About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 119. Chapters: Breviary, Noli me tangere, Canonical hours, Requiem, Vespers, Matins, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Compline, Book of hours, Dominican Rite, Russian Orthodox bell ringing, Carmelite Rite, None, Lauds, Prime, Acolouthia, Entrance, Alleluia, Office of the Dead, Euchologion, Terce, Te Deum, Matins Gospel, Canticle, Sext, Responsory, Midnight Office, Bright Week, Polyeleos, Litiy, Little Hours, Reform of the Roman Breviary by Pope Pius X, Kathisma, Misericord, Troparion, Axion Estin, Secret, Kontakion, Nocturns, Little Office of Our Lady, Typikon, All-night vigil, Benedictine Rite, Theos Kyrios, Artoklasia, Great Doxology, Proper, Katabasia, Usual beginning, Royal Hours, Ypakoe, Vexilla Regis, Menaion, Theotokion, Paschal Hours, Isabella Breviary, Cistercian Rite, Exapostilarion, Horologion, Megalynarion, Night Hours, Sticheron, Apolytikion, Norbertine Rite, Libera Me, Rerum Deus Tenax Vigor, Doxastikon, Aposticha, Inter-Hours, Irmos, Idiomelon, Blagovest, Vigils, Invitatory, Diurnum. Excerpt: Canonical hours or Nones are divisions of time which serve as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In western Catholicism, canonical hours may also be called offices, since they refer to the official set of prayer of the Roman Catholic Church that is known variously as the Divine Office (from the Latin officium divinum meaning "divine service" or "divine duty"), and the Opus Dei (meaning in Latin, "Work of God"). The current official version of the hours in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church is called the Liturgy of the Hours (Latin: Liturgia horarum) in North America or Divine Office in the British Isles. In th e Anglican tradition, they are often known as the Daily Office or Divine Office, to distinguish them from the other Offices of the Church. Chante...
