Category: Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium

Clerics not bound to office in choir, if they are in major orders, are bound to pray the entire office every day, either in common or individually, as laid down in Art. 89.

Communities obliged to choral office are bound to celebrate the office in choir every day in addition to the conventual Mass.

That the day may be truly sanctified, and that the hours themselves may be recited with spiritual advantage, it is best that each of them be prayed at a time which most closely corresponds with its true canonical time.

As regards the readings, the following shall be observed.

So that it may really be possible in practice to observe the course of the hours proposed in Art. 89, the psalms are no longer to be distributed throughout one week, but through some longer period of time.

The Council Fathers emphasize that any revisions of the Liturgy of the Hours must take into account the history of this liturgical form as it developed in the Roman Rite so that the revision is not merely antiquarian or aesthetic, but that it would be of genuine assistance to monastic communities, active communities bound to…

Therefore, when the office is revised, these norms are to be observed.