Files Update 2025

 As of May 2025 I am beginning to replace all the files of the Divine Office booklets with updated ones and I am adding also the Office of Readings with the expanded Vigil for every solemnity and Sunday of the year.

I'm starting replacing the booklets corresponding to the current propers which can be found on the section of Easter in the "Proprium de Tempore" page, and will continue the replacement of files as the liturgical year enfolds and time permits,. 

I expect to actualize the files in a short time since I have completed the creation of chant offices, and also, overcome some difficulties I encountered to making them available in this Web.

May this work of love to the Lord and to the Liturgy of the Latin Church contribute to help those who pray the Divine Office in its current Liturgy of the Hours version, to chant that Office with the sacred music and text of the Gregorian Chant as it has been used in our Church for centuries by so many faithful souls and saints.

Beatæ Mariæ Vírginis de Bono Consilio

Today we celebrate in Canada the Optional Memorial  of our Mother of Good Counsel, Patroness of the Catholic Women's League.

I've uploaded the chant booklet for Morning and Evening Prayer devotionally sung as a feast. [Proprium de Sanctis tab above]

The beautiful proper antiphons are taken from the Liber Usualis "proper for the Dioceses of the US", and the Solesmes Antiphonale 1912.

This advocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary has a long tradition with the Agustinian religious family. They have it in their proper liturgical calendar as Feast.

More information on this advocation of the Blessed Mother here.

Content of this Web

The Divine Office in this Web follows the current official Liturgy of the Hours in Latin language: Liturgia Horarum - Iuxta Ritum Romanum, Editio Typica Altera -1985- It is presented in a PDF booklet for every liturgical date presented.


The booklets for Sundays and Solemnities of the whole liturgical year contain:
I Vespers, Lauds, and II Vespers.

The text of every single antiphon is written before the chant antiphon. Some times when the exact Gregorian antiphon was not found, an alternate one with a similar or related content is used.

The proper antiphons for the Gospel Canticles, are considered in its 3 Cicles A, B, and C,  - as per the 1985 edition of the Latin Liturgia Horarum - in sequence, with the canticle in the respective chant tone.

Since this is a work in progress, not all the chant antiphons are included yet. I'm updating the contents as I have them available.

I'll be uploading and/or updating the booklets I've been creating over the last couple years for personal use in separate "Pages".

The size of the pages allows for good reading on a small tablet or device.

Presentation

I was first trained in religious life with the use of Gregorian Chant for the solemn celebration of the Liturgy every Sunday, Feast, and Solemnity. That was many years ago. Then my life journey got many detours away from Gregorian Chant, and yet, I could never forget the richness and the experience of the Words of Scripture prayed, sung with the simple yet life giving Gregorian melodies, many of which I know almost by heart.

Over the years I've found old Gregorian Chant books in the Web available for download. But what to do with them!! They were created for the traditional Breviary and Mass. Even though I had carried with me an old battered Liber Usualis and I've used it on some special occasions, the difficulty of having to adapt every single psalm to the mode of the antiphon -and you had to find the required antiphon if it existed with Gregorian melody- made for an almost impossible task.

Then by God's Providence, about a year ago, I discovered a number of tools, many amazing tools, available in the Web at the service of Gregorian, created and made available for free by many, many generous people:
. From databases of transcribed musical texts on old Gregorian Chant books,
. to thousands of manuscripts accessible at a click,
. to software to provide the needed marks -pointed psalms- just with a click as well.
. etc.

This little space that I'm starting here is an attempt at sharing an amateur work of love, and the result of many hours of dedication invested into selecting and gathering together into a simple booklet the dispersed elements of a particular Hour of the Divine Office, the official Prayer of the Church.

My intent is to post the little booklets for the main Office Hours of Solemnities, Sundays, and Feast days.

I want also to express my gratitude to the many people whose work I'm using thanks to their generosity. In the same spirit I hope and pray that this small contribution might serve to make accessible this treasure of the Church to more people -all for the Glory of God.