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Vespers n. : One of the little hours of the Breviary.

Vespers n. : The evening song or service.

Example:
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Taxonomy
Vespers, psalms, Office, hymn, celebrant, assistants, feasts, prayer, Lucernarium, sings, the church, antiphons, Solemn Vespers, reading, service, cantors, Pss, l. c.

Defination from the web:
Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies of the canonical hours. ... Small Vespers is a very abbreviated form of the service which is celebrated only on the afternoon before an ... 

synonyms
  (noun) evensong
  (noun) canonical hour


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