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In the West, 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 the will differ from the Byzantine in a number of ways). The practice of daily prayers grew from the Jewish practice of reciting prayers at set times of the day: for example, in the Book of Acts , Peter and John visit the Temple for the afternoon prayers (). Psalm 119 :164 states: "Seven times a day I praise you for your righteous laws." This practice is believed to have been passed down through the centuries from the . In 525 , St. Benedict Of Nursia wrote the first official western manual for praying the Hours. With the Cluniac reforms of the 11th century there was a new emphasis on liturgy and the canonical hours in the reformed Benedictine priories with the Abbey Of Cluny at their head. The Holy See did not issue an official Roman Breviary until the 11th Century , as part of the reforms that were designed to bring all the variant usages of Christian churches in the West into conformity. Already well-established by the Ninth Century , these canonical offices consisted of eight daily prayer events and three (or four) nightly divisions (called " Nocturns ", "watches," or " Vigils "). Building on the recitation of Psalms and Canticle s from Scripture , the Church has added (and, at times, subtracted) Hymn s, Hagiographical readings, and other prayers. The practice of observing canonical hours is maintained by many Churches, including the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and the Anglican communion. The remainder of this article is divided into three sections: the Catholic usage, the Anglican usage, and the Orthodox usage. DEVELOPMENT OF THE OFFICES Judaism and the Early Church As is noted above, the canonical hours stemmed from Jewish Prayer . In the Old Testament , God commanded the Israelite priests to offer sacrifices of animals in the morning and evening (). Eventually, these sacrifices soon moved from the Tabernacle to the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem . During the Babylonian Exile , when the Temple was no longer in use, the first Synagogue s were established, and the services (at fixed hours of the day) of Torah readings, Psalms , and hymns began to evolve. This "sacrifice of praise" began to be substituted for the sacrifices of animals. After the people returned to Judea , the prayer services were incorporated into Temple worship as well. As time passed, the Jews began to be scattered across the Greco-Roman world in what is known as the Diaspora . By the time of the Roman Empire , the Jews (and eventually early Christians) began to follow the Roman system of conducting the business day in scheduling their times for prayer. In Roman cities, the Bell in the Forum rang the beginning of the business day at about six o'clock in the morning ( Prime , the "first hour"), noted the day's progress by striking again at about nine o'clock in the morning ( Terce , the "third hour"), tolled for the lunch break at noon ( Sext , the "sixth hour"), called the people back to work again at about three o'clock in the afternoon ( None , the "ninth hour"), and rang the close of the business day at about six o'clock in the evening (the time for evening prayer). The first miracle of the apostles, the healing of the crippled man on the temple steps, occurred because Peter and John went to the Temple to pray (). Also, one of the defining moments of the early Church, the decision to include Gentiles among the community of believers, arose from a vision Peter had while praying at noontime (). As Christianity began to separate from Judaism , the practice of praying at fixed times continued. The early church was known to pray the Psalms (), which has remained a part of the canonical hours and all Christian prayer since. By 60 AD, the Didache , the oldest known liturgical manual for Christians, recommended disciples to pray the Lord's Prayer three times a day; this practice found its way into the canonical hours as well. Pliny The Younger ( 63 - ca. 113 ), who was not a Christian himself, mentions not only fixed times of prayer by believers, but also specific services—other than the Eucharist—assigned to those times: “they met on a stated day before it was light, and addressed a form of prayer to Christ, as to a divinity ... after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble, to eat in common a harmless meal. .”Pliny the Younger, ''Epistulae'', Book X, Letter xcvii . By the second and third centuries, such Church Fathers as Clement Of Alexandria , Origen , and Tertullian wrote of the practice of Morning and Evening Prayer, and of the prayers at terce, sext, and none. The prayers could be prayed individually or in groups. By the third century, the Desert Fathers (the earliest monks), began to live out St. Paul's command to "pray without ceasing" () by