It’s so great to close each Psalm with that eternal shout-out.” “Think of how many thousands of saints have prayed the ‘Glory Be’ throughout history in Latin - at work in the fields, before the altar, about to be burned at the stake. Bits of that he’s also incorporated into “Sing the Hours.” “The prayer is timeless but it enters time in our contemporary English language context.”Īt the behest of his mother, Rose and his siblings also learned Latin as children. They were written by David, Christ’s ancestor, and Christ prayed them himself. More and more, he realizes, the entire human experience is contained in those 150 Psalms: our suffering, our joy, our thanksgiving, our angst. He quickly began adopting a more “traditional” tone - though, trained in pop vocals, his singing is always going to have a bit of “modern charm,” as he laughingly puts it. A friend told him he sounded like Justin Bieber - if Bieber had converted to Catholicism and become a monk. He started posting during Advent of 2020. He began to realize: “I can sing, I can produce - why not just pray the Office myself and make it available to other people?” In high school, he’d been interested in music, music production, and voice. He started asking around and searching online - podcasts, Instagram, YouTube - and he found there was literally nothing: no guide, no materials. Nonetheless, after a few months, he realized he was probably singing the Psalms wrong. But it’s not just a mental health tool or a way to find peace, it’s a way to worship God.”
It’s a perfect integration before God of body, soul, and spirit. In the midst of the darkest period of his life, he realized it was impossible simultaneously to sing the Psalms and to feel despondent. It’s not for our entertainment that we sing our Psalms, it’s for the soul’s own benefit.” Athanasius to Marcellinus where he discusses the Psalms. “There’s a great letter from Church Father and doctor St. And when he started praying and singing the Office, everything changed. So he took a sabbatical of several months to discern what his next step should be. He’s an extreme extrovert and the pandemic had worn him down. He was also in “a quarter-life crisis” a space of great desolation, both spiritually and personally. But around 2020, he “was kind of on burnout and also wanted to do something more evangelical with my time.” In high school, he was “beckoned to the Church by the Holy Spirit.” For 10 years, he and his brother had run a company that worked with kids to give them public speaking and debate skills. He was raised as what he calls a “post-modern,” nondenominational Christian. In a May 4, 2021, interview with a Deacon Ryan from Canada, Rose - earnest, passionate, articulate, and almost goofily endearing - offers the backstory of his venture. Often Rose will close with a song to Mary: the “Salve Regina” or an “Ave Maria.” The YouTube background might be of a snow-shrouded statue of the Virgin Mary, or the branch of a flowering apple tree, or a bank of candles flickering before an icon of Jesus.įollowing along is easy as the text is displayed throughout: the Invitatory (in Latin), hymn, and Psalms the Glory Be (also in Latin), the reading, the Benedictus or Magnificat, and the Lord’s Prayer. You sense that prayer is an integral part of his life and he is longing to share it. Rose’s voice is clear, beautiful, and refreshingly noncloying. The Liturgy of the Hours is the public prayer of the Universal Church! To pray the Liturgy of the Hours - also called the Divine Office - is to enter into the intimate conversation of God’s family.” On his YouTube channel, Rose introduces himself like this: “Hi all! I’m here to serve and glorify God with prayer. The Second Vatican Council emphasized that it should be the prayer of laypeople as well.Įach day “Sing the Hours” offers lauds and vespers, the “hinge” Offices. Priests, monks, and nuns are pledged to pray the Office at several set “hours” of the day. The Office, musical by nature, follows a “Psalter,” a methodical, universally observed cycle. “Sing the Hours” ( ), a platform designed to help people sing the Divine Office, is the brainchild of Paul Rose, a young convert from the Boston area.
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