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  2. Canonical hours - Wikipedia

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    In the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches, the canonical hours may be referred to as the divine services, and the book of hours is called the horologion (Greek: Ὡρολόγιον). Despite numerous small differences in practice according to local custom, the overall order is the same among Byzantine Rite monasteries, although ...

  3. Byzantine Rite - Wikipedia

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    The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural, devotional, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian church of Constantinople.

  4. Eastern Catholic liturgy - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Byzantine Rite contains nine standard canonical hours, with these offices sometimes being referred to collectively as the "Divine Praises". The offices are contained within a liturgical book known as the Horologion. Vespers and Matins were the typical public daily liturgies prior to Latinizations–which reached their zenith among ...

  5. Liturgy of the Hours - Wikipedia

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    The Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia Horarum), Divine Office (Latin: Officium Divinum), or Opus Dei ("Work of God") are a set of Catholic prayers comprising the canonical hours, [a] often also referred to as the breviary, [b] of the Latin Church. The Liturgy of the Hours forms the official set of prayers "marking the hours of each day and ...

  6. Book of hours - Wikipedia

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    Books of hours (Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. [2] The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages , and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript .

  7. Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom - Wikipedia

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    As a divine liturgy of the Church of Holy Wisdom, Hagia Sophia, it became over time the usual divine liturgy in the churches within the Byzantine Empire. Just two divine liturgies (aside from the presanctified), those of Saints John and Basil the Great, became the norm in the Byzantine Church by the end of the reign of Justinian I. [1]

  8. All-night vigil - Wikipedia

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    A symbol of Typikon. The All-night vigil is a service of the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic churches consisting of an aggregation of the canonical hours of Compline (in Greek usage only), Vespers (or, on a few occasions, Great Compline), Matins, and the First Hour.

  9. Midnight office - Wikipedia

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    Moni Arkadiou (Arkadi Monastery). Candles in the church. The Midnight Office (Greek: Μεσονύκτικον, Mesonýktikon; Slavonic: Полу́нощница, Polúnoshchnitsa; Romanian: Miezonoptică) is one of the Canonical Hours that compose the cycle of daily worship in the Byzantine Rite.