Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Vespers (from Latin vesper 'evening' [1]) is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgical rites), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran liturgies. The word for this prayer time comes from the Latin vesper, meaning "evening". [2]
Vespers (Evening Prayer) INTRODUCTION. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son. and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Join the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word as they celebrate Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament from Our Lady of the Angels Chapel in Irondale, Alabama.
Evening Prayer gives thanks for the day just past and makes an evening sacrifice of praise to God (see Psalm 141:1). The Prayer begins with the Sign of the Cross, a request for God's assistance, and a doxology of praise. The introduction is followed by a hymn suited to the season or event.
vespers, evening prayer of thanksgiving and praise in Roman Catholic and certain other Christian liturgies. Vespers and lauds (morning prayer) are the oldest and most important of the traditional liturgy of the hours.
Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales (Ps. cxl is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv; cf. II, lix; also Cabrol, 1. c.).
Vespers (Evening Prayer) The psalms and canticles here are our own translation from the Latin.
Vespers (εσπερινός) is first service of the Daily Cycle of divine services celebrated in the Orthodox Church. Because the liturgical day begins at sunset, Vespers is traditionally served in the early evening. For many parishes, Vespers is the principal evening service. Services of the Orthodox Church.
Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales (Psalm 140 is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv; cf. II, lix; also Cabrol, l. c.).
Vespers transforms Sundays, which as Catholics, are to be the soul of the other days. But you have to choose it. I write of Vespers at St. Agnes for two reasons.