having one group of monks pray one fixed-hour prayer while having another group pray the next prayer. Middle Ages As the format of unbroken fixed-hour prayer developed in the Christian monastic communities in the East and West, longer prayers soon grew, but the cycle of prayer became the norm in daily life in Monasteries . By the fourth century, the characteristics of the canonical hours more or less took their present shape. For secular (non-monastic) clergymen and lay people, the fixed-hour prayers were by necessity much shorter. In many churches and basilicas staffed by monks, the form of the fixed-hour prayers was a hybrid of secular and monastic practice. In the East, the development of the Divine Services shifted from the area around Jerusalem to Constantinople . In particular, St. Theodore The Studite (ca. 758 - ca. 826 ) combined a number of influences from the Byzantine court ritual with monastic practices common in Asia Minor , and added thereto a number of hymns composed by himself and his brother Joseph (see Typicon for further details). In the West, St. Benedict in his famous Rule modeled his guidelines for the prayers on the customs of the Basilica s of Rome . It was he who expounded the concept in Christian prayer of the inseparability of the spiritual life from the physical life. St. Benedict was known to have said "''Orare est laborare, laborare est orare''" ("To pray is to work, to work is to pray"). Thus, the fixed-hour prayers came to be known as the "Divine Office" (office coming from the Latin word for work). The Benedictines began to call the prayers the ''Opus Dei'' or "Work of God." As the Divine Office grew more important in the life of the Church, the rituals became more elaborate. Soon, praying the Office began to require 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 Parish es grew in the Middle Ages away from Cathedral s 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. The spread of breviaries eventually reached Rome, where Pope Innocent III extended its use to the Roman Curia . The Franciscans sought a one-volume breviary for its Friar s to use during travels, so the Order adopted the '' Breviarium Curiae '', but substituting the Gallican (French) Psalter for the Roman. The Franciscans gradually spread this breviary throughout Europe . Pope Nicholas III would then adopt the widely-used Franciscan breviary to be the breviary used in Rome. By the 14th Century , the breviary contained the entire text of the canonical hours. ROMAN RITE SINCE THE COUNCIL OF TRENT Texts Revision by Pope Pius V The , 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 and using language very similar to that in the bull '' Quo Primum '' with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding, for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: "No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition. Should anyone, however, presume to commit such an act, he should know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul." In Defense of the Pauline Mass Further revision before the Second Vatican Council Later Popes altered the Roman Breviary of Pope Pius V. . Pope Pius XII also 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 Catholic bishops were consulted in 1955 . His successor, Pope John XXIII , made a further revision in 1960 . Revision following the Second Vatican Council Following the Second Vatican Council , the Catholic Church's Roman Rite simplified the observance of the canonical hours and sought to make them more accessible to the laity, hoping to restore their character as the prayer of the entire Church. The Council itself abolished the office of Prime. In the succeeding revision, the character of Matins was changed so that it could be used at any time of the day as an office of Scriptural and hagiographical readings. Furthermore, the period over which the entire Psalter is recited has been expanded from one week to four. What was called the Roman Breviary is now published under the name " 6-34). Extracts from these English translations (omitting in particular the Office of Readings) have also been published, including "Christian Prayer", based on the first, and "Daily Prayer", based on the second. Current practice Clergy are required by and Constitution s. The Second Vatican Council also exhorted the Christian laity to take up the practice, and as a result, many lay people have begun reciting portions of the Liturgy of the Hours. Current Roman Catholic usage focuses on three major hours and from two to four minor hours:
The major hours The major hours consist of the Office of Readings, Morning (or Lauds ) and Evening Prayer (or Vespers ). The Office of Readings consists of:
The character of Morning Prayer is that of praise; of Evening Prayer, that of thanksgiving. Both follow the same format:
