Wednesday at Vespers – O God, whose hand hath spread the sky And all its shining hosts on high, And painting it with fiery light Made it […]
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Posts archive for 2017
Mary, Mother of Our Lord
Mary, Mother of Our Lord – The honor paid to Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, goes back to the earliest days […]
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Monday Housekeeping
Daily life at St. Augustine’s House – Terce – At 8.15 A.M. is the first of the “Little Hours,” named Terce because it is traditionally sung near […]
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Vigils on Monday
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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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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