Liturgy of the Hours and Memorials

[sulkow82]

Hello,

I have a technical question about the LotH (all comments in my OP assume LotH said in private devotions). When it comes to Memorials on the hierarchy of feasts, which is considered “stronger:” a memorial (not optional) or a “personal entry” on my calendar such as the Office of the Dead for a deceased relative?

Are memorials required (or “supposed to be said”) in private devotion?

At first, I would like to restrict information to what the rules say on this issue. I am happy to talk about encouragements (i.e. "why wouldn’t you say the memorials) on what offices to say, but I need the strict rules first in order to have that discussion.

I am a member of the OSF, however, I am talking about private devotions outside of Secular Franciscan meetings.

 

[tee_eff_em]

Hello,

I have a technical question about the LotH (all comments in my OP assume LotH said in private devotions). When it comes to Memorials on the hierarchy of feasts, which is considered “stronger:” a memorial (not optional) or a “personal entry” on my calendar such as the Office of the Dead for a deceased relative?

Are memorials required (or “supposed to be said”) in private devotion?

At first, I would like to restrict information to what the rules say on this issue. I am happy to talk about encouragements (i.e. "why wouldn’t you say the memorials) on what offices to say, but I need the strict rules first in order to have that discussion.

I am a member of the OSF, however, I am talking about private devotions outside of Secular Franciscan meetings.

I cannot say for sure. IMHO, and answering your questions in revers order:

• 
  *]Memorials (obligatory) are “supposed to be said” in private devotion. But
  *]The Office of the Dead may take precedence over a memorial (but not over a proper Feast or Solemnity, nor such days as listed in #245 below)
  
  This is my inauthentic interpretation of General Instruction #243
  

  1. In private celebration, the calendar of the place or the person’s own calendar may be followed, except on proper solemnities and on proper feasts.

  1. For a public cause or out of devotion, except on solemnities, the Sundays of the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the octave of Easter, and 2 November, a votive office may be celebrated, in whole or in part: for example, on the occasion of a pilgrimage, a local feast, or the external solemnity of a saint.

  tee