Brian, thank you. My one regret in life is that I did not raise my kids with anything near the family prayer you use in yours. Keep it up; it's too late for me, though even at this late date I now keep trying and praying.
I’m sure you did the best you could with what knowledge, experience and perspective you had at the time. I hope you now focus on what you can do for your relationship with God now. God bless my friend :)
Mine too, @Gary Worth I am praying to God everyday that now that she is an adult woman the Holy Spirit guide her to Christ Our Lord’s path in everything that she does!
I feel your pain. It’s not totally our fault. Our priests were not teaching and guiding families how to truly live as a Christian. Now we have adult children who have even less foundation than we had and are leaving the church in droves. It’s so sad - soul-crushing sad.
Fr. Chris Alar once said that "if God gave you a bad singing voice, give it back to Him." Wishing we had done more praying together when the kids were small - it was one of my girls who got us into the regular habit of praying before meals. I try to get the two still at home to pray the Rosary once a week together with my wife and I. Right now we are doing the 33 Day Marian Consecration Prep. So little by little we are working more prayer into our lives - as well as spiritual reading which I never thought I'd have an interest in but which I find inspiring. As St. Padre Pio said "Be content to begin with small steps till you have legs to run, better still wings to fly.” God bless.
That is lovely. Hope to get my prayer life up to bar eventually. Right now I don't have a dedicated prayer place and no icon. I have a picture of Blessed Mother and Devine Mercy picture, and my daughter and I just sit on the bed and pray the Rosary. Of course with Mother Mary's picture.
Also, as a singer myself, I recommend getting Compline by Angelus Press, which has the Extraordinary Form night prayer notated, and the prayers can be easily found chanted on UA-cam .
We pray in the morning (sacrifice our day, for priests, prayer of Fatima angel), before meals, before sleep (for souls in purgatory, for Poland, for good death). We also pray rosary every day and read the Bible or other Church's writings. Thanks Brian. We don't have kids yet but introducing singing is a great advise!
Thank you, and God bless you for sharing this Sing the Hours on You Tube. I did not know about this and this is an amazing aid to my prayer life. Instructional for me. Your comment as well as this video is an answer to one of my prayers. Again, thank you. God bless you. 🙏
Saint Augustine said "He who sings, prays twice". That's what a songbook said in a nearby church, and it stuck with me, when you said it I was thinking of commenting on it
Thank you! love ur channel. Thank God for young families like yours. Our generation failed in so many ways. God have mercy! Mother Mary keep u in her loving care..
Thank you Brian, for this video, and sharing what you've shared. For some of us, "showin is better than tellin" . An old saying that my late parents used to always say. Thank you for explaining and giving us a little glimpse of the beauty of your own family prayer routine. This video is God's answer to my prayers, and definitely used in God's direction for my path. God bless you and your loved ones, and your channel. 🙏
I have a night prayer book which we read from. I am sure I don’t use perfectly but I agree just start somewhere and be kind to yourself on your journey.
Great video; I think the rediscovery of the domestic church is one of the most important needs of our culture. We are figuring this out with our children using an adaptation of “Family Prayer” from The Book of Common Prayer. I love the insights you are sharing for people. Not sure I agree, however, that singing a hymn is to “stop and take a break” from praying. Rather the words of the hymn are part of our prayers and praise. I only say that because I’ve heard others make this same distinction that you make and I think it is a bit artificial. The hymn is itself a pre-written prayer.
@@lightgoldenlight at the moment I'm United Methodist. The UMC is in the process of splitting so we will see what denomination/institution I am in 2 years from now; but either way I will be a Wesleyan with a strong affinity for the Common Prayerbook and the Anglican tradition. We are taking a good look at the Anglican Church in North America
I’ve noticed different stages of family life require different approaches. For our toddlers, their attention span before bed only allows for basic “I love you Jesus “ “Thank you Jesus” etc. As much as my 3 year old daughter daughter wants to pray the “Compline” grown up prayer, she isn’t quite ready for it.
