Ormonde Plater

And the Word became flesh
and lived among us,
and we have seen his glory.
                                    John 1:14

• 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)
• Tenebrae (BCP 1979 text with traditional chants)
• 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)

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

· Year (Ordinary Time, the green season)

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

· Proper of Saints

· Common of Saints

My diocese:

• Diocese of Louisiana

Revised 15 June 2009