From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum Service books : On the Feast of the Purification of the B. V. Mary (Feb. 2): 1st Evensong: Quod chorus vatum ... ... ... 56Mattins: Quem terra, pontus, ethera ... ... ... 63Lauds: O gloriosa femina ... ... ... 632nd Evensong: Letabundus ... ... Se...

I wasn't going to post this, feeling that I'd done it before - but actually I haven't. I've posted about most of the hymns themselves, but haven't given the whole listing of all the Office hymns for this, one of my favorite feast days of the year. So here it is, from Hymn melodies for the whole year...

From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books : On Christmas Day:1st Evensong: Veni, Redemptor gentium ... ... ... 25Matins: Christe, Redemptor omnium, De ... ... 26Lauds & 2nd Evensong: A solis ortus cardine ... ... ... 27 Here's the score to Hymn 25, listed as the song for Fir...

From the blog "The Faithful Sceptic: Some writings by E. Perren Hayes, retired priest": For most of my ministry I have been involved with helping individuals form and develop a life of prayer. For reasons that are unimportant here, most of those with whom I worked were priests or on the way to becom...

From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books : On the 1st Sunday in Advent, and daily (when the Serviceis of the Season) until Christmas Day :- Evensong: Conditor alme siderum ... ... ... 23 Mattins: Verbum supernum prodiens A Patre ... 24Lauds: Vox clara ecce intonat ... ... ....

It's appropriate today to sing any of the hymns "For a Holy Man," "For a Confessor," "For a Monastic," or "For Bishops and Pastors," because Martin of Tours was all of these. The choice from the listing at Hymn Melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service books , though, is only "For a Confess...

The Feast of All Saints is one of my favorite days of the entire year. I'm not exactly sure why, except that the first time I went to a traditional Anglican All Saints' Day service, I heard some spectacular music and the wonderful readings on the day - and both things have stayed with me ever since....

We sang this beautiful text at Morning Prayer yesterday - it's a poem by Christina Rossetti, combined with a gorgeous setting by Anthony Piccolo and called "The Key": Love is the key of life and death.Of hidden heavenly mystery :Of all Christ is, of all He saith,Love is the key. As three times to Hi...

On this day, you can sing the hymns for Apostles & Evangelists or the hymns for Martyrs. From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum services books , "On the Feast of One Martyr": 1st Ev. & Matt.: Martyr Dei, qui unicum At 1st Ev. (except in Xmas & Paschal-tides) ... ... 25 At 1st Ev. in Xm...

Canticles are simply defined as "liturgical songs not Psalms taken from Scripture." The Canticles for Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline are all "Gospel Canticles"; all are taken from that section of the Bible - and in fact, all are taken from the Gospel of Luke. The most well-known Cantic...