A Topic of Moral Theology
Who is bound to say the office, and how gravely
The works themselves ask 14 questions under this heading — see them together with their answers.
In the index as Canonical Hours (Horae canonicae) · Divine office · Breviary · Gravity of sin (Gravitas peccati) · Regular (Regularis) · Beneficed persons ought to spend the surplus of revenues on pious uses · Choir service · Custom · Lay brothers · Litanies · Liturgy · Matins · Nuns (Moniales) · Nuns are held to enclosure · Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Officium B. M. V.) · Rogations
In the manuals
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A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries
Vol. II, Bk. I, Pt. II, Chapter IV. Divine Office, nn. 1 & 2 (2 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, § II. On the Subject of the Precept, n. 1192 — The following are bound to the recitation of the breviary: I. Clerics constituted in major orders, except, however, those who have legitimately been reduced or returned to the lay state (can. 135, 213, 214). Since the ob… Read in context →
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 I. On the Obligation of Reciting, nn. 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 & 61 (42 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. 1071, 1072, 1073, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1077, 1078, 1079 & 1080 (10 passages — hover a number to read it)
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. ¶1089, ¶1090, ¶1091, ¶1092, ¶1093, ¶1094, ¶1095 & ¶1096 (8 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. ¶1, ¶2204, ¶2205, ¶2206 & ¶2207 (5 passages — hover a number to read it)
Christian Theology, Dogmatic and Moral, in Compendium
Bk. III, Diss. VI, Chapter V — On those who are bound to recite the Canonical Hours privately, nn. I, II, III, IV, V & VI (6 passages — hover a number to read it)
Bk. III, Diss. VI, Chapter VI — On the obligation of reciting the Canonical Hours, by which Beneficiaries are bound, nn. I–XV (15 passages)
Treated under the broader heading Divine Office — Noldin, Summa 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 · Prümmer, Manuale Theologiae 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.)