The Traditional Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary: In Latin and English

The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is an ancient way of praying the liturgical hours along with the practice of the Liturgy of the Hours. Indeed, for lots of busy laypeople, the Little Office may be a better way to fit the Divine Office’s style of liturgical prayer into day by day life on the way towards building up a habit of saying the Great Office of the Church.

The original text for this version of the Little Office used to be published in 1850 with the Imprimatur from Cardinal Archbishop Nicholas Wiseman. As a pre-Vatican II form of the Office, it observes all the traditional liturgical hours: Matins (with three Nocturns), Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline.