See also:

• VESPERS (officium vespertinum)
• VESPERS, SICILIAN

VESPERS (officium vespertinum)  , in the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic See also:

• LITURGY (Low Lat. liturgia; Gr. X€Zros, public, and Epyov, work; )Aetrovpy6s, a public servant)

liturgy, that See also:

• PART

part of the daily See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office which follows none (nona) and precedes compline (completorium) . In it the See also:

• PATER, WALTER HORATIO (1839-1894)

Pater Noster, See also:

• AVE, or FIRN

Ave Maria, See also:

• DEUS
• DEUS, JOAO DE (1830-1896)

Deus in Adjutorium, &c., are followed by five See also:

• PSALMS, BOOK
• PSALMS, BOOK OF, or PSALTER

psalms and five antiphons, after which come the " little See also:

• CHAPTER (a shortened form of chapiter, a word still used in architecture for a capital; derived from O. Fr. chapitre, Lat. capitellum, diminutive of caput, head)

chapter," the hymn and the See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, which vary according to the See also:

• SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season, the Magnificat and its See also:

• ANTIPHON

antiphon, and the appropriate collect . In its See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general features the use of this office can be traced back to a very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early date both in the Eastern See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church and in the Western . See also:

• VESPERS (officium vespertinum)
• VESPERS, SICILIAN

Vespers may be said or sung at any See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time after midday, and in some circumstances even before it .