Saint Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter Review
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Saint Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter is the perfect companion for the liturgical life of a praying domestic Church. If you are drawn to the English Prayerbook Tradition, are a member of the Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans, or simply enjoy learning more about applied liturgical theology, this book is for you!
Families should pray and sing together, but many of us struggle in our quest to "worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness." Catholic families seeking to enrich their prayers together have a wealth of resources, and it can be overwhelming. Praying the Divine Office in any form is a unifying way to join the public prayer of the Church with the spiritual life of the Domestic Church, whether it's the Liturgy of the Hours, the Daily Office or some other form of Breviary.
In this video, we discuss why and how this unique book is a gift to families seeking to explore adding this to their shared rule of life!
--
Articles and books worth checking out (some affiliate links may apply):
Daily Office Prayer Book:
Commonwealth Ordinariate Daily Office: www.ctsbooks.o...
Amazon: amzn.to/3OfITYE
St Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter-
Lancelot Andrewes Press Link: andrewespress....
Amazon: amzn.to/3AubALR
--
Saint Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter playlist:
• Psalm 1: Beatus vir qu...
My Website: www.emberingsb...
Support us by checking out our shop: www.etsy.com/s...
I definitely want to learn to chant the Psalms in the heritage of my Celto-Brithonic-Anglo-Norman ancestors...I'm intrigued to learn to chant them in Hebrew trope, as well.
I’ve heard some reconstructions of first century Jewish chant based on some legitimate ethno-musicology research and it’s really beautiful. The Psalms are meant to be sung, for sure!
Thank you for your review.
Very, very good stuff. Keep it up!
Thank you, looking forward to diving into more, soon!
Fantastic content! Keep up the good work!
Question about praying the Ordinariate Daily Office. You mentioned praying Evensong in a group setting. What was the chant-to-speech ratio (was most of it chanted or spoken)? I would love to do it in a parish setting one day.
Thanks, Jared! Glad to make a new friend out here. Basically, there aren't a ton of very hard-and-fast rules on where you divide chant vs spoken, but there are some customary rules you'll observe. Off the top of my head, there are traditional sections that you will find most of us chant as customary (any V: R: bits such as the introduction, for example), any anthems/hymns, or canticles. Collects are customarily chanted as well. One of the liturgical principles I carry lightly with me is that most things the book tells you to say can be sung but there are some notable exceptions especially in terms of common experience (the prayer of St. Chrysostom for example is, to my mind, never chanted?). If you have a copy of the Saint Dunstan's Psalter, they provide a pretty good general rubric for when to chant and when to speak, and that is very much accurate to my experience in Anglican formation and in parish/seminary settings. Another fun guide to get into the weeds but to help get your head around setting up a parish sung Mattins or Evensong would be Ritual Notes, the editions vary in churchmanship leanings but it's always distinctly "High Church" or "Anglo-Catholic" if those divisions help. I would be happy to help in any way I could to get you and a handful of enthusiasts singing the Office together!
My copy of St Dunstan’s Psalter arrived today:)
Happy chanting!
Thanks for this review. I love St Dunstan's Psalter. Did you visit or live in Korea? I noticed your shirt.
Good eye! I lived there for a year and a half teaching English in a university immersion program. It’s one of few souvenirs from an obligatory tourist trip to Seoul. I also really love the St Dunstan’s Psalter!
@@emberingsbe i lived in seoul for 4 years teaching English as well :)
You have less than 100 (at the time) subscribers and your videos are this high quality and helpful? Yep, I’ve struck gold.
Thank you for your kind words! Glad to have you hanging out with us- Please do let me know if there’s any specific questions I can dive into.
I'm on the fence about getting it. On the one hand I keep thinking about it.
On the other hand, the main reason I chose the divine worship daily office version of the brieviary is because it's one book with everything in it.
If I got this additional book all of a sudden I'm at 2 books again lol but that's how it goes for us who are into this sort of thing. I enjoyed the video.
What do you think of the little office of the blessed Virgin Mary?
I totally understand! One of the many strengths of the commonwealth edition is its more traditional breviary format- it’s all in one! The little office of the BVM is a wonderful, approachable office for the laity and its interesting that it was once THE breviary for some lay third orders the Carmelites I believe used to have their 3rd order pray it, for example. Of the two modern printings of the traditional office, Angelus and Baronius both did great work. The Baronius has Gregorian notation for chanting it, and boasts the closest to the translation used by English Recusants during the Reformation so that’s pretty cool. I don’t have much experience praying it regularly though, so I’d love to hear your thoughts if you take it up!
@@emberingsbe I believe that's true, the little office was once THE breviary in a sense. True.
I will stick with my beloved divine worship daily office, it's been with me to several states and even several countries at this point.
But I'm still an advocate for the little office and I think I have every version of it. I have promoted it and now my wife has a devotion to it which is great.
It's beautiful and it certainly is in line with the divine office while being a simplified version. I wonder if they'd ever make a little office that specifically came out of the style and language of the ordinariate
I agree! I wonder if the Anglo Catholics in the UK, who did such yeoman’s work translating and sharing devotional and liturgical material, ever got around to sharing the Little Office? I shall have to do a bit of digging…
@@emberingsbe I'd be interested to hear about what you find. God bless