![]() ![]() ![]() There are two unaccompanied choral pieces, four accompanied by organ and ten with organ and instruments (sometimes optional and sometimes not). This is a book to be dipped into and used at different times and different circumstances. On this journey, one travels and pauses at different points. Do not expect a setting of the Office starting with '0 Lord, open our lips' and ending with the conclusion of Night Prayer the key word here is 'journey', not just a musical journey but a spiritual one too. Sometimes a subtitle is more revealing than the official title: here it is "A musical journey through the Morning, Midday, Evening and Night Prayers from the Daily Office". Singing chants is a wonderful way to share, as we come to pray together.’ There one begins to be open to the beauty of prayer, and drawn into deeper levels of reflection and stillness. ![]() Through the repetitions, a chant starts in the head with all its thinking and begins the long journey into the heart. Margaret says: ‘Chants are so easy to perform and also lovely to sing and to work at. They follow the journey of Daily Prayer from awakening at the break of the day to the eyelids closing at the end of the day. The sixteen pieces of OFFICIUM DIVINUM are made up of four choral pieces with organ, two cappella pieces and ten choral pieces with organ and instrumental accompaniment. ![]()
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