The minor hours The Daytime Hours follow a simpler format, like a very compact form of the Office of Readings:
Night prayer has the character of preparing the soul for its passage to eternal life:
In each office, the psalms and canticle are framed by Antiphon s, and each concludes with the traditional Catholic Doxology . Liturgical variation In addition to the basic four-week cycle of praying nearly the entire set of Psalms with each of the canonical hours, the Church also provides an alternate collection of hymns, readings, psalms, canticles and antiphons, for use in marking specific dates on the Roman Calendar , which sets out the order of celebrations for the Liturgical Year . These alternate selections are found in the 'Proper of Seasons' (selections for Advent , Christmas , Lent and Easter ), and the 'Proper of Saints' (selections for Feast Days of the Saints). A Breviary is generally keyed to help the user navigate these overlays in the liturgy. EASTERN ORTHODOX AND GREEK-CATHOLIC USAGE Historical Development From the 4th Century on, the history of the eastern Office is parallel with the development of monasticism. In his ''Lausaic History'', Palladius (b. 368 , died probably before 431 ), Bishop of Helenopolis, records that the early Christian Hermits not only prayed the Psalms , but also sang hymns and recited prayers (often in combinations of twelve).''Lausaic History'', Chap. 19, etc. With the rise of Cenobitic monasticism (i.e., living in a Community under an Abbot , rather than as solitary hermits), the cycle of prayer became more fixed and complex, with different ritual practices in different places. Egeria , a pilgrim who visited the Holy Land about 381 - 384 , recorded the following about the Canonical Hours: But among all things it is a special feature that they arrange that suitable psalms and antiphons are said on every occasion, both those said by night, or in the morning, as well as those throughout the day, at the sixth hour, the ninth hour, or at lucernare, all being so appropriate and so reasonable as to bear on the matter in hand. (XXV, 5) Tr. Louis Duchesme, ''Christian Worship'' (London, 1923). The standardization of Byzantine Orthodox worship began with Saint Sabbas The Sanctified ( 439 - 532 ), who recorded the Office as it was practiced at his time in the area around Jerusalem, passing on what had been handed down to him by St. Euthymius the Great ( 377 - 473 ) and St. Theoktistos (c. 467 ). This area was at the time a major center of both pilgrimage and monasticism, and as a result the daily cycle of services became highly developed. St. Sophronios , Patriarch of Jerusalem ( 560 - 638 ) revised the Typicon, and the material was then expanded by St. John Damascene (c. 676 - 749 ). This ordering of services was later known as the '' Jerusalem '' or ''Sabbaite Typicon ''. Later, in the 8th Century , the center of liturgical development moved to Constantinople, particularly to the Monastery of the Stoudios , where the services were further developed and sophisticated, in particular with regard to Great Lent and the Pentecostarion . It is in this form that the Typicon is used today in most Slavic churches. In the 19th Century the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople made a number of revisions and modernizations to the Typicon and published it for use in churches under its jurisdiction. This revised Typicon, known as the ''The Ecclesiastical Typikon according to the Style of the Great Church of Christ - Τύπικον της εκκλησιάστικον κατα το ηυχος της του Χριστού Μεγάλης Εκκλήσιας/Tupikon Ekklisiastikon kata to ifos tis tou Christou Megalis Ekklisias'' (Konstantinos Protopsaltis, Constantinople, 1839), is in use in most Greek-speaking churches to this day. The Divine Services used by Eastern Christians are highly developed and quite complex. The various cycles combine so that it is infrequent for the exact same combination to reoccur within one person's lifetime. In addition to this, new services are being composed all the time as new Saints are being Glorified in the Church. While being inexorably rooted in Sacred Tradition , the cycle of prayer is a living and continuously evolving expression of the timeless worship of the Church. Liturgical Books The ''' and Eastern Catholic churches. Into this fixed framework, numerous moveable parts of the service are inserted. These are taken from a variety of liturgical books:
Liturgical Cycles Various cycles of the liturgical year influence the manner in which the materials from the liturgical books (above) are inserted into the daily services:
The Weekly Cycle also determines which Kathismata (selections from the Psalter ) will be read at the Divine Services, though the season of the liturgical year also affects this. During most of the year, the entire Psalter is read through in the course of a week, but during Great Lent, the Psalter is read twice each week.
