LOTH during Triduum

[Red_James]

I am a layman who intends to pray the LOTH during the Triduum in Church. Since my parish does not have a public celebration of any of the hours during this time, I will be praying in private.
When praying the LOTH on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, does one skip the introductory verse, the glory be…, and the hymn, and jump straight to the first antiphon and psalm? Likewise, does one skip the concluding prayer and dismissal?

Thanks!

 

[GoGoDiego]

I am a layman who intends to pray the LOTH during the Triduum in Church. Since my parish does not have a public celebration of any of the hours during this time, I will be praying in private.
When praying the LOTH on Good Friday and Holy Saturday, does one skip the introductory verse, the glory be…, and the hymn, and jump straight to the first antiphon and psalm? Likewise, does one skip the concluding prayer and dismissal?

Thanks!

That only applies if you are praying the 1962 Breviary.

Regarding the LOTH, it is still recited in the usual manner even on Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Nothing is omitted

 

[DaveBj]

I just do whatever the iBreviary app says to do. Last night it said the Vespers are skipped if one has attended the Liturgy of the Last Supper. I had just returned from that, so – I skipped Vespers.

 

[OraLabora]

That only applies if you are praying the 1962 Breviary.

It also applies to the current (post-Vatican II) Monastic Breviary.

For the current LOTH, everything remains the same with of course the proper hymns, antiphons and psalmody for these days.

The exceptions are:

1. If you attend the Mass of the Last Supper on Thursday evening, you do not say Vespers on Holy Thursday;
2. If you attend the Good Friday liturgy, you do not say Vespers on Good Friday;
3. If you attend the Easter Vigil, you do not say Compline on Holy Saturday evening;
4. There is no Office of Readings for Easter; the Easter Vigil takes its place; if you don’t attend the Vigil, instead of the Office of Readings you may say the following 3 readings from the Vigil: Exodus 14, Ezekiel 36 and Romans 6, with their responsories collects, then the Gospel of the current year followed by the Te Deum. Interestingly, Liturgia Horarum (LOTH in Latin) adds Psalm 117(118) to the mix, after the readings and before the Gospel. This isn’t in the French LOTH. Someone could check the English LOTH to see what it says.

If you do these readings, before Lauds, you nevertheless say the Invitatory before Lauds on Easter Sunday and not before this pseudo-Office of Readings.