Chapter, Paragraph
1 4,2| watches or hours: The first hour (6 to 9 a.m.); the third
2 4,2| 6 to 9 a.m.); the third hour (from 9 a.m. to 12 or noon);
3 4,2| to 12 or noon); the sixth hour (from 12 to 3 p.m.), and
4 4,2| to 3 p.m.), and the ninth hour (from 3 to 6 p. m.). Christians
5 4,7| of the offices of Ninth Hour, Vespers, and Compline; —
6 4,7| Office, Matins and First Hour; — and the midday service,
7 4,7| Vespers, Matins and First Hour. As in some monasteries
8 4,7| Office, Matins, and First Hour; the midday service, of
9 4,9| Matins and the First Hour.~Matins begin with prayers
10 4,9| Christians.~The Hours, or Hour offices, is the name given
11 4,9| their composition. Every Hour begins with an invitation
12 4,9| at all times and in every hour...,” and the concluding
13 4,9| concluding prayers of the hour. But with all this similarity,
14 4,9| similarity, the office of one Hour differs from that of another
15 4,9| another in so far that each Hour has its own Psalms and concluding
16 4,9| The office of the First Hour commemorates the bringing
17 4,9| Pilate; that of the Third Hour commemorates Pilate’s judgment
18 4,9| the office of the Sixth Hour commemorates Christ’s going
19 4,9| the office of the Ninth ~Hour commemorates Christ’s Passion
20 6,9| of Matins and the First Hour.~ Having celebrated the
21 6,9| the office of the First Hour is read, which ends with
22 6,9| the reading of the First Hour begins at once. When Matins
23 7,1| ancient custom, the ninth hour of the morning. It may sometimes
24 8,1| Psalms prescribed for each Hour, only one is read; the other
25 8,1| commemorated; 2) at each Hour after the troparia, the
26 8,2| of Matins and the First Hour; the noon service of the
27 8,2| consists in this, that at every Hour: 1) After the Three Psalms
28 8,2| the service for the given Hour; 3) before the concluding
29 8,2| concluding prayer of the Hour, the penitential prayer
30 8,2| prostrations. At the Sixth Hour, over and above all the
31 8,2| Troparion of the First Hour: “In the morning, hearken
32 8,2| my God.” — Of the Third Hour: — “O Lord, Who didst send
33 8,2| Most-Holy Spirit at the third hour upon Thine apostles: take
34 8,2| unto Thee.” — Of the Sixth Hour: — “O Thou Who on the sixth
35 8,2| sixth day and in the sixth hour didst nail to the Cross
36 8,2| save us.” — Of the Ninth Hour: — “O Thou Who at the ninth
37 8,2| O Thou Who at the ninth hour for our sake didst taste
38 8,2| the office of the First Hour, and on Friday after the
39 8,2| paremia is read at the First Hour; the Liturgy of Basil the
40 8,2| Matins begin at the second hour of night (eight p.m. on
41 8,2| Vespers begin at the tenth hour of day, (three p.m). At
42 8,2| until 10 p.m.~ During the hour before midnight, all lampadas
43 9,6| of the uncertainty of the hour of death. The bishop consecrates
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