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Ahh I see you have your own reprint. I will get that. But what do you mean when you said “Printing chant booklets from this webpage for singing purposes is still a good idea.”?

Do you mean print out each hour--like Prime to get the chant?

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I have two reprints - one from Ireland about 1837 (going from memory here) and one from the US 1915. The Irish one, being older, has more prayers (there are a few more psalms for Lauds and that's pretty much it). The US one is clearer and fewer typographical errors. The US one also has the Office of the Dead, though I have versions with and without it as the reprinting uses fairly thick paper and gets a bit chunky. I saw your order for the Irish one - Thanks! - but wanted to check if you still want it.

Yes, neither of these reprints have the chant in them. I haven't gone through the getting ecclesiastical permission for my booklets, so I'm hoping if people just use them as musical supplements to their own office books, then that will be my attempt to satisfy canon law. One day I'll get a canon lawyer to explain it all to me.

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Which part of the Little Office is the chant part? Like I was reading Prime and can’t find the chant part.

https://littleoffice.brandt.id.au/lo/prima.pdf

I like the pdf of Little Office because it has the Advent, Christmas, etc., and have the symbols of doing the cross when needed…

I have the Angelus Press and that doesn’t have that and the songs to sing at the end of each hour.

I bought the 1915 reprint by you and had a hard time using it than the Angelus press.

I’m trying to find a hard copy of what you have online without having to print every hour of the day out so when we don’t have internet, I can still say the Little Office…

Is the 1837 version more closely to what you have online?

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The Angelus Press has the songs to sing at the end of Compline: p152-161. They're compulsory for Compline and optional at other times.

The 1837 is a bit further away from what I have online. I've based mine on the 1962 books, so it should match the Angelus Press book and the Baronius Press. The 1915 has some differences in the prayers and the 1837 has some more differences on top of that.

I can print and comb-bind what I have online at the moment - the allthehours.pdf

There is a project to make a Spanish/Latin copy, all tidied up. I should get an English/Latin copy ready too.

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I watched your YouTube review on all the different versions:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6cxx5SUY7eI

Which version is closest to how you layout the Little Office on your website?

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We follow your format of the Little Office. We want to get the book of the Little Office, which one do you recommend?

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o, veronica! what are you working on??!!!

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Learning the countries of Europe is a project for this term.

Still figuring out the balance of singing the Little Office vs keeping up with family and worldly stuff.

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Saturday mornings might be an idea.. and then maybe including an Antiphon & Pslam from her Office in your morning prayer or varying a portion of it each week, so that on Saturday, the children see how her Little Office is assembled.

God bless you with your holy work!

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