A Topic of Moral Theology
The Causes Excusing from the Obligation
What excuses from reciting the Divine Office: infirmity, occupation, and dispensation.
The works themselves ask 13 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
Also asked about as…
excuses from saying the breviary · sick priest and the breviary · too busy to say the office (ed.)
In the index as Divine office · Canonical Hours (Horae canonicae) · Impotence (Impotentia) · Breviary (Breviarium) · Law · The sick (Infirmi) · Anticipation of Matins · Bishop (Episcopus) · Cause · Commutation · Convalescents · Doubt (Dubium) · Excusing causes · Grave difficulty · Partner (Socius) · Those Impeded
In the manuals
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Summa of Moral Theology (Summa Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. II, Part Fourth. On Particular…, Book Second. On the Precep…, Question Second. On the Ob…, Article Fifth. On Causes Excusing from Recitation of the Office, nn. 775, 776, 777 & 778 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manual of Moral Theology (Manuale Theologiae Moralis)
Vol. I, Bk. II, Tr. II, Diss. III, Pt. II, Sect. II, Ch. I, Art. III, § IV. On the Causes Excusing from the Obligation, nn. 1194, 1195, 1196 & 1197 (4 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology of Fr. John Peter Gury, S.J., with the Notes of Antonio Ballerini, S.J.
Vol. II, Treatise on Particular Sta…, Part Second. On the State …, Ch. I, Art. I, § IV, Point IV. On Causes Excusing from the Recitation of the Hours, nn. ¶1, 93, 94, 95, 96 & 97 (26 passages — hover a number to read it)
Synopsis of Moral and Pastoral Theology
Vol. III, Contracts, and the Obligat…, On the Obligations of Stat…, Chapter II: On the Duties of Clerics, nn. 1081, 1082 & 1083 (3 passages — hover a number to read it)
Manuale Theologiae Moralis
Vol. II, Tr. XI, Sect. II, Q. I, Ch. II, Art. II, § 5. The Manner of Reciting the Office, n. 378 — 378. On causes excusing from the recitation of the Office. Three causes excusing from the recitation of the Hours are customarily enumerated: 1. physical inability; 2. moral inability; 3. legitimate dispensation. The fir… Read in context →
Theologia Moralis Sancti Alphonsi: Reduced into a Compendium
Vol. I, TREATISE ON PARTICULAR STA…, PART SECOND: ON THE STATE …, Ch. I, BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE, Art. I, § IV. On the Recitation of the Canonical Hours or of the Divine Office, nn. ¶8, ¶1128, ¶1129, ¶1130 & ¶1131 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Institutiones Morales Alphonsianae
Vol. II, Pt. IV, Tr. II, Ch. I, Art. I, § 3. On The Canonical Hours, nn. ¶3, ¶2218, ¶2219, ¶2220 & ¶2221 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Compendium of Moral Theology
Vol. I, Tr. X, Pt. II, Ch. I, Article I. On the Positive Obligations of Clerics, n. 583 — I say 1st. Impossibility, whether physical or moral, which consists in grave difficulty, excuses from the obligation of reciting the Office, and the reason is that no one is held to the impossible. - Hence he is excused:… Read in context →
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Bk. III, Diss. VI, Chapter IX — On the causes excusing from reciting the Canonical Hours, nn. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII & IX (9 passages — hover a number to read it)
Cases of Conscience for English-Speaking Countries, Volume I
Slater, Cases I, Laws, Case 3. Not Excused from Observing the Law, nn. ¶1, ¶2, ¶3, ¶4, ¶5, ¶6, ¶7, ¶8, ¶9, ¶10, ¶11, ¶12 & ¶13 (13 passages — hover a number to read it)
Treated under the broader heading Divine Office — Slater, Manual of Moral Theology · McHugh–Callan, Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Moral Enchiridion (4th ed., 1905) · Bucceroni, Institutions of Moral Theology · Bucceroni, Cases of Conscience · Vermeersch, Theologia Moralis · Bontempi, Palladium Theologicum V · The Casuist · Decretum of Gratian — these works do not divide the matter as finely as we do here, so their treatment stands one heading up (ed.)