Monday at Vigils – First Nocturn – Happy are they who have not walked in the counsel of the wicked, nor lingered in the way of sinners, […]
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Posts archive for August, 2017
Second Vespers on Sunday
Sunday Second Vespers – (prayed on Sunday evening) – Blessed are you, O Lord in the firmament of heaven. Blessed are you, O Lord in the firmament […]
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First Vespers of Sunday (Vespers on Saturday)
Saturday at Vespers – (doesn’t really exist) – First Vespers of Sunday – Based on the Jewish reckoning of time, evening belongs to the next day; Saturday […]
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Friday at Vespers
Vespers on Friday – I call upon you, O LORD; make haste to me; give ear to my voice, when I call to you. Let my prayer […]
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Saint Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr
August 10 – St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, 225 – 258 – Lawrence was chief among the seven deacons who served the Roman Church during the mid-third […]
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Vespers on Wednesday
Wednesday at Vespers Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget […]
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Saint Dominic
August 8 – St. Dominic – After his ordination to the priesthood, Dominic spent nine years in Osma, pursuing a life of intense prayer. Dominic and a […]
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Monday Housekeeping
Daily life at St. Augustine’s House – Lauds – Our custom is that Vigils is followed by an opportunity for silent meditation until Lauds begins at 6 […]
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Vespers on Monday
Monday at Vespers – Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, with loud shouts. ~Psalm 33: 3 ~Image: “Laus Deo” (Praise God). Holy […]
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The Transfiguration of Our Lord
August 6 – The Transfiguration of Our Lord – Today we celebrate the occasion on which Christ, as he was beginning to teach his disciples that he […]
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