A Walk Through Matins in the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baronius Ed (OBCL 395)

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Just to be safe, when I say there is nothing wrong with you or the leader “doing the absolution,” I mean that you can say the words as a prayer. However, only a priest in Persona Christi can offer a true Absolution.

[@susanmorgan8286]

Thank You for your great guide!!@ God Bless You and your family!

[@kevinmc62]

This is great. I’m a convert trying to understand this and your video is best I’ve seen to assist me. Exciting!

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Thank you. I have since made an entire series of Walking Through the Baronius Press LOBVM & am working on one for the Angelus edition. It’s exciting to see so many people praying!

[@mariaclarekalin]

THANK YOU so much for this wonderful video! I know this is simple, but it really didn't seem that way starting out. I really appreciate you explaining everything! God bless you!

[@luis_techie]

Thank you so much! I just got the little office and was wondering how to recite it. God bless 🙏

[@jonofarc443]

I decided to subscribe to you, maybe I could learn a few things. I was welcomed into the Church in May of last year, so I'm still a new Catholic (I converted from LCMS Lutheranism).

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Thanks, I don’t know much about LCMS Lutheranism, either, so feel free to ask questions or share something if you think it will help others.

[@ejavenger]

Thank you. I am used to the 4 volume LOTH. I was confused by Office 1, 2, etc. This clears up most of my questions.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@thorobreu]

This is a great video! Exactly what I needed! Thank you!

[@garybamber4063]

Thank you for this just discovered your channel.

[@VeronicaBrandt]

16:52 the Asterisk marks the spot where you go back to a few lines later. Sancta et immaculata is a responsory, so the Quia quem caeli is the response. Sounds like you got the hang of it. In the music there are lots of asterisks to mark different things. Some spots it marks the spot where everyone joins in - sometimes one person starts off solo, then everyone joins in at the *.

[@Romero610]

Thank you so much for this video ! I had just purchased this book and was getting confused. Watching your video was a huge help for me. Perhaps a video on an office in Advent.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Good idea. I may try more of the walk-throughs.

[@dcn.paulschwerdt1582]

It's me again. The word Septuagesima is pronounced sep-too-ah-JES--i-mah. =) By the way, my copy of this book came today, not on the 23rd as I expected. So I'm able to follow along with you on this video. I think the asterisk simply points out what is repeated where you find the "&c". Kind of like the responsories in the Liturgy of the Hours after the scripture readings, where we the text shows "Glory to the Father . . . " with the three dots. We know that means to pray "and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit. The next line begins with a red line followed by the beginning of a sentence, and we repeat the text above that begins with the same words. e.g. Vol I, p. 347, "---Your light will . . ." means to say that complete sentence that we said at the beginning of the responsory. Does that make sense?

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Lol I might never get that word, but thank you. Also working on Confiteor (the whole prayer is a tongue twister for me). And, yes, about the symbols. I have figured that out along the way, but I don’t know The completing lines for all the prayers and had to write them out on a slip of paper which I keep in the book.

[@johnandrez]

Dear sister in Christ, thank you for this video! Just FYI, I'm pretty sure the asterisk that you were talking about at around the 18:15 mark is simply marking off the section of the response that will come back. So, the first time you say the R, you simply say, "O holy and immaculate virgin, with what praises I shall extoll thee, I know not. * For he whom the heavens could not contain, rested in thy womb." But the second time you say the R, you start with where the asterisk was: "For he whom the heavens could not contain, rested in thy womb." It may seem a little redundant because modern prayer books have the space to simply write out the R after every V, but some of the older books had the R written out once with the asterisks indicating the 'divisions,' and then the Vs were written out one after another, and it was up to the reader to know that after every V, you repeat the R beginning at the asterisk.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

Yes! By praying this more often, I have come to the same conclusion myself! Thanks 💕

[@taraelizabethdensley9475]

My book doesn't have a ribbon, only just got it so haven't prayed it yet. I'm not yet enrolled, but hope to be in July

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

You could tie a ribbon onto a paper clip or use a sticky-tab…And enrolled in what?

