There is a flag - I usually set it to autocompile, but if you take that out, then that should save time. I put it in the usepackage line at the beginning of the tex file.

@@VeronicaBrandt I feel like an idiot I forgot earlier on I used the flag forcecompile atleast autocompile is so much better

Thanks Mark - I've started a recording for the Advent Little Office - hopefully it will be ready before December

Looking forward to it..Ave Maria..

Thanks Lucy - you've helped me out too!

There's always a way to omit the alleluia. You generally cut the alleluia and work out an ending for what's left, ending on the same note as the alleluia did. It does make you wonder if there might be a better antiphon for a Lenten meditation on the resurrection. Something looking forward to the resurrection rather than rejoicing in it. Good questions.

Thanks! God bless you

@@VeronicaBrandt Gratias Tibi benedicat Deus. I'm addicted to your channel and website. Nos cum prole pia

Yes, I don't know why they picked the name.

Thanks! I think that might be the first comment I've ever had saying my recording wasn't rushed.

I do myself, but making the CDs I can't quite fit it in. Maybe it should be a separate podcast, then you can add it to your queue for after Lauds and Vespers. And maybe that's a way to be obedient to the revisions. You're not singing the old books, just adding on a prayer.

Where people struggle to say a daily rosary, something that takes even more preparation is considered unreasonably demanding.

That's always a tricky one to get right. It is a lovely book.

Happy feast of St Francis!

That's good to know. Happy feast of St Francis!

Yours too, God bless

Thanks!

Thank you for suggesting it - just the nudge I needed to try out my new recording space.

@@VeronicaBrandt Yes, but in fact I'm French so I don't understand all US sentences 😅 Thanks for your time !

After the final decade of Ave Marîa, the Gloria Patri and the jaculatories, you should sing the hymn that corresponds to the group of mysteries that you prayed before. A hymn which resumes the three Rosary hymns ? Te gestiéntem gaudíis. ✝️

It's Cantus Selecti, a book has been published in 1957, however Luminous mysteries have been proposed in 2002 😉

Good question about the Luminous Mysteries - so much has been built up around the original 15 mysteries, but there are hymns about the life of Christ. One famous hymn is A solis ortus cardine by Sedulius, but looking through those verses the only one that seems to hit one of the mysteries is the Wedding at Cana (Novum genus potentiae)

Te gestientem gaudiis is a good one too - same tune again :)

@@VeronicaBrandt For Luminous mysteries, we have to have same melody than the three other hymns and a Latin text that corresponds to this quintette of mysteries. But I'm sure about its existence

Cantus Selecti from Solesmes - you can download a copy from Musica Sacra resources under Primary Chant Books churchmusicassociation.org/chant/

I think Poland kept it alive. I haven't heard it sung here in Australia - I'm piecing it together with many guesses.

It's still alive i Poland, but i don't know how long for. It's because of those revolutionary changes which are today

@@MrMartiner33 yes, a friend just came back from Poland and said it had changed a lot over the past decade or so.

Sounds like an achievable mission.

@@VeronicaBrandt You accept this mission ? 😃

@@jaspie.72 I've done the first recording and now wondering if I should pitch it a bit lower. It's the same tune as Memento Rerum and O Gloriosa Virginem

@@VeronicaBrandt Maybe, of course.

Here it is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bi4z4htTBpY.html

There's a lively one that people sing on pilgrimages - I think it's from France. like this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_XGTd-jVGzA.html I thought I had typed it out, but I can't find any PDF - and every recording of it seems to be different. Or you can use a psalm tone.

It was a crazy time. It will be great to see how God's plans played out.

that's a pretty good definition of Matins - hope you can pray along.

Glad you enjoyed it! Tolkien would have been interesting to talk to.

Glad you like it!

I think that would be a setting in your web browser. You might be using Internet explorer or Chrome or Firefox or Brave or Safari. You can search for the answer for your particular browser. It might be called Downloads Location.

You're welcome 😊

Extra ecclesiam nulla salus

@@VeronicaBrandt, precisely. I'm delighted to see you write those words. Praise be to Christ. Thank you very much!!!

Thanks for the feeback! Do you have a source for your first point? I know the Baronius Press Little Office appendix gives the Easter tonus in directum, but there doesn't seem to be any logic to that choice and the way they've cut and pasted without changing the words to reflect the Little Office made me think that they didn't realise that this was not the right tone. I'll have to get a Liber Antiphonarius to add to my collection. Thank you, I love this level of detail. When I started out, I thought I knew what I was doing, but I keep learning more as I go.

@@VeronicaBrandt I was actually just sourcing from the Baronius to check but it makes sense since the “Easter” in directum is used for any Psalms within the “main” psalmody that don’t have an antiphon. For example the Benedictines do this for Compline since they do not assign an Antiphon for Compline. Since we follow the secular Hours I tend to think of it as an “Easter” tone but really it is just for those psalms in the minor hours without an Antiphon. The other in directum tone that you used is for extra Psalms that are done in the Preces, for Psalms done in Litanies, and for Psalm 66 which is done before rather than during the main Psalmody of Benedictine Lauds.

@@milesofpenn I'll have to do some more research :) I thought that Benedictines used the simple tone - that's where I got the earlier tone I was using, though this was from a parish rather than a monastery. I thought the choir there was set up by oblates though. It might be one of those things which goes by local custom. More food for thought.

God bless you!

Not very directly. Some of Benjamin Bloomfield 's tools can play chant, but I'm not sure how you would put that into your workflow.

No, not the illuminare editor. The propers tool at bbloomf.github.io/jgabc/propers.html can play chant, but I don't think you can edit chant there. I'm not sure how he does it.

Thanks! I'm glad it was helpful.

Dankon!

No problem! I had forgotten about that one.

Yes, this one is shorter. It doesn't have psalms. Most of it is a hymn.

That would be a bit tricky as it's been a while and I suspect old organ foot pedals are all different. It looks like the pre-programmed arduinos like the one I bought are no longer available. Tom Scarff is selling books now instead: www.midikits.net/ - His book on Organ Bass Pedal Encoders sounds like a very helpful resource!

Thanks! They're all good books, but I do like the Roman Seraphic one.

I have lined up the first three and should be able to keep going for all 7. I'm just wondering whether to rerecord Compline to add in the antiphon at the end. Maybe upload both.

Aw thanks :) It's good to sing.