The Daily Cycle of Services The Daily Cycle begins with Vespers at sunsetIn accordance with Old Testament practice, the day is considered to begin in the evening (Genesis 1:5). and proceeds throughout the night and day according to the following table:
During the Lesser Fasts (Nativity Fast, Apostles Fast, Dormition Fast) in addition to the services listed above, each of the Little Hours (First, Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours) has a special brief service appended to it called an Inter-Hour. Inter-Hours follow much the same format as the regular Hours, only they are slightly briefer. In Cathedral s and Monasteries it is more common to find someone present at the church praying these prayers at each of these hours. In many, chiefly Slavic, churches, the Third and Sixth Hours are read prior to the Divine Liturgy ; however, among the Greeks and Arabs, Liturgy is usually preceded by Orthros ( Matins ). There is usually little or no pause between the end of one and the beginning of the next. and the five Canonical hours, based on the example on the Bewcastle Cross. There are seven Canonical Hours in the Orthodox Church (excluding Midnight Office), in accordance with the psalmist, "Seven times a day will I praise Thee..." (Psalm 118:164 [ LXX ]). The and is therefore read in parishes at that time. Aggregates According to the Slavonic Typicon, the different Canonical Hours (including Midnight Office and Typica) may be grouped together into aggregates so that there are three major times of prayer a day: Evening, Morning and Midday. This is to conform with Psalm 54:19, "Evening, morning, and noonday will I tell of it and will declare it, and He will hear my voice." While the aggregations will vary depending upon the liturgical season, the most common groupings are as follows:
On the eves before Great Feasts and Sunday s in some traditions, Vespers, Matins, and the First Hour are served together in an aggregation called the All-Night Vigil . In other traditions it is more common for the Ninth Hour and Vespers to be served separately the evening before, and for Matins to be served in the morning before the Liturgy. Some Great Feasts prescribe a Vesperal Divine Liturgy to be served on the afternoon before; in these cases, Great Compline is substituted for Vespers during the All-night Vigil. In addition to these public prayers, there are also private prayers which are said both by monastics and by laypersons. These include Morning and Evening Prayers (said privately in one's room), '' Canons '' to be prayed in preparation for receiving the Eucharist , and also devotional Akathist hymns and canons regarding specific subjects, and which may be addressed directly to God or to a saint, asking that saint to convey the petitions to God. Devotional canons and akathists may also be inserted at specific points in the prayers of the hours. ORIENTAL ORTHODOX USAGE Coptic Usage The Coptic cycle of canonical hours is largely monastic, primarily composed of psalm readings. The Coptic equivalent of the Byzantine ''Horologion'' is the ''Agpeya''. Seven canonical hours exist, corresponding largely to the Byzantine order, with an additional "Prayer of the Veil" which is said by Bishops, Priests, and Monks (something like the Byzantine Midnight Office ). The Coptic terms for 'Matins' and 'Vespers' are 'The Morning Raising of Incense' and 'The Evening Raising of Incense' respectively. The hours are chronologically laid out, each containing a theme corresponding to events in the life of Jesus Christ:
:Terce and Sext are prayed before each Divine Liturgy.
:Vespers and Compline are both read before the Liturgy during Lent and the fast of Nineveh.
Every one of the Hours follows the same basic outline:
Syrian Usage East Syrian , s.v., East Syrian Rite The East Syrian Rite (also known as the Chaldean, Assyrian, or Persian Rite) has historically been used in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Malabar . The nucleus of the Daily Office is of course the recitation of the Psalter. There are only three regular hours of service (Evening, Midnight, and Morning), with a rarely used Compline. When East Syrian monasteries existed (which is no longer the case) seven hours of prayer were the custom in them, and three ''hulali'' (sections) of the Psalter were recited at each service. This would accomplish the unique feat of the common recitation of the entire Psalter each day. The present arrangement provides for seven ''hulali'' at each ferial night service, ten on Sundays, three on "Memorials", and the whole Psalter on Feasts of the Lord. At the evening service there is a selection of from four to seven psalms, varying with the day of the week, and also a ''Shuraya'', or short psalm, with generally a portion of Psalm 118 , varying with the day of the fortnight. At the morning service the invariable psalms are 109, 90, 