We are only just starting out on family prayers with our five-year-old family, so this is ever so useful; many many thanks, Brian! Right now I am reading The Little Oratory, A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home by David Clayton and Leila Marie Lawler. So far we only pray in the evenings. I hope that we perhaps buildup the discipline to pray in the mornings, too. Which specific track by Paul Jernberg is the outro (and the intro for that matter) is it? It's so beautiful!
I pray you look into the 3 order of St. Pius the X. They have great prayer for Prime. Also the Divinum Officum App. Peace and blessings. Great tools for a rule of life for the family. Like the Secret of La Salette said about the order of the apostoles of the last days of having morning and evening prayer.
One of the most common words in my 2.5 yr olds vocabulary (besides... mine, give it, and no mama!!! pleassssseeee) is Rosary, Pray, and Church .... she loves to pray rosary with me, and can always point out every Mary in the Church windows ... even at home she points to images of Mary and tells me it's Jesus' Mama.... I struggle to keep consistency in prayer routines for myself and our home but it's SO WORTH IT; It's amazing how children are enchanted and so pure in their connection to God.
I also follow 'Sing the Hours' on YT. He sings Lauds and Vespers, and it is easy to sing along with the repeated prayers such as the Doxology. Or just close your eyes and let the beauty of it flow over you
Great video Brian! Where btw did you find the chant melodies for those different prayers? I really like chant but don't necessarily want to just make it up haha. Thanks
Get yourself a copy of the Mundelein Psalter. It has all the notes for chanting the liturgy of the hours. It's not hard to learn at all and you can do it responsively as a family. Highly recommended.
Do you maybe have a link to the music sheets for the Hallelujah in your outro, I'm part of the choir for the Cathedral of Vannes in France and would love to sing it with them
I wish you would post locations where we can find instruction into how to sing/chant these things. I only N.O. parishes here and the hymns are bad enough, there is zero chant. Where do we find how to do this?
It sounds like you're describing Orthodox practices. I wish I could find these aspects within a Catholic parish. Currently alternating between Mass and Divine Liturgy.
Do you by any chance have the link to the music for night prayer? I have the breviary with the music in the back and it seems like what your family sings matches, but I could never figure it out since I can't read music very well. Thanks!
If anyone is looking for resources for teaching mental prayer (the informal conversation he talks about at the beginning) I've found the book "guided prayer for little ones" by Kimberly Fries to be really helpful. It guides the child through a looser "script" than written prayers (but those are also included in the prayer session) I do this with my kids INDIVIDUALLY starting in first grade so that they can have a habit of individual mental prayer established by the time they are ready for their first communion (this is in addition to any family prayers). I also really like her "lectio divina for little ones" book- it's beautiful and does not dumb down the practice even though it's written for kids!
I pray the rosary, and then the evening office with the readings of the mass of the day with my wife and son. When the kids were younger we read through the bible after supper. Is it always convenient? No. Is it hard to start? Yes. Do it anyway.
In my family the actual quote by Saint Augustine is translated as "Singing is praying twice as long with half the content". Nice practice for your family by no mention of Daily Mass?
The Office of Compline in Latin and English from the St. Louis Antiphonary for the Hours has all the melodies you are looking for for Compline. A great resource!
For me something like that would be terribly embarrassing. I feel embarrassed even when I'm just going to the church, when I kneel I feel it the most. Here is this serious, rational man, kneeling before an imaginary God. The rational part of me is trying to convince me that it's all nonsense, like a theater, and I'm a fool. I feel humiliated by my own faith, as well as by what the Church expects from me as a Catholic to do and say - like such a prayer routine. How can I do such things when I'm constantly unsure of my faith? How can anyone be sure about their faith? Is it something wrong with me, or with them? 🤔
On the rational side, I’d read On Guard by William Lane Craig. It has some great arguments for God’s existence. It’s one of the main books that converted me. I’d also recommend Answering Atheism by Trent Horn, the Classical Theism podcast, and Edward Feser’s blog. Research and read your way into faith. On the prayer side, I’d just say fake it until you make it. I think if you pray like you believe, over time your internal feelings will match your external actions. I also think it’s good to just be honest with God and be like “God, if you’re there, please help me with XYZ” or say “Lord, increase my faith” or “Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.”
