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Worship services of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) include weekly services, held in meetinghouses on Sundays (or another day when local custom or law prohibits Sunday worship), in geographically based religious units (called wards or branches ). Once per month, this weekly service is a fast and testimony meeting.
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 ...
Church service. A church service (or a service of worship) is a formalized period of Christian communal worship, often held in a church building. Most Christian denominations hold church services on the Lord's Day (offering Sunday morning and Sunday evening services); a number of traditions have mid-week services, while some traditions worship ...
In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, canonical hours are also called officium, since it refers to the official prayer of the Church, which is known variously as the officium divinum ("divine service" or "divine duty"), and the opus Dei ("work of God"). The current official version of the hours in the Roman Rite is called the Liturgy of the ...
Lord's Day. 15th Station of the Cross: the Resurrection. Christian denominations teaching first-day Sabbatarianism, such as the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster, observe the Lord's Day as a day of worship and rest. In Christianity, the Lord's Day refers to Sunday, the principal day of communal worship. It is the first day of the week in the ...
From the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times have been taught, which traces itself to the Prophet David in Psalm 119:164. [6] In Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day, "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with ...
Vespers. Benedictine monks singing vespers on Holy Saturday. Vespers (from Latin vesper 'evening' [ 1]) is a liturgy of evening prayer, one of the canonical hours in Catholic (both Latin and Eastern Catholic liturgical rites ), Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran liturgies. The word for this prayer time comes from the Latin vesper ...
Depiction of early Christian worship in the Catacomb of Callixtus. The holding of church services pertains to the observance of the Lord's Day in Christianity. [18] The Bible has a precedent for a pattern of morning and evening worship that has given rise to Sunday morning and Sunday evening services of worship held in the churches of many Christian denominations today, a "structure to help ...