网页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, meaning "evening". [2]
网页Vespers (Evening Prayer) INTRODUCTION. O God, come to our aid. O Lord, make haste to help us. Glory be to the Father and to the Son. and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
网页Evening Prayer gives thanks for the day just past and makes an evening sacrifice of praise to God (see Psalm 141:1). The Prayer begins with the Sign of the Cross, a request for God's assistance, and a doxology of praise. The introduction is followed by a hymn suited to the season or event.
网页vespers, evening prayer of thanksgiving and praise in Roman Catholic and certain other Christian liturgies. Vespers and lauds (morning prayer) are the oldest and most important of the traditional liturgy of the hours.
网页Crown him, ye Martyrs of your God, Who from his altar call; Praise him whose way of pain ye trod, And crown him Lord of all. Hail him, ye heirs of David’s line, Whom David Lord did call; The God Incarnate, Man Divine, And crown …
网页Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales (Ps. cxl is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv; cf. II, lix; also Cabrol, 1. c.).
网页Vespers (the name means "evening") is designed to be recited in the evening, when the day's work is done. It is the Hour that is most often celebrated in church with a lay congregation, both in the Catholic and the Anglican churches: the Anglicans call it …