At the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, some of the stichera from the previous night's Matins ( Lauds and the Aposticha ) are repeated at Lord, I have cried ( see Vespers ).

At the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, some of the stichera from the previous night's Matins ( Lauds and the Aposticha ) are repeated at Lord, I have cried ( see Vespers ).

Anointing may also be given during Forgiveness Vespers and Great Week, on Great and Holy Wednesday, to all who are prepared.

In anticipation of the Canon, Vespers on Wednesday afternoon is longer than normal, with special stichera added in honor of the Great Canon.

During Great Lent the Eighteenth Kathisma is read every weekday ( Monday through Friday evening ) at Vespers, and on Monday through Wednesday of Holy Week.

During the school term the Palestrina Choir sing at Sunday morning Solemn Latin Mass ( Novus Ordo ), Wednesday evening Mass and Friday evening Vespers and Mass.

Readings from the Old Testament are also increased, with the Books of Genesis, Proverbs and Isaiah being read through almost in their entirety at the Sixth Hour and Vespers ( during Cheesefare Week, the readings at these services are taken from Joel and Zechariah, while during Holy Week they are from Exodus, Ezekiel and Job ).

During Holy Week, the order of services is often brought forward by several hours: Matins being celebrated by anticipation the evening before, and Vespers in the morning.

Since during Holy Week Vespers is usually joined to either the Presanctified Liturgy or the Divine Liturgy, and since the faithful must observe a total fast from all food and drink before receiving Holy Communion, it is celebrated in the morning ( Vespers on Good Friday is an exception to this, usually being celebrated in the afternoon ).

This permits more of the faithful to attend, and shows that during Holy Week the times are out of joint — Matins ends up being served in the evening, and in some places Vespers is served in the morning.

He also wrote Vexilla Regis prodeunt (" The royal banners forward go "), which is a sequence sung at Vespers during Holy Week.

If there will be a reading from the Gospel during Vespers that day, as occurs during Holy Week or the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, the deacon will carry the Gospel Book instead of the censer.

The Little Entrance here is the same entrance of Great Vespers ; however, when a Gospel reading is prescribed ( during Holy Week or on feast days ), the Gospel Book is used instead of the censer.

" Whereupon the Spanish ambassador replied " Now then, if that is so, Your Majesty would surely make it to Sicily in time for Vespers ".

This is one of the readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos in the Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches.

The biblical account of this vision () is one of the standard Old Testament readings at Vespers on Great Feasts of the Theotokos.

The former name derives from that this Sunday is followed by a special Vespers called the Forgiveness Vespers which opens Great Lent.

This poem is historically interesting for its information on north Italian perspectives concerning the War of the Sicilian Vespers, the conflict between the Angevins and Aragonese for Sicily.

Technically, this is not actually a Divine Liturgy, but rather a Vespers service at which a portion of the Body and Blood of Christ, which was reserved the previous Sunday, are distributed to the faithful.

In order that their services not be completely forgotten, a portion of them ( their canon at Matins, and their stichera from " Lord I Have Cried " at Vespers ) is chanted at Compline.

The Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee is the first day the Lenten Triodion is used ( at Vespers or All-Night Vigil on Saturday night ), though it is only used for the Sunday services, with nothing pertaining to weekdays or Saturday.

Great Lent ends at Vespers on the evening of the Sixth Friday, and the Lenten cycle of Old Testament readings is brought to an end ( Genesis ends with the account of the burial of Joseph, who is a type of Christ ).

In addition to the Gospel readings at Matins and Vespers, there is a reading of all four Gospels which takes place during the Little Hours ( Third Hour, Sixth Hour and Ninth Hour ) on these first three days.

Basil ( combined with Vespers ) is celebrated on this day.

Vespers on Good Friday is usually celebrated in the afternoon, around the time of Jesus ' death on the Cross.

Basil is celebrated ( combined with Vespers ).

The reason for this is that the nights are longer in winter, especially in the northern latitudes, so during this season three Kathismas will be chanted at Matins instead of two, so in order to still have a reading from the Psalter at Vespers, the Eighteenth Kathisma is repeated.

