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The Fathers of the Church and the ecclesiastical writers of the third century frequently mention Terce, Sext, and None as hours for daily prayers. [5] Tertullian, around the year 200, recommended, in addition to the obligatory morning and evening prayers, the use of the third, sixth and ninth hours of daylight to remind oneself to pray.
By AD 60, we find the Didache recommending that disciples pray the Lord's Prayer three times a day; this practice found its way into the canonical hours as well. By the second and third centuries, such Church Fathers as Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Tertullian wrote of the practice of Morning and Evening Prayer, and of the prayers at the ...
The four-volume Liturgy of the Hours, with Scripture readings from the New American Bible, appeared in 1975 with approval from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. [13] The 1989 English translation of the Ceremonial of Bishops includes in Part III instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours which the bishop presides, for example the ...
See Lists of Bible stories. New Testament stories are the pericopes or stories from the New Testament of Christianity. ... Paul's Third missionary journey ...
Painting of the parable, by Jacob Willemszoon de Wet, mid-17th century. The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (also called the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard or the Parable of the Generous Employer) is a parable of Jesus which appears in chapter 20 of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament.
Lists of Bible pericopes itemize Bible stories or pericopes of the Bible. They include stories from the Hebrew Bible and from the Christian New Testament. List of Hebrew Bible events; List of New Testament pericopes; Gospel harmony#A parallel harmony presentation; Acts of the Apostles#Outline; Events of Revelation
Third Hour (Terce) At ≈9 AM: Pilate's judgement of Christ and the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, which occurred during this hour. Héktē Hóra (Ἕκτη Ὥρα) Sixth Hour (Sext) At ≈12 PM: Christ's crucifixion, which occurred during this hour. Ennátē Hóra (Ἐννάτη Ὥρα) Ninth Hour (None) At ≈3 PM
Kipling uses this, along with a pun on the word 'watches': the story turns on two identical timepieces. " Watches of the Night " is a short story by Rudyard Kipling . It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 25, 1887; in book form, first in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888; and in the many ...