Monthly Archives: April 2020

I’m way out of my depth with these songs for the Divine Office but I have enjoyed looking at them anyway. This one is for Sunday Morning Prayer Psalmody. Isn’t everyone just at Mass? It appears it can be sung … Continue reading →

Can I have suggestions for a streaming Mass? The Mass being streamed from the Cathedral in Brisbane is unwatchable even when it isn’t freezing repeatedly. I stumbled onto Shalomworld and I’ll see if there is something there today there but … Continue reading →

The team isn’t meeting since we have no masses for which to select music. We have special songs for this time of year that I suspect we would have chosen and I have put them in, but since this mass … Continue reading →

I often skip chant but I am enjoying these morning prayers. CWB II removes archaisms for their version of the text, which is attributed the Pope Gregory the Great. I’ve flipped the last two lines of the third stanza given … Continue reading →

This morning office hymn by James Quinn is a worthy prayer for any morning. The text is here – scroll down. It is set to CHRISTE SANCTORUM.

This has the same Latin derivation as yesterday’s hymn but with a different translation, this time by Peter Scagnelli. The text is here (page 3). It is set to JESU DULCIS MEMORIA.

This is another hymn for the Morning Office. It is a c6 text Jam Christe, sol justitiate and is here set to ROCKINGHAM. The text is here.

I’m going to dip in an out of all the songs for the Daily Office – many are merely antiphons for narrow purposes – but essential if you are doing these prayers all the time. This is a whole song, … Continue reading →

I’m going to skip some chant for Adoration from this collection: 167 The Divine Praises 168-169 Adoremus in aeturnam 170 O Sacrament Most Holy – this is from The Grail – music Charles Gonoud. For the Liturgy of the Hours, … Continue reading →

The next section in CWB II is songs for the worship of the Eucharist outside of Mass. Exposition and Adoration are not forms of liturgy nor spirituality to which I am drawn, but this book has plenty of music for … Continue reading →