Votive office

A votive office was a Roman Catholic practice to celebrate particular feasts that are not in the Catholic liturgical calendar.[1]

Votive offices became so common from 1883 that there were only around three weeks in which they could not be used.

These were abolished by Pope Pius X in 1911 by the Apostolic Constitution Divino Afflatu.[2]

  1. ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Votive Offices" . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  2. ^ "Compendium of the Reforms of the Roman Breviary, 1568-1961: Part 7.2 - the Breviary Reforms of St. Pius X (Continued)".