How To Use Vespers In A Sentence
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There are the bouquets of roses on Mother's Day, and the standing ovation she received during a Greek Week vespers service.
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
The Station at St Paul
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In the "Antiphonary of Bangor", an Irish document of the sixth century, Vespers are called hora duodecima, which corresponds to six o'clock in the evening, or hora incensi, or again ad cereum benedicendum.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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This is another example of a long hymn broken up into shorter ones for use at the various Office hours of a particular feast or season; the Ut queant laxis section about the first third of the hymn is used at Vespers; the Antra deserti teneris sub annis section is used at Matins; and the O nimis felix, meritique celsi section is used at Lauds.
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Every soul within the enclave came dutifully to Vespers, and supper in the guest-hall as in the refectory was a devout and tranquil feast.
The Pilgrim of Hate
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His religious conversion came on Christmas Eve, when he went to Notre Dame during vespers in search of what he called ‘decadent exercises’: the quasi-religious tropes of which the symbolist poets were fond.
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The lights were on in the church, and the choir was making last-minute preparations for Christmas vespers.
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The office is a pattern of nonsacramental prayer services that are celebrated at regular times of the day or night, primarily lauds in the morning and vespers at night.
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Lady's office, of the psalms in the office for the dead, of the gradual and seven penitential psalms, and of the psalms sung at vespers and complin, is excellent.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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In 1243 a Ferrara writer was at Padua, and while attending vespers at the tomb where the sainted body of the Minorite
Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
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Among the community of iPhone developers it is a reasonably safe bet that not too many of them wear wimples and sing vespers on a regular basis, which makes Sister Catherine Wybourne who tweets as @Digitalnun, Benedictine nun, HTML coder and now iPhone developer, something of special case.
How Many iPhone Developers Wear Wimples?
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The persons who take part in a Solemn Mass or Vespers are named as follows: The priest who says or celebrates the Mass is called the celebrant; those who assist him as deacon and sub-deacon are called the ministers; those who serve are called acolytes, and the one who directs the ceremonies is called the master of ceremonies.
Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
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These "vespers," said the spokesman, usher in the start of "the Newman event.
EWTNews - 7/29/2010
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Half an hour after supper was read a brief evening service called vespers, and then the boys 'study hours commenced.
Hector's Inheritance, Or, the Boys of Smith Institute
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He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones.
Là-bas
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She and a friend go to Sunday morning services, share a leisurely lunch they bring from home, and afterwards attend the vespers.
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At prime, tierce, sext, none, vespers, complin, and the midnight office, they daily sung the whole psalter, which every sister was obliged to know by heart.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Neckar breeze, laid down his awl and went to "vespers," -- a "maas" of cool beer and a "pretzel.
Doctor Claudius, A True Story
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(At S. John Lateran's the Cardinals assist at Vespers, and afterwards venerate the relics preserved there) At night the cupola is illuminated, and on the following night there are fireworks or _girandola_ at Castle S. Angelo.
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
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After hearing the complin vespers in the temporary chapel fitted up in that unfinished abbey of Westminster, which occupied the site of the temple of Apollo [53], the King and his guests repaired to their evening meal in the great hall of the palace.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
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It is now ready for on-line viewing, minus the Vespers and one motet but it still comes in at 200 pages.
Colloquium Packet (Prelim) is done (for now)
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One evening following vespers mass, Emmanuelle robed and veiled all in black so that she remained completely incognito stepped into the dark confessional, knowing Father Connor was on the opposite side.
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The chants set were Vespers responsories, Mass graduals, and alleluias, and perhaps some processional antiphons.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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Throughout the 1770s, nevertheless, dramatic works took second place to liturgical demands, including mass settings of increasing intensity, litanies, vespers, and a series of church sonatas.
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After vespers and meditation the monks sit down to evening supper which is eaten in silence while they listen to readings from scripture.
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The most valuable aspect of this section of the book is his exploration of other contemporary collections of music for vespers.
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There was also what they call vespers at night which went for an hour or two hours, so you were actually in session for a minimum of four hours every day, more likely five or six hours every day.
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Note: the Vespers service, one Psalm, and one motet are missing, so the packet will be more than 200 pages once complete.
