Music
The Audio Liturgy of The Hours produced by Divine Office.org uses a selection of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM), Alternative Christian Music (ACM) as well as music and choirs from the Catholic tradition.
Featured Artists
Melinda Kirigin-Voss
An accomplished soloist, composer, arranger, and instrumentalist, Melinda has recorded three solo CDs and has also performed on numerous ensemble albums. Melinda is currently the Director of Music at SS. Cyril & Methodius Catholic Church in Lemont, IL, and also works as a professional vocalist, pianist, and organist throughout the Chicago area. Continue reading…
Erika Provinzano
Erika Provinzano conversion was so radical, that from that day she devotes her entire life to evangelization, with her husband and their small daughter Elisa. She created several canticles and psalms specifically for our Divine Office Ministry. Continue reading…
Cathedral of the Madeleine Choir
The Madeleine Choir School, a mission of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salt Lake City and a service of the Cathedral of the Madeleine, is an elementary school established in 1996. The school continues the cathedral tradition of preparing young people to engage the culture with the Catholic intellectual, artistic, moral and religious tradition. Continue reading…
Complete list of artists
Every artist whose music has been featured on Divine Office Audio Liturgy of the Hours is referenced in the description of the podcast episodes. All music featured on our podcast can be found on Garageband.com or on Amazon MP3, apart from the three featured artists above.
May 9th, 2012 at 04:24
@psalm118verse24
Thank you Cathy for this lyrics, I updated today’s Morning Prayer, so your work will be enjoyed by all our community. Thank you from Divineoffice.org team.
May 8th, 2012 at 17:05
Morning Prayer Wednesday May 9, 2012
I Am The Vine by The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir
Refrain:
I am the Vine; you are the branches.
Remain in me and you will bear abundant fruit.
Refrain
I am the true vine and my Father is the vine-grower.
He trims away every barren branch,
but the faithful ones he trims to increase their yield.
Refrain
Live on in me as I do in you.
No more than a branch can bear fruit alone,
can you bear fruit apart from me.
Refrain
If you live in me and my words live on in you,
ask what you will; it will be done for you.
Through your work, God is glorified.
Refrain
May 6th, 2012 at 03:37
@psalm118verse24
In the name of Divineoffice.org and our whole community, thank you!
Monica.
May 3rd, 2012 at 19:21
I returned and listened again very closely to the hymn. It could very well be that the man is singing, “a vault of Justice, a vault of Love,” which would make good sense. However, the words do sound very much like “bolt”. Please use your good judgment. Thank you.
May 3rd, 2012 at 19:00
Morning Prayer Friday May 4, 2012
Hymn To The Sacred Heart Of Jesus by Mary Oberle Hubley
Refrain
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us, have mercy on us.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be everywhere known and everywhere loved.
Heart of Jesus in whom are all treasures of wisdom and knowledge, source of mercy.
Heart of Jesus, abyss of all virtues, full of goodness, full of divinity,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Heart of Jesus, House of Gold and Gate of Heaven, Furnace of Charity.
Heart of Jesus, a bolt of Justice, a bolt of Love, of infinite majesty,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Heart of Jesus, formed by the Spirit, formed in the womb of your virgin mother.
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance and bruised for our sins, obedient unto death,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Come to me all you who labor, are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke and learn from me for I am meek and teacher of loveliness,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Heart of Jesus, desire of the everlasting hills and worthy of endless praise.
Heart of Jesus, Lamb of God and Victim of sin, recourse in our final days,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Heart of Jesus, salvation of those who trust in You, our Way to Heaven.
Heart of Jesus, our life and our health, our resurrection, all of eternity,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
Heart of Jesus, hope of all who die in You, delight of all the saints.
Heart of Jesus, sacred temple of God the Father, worthy of endless praise,
have mercy on us.
Refrain
April 26th, 2012 at 14:08
@psalm118verse24
Thank you so much for the lyrics!
Monica.
April 25th, 2012 at 11:25
Evening Prayer Tuesday April 24, 2012
Lyrics of the hymn
“Lord God, You love us” by Taizé
Background refrain sung by the chorus:
Lord God, You love us,
source of compassion.
