Liturgy of the Hours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Liturgy of the Hours or Divine Office is the official set of daily prayers prescribed by the Catholic Church to be recited at the canonical hours by the clergy, religious orders, and laity. Th...
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The reason why there are seven canonical hours is that David says, “Seven times a day do I praise thee” (Psalm oxix. 164). ... In England the phrase means the time of the day within which persons can be legally married, i.e. from eight in the morning to three p m ... Old Testament Names...
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All three names refer to the same reality, the official prayer of the Church offered at various times of the day in order to sanctify it. Clergy and religious have a canonical obligation to pray the Liturgy of the Hours as official representatives of the Church.
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Canonical hours - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Canonical hours are divisions of time, developed by the Christian Church, serving as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In...
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The title Breviary, as we employ it — that is, a book containing the entire canonical office — appears to date from the eleventh century. ... By this method each day was divided into hours, ... In any case, the Roman arrangement of the Psalter reaches back to a hoary antiquity, at least to the seventh or eight century,
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Early Christians mixed Jewish practice with Roman hours. St. Paul had ordained prayer without ceasing. If unceasing prayer was taken literally, no work would get done. The Church compromised by increasing the number of prayer events to eight. ... Those became the canonical hours with their old Roman names: Matins, Lauds,
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Cabal: According to Nennius, King Arthur's dog. ... Cadency: A mark of difference to show family relationships in the system of heraldry. Included in marks of Cadency are the label (1st son), crescent, mollet, martel, annulet, fleur-de-lis, ... Canonical Hours: At each of these times, the church bells would ring eight times:
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A manager went to his programmers and told them: ``As regards to your work hours: you are going to have to come in at nine in the morning and leave at five in the afternoon.'' At this, all of them became angry ... Every year new names are put onto the branches, but all to no avail. How can such an unnatural entity be?"
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For this purpose he chose with remarkable judgment a simple stroph consisting of four iambic dimeters—four lines of eight syllables each. ... It seems fairly certain that St. Benedict, who wrote his Rule some ten or fifteen years before his death in 543, was the first to make hymns an integral part of the canonical hours.
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