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Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary: one of the elderly monks was looking for a copy of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. To begin the search in Library failed. Once failing St. Anthony of Padua it is next to turn to the Internet. In fact both come to the surface.
First a 1940's copy of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary surfaces.
Surfing the Web goes far wider and comes up with the useful Link.
The Liturgy Archive shows up a mine of information.
Sample of SUNDAY PRAYER e.g. Second Reading - a choice from St Aelred.

The Liturgy Archive Welcome. This site is an attempt to gather into one place various liturgies, prayers, sermons, and anything else that a Christian may find useful for prayer, contemplation and edification. I hope you are blessed by your visit. If you have any suggestions, let me know. http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/LittleOffice.htm#compline The following version of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary is from the Liturgy of the Hours. For those who wish to use the older form of the Office, it is available here. The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary SUNDAY PRAYER SECOND READING From a letter by Saint Athanasius, bishop (Epist. Ad Epictetum,5-9; PG 26,1058,1062-1066) The Word took our nature from Mary What was born of Mary was therefore human by nature, in accordance with the inspired Scriptures, and the body of the Lord was a true body: It was a true body because it was the same as ours. Mary, you see, is our sister, for we are all born from Adam. The words of St John, the Word was made flesh, … Or: From a sermon by Saint Aelred, abbot (Sermo 20, in Nativitate beatiae Mariae: PL 195, 322-324) Mary our mother She is our mother — the mother of our life, the mother of our incarnation, the mother of our light. As the apostle says of our Lord: He became for us by God's power our wisdom and justice, and holiness and redemption. She then, as mother of Christ, is the mother of our wisdom and justice, of our holiness and redemption. She is more our mother than the mother of our flesh. Our birth from her is better, for from her is born our holiness, our wisdom, our justice, our sanctification, our redemption Praise the Lord in his holy ones, say the Scriptures. If our Lord is to be praised in those holy ones through whom he brings to being deeds of power and miracles, how much more is he to be praised in her in whom he fashioned himself, who is wonderful beyond all wonders. Or: From the dogmatic constitution on the Church of the Second Vatican Council (Lumen gentium, nn. 63-65) Mary as type of the Church Mary, because she has entered intimately into …