Liturgy of the Hours and optional alleluias

[OraLabora]

Unfortunately, the author is incorrect, especially the part about Lent. My own Volume III clearly shows no Alleluia in the Common of Apostles for Ordinary Time. And the ban on Alleluia in Lent is absolute throughout the Roman Rite. The only time one says Alleluia during Ordinary Time is if it is part of the antiphon itself.

That’s a heck of a claim on the author’s part and the onus is on her to provide documentation and references.

You also say it at the opening rite in Ordinary Time (“Deus in adiutorium…”).

It is also optional in the monastic rite as the opening antiphon for Lauds, under which the first three psalms can be said; in this case the antiphon is simply “alleluia, alleluia, alleluia”.

Nobody said liturgy would be easy

 

[ggawlik]

Unfortunately, the author is incorrect, especially the part about Lent. My own Volume III clearly shows no Alleluia in the Common of Apostles for Ordinary Time. And the ban on Alleluia in Lent is absolute throughout the Roman Rite. The only time one says Alleluia during Ordinary Time is if it is part of the antiphon itself.

That’s a heck of a claim on the author’s part and the onus is on her to provide documentation and references.

Looks like you did not read my message very carefully. She would actually agree with you about the Alleluia during Lent – she said that it WOULD be part of the antiphon itself if it gets said – no parentheses.

And please, let’s keep a charitable tone to our messages. Remember, you are only getting this information though a secondary source. It’s entirely possible that I didn’t understand her completely.

 

[porthos11]

Looks like you did not read my message very carefully. She would actually agree with you about the Alleluia during Lent – she said that it WOULD be part of the antiphon itself if it gets said – no parentheses.

And please, let’s keep a charitable tone to our messages. Remember, you are only getting this information though a secondary source. It’s entirely possible that I didn’t understand her completely.

I’m not attacking you but I would not be as merciful to the author of a published work, especially if the research is lacking. I hold every author accountable for citations.

1. Alleluias will never be tacked on to an antiphon in Lent, ever, especially those without parentheses.
2. Feasts and Solemnities on their own do not just add Alleluias solely by virtue of their being feasts and solemnities. Only Easter does that. If alleluia is to be said outside of Easter, then it will be explicitly printed as part of the antiphon.

So to cite your specific example of July 3, St Thomas. The invitatory antiphon is “Come let us worship the Lord, the King of apostles.” That’s it. No alleluia, parentheses or otherwise. The same is true of June 29, Sts. Peter and Paul, Solemnity; no alleluias there either. That’s why if the author made a claim otherwise, she has to cite her source. My own source is Volume III of the Breviary, which is as authoritative as one could get.