Colloquium Packet (Prelim) is done (for now)
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For instance, here's the "grail"-Verse/Response pair for Thursday Vespers in the Octave of Easter.
Office Hymns of the Octave of Easter
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Another class of sacred song in exactly the same style as the Sicilian conductus has a text wherein were introduced the closing words of Matins, Lauds, and Vespers: ‘Benedicamus Domino’, ‘Deo gratias’.
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In the past it was broken into three hymns, Aurora lucis rutilat, Tristes erant Apostoli, and Claro Paschali gaudio, which were altered by Pope Urban VIII to Aurora caelum purpurat (Lauds), Tristes erant Apostoli (Vespers and Matins for Apostles and Evangelists in Eastertide), and Paschale mundo gaudium (Lauds for Apostles and Evangelists in Eastertide).
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The official celebration of the saint's feast day began the evening before at vespers and was followed by an early morning mass in the baptistery.
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During vespers one day, the crucifix lit up and a voice spoke: ‘Francis, do you not see how my house is falling into ruin?’
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
The Station at St Paul
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Without warning or presage the still evening air was smitten and made softly musical by the pealing of a distant chime, calling vespers to its brothers in Antwerp's hundred belfries; and one by one, far and near, the responses broke out, until it seemed as if the world must be vibrant with silver and brazen melody; until at the last the great bells in the
The Black Bag
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In a more vigorous vein he wrote some church music, including a Mass in the old style and the famous music for Vespers on feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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As to a dear friend Mother Church bids farewell to her beloved Alleluia on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday, when at the end of Vespers the acclamation is sung twice after the Benedicamus Domino and the choir responds with its twofold repetition following the Deo gratias.
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As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.
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In addition to these morning Masses, catechism was taught at three o'clock in the afternoon and early evening services at six-thirty featured Vespers and Benediction.
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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Approaching the monastery on a Friday evening, we turned south instead of north and arrived too late for vespers.
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Gurth and Harold were seated in close commune in the Earl's chamber, at an hour long after the complin (or second vespers), when Alred entered unexpectedly.
Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 10
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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Also, we are given only the "vespers" portion of the Rachmaninoff
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a vain spectacle, to ceremonies: going to mass, the sermon and vespers, which is all very well; but confession, the communion, fasting, doing without meat, is not common anywhere ....
The Modern Regime, Volume 1
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Some distant bell tolled the hour of Vespers, causing an expression of immense relief to come over Stephen's face.
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After their meal they retire to their caves and cells for the rest of the day, emerging only to sing lauds, vespers and compline at the appointed times.
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The rhythm of my days goes slower now: matins and lauds, vespers and compline.
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Morning and evening prayer are structured after the traditional offices of lauds and vespers.
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Very few people, even inside the church, know what vespers really means.
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More recently, I watched as seminarians filed into the main chapel on a Sunday afternoon to sing vespers.
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This will be a male choir which will meet on a Thursday evening in St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, for sung Latin Vespers and rehearsal with half a dozen chanted Masses spread among the deaneries each year.
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All that stayed with me after Keane was an unhappy impression of all-abiding tonal uniformity in the hush-tone vespers of dialogues, unhandsome, shallow mise-en-scène, and rigidly adhered-to aesthetic tenets.
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In the traditional Roman Rite, this Psalm was sung each Sunday night at Vespers, and it has a special tone that is normally reserved for it alone: the tonus peregrinus, or "pilgrim tone," music well suited to this Psalm of the wandering of God's People in their search for the Holy Land.
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But … throughout Lent, through the poetic piercing stanzas of the Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete and in the presanctified liturgies and Vespers services always ending every service was the Lenten prayer of St. Ephrem the Syrian:
Stones Cry Out
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Vespers, that is, the capitulum, hymn, antiphon of the "Magnificat", is taken from the Sanctorale.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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All - Night Vigil , Op. 37, Vespers: Bless the Lord, O my soul.
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Conditor alme siderum is an anonymous text from the 7th century used at Vespers during Advent.
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With the household interns we observe the ancient practice of fixed-hour prayer, keeping whenever possible four offices each day: morning prayers, midday prayers, vespers, and compline.
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He came from hearing vespers in his chapel, and shut himself early into his private chamber.
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So while we all have our own jobs, and interests, we come together for dinners, for vespers, for music and art and activism, and just because we like each other.
