Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Veronica Brandt
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Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Recordings of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the 1962 version sung in Latin. Cantare Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis. littleoffice.brandt.id.au littleoffice.substack.com

  1. 12/23/2024

    December Update

    This December marks the 4th anniversary of the launch of the course, Sing the Little Office in Latin. If you haven’t signed up already, I’ve just set up a coupon for you or a friend to enrol in the course for free on Udemy: (This coupon starts 12/21/2024 3:23 PM PST (GMT -8) and expires 01/21/2025 3:23 PM PST (GMT -8) or until 100 people have signed up, whichever comes first) For anyone interested in improving their writing, the Institute for Excellence in Writing is preparing for their Twelve Days of Christmas Giving which you can read about over on my family webpage. While I was editing the video, I realised that I had ignored all the Public Speaking advice in the IEW materials and that my phone camera faithfully focussed on my microphone, leaving the rest of the scene slightly blurry. More learning experiences. The photo is our Christmas Bush, an Australian native shrub which has been struggling for twenty years and finally gave a good show of flowers this year. The bush had been choked by surrounding trees, but after we took some down and cut back the wisteria vines, it sent out a new shoot which started looking healthy and leafy last year and now has this big show of red flowers just in time for Christmas. Christmas is a crazy time - both in secular circles and religious circles here. The weather is warm. The shops are full. Kids are keen for Christmas. I would love to include a jolly carol sung by our family, but if I wait for the opportunity to put that together it will be too late to send out, so I’ll include a Christmas carol from another family - listen out for the introit for Christmas Day! (it’s just after the 6 minute mark in case you’re pressed for time) Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    4 min

  2. 11/20/2024

    Commemoration of Saints in Advent

    This is the first time I’ve recorded the little prayer from the 1915 version of the Little Office and earlier. It’s in my Medieval Lauds booklet : https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Here’s the antiphon from Gregobase: Behold the Lord comes, and all his saints with him: and it will be in that day a great light, alleluia. This comes in at the end of Lauds and Vespers in the older editions of the Little Office. The history of this little piece is worth reading. When the Little Offices emerged, there were three main ones: * All Saints * The Faithful Departed * Our Lady Saying all of them as well as the Divine Office proved too much, so different orders generally went with either Our Lady or the Dead. The Little Office of the Saints survived in this little Commemoration in the Little Office of Our Lady. Then in 1962 the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary was pared down a little bit more and the commemoration was removed, along with the little “Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison”. Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    1 min
  3. Compline for Advent!

    11/19/2024

    Compline for Advent!

    It is finished! Seven tracks for the Day Hours of Advent! PDF Booklets are available here: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    9 min
  4. Vespers in Advent

    11/16/2024

    Vespers in Advent

    Vespers is beautiful. The CD is getting closer all the time! Only Compline left to knock into shape! Then we’ll need a Christmas album… As always, you can find the booklets at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    16 min
  5. None in Advent

    11/15/2024

    None in Advent

    Mid-afternoon prayer from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Roman Breviary. Or “Hora Nona”. As always, you can find the booklets at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
  6. Sexta Adventu - Office 2

    11/11/2024

    Sexta Adventu - Office 2

    Good old Midday Prayer with the name which becomes a little awkward in English. Sext means the sixth hour after sunrise, which is midday or 12 noon. Funnily enough, the English word Noon comes from the next hour, None, referring to the Ninth Hour. This was the hour at which monks would break fast, but over time it was felt to be too onerous to wait that long, so they started breaking fast at the Sixth hour, but the name None carried across and now we have Noon being the middle of the day. As always, you can find the booklets at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
  7. Terce of Advent - Office 2

    11/10/2024

    Terce of Advent - Office 2

    Here is the third track of the proposed Advent Little Office Day Hours CD. Although the name Tertia designates the third hour, this refers to the third hour after sunrise rather than the third of the canonical hours. This migrated to the Liturgy of the Hours as Mid-morning Prayer, usually prayed at 9 or 10am. As always, you can find the booklets at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Again, for the keen ears, you might notice how similar the hymn is between the Prime and Terce recordings. I clean forgot to sing Memento when recording Prime, so I cut and paste from Terce. This also made me realise that there were other parts I could reuse, so you may notice some other similar bits and pieces. Also, they will probably all sound fairly similar as the recording was done in one sitting. There was a whole lot of cicada noise outside, which fortunately doesn’t seem to have been picked up - although now I come to think of it, I’m editing the tracks with cicada noise outside, so I might be blissfully unaware of its presence in the audio. Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
  8. Prime of Advent - Office 2

    11/09/2024

    Prime of Advent - Office 2

    The second track on the planned Little Office CD for Advent. This is the hour of Prime - the hour which didn’t get carried across from the Divine Office into the Liturgy of the Hours. Prime means “First”, but it isn’t listed first in any books I’ve come across. At daybreak this hour is sung. In the full Office it finishes with a recitation of the Martyrology for the following day - a good practice even if the Little Office doesn’t require it. As always, you can find the booklets at https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets Keen ears might hear how I mistakenly used the incipit tune beginning for the last Gloria Patri in the Psalms in the recording. I hope you forgive the mistake made in some sort of surge of gladness to be nearing the end of the track. These recordings aren’t perfect, but I hope they help. Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    7 min
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Recordings of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary from the 1962 version sung in Latin. Cantare Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis. littleoffice.brandt.id.au littleoffice.substack.com

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