REFORM OF THE BREVIARY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14275, 10 February 1912, Page 11

REFORM OF THE BREVIARY.

■ Tho Reform of tho Brevinry, predicted many years ngo in the Rome correspondency of ''Tho Tablet," has • Sat last been published. 'Tho advan- , tages of tho change now sanctioned by -the Apostolic Constitution "Dirino af'flafu" may be summed up as follows: — .(h TJio. daily office recital by the , . clergy will Lβ shortened. (2) They will recite nil the Psalms in tho course oiteadi week, whereas hitherto many ;ot«tht> Psalms were rnroly recited dur- .' ; ingtho'.Tvhoh» year. (3) Only feaste of •the First and Second Clnts can be traneftru'd—and to tho day immedi- - ' atoly following. (4) The ofiico and mass ' of- tho Sunday are restored to their "oulrhononr.; for the" future only the .- feasts *of Our feaste of the ,• First and Second-CJnse are to bo oele'—brntid on a Sunday -when they fall on •that day. (.5) The ferias of Quarter- ,-. teuep arc also to be generally v kept, as regards the eaying of tho of,ficc,. and'votivo masses are not allowed •„ Tod.such days. (6) AH tho votive offices . .."Wiabojfehcd.' (7) The suffrages that be recited on serrri-doublvs and ' ■ i 'm W £, 4re reduced to a smglo one. (8) • ; The Sunday a nd ferinj omeo is greatly I shortened.'- (9) There is no longer tho obligation of reciting'in choir tho PonitenW! -Psalms, and the offices of Our , Lady and of tlieDcad on,'certain f erias, • or tont of celebrating two conventual ■ nustce. (10) On All Souls Day only ene office- is to- bo said: that of the ;, Dead. (11) The lessons from the Scrip'- ■'. tnre, of the Maeon, aro to "be ahvavs Z on feaets of the First and ,: Second class and on a few others. i* «.■ r Consti fc«tion itself admits that , ; - this reform is not complete. It will > «*a* supplemented later by many * "j '?" cs ™ t* lo historical "nil '"' d J n^l « a also b J' the more perfect text • \ of tho Psalms which will bo given by >. the labours of Abbot-President Gasquot Mid his Commission on the Vulgate -Pf. Roman Missal will also bo' modirflfld. It is said that to complete the ,- reform four Pontifical Commissions tK-iJU contribute, one for tho Liturgy f<rr Pijtrology, ono for History! "!J« B « for Scripture. Of course, "it - v som . e - v ? ars bpf oro" the work *m be completed, and doubtless ample •', warning of further changes will be - m £ a A n ort1 " to sa ™ both tho dersv - -agd the publishers unnoccssarv .-vT>cn«». Meanwhile in Home tho cleryv •w» delighted with the change, first f tttcoiiso it sjinplilifs the office, and t Wcaßd, beraiiso it gives it creator ' ■I' i Aft, ' r Jnm,ar y Ist, 1913, thou * -v- ° vpformo( l Breviary becomes" '. eWigatory-in the meanwhile'both indit JJoOAb and chapters are free to adopt rt, as- soon as they like. *