{"id":53214,"date":"2020-09-17T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=53214"},"modified":"2020-09-24T12:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:56:00","slug":"how-we-celebrate-vespers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/how-we-celebrate-vespers\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Celebrate Vespers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/20\/how-we-celebrate-the-sixth-hour\/\">I described how we have celebrated the Sixth Hour<\/a> every week since 2013 in the Jesuit Church in Innsbruck, right beside the School of Catholic Theology. The Sixth Hour is a short service, mainly focused on singing psalms according to the principles of Gregorian Chant. The atmosphere is calm, and there is not much technical preparation needed.<\/p>\n<p>There is another weekly prayer service which was established around ten years earlier, also based on a request by students of theology, but using a completely different stylistic approach.<\/p>\n<p>Around 2003, two students from Innsbruck went to the University of Muenster in Germany for one year. This is a large university with well-organized Catholic, Evangelical, and Orthodox students\u2019 congregations. Students from all three traditions created and established a weekly Ecumenical service which turned out to be something like an Episcopalian Evensong. When the two Catholic students returned to Innsbruck in 2004, they wanted to continue this prayer tradition even in the absence of their Evangelical and Orthodox fellows.<\/p>\n<p>While the service in Muenster had been celebrated in a small chapel with students sitting and kneeling on carpeted floor, we tried to find a style that would work in our large baroque church (<a href=\"https:\/\/jesuitenkirche-innsbruck.at\/media\/fotogalerien\/2016-08-21-musik-im-gottesdienst-ifdam\/20160821-DSC_2405.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can see the setup here<\/a>)<span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">. While the psalms in Muenster had been selected spontaneously by the presider from the German hymnal <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Gotteslob<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">, we decided to create neatly arranged leaflets with a fixed frame section and a replaceable inner part with psalms for different occasions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When the new edition of <em>G<\/em><em>otteslob<\/em> came out in 2013, we replaced some of our elements by new ones from <em>Gotteslob,<\/em> especially since that new hymnal included a pattern for an \u201cAbendlob\u201d (which roughly means Evensong) which was surprisingly similar to ours.<\/p>\n<p>Here is our full pattern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We gather in the first rows of the church (or around the altar in the crypt). In front of the altar is a large candlestand, filled with sand, with a lighted Paschal candle in its middle. Close to the altar is a small bowl with a piece of hot coal for incense. Everyone has their leaflets and a small candle in their hands.<\/li>\n<li>Acclamation <em>In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: light and peace. Thanks be to God.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The presider lights her or his candle from the Paschal candle, hands the light to the others and lights all candles around the altar.<\/li>\n<li>Hymn of light <em>Du Licht vom Lichte<\/em>\u00a0(a German adaption of the Greek evening hymn <em>Phos hilaron<\/em>). The verses are monophonically sung by a chanter. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NJFcOC_-1-U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can hear a recording from a service in a German parish here.<\/a> While the verses are sung, everyone brings their candles to the candlestand and puts them around the Paschal candle.<\/li>\n<li>Prayer of light <em>(Gotteslob 661,1)<\/em>:<br \/>\nOur help is the name of the Lord. &#8211; Who made heaven and earth.<br \/>\nLet us pray.<br \/>\nWe praise you, Lord, our God.<br \/>\nDay and night is yours.<br \/>\nWe thank you for light,<br \/>\nthe first gift of your Creation,<br \/>\nand we beseech you:<br \/>\nLet Christ, the sun of justice,<br \/>\nnever set in our hearts,<br \/>\nso that we may pass from this time,<br \/>\nwhich is tainted with fear and doubt,<br \/>\nto the light in which you dwell.<br \/>\nWe ask you this through him, Jesus Christ,<br \/>\nyour Son, our Lord and God,<br \/>\nwho lives and reigns in unity with the Holy Spirit<br \/>\nforever and ever. \u2013 Amen.<\/li>\n<li>Psalm 141 (140):1\u20134 with antiphon <em>May my prayer be counted as incense before you, my Lord and my God, hallelujah. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4onDobKiD68\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can hear the antiphon here.<\/a> The verses are not the same as in the video; they are sung monophonically by the chanter. During this psalm the presider offers incense in the bowl.