This introit was recorded by the schola of St. Looking forward to her Paschal joy, the Church invites her children, the children of the new Jerusalem, to rejoice in anticipation of the consolation of Easter. Laetare Jerusalem is the introit for the Fourth Sunday of Lent taken from Isaiah 66.10, 11. John’s vision of “the new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride for her husband,” (Rev. Connected in its beginnings with the historical city of David, it was to find its culmination in St. The Biblical theme of Jerusalem, the holy city of God, is one of the several motifs running through the Old and New Testaments.

Who lives with you in the shining heavens, Grant this, O Father of all light, in the name With your help we implore from Him the joys of light,Ĥ. A chanted lauds is close in form to vespers, except that an Old. He whom all the whole world adores with veneration, The major hour of the divine office of the Roman Catholic rite sung about sunrise. Thence was born Christ, God in the flesh:ģ. Your heart’s sanctuary being chaste became The Vespers hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, O Quam Glorifica, was recorded by the schola of St. The psalm tones of Lauds (Morning Prayer) are composed on a simple accentual principle to suit the varying rhythms of English cadences. A variety of musical styles is currently in use, but traditional chant predominates in both the Divine Office and the Mass. The monks of Spencer began celebrating the liturgy in English almost forty years ago. Joseph’s Abbey, Sunday Lauds has the same psalms each week, corresponding to Week II of the Roman Office, with seasonal variations. Since the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance began to reform its liturgy in 1969, the daily Offices have had a two-week cycle of psalmody. The purity and contemplative aspect of chant help us reach out beyond our immediate conditions to the ineffable, the eternal, the mystery of divine beauty and truth. Gregorian chant expresses in a special way something of the timelessness of liturgy. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever.

Evening Prayer for Wednesday in Ordinary Time. This language is not merely of an intellectual assent, but forms the sensibility and the very soul of worship. All from the Psalter: Wednesday, Week IV, 963.

Liturgy as sung prayer is the language of the heart. For despite its occasional elaborate technique, there is never anything contrived or dramatic about chant to weary the listener. Some attribute this to its haunting simplicity. Gregorian chant as the sung prayer of the Church is able to express the thoughts and feelings that are fundamental to prayer. If music is the wordless expression of the human soul, then truly sacred music must be not only an aid to prayer, but prayer itself.

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