Lord Christ, if we had faith enough to move mountains,
but were we not living charity, what would we be?
You love us. You love us.
Without your Spirit alive in our hearts, what would we be?
You love us. You love us.
Taking everything upon yourself, You open the way of us towards faith,
towards trust in God, who wants neither suffering nor human distress.
Spirit of the risen Christ, Spirit of compassion, Spirit of praise,
your love for each one of us will never go away: Will never go away.
April 25th, 2012 at 06:29
I wrote this in the regular comments section, but thought that this may be a more appropriate place: I really enjoyed April 23′rd’s hymn for Morning Prayer, “Open My Eyes” performed by St. Monica Church Choir. I know you usually link if there is an opportunity to purchase, but I thought I would ask anyway. I would love a recording of this. Thank you for everything you do! Your app has changed my life. God bless, Michele F.
I see here on the music page that “All music featured on our podcast can be found on Garageband.com on Amazon MP3…” I didn’t find it on Amazon, and I don’t understand Garageband.com — help?? Thanks!
April 21st, 2012 at 03:20
@mrs hampel. In case you never got an answer: Regina Caeli by Monks Of Glenstal Abbey; An ancient Latin Marian Hymn of the Christian Church, is one of the four seasonal Marian antiphons of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Regina Caeli by Monks Of Glenstal Abbey is available from Amazon.com
April 20th, 2012 at 19:35
Office of Readings Saturday April 21, 2012
Lyrics of the hymn
“O God, My Rock” by Mary Oberle Hubley from the album “From Gate of Heaven, Part II: Patron of the Universal Church. (Rendition of Psalm 42)
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
As a deer longs for running waters,
so my soul is thirsting for You, my God.
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
My soul thirsts for my God, the living God.
When may I behold the face of my Lord?
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
Day and night tears are my only sustenance.
All my friends say daily to me: “Where is your God?”
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
I recall many gladnesses from before,
with such joy have I approached our God.
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
Why so sad and so downcast, O my soul?
Put your hope alone in God, my God.
O God, my Rock, my soul is cast down within me.
April 10th, 2012 at 18:07
Please, who was the artist for “Regina Coeli” from the Night Prayer after the 2nd Evening Prayer for Easter?
March 4th, 2012 at 12:19
@mandymo you can navigate to other dates so you can go lookup the hymn. Click on the Yesterday or Tomorrow link and you will see the the url contains a date in the form YYYYMMDD and all you need to do is change that date to the one you want to see.
March 3rd, 2012 at 20:32
Hi- I am really enjoying praying Lauds and Compline this Lent. I am a youth minister and on Thursday, March 1st during Lauds, the opening hymn was perfect for a youth event that I have coming up. I unfortunately forgot to write it down, and now I can’t go back to access that day. Could you please tell me the name and choir that sings it?
Thanks so much!
March 3rd, 2012 at 19:21
Comments are closed for hymns needed, so I’ll post here. Several of the hymns you seek are ones I would love to sing for DivineOffice.org – I Sing the Mighty Power of God; Love Divine All Loves Excelling, Lord of All Hopefulness, etc. I’m a lyric soprano and have cantored at Mass for many years. Or do you need a professional recording? If I sing from a hymnal, do you have copyright issues? Please contact me offline if I can help. Thanks and God bless you for all you do!
February 27th, 2012 at 09:02
Hello,
A friend of mine who prays the LOH everyday played me a hymn called “All Creatures of our God and King” from this website a while ago. I’ve gone on youtube and found some nice versions of the song, but the one that was featured on this website was my favorite. Do you happen to have the information for who say it? (I think it was a choir).
Thank you.
February 13th, 2012 at 23:30
@Terri we use the hymns we can find that are best suited to the LOTH. If you have other music you can recommend then please let us know.
February 12th, 2012 at 18:22
I so appreciate and enjoy the music during the Hours. As the daughter of a Cantor of 40 years, St. Augustine has always been one of my favorite Saints. I wonder, do you ever use more recent hymn composers/arrangers music? Thank you for your ministry, and I will continue to support you in all the ways I can.
