Vespers of the Dead vs. Sunday Vespers

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Hopefully this is an easy answer.

Sometimes I like to pray the Office of the Dead (Vespers) for someone, generally on an anniversary of their death or on the day of death.

As a rule, on Sundays, I pray the Vespers of that Sunday.

Sometimes, the anniversary or the death occurs on a Sunday, which is a conflict, as happened yesterday. Can you pray the Office of the Dead on a Sunday (one that isn’t also All Souls’)?

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From the General Instruction
  1. For a public cause or out of devotion, except on solemnities, the Sundays of the seasons of Advent, Lent, and Easter, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, the octave of Easter, and 2 November, a votive office may be celebrated, in whole or in part: for example, on the occasion of a pilgrimage, a local feast, or the external solemnity of a saint.
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Unless or until someone may clarify whether a “public cause” applies to public liturgies (as opposed to private devotion), I would avoid substituting an office on the enumerated days.
But yesterday was a Sunday of Ordinary Time, so I think it would be all right.

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This type of question is something I have very little experience with so take my thoughts with that in mind, on such occasions could you pray the Office of the Dead the day before or after?
 
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could you pray the Office of the Dead the day before or after?
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That thought occurred to me as a possibility, and it’s likely what I’ll do. Or, could it be prayed in addition to the Sunday office? The former option would be better for me. I haven’t a lot of time to do both.
 
Honestly, I’d never considered the calendar complications. The only Office of the Dead I pray regularly is in memory of my father(†), which can collide with Sundays of Easter, and I’ve likely just run over them*. But if in collision with other associated moveable feasts, I’m sure I’d pray the office of the day and remember my father otherwise.
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And which, since I pray as a private devotion, and not publicly, I don’t sweat it much.

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