About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 222. Chapters: Canonical hours, General Roman Calendar, Good Friday, Liturgy of the Hours, History of the Roman Canon, Altar (Catholicism), Passion (Christianity), Lent, Easter Vigil, Sacrament of Penance (Catholic Church), Vespers, Vesting Prayers, Matins, Text and rubrics of the Roman Canon, Rood screen, Liturgical book, Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Anointing of the Sick, Liturgical colours, Sunday, Exsultet, Easter Monday, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, Palm Sunday, Pre-Tridentine Mass, Trisagion, Dies Irae, Candle, Holy water, Liturgical drama, Pallium, Lectionary, Liturgical Movement, Lamb of God, Words of Institution, O antiphon, Elevation (liturgy), Great Jubilee, Holy water in Eastern Christianity, Fasting and abstinence in the Roman Catholic Church, Paschal Triduum, Altar server, Crosier, Translation (relic), Liturgical books of the Roman Rite, Latin liturgical rites, Roman Catholic funeral, Papal Mass, Rhythmical office, Kiss of peace, Ember days, Gospel (liturgy), Star boys' singing procession, Te Deum, Corpus Christi (feast), Ablution in Christianity. Excerpt: Canonical hours 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. Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday.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...
