Ormonde Plater

By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity of Christ
who humbled himself to share in our humanity.
                                    --prayer of the deacon on pouring water into wine

• Ormonde Plater’s story
• Meditation on the death of Richard Plater
• Deacon saints
• Ambrosian gospel chants
• Prayers of the People
• Litanies for the daily office
• O Antiphons (my translation, with the traditional chant)
• Great Canon of St Andrew of Crete (used as Invitatory at Morning Prayer during Lent)
• Tenebrae (full service, chants in modern notation)
• Good Friday Ecce lignum (chant “Behold the wood of the cross”)
• Exsultet-Ambrosian (BCP 1979 text with revisions, set to Ambrosian preface tone)
• Exsultet-Beneventan (BCP 1979 text with revisions, set to Beneventan chant)
• Exsultet-Roman (BCP 1979 text with revisions, set to modern Roman chant)

My English-language version of text and music of the new Antiphonale Monasticum:

· Tones (eight psalm tones, plus others) (chant notation)

· Psalter (for hours during week, with other psalms) (chant notation)

· Year (Ordinary Time, the green season) (chant notation)

· Seasons (Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, Lent, Easter) (chant notation)

· Proper of Saints (chant notation)

· Common of Saints (chant notation)

· BCP Psalter, with Benedictus and Magnificat (modern notation)

My diocese:

• Diocese of Louisiana

Revised 2 November 2011