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Catholic Book of Prayers: Popular Catholic Prayers Arranged for Everyday Use

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Some Reformed churches—notably the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the United Church of Christ—have published daily office books adapted from the ancient structure of morning and evening prayer in the Western church, usually revised for the purpose of inclusive language.

On great feast days preceded by a strict fast (Christmas, Epiphany, and Annunciation on a weekday), the Vigil commences with Great Compline rather than Vespers, with Vespers preceding Liturgy the previous day Patristic writings Many writings from the Church fathers are prescribed to be read at matins and, during great lent, at the hours; in practice, this is only done in some monasteries and frequently therein the abbot prescribes readings other than those in the written rubrics. therefore it is not customary to enumerate all the volumes required for this.

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Irmologion ( Greek: Ειρμολόγιον, Heirmologion; Church Slavonic: Ирмологий, Irmologii) – Contains the Irmoi chanted at the Canon of Matins and other services. In general, when modern secular books reference canonical hours in the Middle Ages, these are the equivalent times: Why an Evening Worship Service?". Christ United Reformed Church. 8 December 2010 . Retrieved 6 October 2020. Menaion, September". Богослужебные тексты ~ Liturgical Texts. Библиотека святоотеческой литературы ~ Library of Patristic Literature . Retrieved 28 May 2020. This is an abbreviated, redundant Vespers, preserving only the opening Psalm, four 'Lord, I call' verses, 'O Gladsome Light', the Prokimenon, 'Vouchsafe, O Lord', an Aposticha, the Nunc Dimmitis and Trisagion prayers, the troparion and a short litany. On great feast days preceded by a strict fast (see note below), a Vesperal Liturgy is said instead.

West Syriac Rite [ edit ] The Shehimo is a breviary used in Indian Orthodoxy and Syriac Orthodoxy to pray the canonical hours at fixed prayer times during the day while facing in the eastward direction. [57] Since 1906, most Presbyterians in the United States have used their own liturgical book, the Book of Common Worship. Its most recent edition was published in 1993. Certain Methodist parishes, such as Saint Paul's Free Methodist Church, offer a daily corporate praying of the canonical hours at church. [66] Reformed usage [ edit ]Epistle Book ( Greek: Απόστολος, Apostolos; Church Slavonic: Апостолъ, Apostol) – Contains the readings from the Epistles and the Acts of the Apostles (the Apocalypse is not read during Divine Services in the Orthodox Church). It also contains the Prokeimenon and Alleluia verses that are chanted with the readings. The Apostól is laid out in the same manner as the Evangélion, depending on whether the book was prepared for the Greek or Slavic usage. [e]

Menologion A collection of the lives of the saints and commentaries on the meaning of feasts for each day of the calendar year, also printed as 12 volumes, [note 4] appointed to be read at the meal in monasteries and, when there is an all-night vigil for a feast day, between Vespers and Matins. The Council of Trent, in its final session on 4 December 1563, entrusted the reform of the Breviary to the Pope. [44] On 9 July 1568, Pope Pius V, the successor of the pope who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal. [45] Later popes altered the Roman Breviary of Pope Pius V. Pope Pius XII began reforming the Roman Breviary, allowing use of a new translation of the psalms and establishing a special commission to study a general revision, with a view to which all the bishops were consulted in 1955. His successor, Pope John XXIII, made a further revision in 1960. The advent of Pietism and Rationalism led to a disdain for and a decline in the observation of liturgies of every sort in Lutheran Germany, including the Daily Office, as described in Paul Graff's Geschichte der Auflösung der alten gottesdienstlichen Formen in der evangelischen Kirche Deutschlands. Despite the disdain of these movements for the Daily Office, a Latin choir hymnal was published in Nuremberg as late as 1724, and weekday observations of Matins and Vespers continued in many German Lutheran parishes until the end of the 18th century. [59] Other official books are published by the member churches for the official use of their churches, such as the Lectionary, Book of Occasional Services, etc.As the Divine Office grew more important in the life of the Church, the rituals became more elaborate. Praying the Office already required various books, such as a Psalter for the psalms, a lectionary to find the assigned Scripture reading for the day, a Bible to proclaim the reading, a hymnal for singing, etc. As parishes grew in the Middle Ages away from cathedrals and basilicas, a more concise way of arranging the hours was needed. So, a sort of list developed called the breviary, which gave the format of the daily office and the texts to be used. During Great Lent, all of the services are offered on weekdays (except Saturday and Sunday) according to the following schedule: Since the early 20th century, revised editions of the Book of Common Prayer or supplemental service books published by Anglican churches have often added offices for midday prayer and Compline. In England and other Anglican provinces, service books now include four offices:

Psalter ( Greek: Ψαλτήριον, Psalterion; Church Slavonic: Ѱалтырь/ Ѱалтирь, Psaltyr'/ Psaltir') – A book containing the 150 Psalms divided into Kathismata [a] together with the Biblical Canticles which are chanted at Matins. [b] The Psalter is used at Vespers and Matins, [c] and normally contains tables for determining which Kathismata are to be read at each service, depending upon the day of the week and the liturgical season of the year. Pentecostarion (Greek: Πεντηκοστάριον, Pentekostarion; Slavonic: Цвѣтнаѧ Трїѡдь, Tsvetnaya Triod, literally "Flowery Triodon"; Romanian: Penticostar) This volume contains the propers for the period from Pascha to the Sunday of All Saints. This period can be broken down into the following periods: 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] The fixed-hour prayers came to be known as the "Divine Office" (office coming from 'officium', lit., "duty").In 1645, the Church of Scotland adopted the Directory for Public Worship, which was written by the Westminster Assembly and intended for use in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It was never translated into Scottish Gaelic. Further information: Matins in Lutheranism, Vespers in Lutheranism, For All the Saints: A Prayer Book for and by the Church, and The Brotherhood Prayer Book Archimandrite Robert F. Taft, S.J. (1988), "Mount Athos: A Late Chapter in the History of the Byzantine Rite", Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 42: 179–194, doi: 10.2307/1291596, JSTOR 1291596

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