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By the time of Saint Benedict of Nursia, author of the Rule, the monastic Liturgy of the Hours was composed of seven daytime hours and one at night. He associated the practice with Psalm 118/119:164, "Seven times a day I praise you", and Psalm 118/119:62, "At midnight I rise to praise you". [ 22 ]
three short psalms, or, three pieces of longer psalms; if only one of the minor hours is said, it follows a variable psalmody which usually opens with part of the longest psalm, psalm 118/119; when all three are said this psalmody is used at one of the hours, while the other two follow the complementary psalmody which consists of 119/120–121/ ...
Saint Benedict assigns to Prime on Sundays four groups of eight verses of Ps. 118 (119), and on week-days three psalms, beginning with the first and continuing to Ps. 19 (20), taking three psalms each day (Pss. 9 (10) and 17 (18) being divided into two). This makes Prime like the other Little Hours of the day, which it resembles these in ...
When it first expanded its programming into prime time in April 1987, Fox became the first major broadcast network in the U.S. to offer a "common prime" schedule; this type of scheduling subtracts an hour from the prime time schedule, reducing it to two hours on Monday through Saturdays and three hours on Sundays – ending evening network ...
Whole hours on a 12-hour clock are expressed using the contracted phrase o'clock, from the older of the clock. [6] (10 am and 10 pm are both read as "ten o'clock".) Hours on a 24-hour clock ("military time") are expressed as "hundred" or "hundred hours". [7] (1000 is read "ten hundred" or "ten hundred hours"; 10 pm would be "twenty-two hundred".)
We are told to stay hydrated, yet we barely have time to use the bathroom, and Amazon’s 8- to 10-second stretch breaks typically disappear. I have to work extra hours and extra shifts ...
Freddie Mac reports an average 6.95% for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, down 1 basis point from last week's average 6.96%, according to its weekly Prime Mortgage Market Survey of nationwide ...
Today the average hours worked in the U.S. is around 33, [21] with the average man employed full-time for 8.4 hours per work day, and the average woman employed full-time for 7.9 hours per work day. [22] The front runners for lowest average weekly work hours are the Netherlands with 27 hours, [23] and France with 30 hours. [24]