Big fan here! Thanks for the summaries. I liked your pdfs so much i printed them out and had them spiral bound. Then i gave that copy away and made another one 😆 I'd rather buy them from you though! Navigation is much easier with book darts and the errors are few and minor.
I haven't come across book darts before, but looking them up, they look like a wonderful idea. I'm glad the PDFs are helping you out. I keep finding more things to fix up, but they're useful as they are.
Thank you for the update. I have a question with all these different options for the Little Office of the BMW. Are the prayers/psalms really all the same between all of them, and the different thickness of the books is purely due to if they duplicate a complete hour for a specific time of year, include the gregorian chant tones, and font size? I only have the red 1905 BMV Bonaventure press one, and I like how small it is, and after annotating the pages, its very easy to use for its size, yet others are triple the thickness or more and bigger page sizes but yet some don't have the gregorian notes to show the tone despite the massive increase in size?
There are some differences. The Bonaventure has the extra psalms in lauds, so the bigger Benziger one has fewer Psalms but bigger print. For example, page 70 in the Bonaventure book. The Benedictus nearly fits on one page. In the Richard Grace book, this same canticle extends over 3 pages (99-101) and on the Benziger one it covers most of four pages (186-189).
No, not until you just mentioned it. Looking it up on the Internet Archive, it looks fantastic! I am a member of the Friends of the Suffering Souls, which arranges Masses to be said for the Holy Souls. I can't see a summary of the obligations taken up by becoming a member of the Archconfraternity, though I find a note that the obligations do not bind under pain of sin (page 450)
I'm guessing a bit here, but let me know if this is what you're seeing: Take page 116 for example. It has From Candlemas to Advent: Ant. While the King... and Ant. 2. His left hand... - the first is the repeat of the previous antiphon (see Ant. 1. page 114) to close the previous psalm and the second is the next antiphon which starts the next psalm. You'll see that Ant. 2 repeated on the next page (118) then Ant. 3. to go with the third psalm. So it's not two choices, but two antiphons one after the other. Does that make sense? Or are you seeing something else?
Dear Veronica brandt you are brillant and I thank the Lord for the works you do out of love for Christ. What would help me alot is to have a book like the print of the benziger brothers i bought from you but with the music of the hyms and the line of music of the antiphons so one can tune in when memory leave you or you dont have internet access to go listen or your pone has no battery 😅
That is a good idea - I could add an appendix like the Baronius Press book does. I have pdfs at littleoffice.brandt.id.au, but they include the whole thing, not just the antiphons.