[@seppe1701]

Thanks so much for explaining all this. May I also suggest that you do a week's worth or a couple of day's worth as a group on KZbin please? We can join along, then I would have an even greater understanding putting into practice with you, and to see how each one participates certain parts, their actions, and how smoothly it goes.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

I would love to do that, but copyright issues hold me back.

[@seppe1701]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS Then how are we expected to learn and be involved in something? I should have thought that the author and the Catholic Church would want us to learn and be more involved, instead of holding us back on something of their interest. They must surely grant permission.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

I understand your point and we could probably make videos of the Latin version (but my pronunciation in the psalms would be horrible). Baronius Press spent a decent amount of money making the translation, layout, chant, and appendices, so they do deserve the small price of the book. We know that if I made pray-with-me videos that many people would not buy the book, but just follow along with the video. The solution is finding a community that prays this Office. Another Avenue is asking a priest or deacon to help you; they are required to say the full Office and should be able to quickly figure this out.

[@seppe1701]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS just needs to be a one off demonstration - not an ongoing thing. That way I'd be encouraged to buy the book. But buying the book now and getting myself into a fiddle and losing my focus would not be good. I doubt my local parishes priests have much of a clue. Never heard of these sort of devotions during my lifetime. I've only heard about them from the internet. There might be certain parts of the world or country that have knowledge, but not where I am and few people are interested.

[@raymondreno6025]

Is the LOTBVM the same as the divine office or something different altogether, like in imitation of the divine office?

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

It is a shorter form, also with ancient origins. There are imitations, but the LOBVM is considered by many orders to meet the requirements of praying the Divine Office. Many active orders, in example: teaching, nursing, or social work orders prayed the LOBVM instead of the longer Divine Office.

[@michaelliverani9440]

Is it required to say both antiphons when praying by oneself? Also, for the purpose of the requirement of praying the office for the brown scapular, must I pray all the hours? I am just a layman and retired but my time isn’t totally mine. Thank you.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

I need to know more about what you mean about “both antiphons” and I do not know of any such requirements for the brown scapular (but am researching it).

[@michaelliverani9440]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS I have the LOTBVM from Baronius Press. In most of the hours, there is an antiphon before the psalm and the same antiphon is repeated after the Psalm. I don't have my LOTBVM right here before me, or I'd point out a page,

[@michaelliverani9440]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS So, if you have the LOTBVM from Baronius Press, look at Matins on Page 5. There is an antiphone before Psalm 8 - "Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb." That same antiphon is repeated at the end of the psalm 8 followed by the first antiphon of Psalm 18. As for the Brown Scapular, to obtain the promises from Our Lady, there are things you can do: Pray the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and other things. When the requirement is given, it says to pray the office but not if one must pray all seven hours (Matins/Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Compline) or if just some of them would suffice. Don't go to a lot of trouble. I just thought you might be knowledgeable given your creating a video discussing it. God bless you.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

@@michaelliverani9440 yes. You need to say the antiphons both times that it is repeated before and after a psalm.

[@michaelliverani9440]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS Thank you, Deanna. You've been very helpful! God bless you, and thank you for your KZbin channel.

[@seppe1701]

What's antiphon 2 for? You described that antiphon 1 is used at beginning and then the end, but I'm confused about the second one.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

There is an antiphon for every psalm, that psalm gets repeated, and then a new antiphon for the next psalm. This edition does not number them, but many do (and yet only number it the first time and not when it reappears at the end of the psalm). Why the numbering helps: when praying in community, the Antiphonarian reads each antiphon the first time and every one the second time; the numbering differentiates these two situations.

[@seppe1701]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS little flaw. Thanks for clarifying. What 3 Little Offices books would you recommend the most? Would this Baronius Press one be your top one? I'm still deliberating over which one to purchase. I prefer all the hours included rather than those that cover morning and evening only.

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

yes, the Baronius Press is my favorite.I’ve kept it by my bedside and taken it on trips with me for several years.

[@seppe1701]

@@DeannaWillistonOFS any other ones come close?

[@DeannaWillistonOFS]

@@seppe1701 Angelus Press. There are other nice ones, but harder to find in print.