The Recovering Choir Director

In anticipation for next week’s Divine Mercy Novena, here are three Gregorian Chant–inspired settings of selected prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, in chant notation.  The prayers set are: the “Eternal Father…” (to a Gregorian-informed melody), “For the sake…” (to a selected Psalm tone), and the Trisagion (to a melody similar in form to the “Eternal Father…”).

• Prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (Mode I, English)
• Prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (Mode IV, English)
• Prayers of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy (Mode VIII, English)

Those looking for mp3 recordings of the sung prayers may find them on this page.

Those familiar with the melodies from those hours of the Divine Office found in the Liber Usualis and the antiphons found in the Graduale Simplex will notice that the patterns are lifted from them and adapted to match the length of the prayers and the cadence of the English language.

All of these arrangements are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which means you can share or adapt these arrangements as you see fit while attributing the arranger as the source.