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OctaShot

How to correctly do commemorations in LotH?

I have a number of questions regarding commemorations in the Liturgy of the Hours. First let me quote the relevant paragraphs from the General Instructions:

  1. On Sundays, solemnities, and feasts, on Ash Wednesday, during Holy Week, and during the octave of Easter, memorials that happen to fall on these days are disregarded.
  1. On the weekdays from 17 to 24 December, during the octave of Christmas, and on the weekdays of Lent, no obligatory memorials are celebrated, even in particular calendars. When any happen to fall during Lent in a given year, they are treated as optional memorials.
  1. During privileged seasons, if it is desired to celebrate the office of a saint on a day assigned to his or her memorial:

a. in the office of readings, after the patristic reading (with its responsory) from the Proper of Seasons, a proper reading about the saint (with its responsory) may follow, with the concluding prayer of the saint;

b. at morning prayer and evening prayer, the ending of the concluding prayer may be omitted and the saint’s antiphon (from the proper or common) and prayer may be added.

  1. Can commemorations be done on a Sunday? I'm assuming they can't but I'm not 100% sure.

  2. When doing a commemoration in the Office of Readings, is the Te Deum said if it is appropriate? If the answer to question 1 is no, then I can't imagine a situation where it would be said anyways.

  3. When commemorating during Morning/Evening prayer, is the antiphon used the gospel canticle antiphon?

  4. When commemorating during Morning/Evening prayer, do you say "let us pray" after the antiphon or do you simply say the prayer immediately after?

  5. It is unclear what the last line to omit is at times. It's simple enough when the prayer ends with "We ask this through our Lord..." but not all prayers end that way. Today's evening prayer (Friday, Week I) reads "God our Father, help us to follow the example of your Son's patience in suffering. By sharing the burden he carries, may we come to share his glory in the kingdom where he lives with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever." It would be hard to imagine that they want you to omit the entire last sentence. What is done in these cases?

Thank you in advance.

Posted Aug 3, 2019, 2:53 AM UTC

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czernymanPriest•

1: no

2: yes

3: yes. For the Gospel canticle you use the Antiphon of the day. For the concluding prayer without ending/antiphon/concluding prayer sandwich, sources are: from the day, from the commemoration, from the commemoration.

4: no. Just the prayer. You never say let us pray in morning prayer and evening prayer. (only in OOR, DP, and NP)

5: you would cut off beginning at "where he lives and reigns..." if you can't figure it out, you can just say the whole thing

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OctaShotOP•

Thank you very much for the help!

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