Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Very similar to the last two posts, just subbing out the Psalms for the 3rd Nocturn. This recording was plagued by bird noises. First take it was Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, second take my voice was audibly much more tired and one chicken was hanging around, making her presence felt. So here you can hear one psalm from the first take and two psalms from the second take and you might guess which is which. Matins is a bit of a tough one. The invitatory stays the same, so you get the hang of that. The responsories have a bit of variation and in Lent where the Te Deum is not said and instead there’s a third responsory, “Felix namquam”. I’m singing the one from the Baronius Press book, which comes from Hartker’s Nocturnale. But here is Matins for Wednesdays and Saturdays from Septuagesima Sunday through to Holy Wednesday or Holy Saturday if you’re praying in private. I’ve included the optional ending in case you don’t go straight into Lauds. Feel free to skip this if you have Lauds queued up ready to roll. Hopefully your podcast app allows you to do this. Booklets in PDF available: littleoffice.brandt.id.au [https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/] Support this channel, either via Substack [http://littleoffice.substack.com/] or Buy Me a Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/veronicab] Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe [https://littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

I’m copying from the previous post, just changing the bit to make it 2nd Nocturn. Even the audio pretty much does this. It’s a shortcut. Hope it’s not too aggravating. Matins is a bit of a tough one. The invitatory stays the same, so you get the hang of that. The responsories have a bit of variation and in Lent where the Te Deum is not said and instead there’s a third responsory, “Felix namquam”. I’m singing the one from the Baronius Press book, which comes from Hartker’s Nocturnale. But here is Matins for Tuesday and Friday from Septuagesima Sunday through to Holy Wednesday or Holy Saturday if you’re praying in private. I’ve included the optional ending in case you don’t go straight into Lauds. Feel free to skip this if you have Lauds queued up ready to roll. Hopefully your podcast app allows you to do this. Booklets in PDF available: littleoffice.brandt.id.au [https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/] Support this channel, either via Substack [http://littleoffice.substack.com/] or Buy Me a Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/veronicab] Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe [https://littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Matins is a bit of a tough one. The invitatory stays the same, so you get the hang of that. The responsories have a bit of variation and in Lent where the Te Deum is not said and instead there’s a third responsory, “Felix namquam”. I’m singing the one from the Baronius Press book, which comes from Hartker’s Nocturnale. But here is Matins for Sunday, Monday and Thursday from Septuagesima Sunday through to Holy Wednesday or Holy Saturday if you’re praying in private. I’ve included the optional ending in case you don’t go straight into Lauds. Feel free to skip this if you have Lauds queued up ready to roll. Hopefully your podcast app allows you to do this. Booklets in PDF available: littleoffice.brandt.id.au [https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au] Support this channel, either via Substack [http://littleoffice.substack.com/] or Buy Me a Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/veronicab] Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe [https://littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a great treasure from the Church’s rich history of liturgical work. Here is a wonderful way to usher in the morning. There are four psalms and two canticles. I sort of munged the different versions as the budgerigars were starting to wake up as I reached the end, plus I didn’t have the words for the Commemoration of the Saints handy, so the recording includes the Kyrie from the 1915 version, but ends like the 1962 version. Booklets in PDF available: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/ [https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/] Support this channel, either via Substack [http://littleoffice.substack.com] or Buy Me a Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/veronicab] Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe [https://littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Completorium is known as Compline or Complin with all the different possible pronunciations. I’m using the Roman Little Office of Our Lady in the 1915 version. The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a cut down version of the Divine Office for the Laity or Third Orders. The Gregorian Chant is from the Antiphonale Romanum. The Marian Antiphon, Ave Regina Caelorum is sung in the Simple Tone. This one was surprisingly easy to put together as I didn’t make so many mistakes. Once upon a time I did have this memorised, but that was a while ago. Booklets in PDF available: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/ [https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/] Support this channel, either via Substack [http://littleoffice.substack.com/] or Buy Me a Coffee [https://buymeacoffee.com/veronicab] Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe [https://littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]