103:1-6, 112, 92, 148, 150, 116. On ferias and "Memorials" Psalm 146 is said after Psalm 148, and on ferias Psalm 1:1-18, comes at the end of the psalms. The rest of the services consist of prayers, antiphons, litanies, and verses (''giyura'') inserted—like the Greek Stichera , but more extensively—between verses of psalms. On Sundays the Gloria In Excelsis and Benedicte are said instead of Psalm 146. Both morning and evening services end with several prayers, a blessing, (''Khuthama'', "Sealing" ), the kiss of peace, and the Creed. The variables, besides the psalms, are those of the feast or day, which are very few, and those of the day of the fortnight. These fortnights consist of weeks called "Before" (''Qdham'') and "After" (''Wathar''), according to which of the two choirs begins the service. Hence the book of the Divine Office is called ''Qdham u wathar'', or at full length ''Kthawa daqdham wadhwathar'', the "Book of Before and After". The East Syrian liturgical Calendar is unique. The year is divided into periods of about seven weeks each, called ''Shawu'i''; these are Advent (called ''Subara'', "Annunciation"), Epiphany, Lent, Easter, the Apostles, Summer, "Elias and the Cross", "Moses", and the "Dedication" (''Qudash idta''). "Moses" and the "Dedication" have only four weeks each. The Sundays are generally named after the ''Shawu'a'' in which they occur, "Fourth Sunday of Epiphany", "Second Sunday of the Annunciation ", etc., though sometimes the name changes in the middle of a ''Shawu'a''. Most of the "Memorials" (''dukhrani''), or saints' days, which have special lections, occur on the Fridays between Christmas and Lent, and are therefore movable feasts; but some, such as Christmas , Theophany , the Dormition , and about thirty smaller days without proper readings, are on fixed days. There are four shorter fasting periods besides the Great Lent ; these are:
The Fast of the Ninevites commemorates the repentance of Nineveh at the preaching of Jonas, and is carefully kept. Those of Mar Zaya and the Virgins are nearly obsolete. The Malabar Rite has largely adopted the Roman Calendar, and several Roman days have been added to that of the Chaldean Catholics. The Chaldean Easter coincides with that of the Eastern Orthodox Church, as the Julian Calendar is used to calculate Easter. The years are numbered, not from the birth of Christ, but from the Seleucid Era (year 1 = 311 B.C.). West Syrian , aticle in the Catholic Encyclopedia The West Syrian Rite, used in Syria by the Syriac Orthodox (Jacobites) and Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language. The translation must have been made very early, evidently before the division in the church over Chalcedon , before the influence of Constantinople over the Antiochian Rite had begun. No doubt as soon as Christian communities arose in the rural areas of Syria the prayers which in the cities (Antioch, Jerusalem, etc.) were said in Greek, were, as a matter of course, translated into Syriac for common use. In accordance with Psalm 119 :164, “Seven times in the day have I praised Thee for Thy judgments, O Righteous One,” the Syriac Orthodox Church observes seven services of prayer each day:
The Midnight prayer (Matins) consists of three ''qawme'' or "watches" (literarily "standings"). As in other traditional rites, the ecclesiastical day begins in the evening at sunset with Vespers (''Ramsho''). Today, even in monasteries, the services are grouped together: Vespers and Compline are said together; Matins and Prime are said together; and the Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours are said together; resulting in three times of prayer each day. The Syriac Orthodox Book of Hours is called the ''Shhimo'', "simple prayer." The ''shhimo'' has offices for the canonical hours for each day of the week. Each canonical office begins and ends with a ''qawmo'', a set of prayers that includes the Lord's Prayer . At the end of the office, the Nicene Creed is recited. The great part of the office consists of lengthy liturgical poems composed for the purpose, similar to the Byzantine Odes . Armenian Usage The Daily Services in the Armenian Church are made up of nine services. The daily cycle of prayer begins with the Night Service, according to the ancient belief that a new day begins at nightfall. The Night Service (midnight) Dedicated to the praising of God The Father . Themes of the service are: thanksgiving to God for the blessing of sleep and asking that the remainder of the night pass in peace and tranquility, and that the next day be spent in purity and righteousness. The Morning Service (dawn) Dedicated to the praising of God The Son . Symbolizes the Resurrection of Christ and his appearance to the Myrrh-bearing Women . The Sunrise Service (6:00 a.m.)Originally, the Sunrise Service was joined to the Morning Service. Dedicated to the praising