Canonical Hours

For Catholicism , the canonical hours are liturgical which are devoted to prayer , in addition to Mass daily, within religious orders as well as for the secular clergy.

Traditionally, the day has seven canonical hours and night:

• Matins or vigils : in the night
• Laudes : at dawn
• Bonus : first hours of the day
• Third : third hour of the day
• Sext : sixth hour of the day
• None : the ninth hour of the day
• Vespers : the evening
• Compline : bedtime

Summary 1 The monastic hours 2 hours secular 3 Bibliography 4 See also 4.1 References External 4.2 Links

/ / The monastic hours

In monasteries, the Divine Office is the main performance of the day. "As the Prophet said:" Seven times a day, I proclaim your praise " ^{Hours secular}

As the monks every Catholic clergy, secular or regular , are compelled to pray for hours. To do this, they use the bible , a collection of these offices. The secular clergy not having a schedule set as the monks, they are allowed not to say the prayers at the prescribed time, but they must apply to celebrate this day in office.

Bibliography

• The Life and Rule of Saint Benedict, translated by Mother Elizabeth Solms, Paris, 1994, ch. 8-16; 41-43 (In notes "we now call matins what Benedict called for vigils and lauds what he called" Matins ").
• Snacks of John Cassian, texts selected and introduced by JY Leloup, Paris, 1992.
• L. Mill, everyday religious life in the Middle Ages, the tenth-fifteenth century, Paris, 1978 (quotation from St. Bernard).
• J. Becker, "The Rule of Grandmont, in Bulletin of the archaeological society and history of the Limousin, t. LXXXVII, 1958, p. 9-36.

See also

• Liturgy of the Hours
• Book of hours
• Canon , canonical Chapter
• Monasticism , Abbey

References

External Links

• The Liturgy of the Hours on Castelluna