Commemoration of Saints in Advent

This is the first time I’ve recorded the little prayer from the 1915 version of the Little Office and earlier.

It’s in my Medieval Lauds booklet : https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/#booklets

Here’s the antiphon from Gregobase:

Behold the Lord comes, and all his saints with him: and it will be in that day a great light, alleluia.

This comes in at the end of Lauds and Vespers in the older editions of the Little Office.

The history of this little piece is worth reading. When the Little Offices emerged, there were three main ones:

1. All Saints

2. The Faithful Departed

3. Our Lady

Saying all of them as well as the Divine Office proved too much, so different orders generally went with either Our Lady or the Dead. The Little Office of the Saints survived in this little Commemoration in the Little Office of Our Lady. Then in 1962 the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary was pared down a little bit more and the commemoration was removed, along with the little “Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison”.