Elvie 🌿🌲: here’s a spicy lil question, why does ‘christian prayer’ have like 200 hymns with full sheet music instead of, you know……..all of the hours

here’s a spicy lil question, why does ‘christian prayer’ have like 200 hymns with full sheet music instead of, you know……..all of the hours

ok ok I know you probably still couldn’t fit in ALL of it. but I feel like you could include a whole lot more! a less pathetic abridged option!

And they don't even match up with any of the other versions

I absolutely believe that music is extremely important to the liturgy but “include 200 unfamiliar hymns with the expectation that individuals will flip to them on the assigned days and sight read the melody” is deranged

include like 10 for ordinary time and 5 each for the other seasons, choose exclusively the most widely-known oldies but goodies, use the extra space for literally anything else.

Cut the psalm prayers if you still need more space after that

>cut the psalm prayers yes

oh now we gotta fight

Antiphons

My God I want to sing the Office but, as I’m not willing to spend hundreds on the latest antiphonary, it’s only practical to sing the pre-VII Offices

I listened to enough “sing the hours” when it first came out that I’ve learned what he uses for sunday week I, the gospel canticles, & a few others and I sing them that way any time I’m praying out of earshot of anyone. I sure wish the church made this actually officially accessible rather than/

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