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VESPERS (officium vespertinum)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 1052 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VESPERS (officium vespertinum)
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VESPERS (officium vespertinum) , in the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

liturgy, that See also:

PART

part of the daily See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office which follows none (nona) and precedes compline (completorium). In it the See also:

PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

Pater Noster, See also:

AVE, or FIRN

Ave Maria, See also:

Deus in Adjutorium, &c., are followed by five See also:

psalms and five antiphons, after which come the " little See also:

CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter," the hymn and the See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, which vary according to the See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, the Magnificat and its See also:

ANTIPHON

antiphon, and the appropriate collect. In its See also:

general features the use of this office can be traced back to a very See also:

early date both in the Eastern See also:

Church and in the Western. Vespers may be said or sung at any See also:

time after midday, and in some circumstances even before it.

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