Divine office chant8/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Some of these texts prove that these three hours were, in preference to others, chosen for prayer by the Christians, and probably also by the Jews, from whom the Christians appear to have borrowed the custom. The Holy Ghost descends upon the Apostles on the day of Pentecost at the third hour, Acts 2:15. In the New Testament we find mention of the sixth hour in Matthew 20:5 and of the ninth hour, in Matthew 27:46. ![]() These divisions of the day were also used by the Jews at the time of Christ. At Rome's latitude hora tertia was in modern terms 09:02 to 09:46 solar time at the winter solstice, but at the summer solstice it was 06:58 to 08:13. Since the Roman day was divided into twelve hours from sunrise to sunset regardless of day length, the timing for hora tertia depended on the latitude and day of year. The second division of the day contained the hours from about the modern nine o'clock until about midday using the Roman numbering the hour just preceding this division was called hora tertia (the third hour) from which the word terce is derived. According to an ancient custom of the Romans and Greeks, the day and night respectively were divided into four parts of about three hours each. The origin of Terce, like that of Sext and None, to which it bears a close relationship, dates back to Apostolic times. With Prime, Sext, None and Compline it belongs to the so-called "Little hours".įrom the time of the early Church, the practice of seven fixed prayer times have been taught in Apostolic Tradition, Hippolytus instructed Christians to pray seven times a day "on rising, at the lighting of the evening lamp, at bedtime, at midnight" and "the third, sixth and ninth hours of the day, being hours associated with Christ's Passion." This practice of seven fixed prayer times continues today in many Christian denominations. Its name comes from Latin and refers to the third hour of the day after dawn. It consists mainly of psalms and is held around 9 a.m. Terce is a canonical hour of the Divine Office. Nederlandish book of the hours, opened at the hour of Terce ![]()
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