vespers


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the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office

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"Item, that between nones and vespers on the feast of James the Less the said brother John was observed upon the Brockenhurst road, near the spot which is known as Hatchett's Pond in converse with a person of the other sex, being a maiden of the name of Mary Sowley, the daughter of the King's verderer.
The bells are going for daily vesper service, and he must needs attend it, one would say, from his haste to reach the open Cathedral door.
They look so snug and so homelike, and at eventide when every thing seems to slumber, and the music of the vesper bells comes stealing over the water, one almost believes that nowhere else than on the lake of Como can there be found such a paradise of tranquil repose.
"Horns of Elfland" never sounded more sweetly around hoary castle and ruined fane than those vesper calls of the robins from the twilight spruce woods and across green pastures lying under the pale radiance of a young moon.
7 and 8 for Oklahoma City University's Christmas Vespers at First Presbyterian Church, 1001 NW 25th St.
LLANDAFF Cathedral will echo to the glorious sound of renaissance Venice this weekend when Cardiff Polyphonic Choir perform Claudio Monteverdi's magnificent Vespers of 1610.
Patton was greeted by parishioners and clerics as well as BethlehemAaAaAeAcAaAaAeA@1/4Aa Mayor Anton Salman, Ziad al-Bandak, presidential adviser for Christian National and International Relations and representatives of various security services and entered the Basilica of the Nativity through the door of Humility before the recitation of the first Vespers at St.
Vespers traces its roots to some of the oldest Jewish and Christian rituals.
Vespers for Santa Potenciana were held in the cathedral, and in 1836at the time this calendar was included in the protocol manual of the citythere was mention of the reconstruction of the church of San Andres.
Rachmaninov's Vespers Mariinsky Chorus, Town Hall, Birmingham ?????
Westminster Presbyterian Church is hosting a Blues Vespers event, which brings blues artists Bill Rhoades, Henry Cooper and Newell Briggs from 6:30 p.m.
The program at the Community Church of North Orange and Tully was the 755th Dana Vespers, a longstanding musical memorial to the First Universalist Parish Church of North Dana.
Each of these Sundays is named after the Gospel reading for the day and emphasizes a specific theme which is discussed throughout the liturgical hymnody of the Divine Office, especially that of Saturday Vespers and Sunday Matins.
Stoute should also be on the mark with Scottish Vespers in the Catering Services International Ltd Maiden Stakes at Brighton.