Usage of "canonical hours"

Russian

часы

Portuguese

hora canónica

Spanish

hora canónica

Catalan

hores canòniques

Christian concept of periods of prayer throughout the day.

daily office

Related terms

roman catholic prayer

часы

Usage of canonical hours in English

Vespers, the next to the last of the canonical hours-theeven-song. 
 A Short History of Monks and Monasteries 

They had no canonical hours, no clerical costume, no liturgies. 
 The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitu... 

And the next morning, as soon as the canonical hours had dawned, Anegay was my wife. 
 Earl Hubert's Daughter / The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of ... 

For the seven canonical hours, he writes, bear a striking resemblance to the seven ages of man. 
 The Divine Office: A Study of the Roman Breviary 

All day long, within the canonical hours, the door of Holchester House is perpetually opening to receive visitors. 
 Man and Wife 

Hence their breaking fasts, their free partaking of meats, their neglect of canonical hours, their omission of confession-viz. 
 The Confutatio Pontificia 

As you see, there is time for meditation and work in the intervals between the canonical hours and meals. 
 The Cathedral 

These are Our Lady's prayers for the canonical hours, the pages illuminated by a dove, a vase of lilies. 
 Wolf hall 

One of the canonical hours appointed in the early church, and still observed in the Roman Catholic Church, especially in monastic orders. 
 A Short History of Monks and Monasteries 

Tierce is the first division of the canonical hours of the day, from six to nine; nones, the third, from twelve to three. 
 The Divine Comedy, Volume 3, Paradise 

The reply brought was, that the abbess could not come to the parlor, being obliged to attend in the choir at the canonical hours. 
 The Crayon Papers 

So they came to land, and dwelt with Mochaovóg in his own house, and there they kept the canonical hours with him and heard mass. 
 The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Irel... 

A grave illness exempts from the saying of the canonical Hours. 
 The Divine Office: A Study of the Roman Breviary 

The Canonical Hours of the Church. 
 The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 

The third end for which the canonical Hours are offered is for the benefit of the person who recites them. 
 The Divine Office: A Study of the Roman Breviary 