@@johnburford7862 Thanks, I'll check them out. Though I know most arguments, it's a long way from the existence of God to Christianity and Catholicism in particular. And for me it's easier to convince my brain than my heart...
Do even a a blessing from your bishop to do what you do on youtube. Is very clear you have some depression issues some other mental issues. One time you are in distress other times you're happy work on yourself make sure you have a blessing from your Bishop to do what you do where the bishop is the church us. That means you are in line with your Bishop intern you are in line with the church we have too many people doing what they want to do breaking down the church causing confusion to God's people some videos you make causes confusion
Brian, thank you. My one regret in life is that I did not raise my kids with anything near the family prayer you use in yours. Keep it up; it's too late for me, though even at this late date I now keep trying and praying.
I’m sure you did the best you could with what knowledge, experience and perspective you had at the time. I hope you now focus on what you can do for your relationship with God now. God bless my friend :)
Mine too, @Gary Worth I am praying to God everyday that now that she is an adult woman the Holy Spirit guide her to Christ Our Lord’s path in everything that she does!
I feel your pain. It’s not totally our fault. Our priests were not teaching and guiding families how to truly live as a Christian. Now we have adult children who have even less foundation than we had and are leaving the church in droves. It’s so sad - soul-crushing sad.
Thank you for this tutorial. I will incorporate it into my prayer life. Many families will be blessed by this!
I can say it's never too late. Keep trying. God bless!
Your prayer life with your family sounds beautiful!
As a mom...I think children learn most things more easily through song!
God bless! 🌷
My mother and grandmother sang so much with us. Rightly ordered music is so important for a child's soul.
Fr. Chris Alar once said that "if God gave you a bad singing voice, give it back to Him."
Wishing we had done more praying together when the kids were small - it was one of my girls who got us into the regular habit of praying before meals. I try to get the two still at home to pray the Rosary once a week together with my wife and I. Right now we are doing the 33 Day Marian Consecration Prep. So little by little we are working more prayer into our lives - as well as spiritual reading which I never thought I'd have an interest in but which I find inspiring. As St. Padre Pio said "Be content to begin with small steps till you have legs to run, better still wings to fly.” God bless.
That is lovely. Hope to get my prayer life up to bar eventually. Right now I don't have a dedicated prayer place and no icon. I have a picture of Blessed Mother and Devine Mercy picture, and my daughter and I just sit on the bed and pray the Rosary. Of course with Mother Mary's picture.
God bless you & your wife, Brian. Your kids surely are the hope for the future of Catholicism on earth. Have a few more! Or many more…
Also, as a singer myself, I recommend getting Compline by Angelus Press, which has the Extraordinary Form night prayer notated, and the prayers can be easily found chanted on UA-cam .
Are your wife and family really that precious??
😱🤩🙏🏻🙌🏻✨amazing! Thank you for sharing …most inspiring!
We pray in the morning (sacrifice our day, for priests, prayer of Fatima angel), before meals, before sleep (for souls in purgatory, for Poland, for good death). We also pray rosary every day and read the Bible or other Church's writings. Thanks Brian. We don't have kids yet but introducing singing is a great advise!
Thank you for sharing. I would love to see your family’s homeschooling routine too 😊
Thank you for sharing a personal aspect of your life. Appreciated. Will share.
Thank you Brian for sharing. It is a deep spiritual feeling to sing daily prayers. Sing the Hours on UA-cam has Lauds and Vespers. 🙏✨✝️✨🙏
Thank you, and God bless you for sharing this Sing the Hours on You Tube. I did not know about this and this is an amazing aid to my prayer life. Instructional for me. Your comment as well as this video is an answer to one of my prayers. Again, thank you. God bless you. 🙏
I pray that there be many, many more prayerful families like yours. Love from the Philippines.
Saint Augustine said "He who sings, prays twice". That's what a songbook said in a nearby church, and it stuck with me, when you said it I was thinking of commenting on it
Thank you much for this inspiration and encouragement! It will definitely benefit me in my prayer life. Blessings! 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing this with us , Brian! God bless you and your family!
You've got a beautiful family. Your children are so cute.