of the Holy Spirit . Symbolizes the appearance to Christ to the disciples after the Resurrection. The Third Hour (9:00 a.m.) Dedicated to the Holy Spirit. Symbolizes Eve’s original tasting the forbidden fruit and eventual liberation from condemnation through Jesus Christ. The service has a profound penitential meaning. The Sixth Hour (noon) Dedicated to God the Father. Symbolizes Christ’s Crucifixion. The prayers at the service ask for God’s help towards feeble human nature. The Ninth Hour (3:00 p.m.) Dedicated to God the Son. Symbolizes Christ’s death and liberation of humanity from the power of the Hell. The Evening Service (before sunset) Dedicated to God the Son. Symbolizes Christ’s burial, asks God for a quiet night and a peaceful sleep. The Peace Service (after sunset) Dedicated to the Holy Spirit. Symbolizes Christ’s descent into Hell and liberation of the righteous from torments. The Rest Service (before retiring for sleep) Dedicated to God the Father. In early times it was the continuation of the Peace Service. In ancient times all nine services were offered every day, especially in monasteries. At present the following services are conducted in churches daily for the majority of the year:
During Great Lent , all of the services are offered on weekdays (except Saturday and Sunday) according to the following schedule:
The book which contains the hymns which constitute the substance of the musical system of Armenian liturgical chant is the ''Sharagnots'' (see Armenian Octoechos ), a collection of hymns known as ''Sharakan''. Originally, these hymns were Psalms and biblical Canticles that were chanted during the services, similar to the Byzantine Canon . In addition, the eight modes are applied to the psalms of the Night office, called ''ganonaklookh'' (Canon head). ANGLICAN USAGE The Book Of Common Prayer and its contemporary descendents constitutes the basis of the liturgy for Anglicans and Anglican Use Roman Catholics, which is variously known as "Daily Prayer", "the Daily Office", or "the Divine Office". All Anglican prayer books contain offices for Morning Prayer ( Matins ) and Evening Prayer (Evensong). In many, if not most Anglican formularies, these offices are supplemented by forms of the Little Hours , for example, Prayer at Midday or Prayer during the Day (based on Terce , Sext , None ) and Compline ). Some books, such as the proposed 1928 Church of England Prayer Book and A Melanesian English Prayer Book, contain an order for Prime . In England, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other Anglican provinces, the prayer book contains four offices:
In addition, most prayer books include a section of prayers and devotions for family use. In the US, these offices are further supplemented by an "Order of Worship for the Evening," a prelude to or an abbreviated form of Evensong, also partly taken from a Jewish Lucernaria service. In the United Kingdom, the publication of ''Daily Prayer'', the third volume of Common Worship was published in 2005 . It retains the services for Morning and Evening Prayer and Compline, and also includes a section entitled "Prayer during the Day." The 1989 A New Zealand Prayer Book provides different outlines for Matins and Evensong on each day of the week, as well as "Midday Prayer," "Night Prayer," and "Family Prayer." The prayer offices have an important place in Anglican history. Prior to the Catholic Revival of the nineteenth century, which eventually restored Holy Eucharist as the principal Sunday liturgy, Matins and Evensong were the usual expressions of common worship. This nurtured a tradition of distinctive Anglican Plainsong applied to the Canticle s and Psalm s used at the offices. Some Anglican monastic communities have a Daily Office based on that of the Book of Common Prayer but with additional antiphons, canticles, etc., for specific days of the week, specific Psalms, etc. See, for example, publishes Celebrating Common Prayer, which has become especially popular for use among Anglicans. Some Anglo-Catholic groups use the Anglican Breviary , which is an adaptation of the Pre-Vatican II Roman Rite and Sarum Rite , along with supplemental material from cognate western sources, to provide such things as a common of Octaves, a common of Holy Women, and other additional material. It contains all eight historic offices in one volume, rather than the traditional four, but does not contain the Little Office Of The Blessed Virgin Mary , which was bound along with many editions of the ''Breviarium Romanum''. MUSLIM PRAYERS Muslims still use a modified definition of canonical hours when they pray five times a day. Their prayer ( Salah ) times are Salat Al-Fajr , Salat Al-Zuhr , Salat Al-Asr , Salat Al-Maghrib and Salat Al-Isha . NOTES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS Roman Rite
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