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Cistercian monks praying the Liturgy of the Hours in Heiligenkreuz Abbey. The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [a] often also referred to as the breviary, [b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the ...
Pages in category "Liturgy of the Hours" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The current official version of the hours in the Roman Rite is called the Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: liturgia horarum) or divine office. In Lutheranism and Anglicanism , they are often known as the daily office or divine office , to distinguish them from the other "offices" of the Church (e.g. the administration of the sacraments).
The Liturgy of the Hours consecrates to God the whole course of day and night. Lauds and Vespers and Matins are major hours, little hours are Terce, Sext and None; the Compline is the last canonical hour of the day. Members of the consecrated life are officially assigned by the church to intone the liturgy of the hours. They, as well as bishops ...
The parts commemorated are readings, antiphons, and prayers. In the Liturgy of the Hours, all three are or have been used: a reading of the commemorated celebration in Matins (Office of Readings); the antiphons of the Benedictus in Lauds and of the Magnificat in Vespers; and the proper prayer of the celebration being commemorated, the same as the collect of its Mass.
Illumination with singing monks in an Initial D. The hebdomadarian or hebdomadary (from Greek ἑβδομάς hebdomás, Latin hebdomada, "week") is a member of a monastic convent who is appointed by the superior to begin and intone those parts of the Liturgy of the hours which are to be recited by an individual for the respective week.
French - Leaf from Book of Hours - about 1460, Walters Art Museum. The Little Office probably originated as a monastic devotion around the middle of the eighth century. Peter the Deacon reports that at the Benedictine Monastery of Monte Cassino there was, in addition to the Divine Office, another office "which it is customary to perform in honour of the Holy Mother of God, which Zachary the ...
Liturgy of the Hours (4 C, 79 P) I. Illuminated books of hours (1 C, 61 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Canonical hours" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of ...