'O Lord give us many Holy Catholic families'
Thank you! love ur channel. Thank God for young families like yours. Our generation failed in so many ways. God have mercy! Mother Mary keep u in her loving care..
Maybe make a podcast of each of the prayers being sung? We could play it and follow along.
Thank you Brian, for this video, and sharing what you've shared. For some of us, "showin is better than tellin" . An old saying that my late parents used to always say. Thank you for explaining and giving us a little glimpse of the beauty of your own family prayer routine. This video is God's answer to my prayers, and definitely used in God's direction for my path. God bless you and your loved ones, and your channel. 🙏
I have a night prayer book which we read from. I am sure I don’t use perfectly but I agree just start somewhere and be kind to yourself on your journey.
Thank you for the thorough explanation.
Great video; I think the rediscovery of the domestic church is one of the most important needs of our culture. We are figuring this out with our children using an adaptation of “Family Prayer” from The Book of Common Prayer. I love the insights you are sharing for people.
Not sure I agree, however, that singing a hymn is to “stop and take a break” from praying. Rather the words of the hymn are part of our prayers and praise. I only say that because I’ve heard others make this same distinction that you make and I think it is a bit artificial. The hymn is itself a pre-written prayer.
Interesting! Are you Episcopalian? My family is Episcopalian, although we are inspired by Catholicism.
@@lightgoldenlight at the moment I'm United Methodist. The UMC is in the process of splitting so we will see what denomination/institution I am in 2 years from now; but either way I will be a Wesleyan with a strong affinity for the Common Prayerbook and the Anglican tradition. We are taking a good look at the Anglican Church in North America
I’ve noticed different stages of family life require different approaches. For our toddlers, their attention span before bed only allows for basic “I love you Jesus “ “Thank you Jesus” etc. As much as my 3 year old daughter daughter wants to pray the “Compline” grown up prayer, she isn’t quite ready for it.
We are only just starting out on family prayers with our five-year-old family, so this is ever so useful; many many thanks, Brian! Right now I am reading The Little Oratory, A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home by David Clayton and Leila Marie Lawler. So far we only pray in the evenings. I hope that we perhaps buildup the discipline to pray in the mornings, too.
Which specific track by Paul Jernberg is the outro (and the intro for that matter) is it? It's so beautiful!
I pray you look into the 3 order of St. Pius the X. They have great prayer for Prime. Also the Divinum Officum App. Peace and blessings. Great tools for a rule of life for the family. Like the Secret of La Salette said about the order of the apostoles of the last days of having morning and evening prayer.
One of the most common words in my 2.5 yr olds vocabulary (besides... mine, give it, and no mama!!! pleassssseeee) is Rosary, Pray, and Church .... she loves to pray rosary with me, and can always point out every Mary in the Church windows ... even at home she points to images of Mary and tells me it's Jesus' Mama.... I struggle to keep consistency in prayer routines for myself and our home but it's SO WORTH IT; It's amazing how children are enchanted and so pure in their connection to God.
This is excellent advice!
I also follow 'Sing the Hours' on YT.
He sings Lauds and Vespers, and it is easy to sing along with the repeated prayers such as the Doxology.
Or just close your eyes and let the beauty of it flow over you
I really wish we did incorporate prayers when my kids were young. We were very busy parents .
Thank you. God bless
This is so helpful!! Thank you!
Great video Brian! Where btw did you find the chant melodies for those different prayers? I really like chant but don't necessarily want to just make it up haha. Thanks
Get yourself a copy of the Mundelein Psalter. It has all the notes for chanting the liturgy of the hours. It's not hard to learn at all and you can do it responsively as a family. Highly recommended.
Could you please make a sound recording of your prayers? That would be wonderful to play and sing along at prayers.
Beautiful
I’m fortunate enough to be close enough to our church that I can hear the Angelus bells calling me to prayer.
Ditto. It's the best.
Chant!!! Awesome. Gives impetus to my #100daysofchant project :)
Any recommendations on sheet music or books for those chants?
