Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player.A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.. Born in Cremona, where he undertook his …

Compline (/ ˈ k ɒ m p l ɪ n / KOM-plin), also known as Complin, Night Prayer, or the Prayers at the End of the Day, is the final prayer service (or office) of the day in the Christian tradition of canonical hours, which are prayed at fixed prayer times.. The English word is derived from the Latin completorium, as compline is the completion of the waking day.The word was first used …

Syriac Orthodox Church, Indian Orthodox Church and Mar Thoma Syrian Church. In the Syriac Orthodox Church and Indian Orthodox Church, as well as the Mar Thoma Syrian Church (an Oriental Protestant denomination), the office of Terce is also known as Tloth sho`in and is prayed at 9 am using the Shehimo breviary.. Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. In the Coptic …

The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.The movement, whose original devotees were mostly associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of some older Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy …

The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces.The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position.. As of 2022, the …

History. In 1859, Pope Pius IX, facing rebellion against his temporal sovereignty in the course of the Risorgimento, ordered that Masses celebrated in the Papal States be followed by three Ave Marias, a Salve Regina, a versicle and response, and a collect.He did not make these prayers obligatory in other countries, but did ask Catholics everywhere to pray for the defeat of those …

The Angelus (/ ˈ æ n dʒ əl ə s /; Latin for "angel") is a Catholic devotion commemorating the Incarnation of Christ.As with many Catholic prayers, the name Angelus is derived from its incipit—the first few words of the text: Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ ("The Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary"). The devotion is practiced by reciting as versicle and response three …

The development of ritualism in the Church of England was mainly associated with what is commonly called "second generation" Anglo-Catholicism, i.e. the Oxford Movement as it developed after 1845 when John Henry Newman abandoned the Church of England to become a Roman Catholic.Some scholars [who?] argued that it was almost inevitable that some of the …

Nones (/ ˈ n oʊ n z /), also known as None (Latin: Nona, "Ninth"), the Ninth Hour, or the Midafternoon Prayer, is a fixed time of prayer of the Divine Office of almost all the traditional Christian liturgies. It consists mainly of psalms and is said around 3 pm, about the ninth hour after dawn.. In the Roman Rite the Nones it is one of the so-called "little hours".

Versicle 26. Cantaven los aucells l'alba, e despertà's l'amich, qui és l'alba; e los aucells feniren lur cant, e l'amich muri per l'amat en l'alba. Versicle 27. Cantava l'aucell en lo verger de l'Amat. Venc l'amic, qui dix a l'aucell: —Si no ens entenem per llenguatge, entenam-nos per amor, cor en lo teu cant se representa a mos ulls mon Amat.