July 4 & 5 in LotH and Mass

[LiturgyGuy]

I am wondering about what memorials are to be celebrated on July 4th and 5th. The 5th is a Sunday this year, so that’s not a concern this year, but it will be next year. I have the four-volume breviary for use in the dioceses of the United States. I also have the St. Paul Daily Missal by Pauline Books & Media, also designed for use in the U.S.

Here is what is listed for each day in each book:

Breviary:
July 4: Elizabeth of Portugal (opt. Mem.)
July 5: Anthony Zaccaria (opt. Mem.)

Missal:
July 4: [In the Dioceses of the United States] Independence Day
July 5: St. Anthony Zaccaria (opt. Mem.) OR St. Elizabeth of Portugal (opt. Mem., in the Dioceses of the United States)

Is it correct that in the United States, St.Elizabeth is celebrated July 4 in the Liturgy of the Hours, but on July 5 in Holy Mass? Should I be celebrating St. Elizabeth on the 4th when praying the Hours, or should it be moved to the 5th? What’s with the inconsistency between the liturgies? Is this likely to be adjusted when the breviary is revised to make it consistent with the Missal?

 

[Mary_Ellen]

I’m looking at my Guide for the LotH and it looks like you’re free to celebrate Elizabeth of Portugal if you wish on the 4th. You may not move an optional Memorial to Sunday as the celebration of the Sunday in Ordinary Time trumps the OM. Only Solemnities and Feasts of the Lord preside over the observance of Sundays in Ordinary Time.

Here’s the order of precedence:

Table of Liturgical Days
I

1. Easter triduum of the Lord’s passion and resurrection.
2. Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension, and Pentecost. Sundays of Advent, Lent, and the Easter season. Ash Wednesday. Weekdays of Holy Week from Monday to Thursday inclusive. Days within the octave of Easter.
3. Solemnities of the Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and saints listed in the General Calendar. All Souls.
4. Proper Solemnities, namely:
   a. Solemnity of the principal patron of the place, that is, the city or state.
   b. Solemnity of the dedication of a particular church and the anniversary.
   c. Solemnity of the title, or of the founder, or of the principal patron of a religious order or congregation.
   II.
5. Feasts of the Lord in the General Calendar.
6. Sundays of the Christmas season and Sundays in Ordinary Time.
7. Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of the saints in the General Calendar.
8. Proper feasts, namely:
   a. Feast of the principal patron of the diocese.
   b. Feast of the anniversary of the dedication of the cathedral.
   c. Feast of the principal patron of a region or province, or a country, or of a wider territory.
   d. Feast of the title, founder, or principle patron of an order or congregation and of a religious province, without prejudice to the directives in no. 4.
   e. Other feasts proper to an individual church.
   f. Other feasts listed in the calendar of a diocese or of a religious order or congregation.
9. Weekdays of Advent from 17 December to 24 December inclusive. Days within the octave of Christmas. Weekdays of Lent.
   III.
10. Obligatory memorials in the General Calendar.
11. Proper obligatory memorials, namely:
    a. Memorial of a secondary patron of the place, diocese, region, or province, country or wider territory, or of an order or congregation and of a religious province.
    b. Obligatory memorials listed in the calendar of a diocese, or of an order or congregation.
12. Optional memorials; but these may be celebrated even on the days listed in no. 9, in the special manner described by the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and of the Liturgy of the Hours. In the same manner obligatory memorials may be celebrated as optional memorials if they happen to fall on the Lenten weekdays.
13. Weekdays of Advent up to 16 December inclusive. Weekdays of the Christmas season from 2 January until the Saturday after Epiphany. Weekdays of the Easter season from Monday after the octave of Easter until the Saturday before Pentecost inclusive. Weekdays in Ordinary Time.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Is it correct that in the United States, St.Elizabeth is celebrated July 4 in the Liturgy of the Hours, but on July 5 in Holy Mass? Should I be celebrating St. Elizabeth on the 4th when praying the Hours, or should it be moved to the 5th? What’s with the inconsistency between the liturgies? Is this likely to be adjusted when the breviary is revised to make it consistent with the Missal?

The USCCB *Liturgical Calendar for Dioceses in the United States *has not yet been published for 2016, but I have 2014 laying around. It says:

4 Fri Weekday green/white
[Independence Day]
Am 8:4-6, 9-12/Mt 9:9-13 (381) or, for Independence Day, any readings from the Lectionary for Ritual Masses, vol. IV, the Mass “For the Country,” nos. 882-886, or “For Peace and Justice,” nos. 887-891
5 Sat Weekday green/white/white/white
[Saint Anthony Zaccaria, Priest; Saint Elizabeth of Portugal; BVM]
Am 9:11-15/Mt 9:14-17 (382)

So I would judge that (in the US) on any non-Sunday 4-July, one should pray the office as a weekday* (there is no kind of optional “Office For the Country”), and on any non-Sunday 5-July, one may pray the weekday or St Anthony or St Elizabeth*.

(* Or the optional *BVM *if on a Saturday)

:twocents: In my judgement, [user]Mary_Ellen[/user]'s Guide for the LotH is mistaken (wrt persons following the US calendar). :twocents:

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