ORDO WEEK 28 WEDNESDAY EVENING PRAYER
SAINT GABRIEL HOURS
The Good News:
Praying with Christ Every Day.
Anytime. Anywhere. With Anyone.
THURSDAY EVENING PRAYER
TWENTY-EIGHTH WEEK OF ORDINARY TIME
OCTOBER 16
PSALTER WEEK IV
VIRTUAL RESOURCES
Becoming skillful at using these virtual resources for both personal and communal prayer is the major goal of this website.
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.
Hymn: "As Sun Declines and Shadows Fall"Saint Cecilia's Abbey translation of Latin "Sol Ecce Lentus Occident*******************************************************
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: "Sol ecce lentus occidens." English Translation ICEL ©2023 LATIN Gospel Canticle & English Lord's Prayer*******************************************************
PERSONAL MEDITATION MODEL
*WORD ON FIRE OPTION*
WORD ON FIRE BOOKLET: OCTOBER 2024, pages 338, 692
O Splendor of God's Glory Bright
First-Plymouth Church Lincoln Nebraska
HYMN SELECTED FROM MY PERSONAL FAVORITES
Turn To Me (O Turn, and be Saved) |
John Foley
| Sunday 7pm Choir
This parish near Toronto, Canada has many outstanding videos
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THE FOUR WEEK PSALTER
VIDEOS FOR THIS HOUR'S PSALMS
PSALM 139
Psalm 139 Song - James Block
A very creative interpretation of the psalm centered on a refrain. It covers the themes of most of the versesbut does not observe their order.
193,672 views / Dec 22, 2015
LONGER READINGS
FROM TOMORROW'S MASS
THURSDAY OF THE 28TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
EPHESIANS 1:1-10
The Lord’s Prayer.
Further Teachings on Prayer.
The Answer to Prayer.
Jesus and Beelzebul.
The Privileges of Discipleship.
The Return of the Unclean Spirit.
True Blessedness
The Demand for a Sign
The Simile of Light.
Denunciation of the Pharisees and Scholars of the Law.
THE GOSPEL CANTICLE
THE LORD'S PRAYER
GUIDE TO PAGES ON THIS SITE
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DIVINE OFFICE / LITURGY OF THE HOURS
is the Prayer of Christ and the Church
"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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Time, Television and the Hours
Do I have time to pray the Hours?
How much time should I spend in formal prayer each day?
Time Management Principles
BASIC PRACTICES
Celebrating the Gospel Canticles
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 Readings
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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