EASTER SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
The Good News:
Praying with Christ Every Day.
Anytime. Anywhere. With Anyone.
EASTER SUNDAY EVENING PRAYER
EASTER WEEK
MARCH 31
PSALMS OF THE FEAST
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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 the Hours with the same sounds and images at various times and places.
There are two posts per day. one for Morning Prayer and one for Evening Prayer. Each includes:
Both a recitation-in-common YouTube site and a completely sung YouTube site having complete texts.
Two additional YouTube alternatives for the beginning Hymn.
YouTube alternatives for each of two psalms for each Hour.
Links to Longer Readings Options instead of the Short Reading.
YouTube versions of both the Gospel Canticle and Lord's Prayer.
Breviaries which provide the liturgical texts for the Hours have multiple ribbons to help 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 on 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 text of the 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: "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus"Text by William Dix, music by Rowland Pitchard *******************************************************
Hymn: "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus"
Text by William Dix, music by Rowland Pitchard
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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: "The strife is o'er, the battle done,"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 text or mute the Latin and pray the English text.
Hymn: "The strife is o'er, the battle done,"
LATIN Gospel Canticle & 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. I have suggested they choose hymns from YouTube and provide links on their website. A staffer though it was a good idea; nothing has happened.
WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: MARCH (1) 2024, pages 230-239
At the Lamb's High Feast (Hymn with lyrics)
North Stoneham and Bassett parish
At the Lamb's High Feast (Hymn with lyrics)
North Stoneham and Bassett parish
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 their favorite hymns for the celebration of the Hours.
Old Roman chant Vespers for Easter
Antiphona "Alleluia",
Psalmus 110 "Dixit Dominus", "The Lord Said"
Antiphona "Alleluia"
Old Roman Chant Easter Vesper
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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 110
The Lord has said to my lord: “Sit at my right hand
PSALM 114
When Israel came out of Egypt, Jacob’s people from a land of strangers,
Sung in Hebrew preceded by the sounding of the Shofar
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 should have experienced the official text.
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LONGER READINGS
FROM TOMORROW'S OFFICE OF READINGS
Chapter 1: 1-21
FROM TOMORROW'S MASS
Acts 2:14, 22-33
"God raised this Jesus;
of this we are all witnesses.
Exalted at the right hand of God,
he poured forth the promise of the Holy Spirit
that he received from the Father, as you both see and hear.”
Mt 28:8-15
Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be afraid.
Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee,
and there they will see me.
THE GOSPEL CANTICLE
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THE LORD'S PRAYER
The Lord's Prayer - ICEL Chant
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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 allows users to create pages to provide a framework for understanding and using the posts. The pages for this site are under construction.
A guide to the future PAGES on the site is at the bottom of each post. The guide contains information about each page and relates them to one another. New pages and updated pages will also be 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)
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FUNDAMENTAL DISCERNMENT QUESTION
How can we as persons, households, families, groups and communities,
use virtual resources such as those above,
to celebrate in various ways
the Hours, the Prayer of Christ,
Every Day, Everywhere
Anytime with Anyone?
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BASIC DISCERNMENT QUESTIONS
Time, Television and the Hours
Do I have time to pray the Hours?
Fifteen Minutes a Day
How much time should I spend in formal prayer each day?
Time Management Principles
How to pray the Hours?
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BASIC PRACTICES
Celebrating the Gospel Canticles
Praise and Thanksgiving; Gospel Canticle.
Conversion and Petition; the Lord’s Prayer
Conversion and Petition; the Lord’s Prayer
Celebrating the Psalms
The Prayers of Jesus and His disciples
Celebrating with Hymns
Songs of the People of God
Option of Longer Readings
Lectionary, Office of Readings, Continuous Reading
Silence
Listening to creation, our hearts, and hearts of others
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ADVANCED PRACTICES
Keeping a Journal of the Hours
Underlining text, Word documents, a Blog
A Thirty Day Retreat
Discerning the place of the Hours in our lives?
Bible Study
Integrating personal and group bible study with the Hours
Office of the Dead
Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer
For Funerals and Votive Offices
For Funerals and Votive Offices
Centering the Hours on the Eucharist
Combining the Hours with Mass
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