In Christ,
Terri
January 28th, 2012 at 23:30
I love doing the LOH with you folks. The music is so DIvine. The Madeline choir is one of my favorites.
Thank you for your hard work, beautiful singing, prayers and devotion. Tony Pretzello
January 24th, 2012 at 21:36
I love this site and my Kindle Fire app. The truth is I would not be able to pray the Lauds, Vespers, and Compline daily without this ministry. I recommend this site to all my Catholic friends, especially so they can try the prayers.
January 24th, 2012 at 19:45
Dane, thanks for your response. I would buy the app and use it on my BlackBerry Bold, but it apparently is not available for BlackBerry Apps. Am I correct or have I just not found how to obtain your Divine Liturgy App? Please inform me. I have this app on my Kindle Fire, but I don’t always carry my Kindle Fire with me. I do have my BlackBerry with me …almost aways. If this great app doesn’t yet exist for BlackBerry Apps, can you work to get it there????? Please inform me. I look forward your reply. Thanks again.. –Ronatprayer
January 24th, 2012 at 12:54
@Ronatprayer we have little control over the way pod catchers for mobile devices and iTunes will handle a podcast feed (RSS) as large as ours. We provide the complete and correct RSS feed and the rest we must put in the hands of technology we don’t own or control. I do suggest you make sure you have the very latest RSS feed by subscribing from our web site. You will find the “Subscribe to our rss Feed” link on the lower right side of our web site. Try that feed for podcasts and see if that works better.
January 23rd, 2012 at 21:13
I like your Podcast. I want to use it for prayer. However, there is no daily consistency in receiving the Divine Office Podcast. When I updated my BlackBerry Curve to the BlackBerry Bold 9900 series, I lost the podcast. This Sunday (Jan 22) I received the podcast again but Monday there was NOTHING AGAIN. Can you explain what is going on?
October 8th, 2011 at 05:35
Thank you. This ministry will help me to PRAY the complete Divine Office as I am committed to do in my novitiate. I need the sense of community and I have it through Divine Office
October 3rd, 2011 at 07:13
Where ca I find the Hymns sung in September? I am particularly interested in the one chanted on the Feast of the Nativity or the Exaltation of the Cross. I do not remember exactly. It began with the word “Blessed” ….
Thank you so much for your work that helps so much to pray.
September 14th, 2011 at 19:27
Thank you so much. I don’t have the funds for a Liturgy book at the moment, so this site has been a blessing. The artists that are displayed on here are amazing and gifted. Thanks again
July 22nd, 2011 at 10:09
Of Melinda: What an absolutely angelic voice. She has truly been blessed.
Of The web sight: How truly wonderful. What a beautiful way to allow others to praise Our Lord. May God bless your ministry. Thank You.
May 8th, 2011 at 04:08
I was looking for a site to be able to sing the hymms for my Divine Office readings and found this wonderful web site. Many times I read my office alone. Your site is a wonderful companion to read along with. I am a first aspirant student studing for the deaconate. It is a challenge but well worth it to serve others in my faith. Thank you so much. God Bless you all.
Santos
March 21st, 2011 at 07:04
Aren’t the faithful supposed to join in with the hyms.? When these are sung polyphonically it is impossible to sing along unless you actually know one of the parts. I also find that frequently there are missing verses or different words. The music is beautiful but it should be able to be sung by everyone. Even if the tune is somewhat unfamiliar, it should be easy enough to pick up by the second verse.
March 9th, 2011 at 15:42
@Dane,
Thank you for your response. I thought the song was an excellent bridge between the Christmas Christ child and the adult Jesus. I believe the line “’cause through the night, without your love, I’m ash” made it the perfect song/hymn for Ash Wednesday.
I am in my 60′s and love traditional hymns but all through my life so many contemporary, secular songs have expressed my love for God as well as the traditional hymns do. I am so glad I heard this song today.
I thoroughly enjoy the Divine Office app and thank God for it everyday. Keep up your fantastic work!
