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The canonical hour of the vigil was said in the morning, followed immediately by lauds, and the name of "matins" replaced that of "vigils". Gradually the title "Lauds" was applied to the early morning office. [27] Already well-established by the 9th century in the West, these canonical hours consisted of daily prayer liturgies: Matins (nighttime)
Nones, also known as None ("Ninth"), the Ninth Hour, or the Midafternoon Prayer, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said around 3 pm (15:00), about the ninth hour after dawn. In the Roman Rite the Nones is one of the so-called Little hours.
In Christianity, the Little Hours or minor hours are the canonical hours other than the three major hours. [1]In the Syriac Orthodox Church and the Indian Orthodox Church, two denominations in Oriental Orthodox Christianity, these fixed prayer times are known as 3rd hour prayer (Tloth sho`in [9 am]), 6th hour prayer (Sheth sho`in [12 pm]), and 9th hour prayer (Tsha' sho`in [3 pm]).
The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day and sanctifying the day with prayer." [4] The term "Liturgy of the Hours" has been retroactively applied to the practices of saying the canonical hours in both the Christian East and West–particularly within the Latin liturgical rites–prior to the ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times has been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [12] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
The New Testament mentions the sixth hour in Matthew 20:5, and the ninth hour in Matthew 27:46. The Holy Ghost descends upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost at the third hour, Acts 2:15 . Some of these texts prove that these three hours were, in preference to others, chosen for prayer by the Christians , and probably also by the Jews, from ...
The Vespers Prayer – This is taken from the Canonical Book of Hours. In the liturgical context, the 9th, 11th, 12th and Veil hours are prayed. The Vespers Praises – This is taken from the Psalmody and is described in greater detail below. The Vespers Raising of Incense
The canonical hours adopted by Benedict and imposed by the Frankish kings were the office of matins in the wee hours of the night, [a] Lauds at dawn, Prime at the 1st hour of sunlight, Terce at the 3rd, Sext at the 6th, Nones at the 9th, [6] Vespers at sunset, [10] and Compline before retiring in complete silence. [11]