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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 ...
Revised Common Lectionary. The Revised Common Lectionary ( RCL) is a lectionary of readings or pericopes from the Bible for use in Christian worship, making provision for the liturgical year with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons. It was preceded by the Common Lectionary, assembled in 1983, itself preceded by the COCU ...
The Ordo Lectionum Missae (Known officially in English as Order of Readings for Mass [1] [2] [3] ), commonly referred to as OLM, is the main liturgical lectionary used in the Roman Catholic Church. It contains the designated Scripture readings for the celebration of the Mass of Paul VI, encompassing selections ( pericopes) from both the Old and ...
The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ. [1] [2] As defined by the Church at the Council of Trent, in the Mass "the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross, is present and offered ...
The Mass of Paul VI, also known as the Ordinary Form or Novus Ordo, [1] is the most commonly used liturgy in the Catholic Church.It was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969 and its liturgical books were published in 1970; those books were then revised in 1975, they were revised again by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and a third revision was published in 2002.
Matins (also Mattins) is a canonical hour in Christian liturgy, originally sung during the darkness of early morning. The earliest use of the term was in reference to the canonical hour, also called the vigil, which was originally celebrated by monks from about two hours after midnight to, at latest, the dawn, the time for the canonical hour of ...
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 9 ] It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization .
Mass is the main Eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity. The term Mass is commonly used in the Catholic Church, [ 1] Western Rite Orthodoxy, Old Catholicism, and Independent Catholicism. The term is also used in some Lutheran churches, [ 2][ 3] as well as in some Anglican churches, [ 4] and on rare occasion by ...