, and conclude with a Psalm video. It provides repeated experiences with slight changes that produce pleasing variety, a key to good liturgy.
WEBSITES
Using the Word on Fire monthly booklets or any Breviary with authorized texts, one can enhance one's celebration of Morning Prayer with the last four videos chosen by this Blog without using of either of the first two Virtual Breviary YouTube channels. In other words, this Blog is a Virtual Breviary on its own as long as one has a paper or virtual text.
Anyone can publish their own Virtual Breviary for free by opening a Blogger account, and then embedding their own selections of free YouTube videos. Once one has completed a Four Week Psalter, one returns to the beginning of the Four Week Psalter. Expanding it into a Virtual Breviary is a matter of copying and making a few changes.
A major goal of this website is to encourage individuals, groups, and organizationsto create websites fostering the Hours, especially Virtual Psalters and Virtual Breviaries,for themselves, friends and communities._______________________________________________________
Using the Word on Fire monthly booklets or any Breviary with authorized texts, one can enhance one's celebration of Morning Prayer with the last four videos chosen by this Blog without using of either of the first two Virtual Breviary YouTube channels. In other words, this Blog is a Virtual Breviary on its own as long as one has a paper or virtual text.
Anyone can publish their own Virtual Breviary for free by opening a Blogger account, and then embedding their own selections of free YouTube videos. Once one has completed a Four Week Psalter, one returns to the beginning of the Four Week Psalter. Expanding it into a Virtual Breviary is a matter of copying and making a few changes.
A major goal of this website is to encourage individuals, groups, and organizations
to create websites fostering the Hours,
especially Virtual Psalters and Virtual Breviaries,
for themselves, friends and communities.
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NOTE ON STRUCTURE AND FORMAT OF POSTS
Initially this Blog may appear to be complex; it is actually very simple. Blogger sites consist of Posts which have a date stamp, and Pages which do not have a date stamp. The Pages provide the permanent structure for Posts which are new each day.
The material in purple is the framework and vision provided by this blog for using virtual resources. The material in red is the framework provided by external structures, e.g., the liturgical year, the order of the celebration, websites, hymns, etc. Texts in black regular type are factual information. Texts in italics reflect the blog's framework and vision.
New Daily Virtual Resouces Are in Area Above This Note
The only new material consists of two posts per day, one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. The new material for each hour consists almost entirely of YouTube videos found above, i.e., two links to Virtual Breviaries, two links to opening hymn videos, two links to psalm videos, and a link to a Gospel Canticle video. Seven substantial virtual resources for celebrating the Hour. This Day. Any Time. Any Where.
Navigation of the Pages of this Blog is Provided in the Area Below This Note
The area at the bottom of each post provides an organized description of the pages of this blog, and their interrelationships, so that one does not have to leave this page and search around the blog to find additional help and resources.
Saint Gabriel Hours (Praying with Christ, Every Day Every Where) provides a vision for both individuals and groups to use these resources to organize spiritual lives that are simultaneously personal and enculturated in both the local community as well as universal Church over time and space.
Initially this Blog may appear to be complex; it is actually very simple. Blogger sites consist of Posts which have a date stamp, and Pages which do not have a date stamp. The Pages provide the permanent structure for Posts which are new each day.
The material in purple is the framework and vision provided by this blog for using virtual resources. The material in red is the framework provided by external structures, e.g., the liturgical year, the order of the celebration, websites, hymns, etc. Texts in black regular type are factual information. Texts in italics reflect the blog's framework and vision.
New Daily Virtual Resouces Are in Area Above This Note
The only new material consists of two posts per day, one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. The new material for each hour consists almost entirely of YouTube videos found above, i.e., two links to Virtual Breviaries, two links to opening hymn videos, two links to psalm videos, and a link to a Gospel Canticle video. Seven substantial virtual resources for celebrating the Hour. This Day. Any Time. Any Where.
Navigation of the Pages of this Blog is Provided in the Area Below This Note
The area at the bottom of each post provides an organized description of the pages of this blog, and their interrelationships, so that one does not have to leave this page and search around the blog to find additional help and resources.
Saint Gabriel Hours (Praying with Christ, Every Day Every Where) provides a vision for both individuals and groups to use these resources to organize spiritual lives that are simultaneously personal and enculturated in both the local community as well as universal Church over time and space.
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