The Chapel remains open for private prayer.Ĭopyright © 2013 Abbey of Regina Laudis. *Exceptions: Tuesdays throughout the year and Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the summer months, Sext and None are sung inside the enclosure and therefore not open to the Public. The community finds in the Eucharist and the Divine Office, expressed through the Gregorian Chant-when properly rendered in the unanimity of a single voice (Rule of Saint Benedict, Chapter 19:7)-a form of prayer which remains eminently capable of imparting peace and of evoking the response of present-day man. The deepest form of communication which the nuns of Regina Laudis extend to each guest is the liturgy. It is our joy to be able to share our life through hospitality, and especially to invite our visitors and guests to be present in our chapel or church when the Divine Office is being chanted. The privilege of this vocation to praise is both demanding and deeply fulfilling. Nevertheless, the power of the Divine Office as a unifying and strengthening force in our life is evident, even for those new to the community.Īs we strive to live the motto of our Order, Ora et Labora (Pray and Work), it is the singing of the chant that continually brings us back to our common purpose as we are over and over again, called back to Choir, called by the bell from whatever manual work or study or other activity we may be engaged in, to sing the next Office, to re-center, together, in God. And certainly the experience of the Divine Office is a very personal one for each member of the Community. Psalm 100 Cry out with joy to the Lord, all the earth. Come, let us worship our mighty King and Lord. Of course it takes years of study, of Latin, of the Rule, of the Chant itself-rhythm, solfège, counting, and years of just singing together, and living together!-to feel “at home” with the Chant. 1X SPEED 100 ZOOM Dark FullScreen SHARE Podcast: Play in new window Download (Duration: 2:12 2.1MB) Lord, open my lips. We sing the psalms seven times a day and once in the night, in an arrangement very close to the schema set forth by our founder Saint Benedict in his Rule, 1500 years ago. Based on the 1979 Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, this app includes psalms and lection readings as well as text and recordings of chants and hymns used. The GOA Digital Chant Stand provides resources intended to enhance the worship experience of the Orthodox faithful with easily accessible liturgical texts. Surely one of the ways that this value is gradually learned, practiced, and shared with others is through the singing of the Divine Office. It is our prayer that we may as a community witness to the value of living a life together with others. The response of the Bride to the Bridegroom is that of significant state as a feminine condition in every Consecrated Woman.From Venite Seorsum as quoted in the Regina Laudis Constitutions Writings and Meditations in my present state of contemplation will also be shared as a reflection of the Bride, the Church. We depend on the prayers and readings of the Fathers of the Church to bring to eternal constancy the governance and sanctification and the teaching of Magistra and Mother. The Breviary of the Order of Priest is a deliverance and universal offering of continued praise and eternal dependence.
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