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. APR 14

    Matutinum + 3rd Nocturn in Septuagesima/Lent

    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 Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    24 min

  2. APR 14

    Matutinum + 2nd Nocturn in Septuagesima/Lent

    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 Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    25 min

  3. APR 14

    Matutinum + 1st Nocturn in Septuagesima/Lent

    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 Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    24 min

  4. APR 14

    Laudes in Septuagesima / Lent

    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/ Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    19 min
  5. Completorium in Septuagesima / Lent

    APR 13

    Completorium in Septuagesima / Lent

    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/ Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    10 min

  6. APR 12

    Vespers in Septuagesima / Lent

    Vespers, Vesperae, Evening Prayer for the time from Septuagesima Sunday through Ash Wednesday, First Sunday of Lent right through to Holy Thursday. The Little Office is not prayed publically over the Sacred Triduum, but if you were saying it privately, this is what you could use. The Divine Office proper to the Sacred Triduum is pretty amazing though and well worth looking into. divinumofficium.com is a good place to start. Tenebrae is the most musical hour (Matins+Lauds) with many fine recordings available on Youtube. The rest are very pared back with minimal singing, but very beautiful in an austere way. This recording is back in the house at night with some noise removal and filter curve equalising courtesy of Audacity. Booklets in PDF available: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/ Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    17 min
  7. Nona in Septuagesima / Lent

    APR 11

    Nona in Septuagesima / Lent

    The bird noises from about 5 minutes in are Sulphur Crested Cockatoos, which are very common in my part of Australia. Booklets in PDF available: https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/ Support this channel, either via Substack or Buy Me a Coffee Get full access to Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at littleoffice.substack.com/subscribe

    8 min
  8. Sexta in Septuagesima / Lent

    APR 10

    Sexta in Septuagesima / Lent

    Booklets with all the music can be found here https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/ 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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