Traditional Office for the Dead

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Hello,

Is it possible to obtain a physical copy of the traditional Office for the Dead and, if so, where? I’d like to take up the practice of praying it maybe once a month, but I have been unable to find a copy online.

If physical copies are not available (which is probably the case), can anyone point me to a textual source available online? I could try typing it up in a Word document and printing out a hard copy to take with me when I travel.

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Have you looked at some of the old versions of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Many of the ones published before 1955 have the Office for the Dead.
 
Can you please help this Anglican learn how and when you would pray the Office? Would it be for a particular individual? Or, as on All Souls Day, for all the souls departed? Why would one pray it regularly?

Thank you.
 
Magdalen2013 said:
Have you looked at some of the old versions of the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Many of the ones published before 1955 have the Office for the Dead.
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Thank you. I’d actually like to get a copy of the traditional Little Office of the BVM as well. The only one I’ve found online so far has been the Baronius Press edition, which looks great but makes no mention of containing an Office for the Dead.
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Can you please help this Anglican learn how and when you would pray the Office? Would it be for a particular individual? Or, as on All Souls Day, for all the souls departed? Why would one pray it regularly?

Thank you.
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I ask because I’m considering becoming an Associate Member (a sort of preliminary Third Order) of the Transalpine Redemptorists. One of the requirements is praying the Little Office of the BVM daily and replacing it at least once a week with the Office of the Dead.

(So yes, my original post should’ve said “maybe once a week” instead of once a month; I recalled incorrectly).

Presumably it is prayed simply for all the souls of the faithful departed.
 
I don’t know about a printed resource (beyond a full breviary), but divinumofficium.com provides it online. You just have to know how to use the site rite to generate the office of the dead. At the bottom of the page there are several menu boxes for customizing what the site shows you (e.g., which rubrics to follow, what language(s)); the one at the far right is “hodie” [tr., “today”] by default, but you can switch it to “defunctorum” [tr., “of the departed”] for the votive office of the dead.
 
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