Prayer: Liturgical Prayer and the Hours
Teaching on Prayer from Benedict of Nursia: Liturgical Prayer and the Hours
This is a spiritual discipline on liturgical prayer and fixed-hour prayer, drawing on Psalm 119:164, Daniel 6:10 and Acts 3:1.
The practice of praying at fixed hours throughout the day stretches back to ancient Judaism and was adopted by the earliest Christians. The Apostolic Tradition attributed to Hippolytus of Rome (c. 215 AD) instructs believers to pray at the third, sixth, and ninth hours, as well as at midnight and cockcrow. Benedict of Nursia (d. 547) systematized this into the Divine Office: Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, and Compline.…
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