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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFACE. Prayer is one of the principal duties, and one of the greatest consolations of a Christian life. Watch and pray, is a command of our Divine Saviour, which his true followers have never ceased to observe from the very origin of religion. When the fires of impious persecution prevented the erection of temples in which this homage could be solemnly paid to the God of infinite power and mercy, the Christian looked upon the universe as his temple. On sea and on land, in the desert and in the cultivated field, in the prisons of Rome as well as in the privacy of domestic retirement, did he offer the tribute of his praise. His prayer, like his faith, was known from one extremity of the earth tothe other. But, though the life of the primitive Christians was a continual prayer, there were certain periods more particularly appropriated to this holy exercise. Several fathers of the church make mention of the seven hours which are now termed canonical hours; and we learn from Cassian, that, in the monasteries of the East, the religious were assembled at six different times in the day for the purpose of chanting the praises of the Almighty. This holy practice of devoting a considerable time to prayer still subsists in the church, and her ministers are required, under a serious obligation, to recite daily the ecclesiastical office, commonly called the breviary, because it is an abridgment of the office formerly used, and is a summary, as it were, of the most instructive and edifying passages in the holy scripture and in the See Collet, 7Voe dc I'Offia Dimn. writings of the ancient fathers. It is distributed into seven portions, which, in Catholic countries, are chanted at different hours of the day. The object of the church, in establishing this discipline among her clergy, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217640367
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 66
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217640362
  • Publisher Date: 09 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 136 gr


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