Latin Mass Homeschool Family

Print yourself a copy of our Compline booklet from compline.brandt.id.au and join us! Tonight we have Passion Sunday, sometimes known as First Passion Sunday to distinguish it from Palm Sunday, which is sometimes called Second Passion Sunday. The Sunday psalms become particularly well known. We just have to keep awake to catch the little Passiontide changes here and there. This is a public episode...

Print yourself a copy of our Compline booklet from compline.brandt.id.au and join us! This is the beginning of Passiontide, so there are some little changes. This time is really interesting with all the different things that mark the change of season. Just wait till we get to the Sacred Triduum! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bon...

We sing Compline most nights. We picked it up from Maternal Heart, Lewisham, way back when they sang Roman Compline on Thursday nights after Mass. With kids, things got submerged for a while, but we picked it up again, piece by piece, and now it is a great thing which we can highly recommend for : helping get babies to sleep giving the cat quality time to be admired while everyone sits down in the...

Someone asked for a recording of Matins from the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. I'm pretty sure practically nobody sings Matins. Except for Tenebrae, and then you're not singing the Little Office Matins. So I've spent hours putting this together and I hope someone finds it useful. And if you're kept awake by someone singing these melodies in the middle of the night, I hope you won't be...

The second instalment in our journey through A New Book of Old Hymns! This episode covers: Gaudete Adeste Fideles Puer Natus You can find out more about the book at newbookoldhymns.brandt.id.au This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit vbrandt.substack.com

Second installment of the grand plan to record the entire Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary ! In no particular order. Here's a spur-of-the-moment recording of Prime from our family morning prayers on the feast of St Nicholas (hence the reference to chocolate for breakfast) It also includes the anticipated Roman Martyrology from an old book off the Internet Archive which I've had printed thr...

My most popular videos on youtube are the ones on how to sing the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. So many people want to sing this popular devotion from the middle ages.  Baronius Press has published very handsome little copies of the Little Office with the key pieces of chant in an appendix. It is tantalisingly close to enabling people to sing the Office, but it lacks the handy mark-up...

Long, long ago, I put together a little hymnbook with all the Gregorian Chant I was hearing at Mass along with English translations. It would bug me that you would need to join the choir and buy expensive Libers in order to sing along to these beautiful melodies. Also it seemed very unfair that in some cases there were no translations available. In the process I learned a lot about Gregorian Chant...

The Second Lesson from Latin by the Natural Method by Fr William Most. Plus we sing Stella Splendens. Print these pdfs: Cercle Latin Something we're building: School Jubilus This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit vbrandt.substack.com

An experiment in helping my kids revise this course, plus help out  anyone who would like to hear the Latin in this course spoken by Latin  Mass afficionados from Australia. Print these pdfs: Cercle Latin Something we're building: School Jubilus This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit vbrandt.substack.com