Angelus News | April 21, 2023 | Vol. 8 No
On the cover: Christ pulls Adam out of “limbo” while surrounded by other biblical figures in a late 13th-century painting (artist unknown). St. John Chrysostom famously wrote about Easter: “Forgiveness is risen from the grave.” But what does that mean for us? On Page 10, Mike Aquilina details how history, Scripture, and the experience of the apostles reveals forgiveness as the Resurrection’s most tangible result. On Page 14, Jennifer Hubbard recounts how her 6-year-old daughter’s murder in the Sandy Hook shooting led her on a journey to do the impossible.
On the cover: Christ pulls Adam out of “limbo” while surrounded by other biblical figures in a late 13th-century painting (artist unknown). St. John Chrysostom famously wrote about Easter: “Forgiveness is risen from the grave.” But what does that mean for us? On Page 10, Mike Aquilina details how history, Scripture, and the experience of the apostles reveals forgiveness as the Resurrection’s most tangible result. On Page 14, Jennifer Hubbard recounts how her 6-year-old daughter’s murder in the Sandy Hook shooting led her on a journey to do the impossible.
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DESIRE LINES<br />
HEATHER KING<br />
On a song and a prayer<br />
Paul Rose created “Sing the Hours,” an online platform designed to help people sing the Divine Office prayers each<br />
day. | PAUL ROSE/SING THE HOURS<br />
Sing the Hours (singthehours.<br />
org), a platform designed to help<br />
people sing the Divine Office, is<br />
the brainchild of Paul Rose, a young<br />
convert from the Boston area.<br />
The Office, musical by nature,<br />
follows a “Psalter,” a methodical,<br />
universally observed cycle. Priests,<br />
monks, and nuns are pledged to pray<br />
the Office at several set “hours” of<br />
the day. The Second Vatican Council<br />
emphasized that it should be the<br />
prayer of laypeople as well.<br />
Each day Sing the Hours offers lauds<br />
and vespers, the “hinge” Offices.<br />
On his YouTube channel, Rose<br />
introduces himself like this: “Hi all!<br />
I’m here to serve and glorify God<br />
with prayer. The Liturgy of the Hours<br />
is the public prayer of the Universal<br />
Church! To pray the Liturgy of the<br />
Hours — also called the Divine<br />
Office — is to enter into the intimate<br />
conversation of God’s family.”<br />
Rose’s voice is clear, beautiful, and<br />
refreshingly noncloying. He’s not<br />
trying to sound holy. You sense that<br />
prayer is an integral part of his life<br />
and he is longing to share it.<br />
The YouTube background might<br />
be of a snow-shrouded statue of the<br />
Virgin Mary, or the branch of a flowering<br />
apple tree, or a bank of candles<br />
flickering before an icon of Jesus.<br />
Following along is easy as the text is<br />
displayed throughout: the Invitatory<br />
(in Latin), hymn, and psalms; the<br />
Glory Be (also in Latin), the reading,<br />
the Benedictus or Magnificat, and<br />
the Lord’s Prayer. Often Rose will<br />
close with a song to Mary: the “Salve<br />
Regina” or an “Ave Maria.”<br />
In a May 4, 20<strong>21</strong>, interview with<br />
Deacon Ryan Sales from Canada,<br />
Rose — earnest, passionate, articulate,<br />
and almost goofily endearing —<br />
30 • ANGELUS • <strong>April</strong> <strong>21</strong>, <strong>2023</strong>
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