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This very brief Vespers is already found in the Compiègne antiphonary, a manuscript of the ninth century; but inasmuch as an analogous rite is also found in the Ambrosian Easter vigil, it is probably much older.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 6.2 - Holy Saturday and the Blessing of the Font, Litany of the Saints, Mass and Vespers
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'vespers' for the benefit of some twenty hearers, mostly women in black.
The History of David Grieve
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The office is a pattern of nonsacramental prayer services that are celebrated at regular times of the day or night, primarily lauds in the morning and vespers at night.
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In his homily, he took up the words of Pope Benedict's homily at Solemn Vespers on the occasion of the conclusion of the Pauline Year highlighted on the NLM, and exhorted the new priests to be committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith.
Ordinations in Toledo
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On the day I saw the exhibit, this hand-copied book was open to the Magnificat antiphon for Vespers on Septuagesima Sunday.
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The Magnificat antiphon for 2d Vespers from the Discalced Carmelite usage:
23 January -- Festa in Desponsatione Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
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a psalm (like our antiphons), which introduces a sticheron, or hymn sung at Matins and Vespers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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She also includes excellent hymn suggestions for vespers.
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We then proceeded to learn chant for the reformed Roman rite and in the evening, we gathered for first Vespers of the Baptism of the Lord, using the new antiphons from the Solesmes antiphonal and the responsory, 'Hodie in Iordane'.
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge's Winter Weekend
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Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
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What did I, a lapsed Episcopalian, know about vespers?
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As I mentioned, last night there were three singers the choir - two basses and a soprano - off singing in a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers.
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In 1282 a popular uprising known as the Sicilian Vespers ended the subsequent French rule.
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He went to a Catholic school, he did his vespers, he did his mass, he did his religious studies, but he lost his faith.
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The daily liturgical cycle began in the evening with vespers, following the Jewish reckoning by which the day begins at sunset.
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As I mentioned, last night there were three singers the choir - two basses and a soprano - off singing in a performance of the Rachmaninov Vespers.
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The Cecilian Vespers are comprised of five psalm settings with their accompanying antiphons.
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This prose or "conductus", however, was not a part of the office, but only a preliminary to Vespers sung while the procession of subdeacons moved from the church door to the choir.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Vespers consists of five psalms with their antiphons as usual, and the Magnificat, with an antiphon from the Gospel of the day.
Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 5 - Tenebrae and the Divine Office of the Triduum
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Most importantly they had to pray seven times a day from the matins in the early morning to the vespers in the evening.
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In St. Benedict we find the name vespera which has prevailed, whence the French word vêpres and the English vespers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
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After vespers, that is to say half-past seven in the evening, the police regulations prohibit any woman from appearing in the streets dressed in the saya.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
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The ancient Roman rite knew nothing — properly speaking — of our modern Vespers, for, apart from the daily psalmodic cursus of the monastic choirs, the festival evening Office in its original conception was only the anticipation or extension of the vigiliary synaxis — an Office, that is, in preparation for the feast.
27 July -- Bl Titus Brandsma, O. Carm.
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As vespers drew to a close the pilgrims began to file quietly out and I was left alone at the back of the church with my rucksack.
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I’m going to something called vespers at five-fifteen and then meeting Father Samuel for dinner.
Still Waters
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In the Bell Tower a fine chime of bells is placed the playing of which at noon and sunset recalls the matins and vespers of the
The Old Franciscan Missions Of California
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Morning prayer, known as matins, and evening prayer, known as vespers or evensong, are most common.
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After vespers (an evening service), the celebration continues outside the church.
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Luckier still, we might find a vespers service at 7 p.m., and a much anticipated pilgrims' meal in a local restaurant.
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The Magnificat is the Evening Canticle, sung each day at the end of the Vespers Office; the text comes from the Gospel of Luke 1:41-55.
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After dinner there is an hour and a half of solitary recreation, which may be spent in garden, ambulacrum, or cell at will, and is followed by None; spiritual reading, study, and manual labour till half-past two, when Vespers de
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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In the Roman office the threefold division of Matins was re-introduced even after the vigil service had split into Vespers, Matins, and Lauds, and the divisions came to be known as nightwatches or nocturns.
