Breviary + Audio
  • I'm looking for a good combination of breviary and audio to use for my daily prayer routine.

    Breviary: Latin or English would work. Doesn't matter, pre-or-post Vatican II. Music notation must be included.

    Audio: Not just files of the different chants. Must be a recording of the whole prayer. Lauds and vespers would be enough.

    So far, I've only found: Monks of Norcia podcast + 1934 Antiphonale Monasticum.

    What else is out there?
  • avscvltaavscvlta
    Posts: 80
    I've found another podcast, this one from Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux. I haven't checked, but it sounds like the same 1934 Antiphonale Monasticum used for the Norcia podcast.
  • benstoxbenstox
    Posts: 23
    Unfortunately Nursia and Le Barroux are the only two I'm aware of either. They both sing the Benedictine Office, so yeah, should be the same as the 1934 AM. If you do find any more sites like these though, let us know! If you ever want a really quick way to access their recordings I wrote a little program once in Python that goes and checks their websites for the most recent uploads and will play their mp3s in a browser for you if you want. It's pretty bare-bones interface, since I'm not a very good programmer, but I just keep the .exe on my desktop and it's a little less tedious than looking for them in my bookmarks (which are numerous) every time I want to hear monks singing the Divine Office (which is not infrequently!). I think it should work on any Windows machine.

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  • Hello,
    I also want to find monks' brevir,
    I got this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monks-of-norcia/id963973073?mt=2 , which we can follow and auto download using our iPhone or other device.
    But I haven't found any Breviorum with gregorian note , online .
    It is pretty hard if I want to find in my country, so we relying online version.
    So far I using this text : http://divinumofficium.com/ , but because different version, sometimes is not match and don't have any gregorian note.

    any help is very appreciated

    thank you
  • bonniebede
    Posts: 756
    Try the monks at Barroux. They put their breviary online in latin and French.
    ecoutez nos offices and pour suivre les offices
  • OraLabora
    Posts: 218
    Buy Les Heures Grégoriennes. Latin-French, the modern LOTH but all the musical notation is present, for the daytime hours: Lauds, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Compline. You can also buy a CD that includes the chanting of the first strophes of all the hymns, all the antiphons and the first verse of the psalms or canticles, the responsories, the common tones, the whole works. Expensive but worth it and it will last a lifetime. If you need English to aid comprehension just put your English LOTH or Christian Prayer alongside.

    I'm an oblate and use it for my daily prayer (much easier than a monastic Office). I use Liturgia Horarum chanted recto-tono for Vigils/Office of Readings (how it's done in most monasteries in any case for Vigils).

    http://www.heures-gregoriennes.com/en/history

    The CD isn't the whole prayer, but it should make praying it accessible. Finding the whole prayer is going to be tough unless it's a live broadcast every day. To record the whole Office with saints, seasons, etc. would be quite a task.
  • Jeff Ostrowski upload Antiphonale Monasticum at ccwatershed:

    http://www.ccwatershed.org/blog/2013/dec/4/1934-antiphonale-monasticum-free-pdf-download/

    yay, and thanks