Question about Office of the Dead

[Ora_et_Labora_1]

I’ve been looking into the Bragan Rite Breviary, trying to find differences between it and the “last” traditional Roman Breviary.

I’m currently looking into the Office of the Dead, as we are nearing the month of November. For the Roman Office of the Dead I’m using a pdf version of the Liber Usualis I found. I found in my Bragan Breviary some prayers during Vespers which I do not find in the Liber Usualis. What I’d like to know is if these prayers are lacking in the Roman Office of the Dead, or if they’re simply lacking in my version of the Liber.

They have the following headers:

• Pro patre et matre
• Pro his, qui jacent in coemeterio
• Officio Defunctorum per annum - Oratio

Thanks in advance!

 

[Rich_C]

My layman’s copy of the 1960 Roman Breviary includes the first of those collects in the Office of the Dead. It has another one called “in anniversario” that may be a different title of your collect “Officio Defunctorum per annum,” not sure.

It’s possible that my copy excludes praying found in the full 1960 Roman Breviary; it only includes lauds, vespers, and compline and may have other abridgements.

 

[Chatter163]

• Pro patre et matre
• Pro his, qui jacent in coemeterio
• Officio Defunctorum per annum - Oratio
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The first is the collect when one is saying the office for one’s departed parents, the second for those departed whose bodies are buried within a specific cemetery, and the third in the daily office for the dead, which is the generic form for any intention for all the departed, especially where the office is said for them.

 

[Ora_et_Labora_1]

The first is the collect when one is saying the office for one’s departed parents, the second for those departed whose bodies are buried within a specific cemetery, and the third in the daily office for the dead, which is the generic form for any intention for all the departed, especially where the office is said for them.

I understood this to be the case, but what I’m looking to know is if these are also present in the Roman Breviary.

 

[Chatter163]

I understood this to be the case, but what I’m looking to know is if these are also present in the Roman Breviary.

Yes, that is their source.

 

[Ora_et_Labora_1]

Yes, that is their source.

Thanks. I thought the Liber Usualis was complete, but apparently not. Do you know of where I might find on-line the whole Office of the Dead?