March 9th, 2011 at 14:52
@ririsho, I believe you are referring to “Ash” by Ulrik Elholm. It was too contemporary so I removed it. I love the song. I hope in the future we can give people a preference on hymn selection, but for now we have to stay traditional in most cases.
March 9th, 2011 at 10:59
There was a beautiful hymn sung this morning at the beginning of morning prayers. I would like to know the name and artist, if possible. Do you list this information anyplace when it differs from what is given in the app?
Thank you for any help you can give me.
Irish
March 4th, 2011 at 20:49
@Dane, I am not able to go from onr program such as morning prayer once it has started to another program at the end of thr first. most often when there is music within the program it repeats itself and I cannot get it to stop and/or go to another progeam without loging off and re-logging in. Thank you Ed
March 4th, 2011 at 07:23
@edbohn, I don’t understand what you are asking.
March 3rd, 2011 at 19:56
how do I turn off music oncethe peice (sinfing) is finished?. It continues to stream over and over.
February 24th, 2011 at 02:44
@brotherpierre, lol… i’m replying to my own message
)) Just in case this problem happens again in the history of your website, I found the solution. lol… Stupid me had the calendar on my computer set to MARCH 24th, rather than FEBRUARY 24th, and the website matches your date and time. So obviously the tabs of a month’s time ahead of the current will not come up. 
)) Yayyyyy lol.. blessings.. keep up the great work!
February 23rd, 2011 at 07:32
Hey guys, anyone else having trouble getting the office to appear? None of the tabs work, it just stays on the homepage
February 23rd, 2011 at 07:09
@rudyv3, the Te Deum was sung by Melinda Kirigin-Voss and Vince Clark, both members of our ministry. Melinda does have music for sale on iTunes and Amazon.com, but the Te Deum has not yet been published for sale. I will do it soon. We have four variations of it using the same chant tones.
February 22nd, 2011 at 08:37
Who sang Te Deum on Feb 22nd, Office of Readings? Is that recording available for sale? It was truly remarkable.
Peace!
February 9th, 2011 at 08:42
I love this site and thank God that He led me to it. Now I can pray the Divine Office in community. This is such a blessing. Thank you, Lord.
January 31st, 2011 at 09:50
@felliott,
We don’t have music scores for any of the psalms or canticles. Melinda simply puts the psalms and canticles to Gregorian psalm tones. You can find these basic psalm tones by searching for Gregorian chant on the Internet.
Once upon a rare occasion we use psalm tones we find in a GIA publication for the the Liturgy of the Hours, but this is very rare and it only gives us tones for the antiphons and not the entire psalm or canticle. Again, Melinda does the arrangement on the fly.
Is this what you were asking about?
January 30th, 2011 at 10:02
I want publication information of how to obtain the music used for your psalms.
November 6th, 2010 at 14:25
I can send you a file if it is music by our ministry, which means anything from Melinda, Erika, or Vince. Would you let me know what you are looking for?
November 6th, 2010 at 04:58
We are planning to present our small group in the Church. I am looking for a nice hymn of mpeg3 or mpeg4 file, means .mp3, .m4a, .m4p… Could we buy a music file in your liturgy pod cast through internet?
Thank you.
October 20th, 2010 at 06:27
how can i get some of Palms Erika Provinzano sings?
Thank You
October 19th, 2010 at 00:23
Long have I waited to discover such great ministry. I really like this ministry. thank you very much. I’m in charge of making the liturgy creative for ordinary people who doesn’t care much about the liturgy. I wanted to share the treasure of the church but I don’t have the luxury to spend too much to buy books. Through your ministry I I’m sure many will profit from it. Thank you very much. Let’s pray for the fruitfulness of our retreat next week.
September 15th, 2010 at 15:21
I miss sung version of the Canticle of Zachariah with the Israeli melody. It would ring in my head for days and lift my heart. Is there any chance it will reappear one day?
September 9th, 2010 at 20:31
Thank you for directing to Hymnal Oremus dot Org. It has been a wonderful experience.
