Noun:

वेस्पर्स,

vespers's Usage Examples:

Eastern Orthodox services advertised as "vespers" often conclude with compline, especially the all-night vigil.

It is one of the four invitatory prayers of the daily office, and is recited at the vespers of Wednesday.

vespers and compline performed without break.

While it is technically one of the elements of the vespers service prescribed for the senior reader (that is, the elder or abbot of a monastery, or in a parish the seniormost reader at the kliros), it is customarily read or chanted by a reader after the opening prayers of the service.

New TestamentVerse 4 is quoted in 7Eastern OrthodoxIts main liturgical usage in the Eastern Orthodox Church is at the beginning of vespers (evening prayers) and the all-night vigil.

The psalm is meant to be read or chanted in a plain style at services of vespers which are not part of a vigil.

"Ring the bell because the hour called "midnight" is here, or dawn or cockcrow or dusk or matins or prime or terce or midday or none or twilight or vespers.

In the context of its vespers/vigil setting, this psalm is understood to be a hymn of creation, in all the fulness wherein God has created it - it speaks of animals, plants, waters, skies, etc.

In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,It perched for vespers nine;Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,While the creatures crooned::Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 75 "ndash; 78A more modern example:The Sweeney's doing ninety 'cosThey've got the word to go.

The O Antiphons (also known as the Great Advent Antiphons or Great Os) are Magnificat antiphons used at vespers on the last seven days of Advent in Western.

the custom for it to follow small vespers), Great Vespers, a reading, Matins, First Hour Evening – Ninth Hour, Vespers, Compline Morning Watches – Midnight.

religious procession, followed by intercessions, which augments great vespers (or, a few times a year, great compline) in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine.

and simpler than that of the major hours, are those celebrated between lauds and vespers (morning and evening prayer) together with compline (night prayer).

Synonyms:

canonical hour, evensong,