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I do not announce it at AA meetings, but most of my AA friends are aware that I will recite the Office Of The Dead for those who ask me to, be they Catholic or not, for those deceased who are Catholic, or not. A spiritual work of mercy.
So I have become quite familiar with some of the hymns of the Office, and look for ways to keep them fresh. For example, my large print edition gives two hymns for morning prayer. The second one starts with the words “O radiant Light…” and has a LM meter. That’s 88.88 for those not familiar with hymn meters. There exist hundreds of hymn tunes for LM, so one never needs to get bored with singing the same tune time after time.:harp:
But today I tried something different. Three stanzas of LM could also be considered 88.88.88.D, 12 lines of 8 beats. It turned out that Cyberhymnal had two, and only two, hymn tunes in this meter, “Ryle” and “Uluru”. So I sang the hymn twice, first with Ryle and second with Uluru.
Anyone else recite the Office For The Dead on request?
So I have become quite familiar with some of the hymns of the Office, and look for ways to keep them fresh. For example, my large print edition gives two hymns for morning prayer. The second one starts with the words “O radiant Light…” and has a LM meter. That’s 88.88 for those not familiar with hymn meters. There exist hundreds of hymn tunes for LM, so one never needs to get bored with singing the same tune time after time.:harp:
But today I tried something different. Three stanzas of LM could also be considered 88.88.88.D, 12 lines of 8 beats. It turned out that Cyberhymnal had two, and only two, hymn tunes in this meter, “Ryle” and “Uluru”. So I sang the hymn twice, first with Ryle and second with Uluru.
Anyone else recite the Office For The Dead on request?