Devotional aids

Listen: Polish church music: Youtube playlists:

Sing: Full texts in English for daily morning and evening prayer according to the prayer book tradition, set to appropriate plainsong tones and melodies, in convenient form for recitation or singing at home, may be found at the Sing the Office project.

If you sing the office at home and desire further variation to reflect the particular day or season according to the church calendar, then in lieu of the uniform tone given for the morning prayer invitatory and its antiphon by Sing the Office, you may wish to use the proper invitatory and antiphon melodies from the online Sarum Breviary published by the Gregorian Institute of Canada. Most of the invitatories during the year are given in the Psalter part of the English Performing Breviary; the rest are found “in their proper places” in the Temporal (for seasons) and Sanctoral (for saints’ days). The Arabic numeral with asterisk following the psalm intonation is supposed to refer to the page number in the Common Tones for the corresponding setting of the psalm (but there appear to be some slight errors in the page numbering).

Likewise, at evening prayer, if you are following Sing the Office, rather than singing the Nunc Dimittis to the uniform tone without antiphon given there, you may wish to sing the proper daily or seasonal antiphon melody and corresponding tone as given in G.H. Palmer’s Antiphons upon Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (rev. ed. 1911), which can be downloaded at Hathitrust. You may also wish to add the compline hymn (after the second reading, or after the collects) from the Sarum liturgy, which you can find in Palmer’s Order of Compline (2nd ed. 1899), available at the Open Library.

15 Thayer Street

South Deerfield, MA 01373

Rev. Robert M. Koerber, pastor

Sunday, March 30: Fourth Sunday of Lent

Mass 9:00 a.m.

Friday, April 4

Morning Prayer 8:45 a.m.; Mass 9:00 a.m.; Stations of the Cross 12:00 noon and 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, April 6: Passion Sunday

Mass 9:00 a.m.