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The General Instruction of the Liturgy of Hours in the Roman Rite states: "The public and communal prayer of the people of God is rightly considered among the first duties of the Church. From the very beginning the baptized 'remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers' (Acts ...
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (GIRM)—in the Latin original, Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (IGMR)—is the detailed document governing the celebration of Mass of the Roman Rite in what since 1969 is its normal form.
The General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours states that the invitatory and the versicle "invite the faithful to sing the praises of God, hear his voice and look forward to the 'Rest of the Lord'". [2] In the Matins or the office of readings versicles lead from the psalmody to the readings; [3] in the Little Hours they are the answer to ...
The Roman Catholic General Instruction for the Liturgy of the Hours; An explanation of First Vespers; Vespers in the Orthodox Church; Sunday Vespers in Latin and with Gregorian chant (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite) An Order for Methodist Evening Prayer Archived 2005-05-19 at the Wayback Machine (PDF) Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh
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 first part, "General Rubrics" (Rubricae generales), gives rules concerning liturgical days such as Sundays, vigils, feasts, octaves, and matters such as the colour of the sacred vestments. The second part, "General Rubrics of the Roman Breviary" ( Rubricae generales Breviarii Romani ), contains rubrics specific to the Roman Breviary.
In 2001, the Fifth Instruction for the Right Implementation of the Constitution on the Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council listed several more. [4] Liturgical books exist also for rare occasions, such as the Order of Rites for the Conclave and the Order of the Rites for the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome, issued in 2005.
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).