Their days are structured by the selection of offices they follow ; the gathering for prayer at Matins ( at midnight ) and the following service of Lauds, Prime at 6 am, Vespers at 6 pm and Compline at 8 or 9 pm ( depending on the season ).

In the Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the season runs from Vespers on 24 December till Compline on 2 February.

In large churches where they were celebrated the services were usually grouped ; e. g. Matins and Lauds ( about 7. 30 A. M .); Prime, Terce ( High Mass ), Sext, and None ( about 10 A. M .); Vespers and Compline ( 4 P. M .); and from four to eight hours ( depending on the amount of music and the number of high masses ) are thus spent in choir.

* March 30 – The Sicilian rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers begins against the rule of Angevin King Charles I of Sicily ; over the next 6 weeks, thousands of French are killed.

* 1282 – March 30 – The Sicilian rebellion known as the Sicilian Vespers begins against the rule of Angevin King Charles I of Sicily ; over the next six weeks, thousands of French are killed.

* Psalms 120-127 and 129-131 are scheduled throughout the four-week Psalter for use at Vespers ; 119, 128, and 132 are scheduled for use for Daytime Prayer, and 133 is scheduled for Night Prayer.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic churches, the mantle is a monastic garment worn by bishops, hegumens, archimandrites, and other monastics in processions and while attending various church services, such as Vespers or Matins ; but not when vested to celebrate the Divine Liturgy.

Finally, Sicily passed to Charles of Anjou, but the Sicilian Vespers in 1282 resulted in dual claims on the Kingdom ; the Aragonese heirs of Manfred retaining the island of Sicily and the Angevin party retaining the southern part of Italy, popularly called the Kingdom of Naples.

Sometimes there will be a reënactment of the Descent from the Cross ; for instance, at Vespers in the Byzantine ( Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic ) tradition.

* Vespers opens with a blessing by the priest and then " Come, let us worship ..."; when part of an All-Night Vigil, the blessing that normally begins matins is used ; when part of the Divine Liturgy, the blessing that is part thereof is used.

The hymn is a more recent introduction in the Roman Vespers ; the finale ( litanies, Pater, versicles, prayers ) seems all to have existed from this epoch as in the Benedictine cursus.

Like the other hours, therefore, Vespers is divided into two parts ; the psalmody, or singing of the psalms, forming the first part, and the capitulum and formulæ the second.

Vespers, then, was the most solemn Office of the day and was composed of the psalms called Lucernales ( Psalm 140 is called psalmus lucernalis by the Apostolic Constitutions, VIII, xxxv ; cf.

Today, even in monasteries, the services are grouped together: Vespers and Compline are said together ; Matins and Prime are said together ; and the Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours are said together ; resulting in three times of prayer each day.

Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 ( Vespers for the Blessed Virgin, 1610 ; SV 206 and 206a ) — commonly called Vespers of 1610 — is a musical composition by Claudio Monteverdi.

The Vespers were published in July 1610, in combination with a six-voice mass which parodied a motet of Nicolas Gombert ; Inillo tempore loquante Jesu.

Historical record does not indicate whether Monteverdi actually performed the Vespers in either city ; the work may have been written as an audition piece for posts at Venice ( Monteverdi became maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in Venice in 1613 ) and Rome ( where the composer was not offered a post ).

" But as Runciman observes, with or without Byzantine gold, it was the proud people of Sicily alone who fought against their armed oppressor ; and " However it may have been plotted and prepared, it was that one March evening of the Vespers at Palermo that brought down King Charles ' empire.

Celebrations of memorials occurring between 17 December and 24 December and during Lent, which are then never obligatory, consist of adding to the Office of Readings, after the patristic reading and responsory of the weekday, the hagiographical reading and responsory of the saint, and concluding with the prayer of the saint ; and adding to Lauds and Vespers, after the concluding prayer of the weekday, the antiphon ( proper or common ) and the prayer of the saint.

When said in the monasteries, Matins was generally said before dawn, or sometimes over the course of a night ; Lauds was said at the end of Matins, generally at the break of day ; Prime at 6 AM ; Terce at 9AM ; Sext at noon ; None at 3PM ; Vespers at the rising of the Vespers or Evening Star ( usually about 6PM ); and Compline was said at the end of the day, generally right before bed time.