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The Hours
The short services of psalms and prayers that mark the hours of the day: the First, Third, Sixth and Ninth Hours, with the Typical Psalms and the Beatitudes.
Many people pray one of the Hours at home, and they are a simple way into the Church's daily prayer.
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About this edition
From the Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church, translated and arranged by Isabel Florence Hapgood (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1906). Our text was made from scans of the printed book and checked against three separate scans; if you spot a mistake, tell us in the server.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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