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Article — Gury-Ballerini, Compendium of Moral Theology (8th ed., 1884)

Article I. On the Positive Obligations of Clerics

Clerics are chiefly obliged: 1º to holiness of life; 2º to celibacy; 3º to ecclesiastical habit and tonsure; 4º to the canonical Hours.

Special Duties of Clerics

Within this article

§ I. On Holiness of Lifen. 38
§ II. On Celibacynn. 39–44
§ III. On Wearing the Habit and Tonsurenn. 45–48
§ IV. On the Recitation of the Canonical Hours or Divine Officenn. 49–97
- Point I. On the Obligation of Recitingnn. 50–61
- Point II. On the Time and Place and Position of Body Due for Reciting the Hoursnn. 62–71
- Point III. On the Manner of Reciting the Hoursnn. 72–92
- Point IV. On Causes Excusing from the Recitation of the Hoursnn. 93–97