The Lake Metroparks Webcams
provide a wonderful background for Evening Prayer at sunset.
You can celebrate using the resources of my blog:
which are celebrated at 5pm Central Time
SAINT MEINRAD LIVESTREAMS
Unfortunately, Saint Meinrad does not provide a text
SAINT MEINRAD LIVESTREAMS
Unfortunately, Saint Meinrad does not provide a text
but they do list the psalms they are singing
They use the Grail Version of Psalms that have been used for decades
not the recently revised version.
$19.95/ Amazon above for 15.99
Their Booklet is a very convenient size 5 X 8 inches
with interesting introduction to each psalm
The Gelineau Psalm Tones are given in the back
An alternative version is
regularly sells for $49.95, Amazon above for $40.88
It is a hardback book slightly larger than 8.5 by 11
The Grail edition of the Psalms, hand-lettered by Trappist monks
and set in big size print for personal chanting or choir singing
The chant varies with the number of lines (2,3,4,5,6) in each stanza.
This version will tell you how many lines to expect from the Meinrad monks.
The chants are easy to learn.
The stanzas are alternated between a cantor or cantors
and the rest of the choir.
Listen what the cantor sings and sing with the choir.
When Betty and I sing one of us takes the cantor stanzas the other the choir
has a bargain sale now until July 31 while supplies last
but you have to enter the code BC24 in your cart
to get the bargain catalog price
The Abbey Psalter is $34.97; the Singing Version is $13.97
The Meinrad Monks sing a 2-week psalter
rather than the regular 4-week psalter.
Clergy who have the obligation to pray the hours fulfill their obligation
when they celebrate with any congregation
even if the congregation uses a different office.
I think that could be extended to virtual celebration
especially since Betty and I are part of the Saint Meinrad virtual congregation.
For each of my two daily posts,
I have a photograph which serves as the Icon of the Hour
much like Orthodox churches have an icon for the day
on a stand in front of the Iconostasis.
I like to choose photographs from the same day in previous years.
In recent days I have been replacing these with photographs taken
during the actual celebration of Evening Prayer
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| June 13, 2024 @ 8:59pm |
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| June 12, 2024 @8:55pm |
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| June 10, 2024 @ 9:03pm now used as place holder each day |
Those are nice, Jack. We have taken to going to the lake a few miles south of us at a state park. It's a nice spot for contemplation.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the links, Jack. I will check them out. A nice accompaniment to evening prayer.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jack - those images are stunning!
ReplyDeleteI guess you must face Lake Erie due west? Or at least the webcams do? In Chicago, Lake Michigan is due east, so we get sunrises over the lake, which relatively few people are out of bed to witness. But from time to time we would see the moon climb up over the edge of the water. There is something mystical about it. Whatever we think about pagans, they weren't fools.
Lake Erie is slightly northwest rather than either west or north of us. At this time of the year the sun sets to the northwest of us rather than directly west. Now when it gets to be December, I do not think that the sun will set into the lake, rather it will appear to set into Fairport Harbor and Cleveland which are to the west of the Painesville Township webcam. They will have to reorient the webcam if they want the sunset to be in the center of the webcam view.
DeleteOn the Painesville Township webcam, you can see the lighthouse of the Fairport Harbor webcam. The lighthouse is close being due west. However, in the Fairport Harbor webcam the lighthouse is slightly west of being due north.
My undergrad credentials say Loyola Marymount university. But I actually lived in the all womens college - the last graduating class from the Marymount campus in Palos Verdes CA, facing due west, overlooking the ocean. The September after our class graduated all of the women moved to the Loyola mens campus in WestchesterCA, very close to the ocean. Some parts of the LMU campus have ocean views but the Palos Verdes campus had them from everywhere on the campus. It was on a cliff of sorts, directly across the road from the ocean. The sunsets were spectacular. We could see Catalina island very clearly it looked very close. (26 miles across the sea… https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1I7zMKptjRs ). When the sun started dropping below the horizon it appeared to get bigger and bigger until it appeared to be a giant golden ball shining up from under the water. It was so beautiful and we were so fortunate to have that view. Although sometimes the ocean view from the classrooms could be distracting on nice warm days.
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