ORDO WEEK 8 MONDAY EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
Praying with Christ. Every Day. Everywhere.
MONDAY EVENING PRAYER
EIGHTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
MAY 29
PSALTER WEEK IV
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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 at various times and places with the same sounds and images.
The daily posts for Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer include:
Both a common recitation and a completely sung YouTube site giving the whole text.
Two additional sung YouTube alternatives for the beginning Hymn.
Sung YouTube alternatives for each of two psalms of each Hour.
Sung YouTube versions of both the Gospel Canticle and Lord's Prayer
Breviaries which provide the liturgical texts for the Hours usually contain multiple ribbons that are necessary to 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. Four hymn choices for each post here mean that one never has to flip to the back of their booklet.
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FULL ROMAN RITE SERVICES
Three Models (Options) for Evening Prayer (Vespers):
Praying with Christ Every Day Everywhere will be greatly helped by a variety of models each illustrated here by a particular 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 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 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. Use as skill building in preparation for praying with others as a small group.
Hymn: "Hail O Star of the Ocean "Translation by Athelstan Riley of "Ave Maris Stella" *******************************************************
Hymn: "Hail O Star of the Ocean "
Translation by Athelstan Riley of "Ave Maris Stella"
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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.
Hymn: Salve ReginaEnglish Gospel Canticle & 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. 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.
Hymn: Salve Regina
English Gospel Canticle & Latin 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.
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.
WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: MAY 2023, pages 624-632
Virgin-Born We Bow Before You
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Choir
Virgin-Born We Bow Before You
Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Choir
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 resources for the celebration of the Hours.
Hail Mary, Gentle Woman | Carey Landry |
Sunday 7pm Choir
1,721,428 views Premiered Aug 15, 2020
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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 understanding
of 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 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 136
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 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.
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 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.
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THE GOSPEL CANTICLE
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THE LORD'S PRAYER
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GUIDE TO PAGES ON THIS SITE
In addition to time and date stamped posts, such as one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer for each day, Blogger allow users to create pages to provide a framework for understanding and using the posts. The list of these PAGES for this blog is in the Navigation on the upper left.
This guide to the PAGES on the site is at the bottom of each post. It contains more information about each page and relates them to one another. New pages and updated pages are also noted.
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DIVINE OFFICE / LITURGY OF THE HOURS
is the Prayer of Christ and the Church
"Christ Jesus, high priest of the new and eternal covenant, taking human nature, introduced into this earthly exile that hymn which is sung throughout all ages in the halls of heaven. He joins the entire community of mankind to Himself, associating it with His own singing of this canticle of divine praise." (Vatican II Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, #86)
"For he continues His priestly work through the agency of His Church, which is ceaselessly engaged in praising the Lord and interceding for the salvation of the whole world. She does this, not only by celebrating the Eucharist, but also in other ways, especially by praying the Divine Office." (Vatican II Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, #86)
"Lauds as Morning Prayer and Vespers as Evening Prayer are the two hinges on which the daily office turns; hence they are to be considered as the chief hours and are to be celebrated as such." (Vatican II Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, #89)
"Lauds as Morning Prayer and Vespers as Evening Prayer are the two hinges on which the daily office turns; hence they are to be considered as the chief hours and are to be celebrated as such." (Vatican II Constitution on Sacred Liturgy, #89)
For more information press the page link below:
VATICAN II ON THE DIVINE OFFICE
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FUNDAMENTAL DISCERNMENT QUESTION
How can we, as individuals and groups, use virtual resources such as those above,
to celebrate the Hours,
the Prayer of Christ, Every Day, Every Where?
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NEW TESTAMENT: PRAY AWAYS
In addition to time and date stamped posts, such as one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer for each day, Blogs allow uses to create pages to provide a framework for understanding and using the posts. The list of these pages for this blog is in the Navigation on the upper left.