Do you maybe have a link to the music sheets for the Hallelujah in your outro, I'm part of the choir for the Cathedral of Vannes in France and would love to sing it with them
I wish you would post locations where we can find instruction into how to sing/chant these things. I only N.O. parishes here and the hymns are bad enough, there is zero chant. Where do we find how to do this?
Try the book The Little Oratory by David Clayton. That’s how I learned. I think he also has online resources for teaching yourself to chant.
I actually have made my own tune for the gospel canticle of night prayer and put it on UA-cam (the channel I am commenting with)
It sounds like you're describing Orthodox practices. I wish I could find these aspects within a Catholic parish. Currently alternating between Mass and Divine Liturgy.
I think it's just classic Gregorian chant. At the time there was no separate Orthodox Church.
Do you by any chance have the link to the music for night prayer? I have the breviary with the music in the back and it seems like what your family sings matches, but I could never figure it out since I can't read music very well. Thanks!
How to you chant prayers? Also it would be great to see this in action.
If anyone is looking for resources for teaching mental prayer (the informal conversation he talks about at the beginning) I've found the book "guided prayer for little ones" by Kimberly Fries to be really helpful. It guides the child through a looser "script" than written prayers (but those are also included in the prayer session) I do this with my kids INDIVIDUALLY starting in first grade so that they can have a habit of individual mental prayer established by the time they are ready for their first communion (this is in addition to any family prayers).
I also really like her "lectio divina for little ones" book- it's beautiful and does not dumb down the practice even though it's written for kids!
I pray the rosary, and then the evening office with the readings of the mass of the day with my wife and son. When the kids were younger we read through the bible after supper. Is it always convenient? No. Is it hard to start? Yes. Do it anyway.
In my family the actual quote by Saint Augustine is translated as "Singing is praying twice as long with half the content". Nice practice for your family by no mention of Daily Mass?
The thumbnail is basically the Catholic Equivalent of a rapper showing off a really nice car in a music video.
God bless you !!!
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Copyright only limits you if you let it 😉
I am excited when my 17 month old get to be older.
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The Office of Compline in Latin and English from the St. Louis Antiphonary for the Hours has all the melodies you are looking for for Compline. A great resource!
Proverbs 29:6((N.L.T.))🗝
What's your point?
With your hand over your heart, have you ever given any sign from God, or something like that?
Yes, at least he said so.
Brian. 👍
For me something like that would be terribly embarrassing. I feel embarrassed even when I'm just going to the church, when I kneel I feel it the most. Here is this serious, rational man, kneeling before an imaginary God. The rational part of me is trying to convince me that it's all nonsense, like a theater, and I'm a fool. I feel humiliated by my own faith, as well as by what the Church expects from me as a Catholic to do and say - like such a prayer routine. How can I do such things when I'm constantly unsure of my faith? How can anyone be sure about their faith? Is it something wrong with me, or with them? 🤔
On the rational side, I’d read On Guard by William Lane Craig. It has some great arguments for God’s existence. It’s one of the main books that converted me.
I’d also recommend Answering Atheism by Trent Horn, the Classical Theism podcast, and Edward Feser’s blog.
Research and read your way into faith.
On the prayer side, I’d just say fake it until you make it. I think if you pray like you believe, over time your internal feelings will match your external actions.
I also think it’s good to just be honest with God and be like “God, if you’re there, please help me with XYZ” or say “Lord, increase my faith” or “Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.”
William Lane Craig also has some great debates on UA-cam with different atheists. I’d start with the Christopher Hitchens one.
@@johnburford7862 Thanks, I'll check them out. Though I know most arguments, it's a long way from the existence of God to Christianity and Catholicism in particular. And for me it's easier to convince my brain than my heart...
Do even a a blessing from your bishop to do what you do on youtube. Is very clear you have some depression issues some other mental issues. One time you are in distress other times you're happy work on yourself make sure you have a blessing from your Bishop to do what you do where the bishop is the church us. That means you are in line with your Bishop intern you are in line with the church we have too many people doing what they want to do breaking down the church causing confusion to God's people some videos you make causes confusion
What are you talking about? Where's the confusion? Today confusion comes from the epicenter of the Church, from bishops and even the Pope himself.