<\/li>\n<li>For the following psalmody the replaceable inner part of the leaflet comes into play. Most psalms are taken from the <em>Benediktinisches Antiphonale,<\/em> with the verses sung alternately between the chanter and the others. For some occasions we chose other versions, but all of them are monophonic German Gregorian chant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5f9h7nuYif0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This recording from a small German monastery gives you an impression.<\/a> We chose the following psalms and canticles:<br \/>\nAdvent: Pss 130 and 146<br \/>\nLent: Is 64:3\u20138 and Ps 31:2\u20136<br \/>\nEastertide: Pss 118:1.19\u201324 and 114<br \/>\nFeast Days: Ps 145:10\u201321 and Matt 5:3\u201310<br \/>\nTimes of Mourning (e.g. on All Soul\u2019s Day): Ps 39:6\u201314 and selected verses from Is 25\u201326<br \/>\nOrdinary Time (six options):<br \/>\nPss 33:1\u20136.21 and 121<br \/>\nPss 91 and 117<br \/>\nPss 97 and 87<br \/>\nPss 111 and 23<br \/>\nPs 138 and 15<br \/>\nPs 104 (mainly for September in the Ecumenical Time of Creation)<\/li>\n<li>After each psalm there is a short collect, such as: \u201cFather in Heaven, through your Son you proclaimed peace to the poor. Impregnate all who await salvation with joy and delight. Amen\u201d (after Ps 23) or \u201cGod, your wisdom enlightens us and shows us the path that leads to you. Assist us, so that we can follow your Word and always stay righteous. Amen\u201d (after Ps 15).<\/li>\n<li>A short Biblical reading, chosen from a large collection that we compiled for ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>One minute of silence.<\/li>\n<li>A canon for two, three, or four voices; we mainly use canons from the Taiz\u00e9 repertory. Here ends the replaceable inner part of the leaflet.<\/li>\n<li>Magnificat with a triple <em>Hallelujah<\/em> as its antiphon, following a tune for three voices from a Ukrainian version of the <em>Hymnos Akathistos. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yj3grhJuTd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can find an audio file here.<\/a> (In Lent, we use a Gregorian pattern from the <em>Benediktinisches Antiphonale<\/em> in order to create a more austere mood and to avoid the word <em>hallelujah.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Universal prayer from a collection that we compiled for ourselves.<\/li>\n<li>Lord\u2019s prayer, sung in four parts using a tune by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov <em>(Gotteslob 661,8)<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4uOIOoTWXE8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can hear an audio here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Concluding prayer following St. Augustine:<br \/>\nLord, you created us, and our heart is restless until it finds rest in you.<br \/>\nYours is the light of the day.<br \/>\nYours is the darkness of the night.<br \/>\nLife is yours and death.<br \/>\nI myself am yours and adore you.<br \/>\nLet me rest in peace,<br \/>\nbless the forthcoming day,<br \/>\nand let me awake to praise you.<\/li>\n<li>If there is still time (the service is limited to ca. 30 minutes, since there is Mass afterwards), we attach a version of <em>Hagios o Theos<\/em> in Greek\u2013German\u2013Greek in three voices, following a famous Greek tune. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o_ERFtSZmas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">You can hear a version here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Final blessing following Num 6:23\u201327.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The pattern should be quite familiar to worshippers coming from different traditions, and it even enjoys similarities to the Roman Catholic Liturgy of The Hours. You might get the impression that it is too much of a hodgepodge of different musical styles, but actually it proved to be a good combination of the more copious and symbolic elements in the frame section and the more austere and calm elements in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>This sort-of Evensong has taken place in the Innsbruck Jesuit Church since Advent 2004 in almost every week. Its regularly scheduled day and time is Tuesday at 6 p.m. In most weeks we are an assembly of around 8\u201310 people, sometimes fewer, rarely more. Although this service has never grown into a huge event, it is well established and fully supported by the Jesuits as a more than welcome addition to the regular schedule which is otherwise highly focused on Masses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pattern for a weekly Vespers service, created by Catholic, Evangelical, and Orthodox students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":53215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3118,13,18,21,22],"tags":[3101,349,3146,373],"class_list":["post-53214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-celebrandi-new-ws","category-ecumenism","category-liturgy-of-the-hours","category-music-chant","category-music-hymns","tag-ecumenical-service","tag-evensong","tag-psalmody","tag-vespers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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