Today’s Little Office Ordo
Nothing from February 21, 2020 to February 21, 2020.
Offices
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel is essentially the same throughout the year. However, there are portions proper to both Advent and Christmastide. Because of this, the year is divided into three parts:
- First Office: Office Throughout the Year (Ordinary Time)
- Second Office: Advent Office
- Third Office: Christmastide Office
Variations of the Office
Liturgical Season Variations
Reciting the Little Office
- Rubrics and Ceremonials for The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel
- Prayers Before the Office
- Prayers After the Office
- Te Deum – For feasts of Our Lady in Advent and Lent
- Frequently Asked Questions about the Little Office
- Versions of the Little Office (Online and Print)
Offices
Office Throughout the Year (Ordinary Time)
This Office is recited from Matins of February 3rd (the day after the Purification) until None of the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent.
Advent Office
Christmastide Office
- Matins (Same as Office Throughout the Year)
- Lauds
- Prime
- Terce
- Sext
- None
- Vespers
- Compline (Same as Office Throughout the Year)
Lent & Pascaltide
Lent
Rubrics during Lent
- The Te Deum is omitted during Lent except on feasts of Our Lady.
- During Lent the Laus Tibi, Dómine, etc. is said in place of the Allelúia.
- During Passiontide the Gloria Patri, etc., is said as usual. During the last three days of Holy Week the Little Office is not recited publicly.
- On Passion Sunday, Palm Sunday and on the feasts of Holy Week [Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday], the Glória patri is omitted and the invitatory Ave María, grátia plena; * Dóminus tecum is repeated.
Paschaltide
This period of time comprises:
- Eastertide – From Vespers of the Easter Vigil
to None of Vigil of our Lord’s Ascension inclusive - Ascension – From Vespers of the Wednesday before our Lord’s Ascension to None of vigil of Pentecost inclusive
- Octave of Pentecost – From the Mass of Vigil of Pentecost to None of following Saturday inclusive.
Rubrics during Paschaltide
- In Paschaltide an Alleluia is added at the end of the antiphons and verses unless they already have one.
- The Regina Cœli becomes the Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin during Paschaltide and is recited after the Nunc dimittis from Holy Saturday until Lauds of the Saturday before Trinity Sunday.
- An additional stanza is sung in the Hymns in all hours but Vespers and Compline.
- An additional stanza is sung during the Octave of the Ascension in the Hymns in all hours but Vespers and Compline.
- An additional stanza is sung during the Octave of Pentecost in the Hymns in all hours but Vespers and Compline.
Credits
Latin
Officium Parvum Beatae Mariae Virginis juxta Ritum Carmelitanum (1939 Edition) (Romæ: S. Sedis Apostolisch et St. Rituum Congr. Typographi, 1939)
Additional content – Rev. Vincent Maria McDonald, O.C.D., comp.,The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel with the Office of the Dead according to the Carmelite Rite (New York: Scapular Press, 1953)
Additional Content – Officium parvum B.V.M. = Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, according to the use of the Carmelite order (London: Burns and Lambert, 1951)
English
Psalms – Douay Rheims Bible Online (www.drbo.org)
Collects, etc. – Divinum Officium (www.divinumofficium.org)
Hymns – Adapted translation of the hymns (with the permission of Jeffrey Tucker) from the Musica Sacra (Church Music Association of America) website using their collection of the Hymns of the Breviary and Missal at http://musicasacra.com/pdf/hymnsofbreviary.pdf (via divinumofficium.org)
Translation of Paschaltide, Ascension octave and Pentecost octave verses – The Hymns of the Dominican Missal and Breviary, St. Louis, MO: B. Herder Book Company (1943).
Additional content – Rev. Vincent Maria McDonald, O.C.D., comp.,The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt. Carmel with the Office of the Dead according to the Carmelite Rite (New York: Scapular Press, 1953)