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The Daily Office is a term used primarily by members of the Episcopal Church. In Anglican churches, the traditional canonical hours of daily services include Morning Prayer (also called Matins or Mattins, especially when chanted) and Evening Prayer (called Evensong, especially when celebrated chorally), usually following the Book of Common Prayer.
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It contains the liturgical offices of the hours: Matins or Midnight Prayer (Midnight) Lauds or Dawn Prayer (Dawn) Prime or Early Morning Prayer (7 am) Terce or Mid-Morning Prayer (9 am) Sext or Midday Prayer (12 noon) None or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (3 pm) Vespers or Evening Prayer (6 pm) Compline or Night Prayer (9 pm)
The 1989 New Zealand Prayer Book provides different outlines for Mattins and Evensong on each day of the week, as well as "Midday Prayer", "Night Prayer", and "Family Prayer". In 1995, the Episcopal Church (United States) published the Contemporary Office Book in one volume with the complete psalter and all readings from the two-year Daily ...
The Church of England's publication Common Worship Daily Prayer contains this shorter form of Prayer for each day of the week, as well as the longer forms of Morning and Evening Prayer. [3] The Church of England's own literature outlines several different methods for its use, which correspond to the canonical hours of Terce , Sext , and None ...
In Anglican liturgy (and Lutherans, in their Matins services) the Preces or Responses refer to the opening and closing versicles and responses of Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer in the Book of Common Prayer and other more modern service books. The two prayer services each begin with the following. Priest: O Lord, open thou our lips:
In the Episcopal Church, the Morning Prayer office opens with an invitatory psalm, either the Venite (Psalm 95:1-7, or the entire psalm on Ash Wednesday, Holy Saturday, and all Fridays in Lent) or the Jubilate (Psalm 100). An invitatory antiphon may appear before, or before and after the invitatory psalm.
Vouchsafe, O Lord (Greek Καταξίωσον, Κύριε, Latin Dignare, Domine) are the initial words of a prayer from the Matins and Vespers service of the Eastern Orthodox, [citation needed] and the former Prime and Compline of the Roman and Eastern Catholic Churches, and for Matins and Vespers (or Morning and Evening Prayer) of the Anglican, Lutheran, and other liturgical Protestant churches.