God bless
September 8th, 2010 at 10:11
I recently found something you might be interested in. Take a look at the Oremus Hymnal at http://hymnal.oremus.org/
September 7th, 2010 at 17:09
Thank you for your reply.
I once found copies of those in the Dominican and Franciscan library and but never got to duplicate them. They were strictly for the seminary use.
You can imagine how excited and thrilled was I as I go over the pages. It was just like heaven.
Those moments were memorials for me.
September 7th, 2010 at 13:29
I have an old version of the Christian Prayer book that has them, but I don’t think this version is in print. I did purchase some books from GIA that contain some breviary music, but only for the Invitatory and for Morning and Evening Prayer on Sundays.
I would love to know of musical notations if you find them. Sorry I can’t help more, but I have been watching and searching for the same thing without much success.
September 7th, 2010 at 02:26
I’ve been looking for a musical notations of Hymns at the back of all the breviary I had held.
I remember that i saw a set of those in the old prints.
Recent editions have lost them.
Do u have any idea where to find one?
September 2nd, 2010 at 12:53
Two wonderful books on the LOTH may answer your questions: “The Divine Office for Dodos -Step by step guide to praying the LOTH” , by Madeline Pecora Nugent, I know the author personally, and I recommend “The School of Prayer – An Introduction to the Divine Office for all Christians,” by John Brook, Liturgical Press, Gives more detail about what all the readings and prayers mean, in a small concise book, 4×5 inches, with 441 pages. Very interesting reading. Pax et Bonum – Peace and goodness.
August 31st, 2010 at 11:27
i’d like to know why some particaular prayers are said on certain days in the breviary. For example i realised that on fridays the psalms are all penitential
August 12th, 2010 at 15:11
I am trying to find a performance of “Romans VIII” by Enrico Garzilli which is listed as Hymn 44 in the Liturgical Guide for Hymns. I like to sign but don’t read music so I need to learn by listening to a performance.
Thanks
July 29th, 2010 at 21:23
Help us find the right ones and let us know why they fit and we would love to have Gregorian chant. And, if you haven’t noticed, on Sundays we have started chanting psalms to Gregorian ( and other ) tones. We don’t sound as great as the munks, but we pray within a studio and not a monastery
July 29th, 2010 at 12:30
I certainly enjoy the older hymns I remember from my youth (as an Anglican). Many of those were very Catholic!
Would it be appropriate, or even possible, to include some Gregorian chant from time to time? I’m slowly learning a bit of Latin when I assist at an EF Mass, but the very sound of Gregorian chant lifts my soul heavenwards.
Thanks for all the great selections.
Reg.
July 22nd, 2010 at 18:15
Christina,
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It has been a challenge to level out the music volume and I guess I am not doing such a great job at it. It is difficult to get right because it music and spoken word act so differently when heard through headphones, earbuds, computer speakers, and stereo speakers. We will keep trying. (And your secret is safe with us
July 22nd, 2010 at 09:59
After hearing Veni Sancti Spiritu (a Taize music piece) here, I sought out their work on YouTube and Amazon — what a blessing it has been. Thank you from the depths of my soul. Their CD of that title is now in my Top 5 all time favorites for sure.
Just one request – is there any way you can even out the volume a bit more? It seems when I can hear the music well, the spoken portions are too loud. By the same token, when I have the volume right for the spoken parts, I have a hard time hearing the music well. But thank you so much for this ministry (and that’s from a non-Catholic – shhhh!
June 19th, 2010 at 07:48
You are welcome and thank you for praying with all of us.
June 18th, 2010 at 13:30
Amazing resource! Thank you so much for all of this.
June 6th, 2010 at 20:45
Thank you very much for thi kind of blogs, it help me so much to be in contact with God.
God bless you
June 4th, 2010 at 14:35
Dane:
I would like to offer my help in the music portion of your site. I have 40 years experience in liturgical music from chant to the newest of the new. I also have an established relationship with the publishers of liturgical music.
Please contact me at singcook1@astound.net
Thanks,
Ron
April 19th, 2010 at 10:33
I found your website very helpful for a first timer like me reading the Divine Office.
God bless you all!