appendix — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)
Appendix I. On Cessation from Divine Offices
- Cessation from divine Offices is a prohibition made to Clerics that they abstain from divine Offices, from the administration of the Sacraments, and from ecclesiastical burial in some determinate place.
This cessation is distinguished from an interdict: 1. because an interdict can be personal, but cessation from divine Offices cannot. 2. Because an interdict is a censure, whence one who violates it becomes irregular; but a transgressor of cessation from divine Offices, although he sins gravely, incurs no censure and does not become irregular. For this cessation is not employed to correct delinquents. 3. Because during a general interdict it is lawful to celebrate divine Offices with the doors closed and in a low voice, and even solemnly on certain feasts; but in cessation from divine Offices even these things are prohibited.
A twofold cessation from divine Offices is distinguished:
- One from law, which exists by the fact itself when a Church is polluted or execrated.
- One from a man, which is imposed by a Superior having jurisdiction having jurisdiction in the external forum, as a sign of sorrow or for the reparation of a grave injury inflicted upon God; and then it affects all who remain in that place.
The causes of cessation from divine Offices by law are reported in the Treatise on the Eucharist, where the place of celebration is treated. The Sacraments which can be administered during an interdict are also permitted during cessation.
QUESTION. By whom can cessation from divine Offices be imposed?
Reply. It can be imposed by the same persons who can impose censures, with the requisite admonitions preceding. St. Alphonsus, no. 340.