You are viewing a copy of The Office of Vespers containing the sunset evening prayer services that I have posted in my Ebay Store.
This book was compiled and adapted from approved sources by THE LITURGICAL COMMISSION of THE SISTERS OF ST. BASIL THE GREAT in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. Reprinted 2004.
Offices are the canonical prayers (in the Roman Catholic Church those of the breviary) recited daily by priests, those in religious orders, etc.
Vespers (in Anglican tradition also called ‘Evening Prayer’ and ‘Evensong’), is the Office associated with the time of the setting of the sun.
Vespers is the sunset evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies of the canonical hours.
The word comes from the Greek ἑσπέρα (“hespera”) and the Latin vesper, meaning “evening.”