NOUN
- canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)
How To Use Divine Office In A Sentence
- The church commences her solemn service of each of these days with that part of the divine office called matins and lauds, and at this time Tenebrae from the _darkness_ with which it concludes. The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
- She is bound to the rules and the choir, but not to the private recitation of the Divine Office; she can take part in chapters, except in those in which others are admitted to vows; she cannot be elected superior, mother-vicaress, mistress of novices, assistant, counsellor, or treasurer. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Pieces like this may have been composed as a sort of trope on that versicle to be sung in the Divine Office.
- And this is the evening prayer of that, what we call the breviary, or the divine office. CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2008
- It is not a virtue for the monk… to lack time in which to attend the common recitation of the Divine Office, read a certain amount, and mix with his community.
- Such is the case of an antiphonary for the Divine Office that is currently housed in the Chapter Library of Toledo Cathedral ms. Archive 2008-05-01
- Though she loved the Divine Office and appreciated the Chant, she could not sing two notes in tune.
- Divine Office; but this did not prevent the formation of such menologies for private use or even the reading of them aloud in the chapter-house or refectory. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- The antiphonal, on the other hand, contains the chants sung antiphonally in the divine office.
- Later, when at Littlemore but before his conversion to Catholicism in 1845, he used the breviaries to recite the Divine Office, rather than the Anglican prayer books. Cardinal Newman at Birmingham: Liturgical Items (Part 3 of 3)
