Visitation Nuns of Tyringham, MA

[DameAgnes]

https://vistyr.org/vocations

A nice little slide show. Their site update is very good. 

[PaxCordisJesu]

Silly question,  but I thought contemplatives were required to pray all of the liturgical hours? From their website it appears that they only pray 5.

[truthfinder]

2 hours ago, PaxCordisJesu said:

Silly question,  but I thought contemplatives were required to pray all of the liturgical hours? From their website it appears that they only pray 5.

I can't remember all the ins-and-outs, but this here (https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/library/obligation-of-the-liturgy-of-the-hours-4604)

suggests that only priests have the obligation to say all the hours, and that religious are bound by their own order's constitutions.  The sisters may be also be either combining some of the minor offices or else praying them privately which is why they're not on the schedule. One would have to ask.

Edit: this is the relevant canon law: Can. 1174 §1. Clerics are obliged to carry out the liturgy of the hours according to the norm of can. 276, §2, n. 3; members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic life, however, are bound according to the norm of their constitutions.

Edited July 30, 2021 by truthfinder

[DameAgnes]

3 hours ago, PaxCordisJesu said:

Silly question,  but I thought contemplatives were required to pray all of the liturgical hours? From their website it appears that they only pray 5.

If you scroll a little ways down the page, there is more detail. They appear to chant all the hours. https://vistyr.org/our-monastic-schedule