Liturgy of the Hours - How does the Reading end?

[Jokoangel]

****When the Reading of the day is read, some people have been adding “The Word of the Lord” after it. Right or wrong? I tend to feel that the Hours is not the Mass and that ending should not be used - Help!

 

[estesbob]

When the Reading of the day is read, some people have been adding “The Word of the Lord” after it. Right or wrong? I tend to feel that the Hours is not the Mass and that ending should not be used - Help!

I dont think it part of the rubrics for praying the Hours but I also dont think there is anything wrong with it if it is done only after the scripture reading. I pray it alone so it is not an issue for me.

 

[acadian]

When I pray it alone, I don’t say anything. I had the privelege of praying with a community of Poor Clare nuns, and they started with “a reading from ______” and ended with “the word of the Lord”. I imagine they know what they are doing.

 

[AJV]

PRO:

The General Instruction does allow for a reading to be taken from the lectionary - this could imply the mode of announcing and concluding as well, since “a reading from…” and “The Word of the Lord” is printed in the lectionary

CONTRA:

The General Instruction and the Ordinary are silent on the matter of responses after reading. The older breviary had an acclamation after the short readings and chapters – “Deo gratias” (Thanks be to God)-- and after long readings at Matins – “Tu autem Domine miserere nobis. Deo gratias” (But you, Lord, have mercy on us. Thanks be to God). Both were removed in the reform, implying that no response should be given and no conclusion said.

 

[drforjc]

When I pray it alone, I don’t say anything. I had the privelege of praying with a community of Poor Clare nuns, and they started with “a reading from ______” and ended with “the word of the Lord”. I imagine they know what they are doing.

As AJV stated, the rubrics themselves are silent. As a generally “say the black, do the red” sort of person, I’m inclined to simply read the reading with neither introduction nor ending.
That being said, I also find the LOTH rubrics to be very vague in general, and this may be intentional. The GILH is full of statements that seem to permit all manner of substitutions, etc.

 

[bpbasilphx]

Many things in the services of the Church in anybody’s use and rite are by custom.

I wouldn’t worry about this one.